Apr 15, 2026
•3 minute read
Technology
Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.
SAP and Partner Technologies
Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.
SAP and Partner Technologies
Enterprise software technology companies like SAP have, for decades, helped provide organizations with technology tools that can help them run their businesses more effectively and efficiently. SAP and partner technologies today focus on technology solutions across various industries like energy & natural resources, service industries, consumer industries, discrete industries, financial services, and public services. Technology solutions offered range from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions to technology platforms that can help organizations build intelligent enterprise capabilities.
Business Technology Categories
Enterprise Resource Planning: These solutions help organizations integrate business processes across their enterprise and facilitate a seamless information flow across the organization. These solutions generally have modules focused on various functions and sub-functions that exist within organizations such as finance, procurement, CRM and customer experience, HR and people engagement, and supply chain management. Best-of-breed ERP solutions integrate both transactional/operational as well as planning capabilities.
Specialized business operations point systems: These solutions are specialized solutions focused on certain functions or business processes within certain functions and are transactional systems that help capture business operations transactions. Examples are supply chain and logistics, accounting solutions, treasury management solutions, GRC solutions, spend management solutions, HR and payroll solutions, CRM systems etc.
Planning point systems: These systems focus on business planning, often leveraging data from transactional systems or modules for planning purposes. Examples of such systems are supply chain planning systems, financial planning and analysis systems, business intelligence (BI) tools, and advanced analytics solutions. These solutions or systems help generate insights from the data that can then help organizations run their operations more effectively.
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Apr 15, 2026
•8 minute read
SAPinsider Research Webinar – ERP Migration and Transformation 2026Watch this webinar on demand for a review of the 2026 ERP Migration and Transformation Benchmark Report, based on responses from 296 SAP customers across industries. In this session, you will see how organizations are really progressing toward SAP S/4HANA and Cloud ERP as the 2027 end of mainstream maintenance approaches.
In this session, SAPinsider Chief Research Officer Robert Holland shares detailed findings that show where organizations really are on their SAP S/4HANA journey. Not just deployments, but how many have fully switched ERP operations, what timelines are realistic, and how quickly adoption is actually accelerating as 2027 approaches. You will see how strategies are changing, from simply “meeting the deadline” to modernizing or eliminating custom processes, cleansing and harmonizing data, and modernizing reporting and BI to deliver faster access to insights. The research also highlights how organizations are evaluating SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Cloud ERP, and hybrid infrastructure options to reduce TCO while keeping landscapes flexible and compliant
We also spotlight the new forces reshaping ERP roadmaps, particularly SAP’s AI announcements and the need to stay compliant and secure while reducing TCO. See how leading teams are using SAP Readiness Check, SAP BTP, Process Discovery, and clean core tools to de‑risk projects and prepare for AI‑enabled ERP.
Watch now to:
- See exactly where you stand versus 296 peer organizations on S/4HANA adoption and 2027 readiness.
- Learn which practical moves (clean core, data cleansing, process standardization) are actually accelerating cutover.
- Discover how peers are using SAP BTP, Process Discovery, and automation to build an AI‑ready ERP landscape.
- Get clear on the real roadblocks—cloud cost, skills, security, and business case—and what successful teams are doing differently.
Apr 14, 2026
•1 minute read
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Apr 14, 2026
•5 minute read
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Apr 14, 2026
•2 minute read
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•6 minute read
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