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SAPinsider’s APAC division spans Australia and New Zealand through South–East Asia to India, China and beyond. For over 25 years the region has been home to the renowned and award-winning ‘Mastering SAP’ events business and portfolio. The acquisition of Mastering SAP by SAPinsider in 2021 brings together the two strongest brands in the SAP professional community.

With more than 90,000 loyal APAC members, SAPinsider and Mastering SAP are the premier member community in the region. Boasting event experiences second to none, SAP professionals in the region also benefit from invaluable information, strategic guidance, road-tested advice, community driven content, case studies, magazine articles, white papers, blogs, interactive Q&As, benchmark reports, webinars, podcasts, digital services and more.

Whilst SAPinsider accelerates its presence in APAC, we’re continuing to put our customers at the heart of everything we do – ensuring the spirit of our community encourages SAP customer and partners to break through barriers, engage in brave conversations and form lasting, rewarding relationships.

- SAP Analytics and AI
From Embedded AI to Development Platforms, These are the Most Common AI Vendors and Technologies for SAPinsiders

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The SAPinsider research report highlights that organizations are increasingly adopting AI through various SAP-native tools and cloud platforms, with a shift towards leveraging established ecosystems as they progress from experimentation to full-scale implementation by 2026.
- SAP Global Tax Management
DIY or Done-for-You? Rethinking Tax Compliance Strategy in SAP

February 25, 2026

How Tax Compliance Is Changing in SAP Tax compliance in SAP is no longer just an IT decision. It’s a strategic risk decision. As governments shift to real-time, transaction-level enforcement, SAP customers are being forced to rethink how tax compliance fits into their S/4HANA, Clean Core, and data governance strategies. Many organizations are evaluating ERP-native…
- SAP CIO
The 6 Hottest Topics For SAP Developers in 2026

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As SAP customers transition to 2026, the focus shifts from experimentation to execution, emphasizing agentic AI, governed business data, and developer productivity, with a roadmap for prioritizing investments and tackling operational challenges that emerged from SAP TechEd 2025.
- SAP AI
- Premium
SAP Japan CEO Retiring

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Hirofumi Suzuki, the President of SAP Japan, will retire on March 31, 2026, after nearly six years of leadership during which he navigated the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and prioritized cloud and AI strategies while fostering sustainability and digital transformation initiatives. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready…
- SAP RISE
RISE with SAP Benchmark Report: Cloud ERP Adoption Accelerates Ahead of 2027 Deadline

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A new SAPinsider report reveals an acceleration in the adoption of SAP Cloud ERP Private, especially among smaller organizations, as they prepare for the 2027 end-of-maintenance deadline for legacy systems.
- SAP AI
Turn static documents into communication powerhouse leveraging SAP Cloud ERP

Join us as we showcase how ways to accelerate content creation with secure generative AI capabilities, streamline document creation by fully integrating with your customer data from SAP Cloud ERP, as well as other sources of data and more! Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log…
- SAP AI
Accelerating AI readiness with OpenText Knowledge Discovery

Discover and access content across your entire ecosystem. Learn how to effectively connect to, search for, and locate relevant content both within and beyond your immediate network, ensuring critical information is always easy to find when and where it’s needed. Activate intelligent processes through enriched content metadata. Enable smarter, more automated workflows by properly labeling,…
- SAP Data and Data Management
The Top 5 Data and Analytics Themes for SAPinsiders in 2026

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In 2026, SAPinsiders must transform data investments into strategic advantages by prioritizing data leadership, establishing unified and AI-ready data foundations, and fostering user adoption through self-service analytics and emerging technologies as organizations evolve toward data maturity.
- SAP AI
5 Important AI Trends for SAPinsiders in 2026

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AI is now central to business transformation in the SAP ecosystem, but many organizations remain at early maturation stages, with a need to evolve from experimentation to impactful integration while prioritizing governance, data quality, and leadership commitment to drive meaningful outcomes.
- SAP IBP
Comparing SAP IBP and o9 Digital Brain

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SAP and o9 target the same strategic problem of transforming supply chains into agile, data-driven systems for growth but differ in their approaches—SAP uses an ERP-centric execution model while o9 leverages an AI-native planning framework.