Oct 1, 2026
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Three Ways Manufacturers Lose Margin — And How to Stop ItIndustrial manufacturers can report stable overall margins while profit slips away in individual deals, regions, and contracts. Analyses from pricing software vendor Zilliant point to inconsistent pricing, unchecked discounting, and slow cost pass-through as three common sources of that loss.
Sep 30, 2026
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Why Moving to SAP Cloud ERP Is A Security Decision — Not Just An IT UpgradeWith SAP ECC mainstream maintenance ending in 2027, KPMG professionals warn that lift-and-shift migrations leave security for later. SAPinsider research shows why that gap is widening, and what a dedicated security workstream should cover.
Sep 29, 2026
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Data Access Control in SAP Datasphere: Moving Access Decisions Closer to the BusinessNextTables lets authorized business users maintain SAP Datasphere permissions directly, reducing manual handoffs while data teams retain ownership of the data access control and enforcement model.
Sep 29, 2026
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How SAP BDC and BigQuery Help Turn SAP Data Into Business InsightSAP data modernization does not have to wait for an ERP migration. With SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery, customers can share governed SAP data products with BigQuery without copying and combine them with logistics, geospatial, and market data for analytics and AI.
Sep 28, 2026
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Data Before Deployment: What the PwC and Palantir Alliance Signals for SAP TransformationPwC and Palantir expanded their alliance on September 3, 2026, with ERP modernization as a priority area and data readiness positioned as the gate before SAP migration begins. SAPinsider research shows why that sequence matters, with 75% of organizations rating harmonized data as critical to SAP S/4HANA plans and only 34% fully transitioned.
Sep 25, 2026
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SAP OVERPASS Update: New Attack Route and Public Exploit Code Raise Patching StakesResearchers have found a new route to the SAP OVERPASS vulnerability through WebSocket-based RFC, and proof-of-concept exploit code has surfaced in a public SAP toolkit. SAP teams need to know which communication paths still reach vulnerable systems while patches are deployed.
Sep 25, 2026
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Why SAP BRIM Still Matters as SAP Broadens Revenue ManagementSAP now gives BRIM customers more flexibility in how they combine subscription, billing, and finance capabilities. Acuiti Labs' portfolio shows how companies can modernize specific revenue processes while BRIM continues to handle high-volume, complex billing.
Sep 24, 2026
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The Autonomous Enterprise Has a Permission Problem, and the Clock on Fixing It Started at SapphireSAP Sapphire 2026 removed capability as the constraint on agentic AI, with 224 agents, 51 assistants, and the SAP AI Agent Hub in LeanIX. An AiFA Labs analysis argues the real bottleneck is permission: organizations lack the 18-to-24-month evidence base needed to let agents act alone, and the EU AI Act deadline in December 2027 makes the delay costly.
Sep 24, 2026
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Why the SAP Cloud Business Case Keeps Coming Up ShortSAPinsider research shows cloud costs are now the top barrier to SAP S/4HANA adoption, yet most business cases omit integration, retained operations, parallel landscapes, and AI consumption. A like-for-like five-year model, including SAP's Customer Data Center option delivered on Dell APEX, is how finance leaders make the number honest.
Sep 24, 2026
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