Aug 5, 2026
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Real Outcomes with Appian: How Customers Achieve Speed, Scale, and EfficiencyWhat does real transformation look like in practice? Across industries, organizations are using Appian to simplify complexity, automate mission-critical work, and deliver measurable results fast. In this customer montage, hear directly from leaders who are driving meaningful change with the Appian Platform. From reducing onboarding from six months to just four days, to achieving immediate efficiency gains and scaling to thousands of clients without adding headcount, these stories show how organizations are evolving as the world changes.
Report: The 2026 Product Data Maturity Index: The Product Data Paradox in Industrial Manufacturing and DistributionThe 2026 Product Data Maturity Index (PDMI) is based on responses from 405 senior marketing, technology, and data leaders across industrial manufacturing and wholesale distribution in the United States and Europe. It offers a new operational benchmarking framework that measures organizations across four maturity tiers using observable operational evidence as well as their self-assessment. Perhaps the most […]
Aug 5, 2026
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LRS Ships Driverless Printing for SAP, Closing the Windows Protected Print GapLRS has introduced driverless printing for SAP environments through VPSX and Personal Print Manager, starting with Mopria-compliant devices. Planned spool and non-Mopria support could help organizations adopt Windows Protected Print while preserving the thermal and barcode printers used across warehouse, shipping, production, and other business-critical workflows.
Aug 4, 2026
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Part Two: The Hidden Costs of Hybrid SAP Landscapes: The Human Toll of TransformationSupporting legacy environments while learning and operating new cloud-based SAP models creates dual responsibilities, fragmented workflows, and constant context switching for Basis and operations teams. Readers will explore how hybrid SAP strategies, while rational from an architecture and risk perspective, quietly create a heavy human and organizational toll on the teams that run them. The […]
Aug 4, 2026
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The Hidden Costs of Hybrid SAP Landscapes: The Tooling TrapAs organizations migrate from ECC to Cloud ERP in stages, hybrid SAP landscapes emerge — and with them, fragmented tooling that quietly drives up cost and operational risk. This paper breaks down where those hidden costs accumulate.
Aug 4, 2026
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No AI Agent Can Fix a Broken Data ModelSAP's shift from enterprise software company to AI company raises a critical question: what is the AI actually reasoning over? In this SAPinsider podcast episode, inRiver's Dominic Citino explains why trusted, governed product data — not just AI itself — is the real foundation SAP customers need to get right, and how BTP certification, clean core, and a "product intelligence layer" fit into that story.
Aug 4, 2026
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Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges to SAP Systems 2026Cybersecurity threats have become more prevalent than ever. In fact, cybercrime now accounts for nearly a third of all offenses in some regions. Moreover, 2025 represented the greatest number of high impact or critical patches ever released by SAP as flaws were discovered in ageing solutions that are often now more exposed than ever in cloud-based environments. The increased use of AI both inside enterprise landscapes and by malicious actors only makes it more important to ensure that the valuable data in SAP systems is effectively secured.
Despite the importance of cybersecurity in the SAP space, respondents face challenges. From protecting against new technologies and threats like AI to dealing with the age-old challenge of patching, securing SAP systems is not straightforward. This makes it more important than ever that SAPinsiders focus the resources they have to achieve the most they can. Only by doing this will the data and processes in their SAP systems be secure.
This year's data suggests a shift to data-centric concerns to identity or connectivity-centric threats. With social engineering attacks, insider threats, credentials compromise, connections to other systems, and insecure application configurations all being in the top eight biggest potential threats, identity and connectivity-centric concerns are certainly front and center for respondents.
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- See what SAPinsiders are doing to implement an effective governance and execution layer.
Jul 31, 2026
•2 minute read
WorldLink Applies AI and Data Engineering to Supply Chain and Tariff Problems SAP Shops Know WellWorldLink treats unified data as the precondition for AI. Two engagements, one in shipment visibility and one in tariff recovery, show the pattern and what it means for SAP teams.
Jul 31, 2026
•3 minute read
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