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The name SAP Data Services is used for an entire family of products. The core is SAP Data Services itself, then there is SAP Data Integrator, SAP Data Quality and SAP CPI-DS. The first three are the same product but differ from the enabled transformations. Data Integrator has all the base transforms plus typical data […]

“That’s what you should expect,” says Joshua Greenbaum of Enterprise Applications Consulting. “At the beginning of the cycle of uptake you would want to have an absolute rock-solid assurance that you can make a 20-year investment in your technology.” SAP co-CEO Christian Klein says enterprises are keen to move to S/4HANA, but some of the

The introduction of S/4 Hana is a major game-changer for SAP, as it offers a solution that’s designed to meet the challenges and requirements of the digital economy. And as 2025 marks the deadline to switch from ECC to S/4 Hana, it’s no surprise that large numbers of SAP customers are now preparing to migrate.

AI has enormous potential for almost every company. SAP customers are therefore faced with the question of which technologies SAP offers them to upgrade and enhance their existing system landscapes. For the longest time, artificial intelligence (AI) was nothing more than exciting material for science fiction novels and movies. In 1982, Harrison Ford was hunting

The seemingly easy to glue together and operate suite of software that is meant to ease the day to day process of an organization, ERP is a lot more difficult to strategize and implement than its functioning lets by. The engineering of an easy flowing frontend is powered by a much complex backend architecture –

One of the most discussed software architectures are microservices. In other words, the request to split the monolithic applications of the past into small, autonomous services. However, there are some issues with microservices: They are expensive – as they are required for unlimited scaling – and only work if the underlying culture is embraced in

It has emerged recently that SAP has extended its end-of-support date for legacy goods, moving from 2025 to 2027 – including a three-year transitional duration and a 2030 final cut-off stage. Up to then, customers who are not on S/4 Hana will be moved to a “customer-specific maintenance model”-translated: your service will become even more

SAP’s management has been the source of distrust and dissatisfaction. The employees are now expected to answer for the low levels of customer satisfaction. SAP is becoming a grassroots democracy. It wasn’t just the former deadline 2025 that had many customers dissatisfied with SAP’s management. In the past few years, executives also seemed to completely

SAP is taking a carrot-and-stick approach to moving customers from its legacy ERP software, Business Suite 7, to its newer S/4HANA platform. The carrot is a bold promise to support S/4HANA at least through 2040, meaning that businesses switching today will get over two decades’ use out of the new platform. SAP co-CEO Christian Klein

Many big data projects I have been asked to review were in critical condition and the root cause always was that the team followed the rulebook on how to build a data lake to the letter. One of these big data rules is to transform the data at query time instead of preparing the key