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What is an SAP Executive Forum?
An SAP Executive Forum gives technology leaders in the SAP space an opportunity to share stories, challenges, and ideas. It can be useful to hear from those that have the same responsibilities and are beholden to similar goals. At SAPinsider, the place for leaders to interact is the Technology Executive Forum (TEF).
What is an SAP Executive Forum?
An SAP Executive Forum gives technology leaders in the SAP space an opportunity to share stories, challenges, and ideas. It can be useful to hear from those that have the same responsibilities and are beholden to similar goals. At SAPinsider, the place for leaders to interact is the Technology Executive Forum (TEF).
The TEF engages with executives and leaders at SAP customer companies to hear their SAP journeys and technology-related priorities. This engagement happens through multiple avenues, including:
- Virtual executive meetings
- Webinars from the most important technology vendors in the SAP ecosystem
- Virtual executive summits with customer and vendor speakers
- In-person summits, such as at the SAPinsider conference in Las Vegas
- Research reports, which utilize survey data and in-person interview to capture the trends that matter most to technology leaders
SAP Executive Forums help leaders find the answers they need to move their businesses forward. That often means finding the right technology and the TEF partners with a diverse set of key vendors such as Deloitte, SUSE, Microsoft, and Worksoft. Each of those vendors captures different parts of the SAP journey — from strategy and implementation to architecture, infrastructure, and testing automation.
Key Considerations for an SAPinsiders:
- TEF’s recent research into the CIO’s Agenda for 2022 found that technology leaders are primarily focused on increasing process efficiency and visibility while reducing IT costs. The technologies they are focused on to accomplish this include SAP S/4HANA and cloud offerings.
- Technology leaders are often an excellent source of thought leadership in the SAP space, as they are the ones making the ultimate buying decisions on many of SAP’s solutions. The TEF includes leadership perspectives from every industry and from companies at various stages of their SAP journeys — from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA in the cloud.
- SAP S/4HANA remains the most strategic investment for executives in the SAPinsider community. Across the whole technology group, our research in SAP S/4HANA migration also shows that SAP’s 2027 mainstream maintenance deadline on legacy SAP ERPs is among the top drivers to move to SAP S/4HANA. Through the TEF, we are able to bring together perspectives on how technology leaders should best navigate the SAP S/4HANA migration process.
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CloudPaths Recognized Among 2024 Best Workplaces in TechnologyJan 6, 2025 — CloudPaths has been ranked 51st in the 2024 Fortune Media and Great Place to Work's Best Workplaces in Technology list, highlighting its commitment to an inclusive and innovative workplace culture that empowers employees to thrive.
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Wellesley Information Services Globalizes Content and MarketingSep 19, 2024 — Wellesley Information Services has appointed Stephen Wellman as Executive Editor & Publisher and Abbegayle Morrow as Chief Marketing Officer to enhance global content and marketing strategies across its brands, including SAPinsider, Mastering SAP, and ERP Today.
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Vitesco’s Electric Transformation With SAP CloudApr 10, 2024 — Transformation is everywhere, from the move to cloud, to AI augmentation, the changing nature of the hybrid workforce, and the development of Industry 4.0. Infused in all this change is a growing push towards better sustainability, on both the enterprise and customer-facing level. One major tenet behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an automation of […]
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TEF Live Event at EMEA 2023Sep 20, 2023 — The Leader’s Guide to Innovation and Transformation Enabled By AI, Automation, SAP S/4HANA, the Cloud, and More Join fellow Executives on November 15th for the Technology Executive Summit LIVE at EMEA 2023!* *This is a customer-only event. Never before have CIOs and tech leaders been responsible for understanding the vast technology options at their disposal […]
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Executive Roundtable: How Leaders Are Succeeding with SAP S/4HANA and the CloudJun 20, 2022 — SAPinsider’s latest executive research finds that the top projects and investments that SAP customers are making in 2023 relate to SAP S/4HANA and the Cloud. But the path is complex and is putting pressure on leaders to redefine their skills, organizations, processes, and architecture. Higher demands for agility, flexibility and cost control drives IT leaders […]
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SAPinsider Technology Executive Forum: 2022 CIO AgendaMar 17, 2022 — 2021 has been a year of reemergence for many CIOs and technology leaders as they reinvigorate their transformation initiatives and set their sights on furthering their investments in the cloud, SAP S/4HANA, automation, and artificial intelligence.
In this kickoff event of 2022, the SAPinsider Technology Executive Forum brings some of the leading CIOs in our community together to take stock of 2021 and discuss their core objectives for 2022.
Watch this video to:
- Learn how these leaders are managing hybrid work environments and evolving their organizations to support a rapidly changing IT and business landscape.
- Find out where key projects delivered value, which ones faltered, and why.
- Gain knowledge from these CIOs to fine tune your 2022 SAP strategy.
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Diverse Perspectives Create Strategic Business AdvantageSep 30, 2021 — Against a backdrop of energy transition and geopolitical turmoil, Equinor an international energy company headquartered in Norway with more than 20,000 employees worldwide, is undergoing transformation to move from a traditional oil and gas player to a broad energy company. It also
As part of Equinor’s evolution, the company is looking to play a major role in the world’s journey towards reaching net zero. It is also set on tackling another urgent challenge – achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) throughout the entire company by 2025.
DE&I is not only a socially responsible initiative but also critical for organizational success. With more than 25 years moving up the company's ranks, Ashild Hanne Larsen, Equinor’s Vice President of Subsurface Excellence and Digital, understands the importance of DE&I to create a strategic business advantage for Equinor.
Research studies from Deloitte show that organizations with an inclusive culture are three times more likely to be high-performing, six times more likely to be innovative and agile, and eight times more likely to achieve business outcomes.
In this interview, Ashild Hanne Larsen, Equinor’s Vice President of Subsurface Excellence and Digital, shares what DE&I means to her, how the international energy company embraces the concept, and lessons learned along with her journey in her career.
Read this article to learn:
• How Equinor has adapted hiring practices to meet its high employment standards, attract the right people of diverse backgrounds to the company, and identify and eliminate unconscious bias in decision-making.
• What ties digital transformation and the move to the cloud and SAP S/4HANA with DE&I to help businesses to innovate and transform.
• More about the opportunities and challenges lie ahead for DE&I over the next year?
• The benefits of DE&I benefits, including improved employee retention and emotional commitment to the success of the company and higher levels of innovation.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in TechnologyAug 11, 2021 — Ashild Hanne Larsen’s journey to becoming Vice President of Subsurface Excellence and Digital for Equinor, an international energy company headquartered in Norway, has been “somewhat strange,” she says. Larsen began working for Equinor as a catering assistant working on offshore oil rigs making beds, doing kitchen work, and removing waste from people's waste baskets. Subsequent roles in HR and technology projects led her to where she is today.
SAPinsider’s Chief Research Officer Riz Ahmed sat down with Larsen to learn what diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) mean to her, how the concept has impacted her personal journey as a female leader in the technology space and the energy industry, and what continues to inspire her to focus attention in this area.
Watch this video and hear:
Larsen’s definition of DE&I and her perspective on how it can be incorporated into the technology space to support strategic initiatives and shape the future;
The unique role that DE&I plays in technology and in Equinor's mission to build a profitable renewables business; and
What is inspiring Larsen to help others understand DE&I and the unique mindset she has adopted to continually grow.
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