Aug 14, 2023
•11 minute read
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“Cloud Migration is More Than Just an Upgrade”In an exclusive interview with SAPinsider, Peter Pluim, President, SAP Enterprise Cloud Services & SAP Sovereign Cloud Services talks about his role and how SAP is supporting its customers on their cloud journeys.
Peter Pluim is the President of SAP’s Enterprise Cloud Services & SAP Sovereign Cloud Services businesses, which include private managed cloud deployment options for RISE with SAP and full SAP ERP value-adding SAP Cloud Application Services as well as Sovereign Cloud Services for all SAP cloud solutions. He is responsible for the end-to-end delivery, revenue and margin of these business and leads a global team that ensures SAP delivers to its contractual commitments. Peter is part of the Global Product Engineering Group and reports directly to its President and Executive Board Member. Peter joined SAP in June 2019 and prior to his role at SAP, Peter was the Executive Vice-President and CEO of Atos’ Infrastructure & Data Management Division and part of the Executive Committee.
Speaker Q&A: Keeping Workers Safe using Intelligent Compliance Processes at CITIC Pacific MiningFollowing the June 2023, Mastering SAP Conference in Melbourne we took five minutes to chat to speaker Lauren Walsh, Superintendent Learning Systems at CITIC Pacific Mining (CPM) to hear more about a recent project that extended CPM’s SAP SuccessFactors instance utilising SAP BTP.
Jun 29, 2023
•2 minute read
“SAP does not have a separate sustainability strategy”SAP has adopted a threefold approach to tackle emissions, with the primary focus being on avoiding emissions, followed by reducing emissions, and then compensating for any residual emissions. To avoid emissions, the company leverages digital tools such as virtual collaboration to minimize the need for travel and the associated emissions. To reduce emissions, SAP strives to optimize energy efficiency in its data centers to lower energy consumption and emissions, and it compensates for any remaining emissions through measures such as implementing an internal carbon price on business travel flights and using the revenue to purchase high-quality offsets. SAP's commitment to reducing emissions has led to significant progress, with detailed information on the company's emissions performance and journey available in its integrated report, which covers Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions.
In a candid interview with SAPinsider, Daniel Schmid, Chief Sustainability Officer of SAP, talks about SAP’s journey toward Net Zero 2030, decarbonizing complex supply chains, enabling organizations to be sustainable, greenwashing risk, and future priorities.
May 3, 2023
•4 minute read
“Security is not simply a subset of IT”Cybersecurity encompasses a wide range of areas, including endpoint and network security, and application layer security. A comprehensive understanding of these aspects is essential for organizations to protect themselves. SAP holds a unique advantage in this realm, as it possesses deep understanding of its own applications and business frameworks across various industries. SAP has created numerous security solutions, including SAP GRC and identity and access management, specifically for its own applications. One of its key assets, the Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD) tool, has undergone significant development and empowers our customers to detect and understand any abnormal activity within their SAP applications and workflows. As the developers of these tools, SAP has a deep understanding of their capabilities, giving them a competitive advantage over other players in the market.
In Part 2 of the interview with SAPinsider, Roland Costea, CISO Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) at SAP, discusses an overlooked topic in the cybersecurity field that deserves more attention, the top priorities for the year, and the top-line thing organizations must keep in mind if moving to the cloud.
May 1, 2023
•4 minute read
“The User is still the Weakest Link in the Security Chain”Cybersecurity encompasses a wide range of areas, including endpoint and network security, and application layer security. A comprehensive understanding of these aspects is essential for organizations to protect themselves. SAP holds a unique advantage in this realm, as it possesses deep understanding of its own applications and business frameworks across various industries. SAP has created numerous security solutions, including SAP GRC and identity and access management, specifically for its own applications. One of its key assets, the Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD) tool, has undergone significant development and empowers our customers to detect and understand any abnormal activity within their SAP applications and workflows. As the developers of these tools, SAP has a deep understanding of their capabilities, giving them a competitive advantage over other players in the market.
In Part 1 of the interview with SAPinsider, Roland Costea, CISO Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) at SAP, discusses the importance of cyber resilience, how SAP is framing its cybersecurity strategies as a value driver, challenges that organizations face when they move to the cloud, and the steps businesses can take to enhance their cybersecurity measures.
Apr 24, 2023
•5 minute read
From Idea to InnovationNoele Crooks will present Idea to Innovation: How the San Francisco 49ers Use Real-Time Analytics to Enhance the Fan Experience at MASTERINGSAP. Crooks sat down to share a preview of her presentation.
With only ten home games a year, the 49ers needed a way to operationalize and visualize their data, in-real time, to help resolve stadium issues and improve the fan experience. Prior to the SAP BTP solution, the analytics and operations teams didn’t have insight into gameday issues fans faced until 2-3 days after the game, when analyzing the survey results. The Executive Huddle is a real-time SAP Analytics Cloud data center in a suite used for 49ers games and major events. It has over ten different data integrations feeding into SAP HANA Cloud. SAP Analytics Cloud enables the visualization of that data in the dashboards, which update every one to five minutes on game day, allowing the team to respond to fan issues in real time.
This initiative has allowed the 49er’s to optimize the fan experience by addressing feedback in real time, with most stadium issues resolved in 10 minutes or less, uncovered opportunities across retail, concessions, and stadium operations to resolve 200+ issues since the launch of the Executive Huddle and SAP BTP solution. Plus obtain more insight into the data through SAP Analytics Cloud dashboards which has led to a 43% increase in fan satisfaction.
Apr 17, 2023
•3 minute read
Accelerating Transformation to SAP S/4HANAThe most significant issue seen with organizations is that most do not document their business processes and store them in a single source of truth. This is crucial because knowing what business processes to transform is crucial for any transformation initiative. From a technology perspective, resources do not necessarily support an organization holistically because they support configurations and objects or maintain, and support structures and objects required to hold. And this is different from what the company needs from a business process operation perspective. In the second part of the interview series with Craig Brown, Chief Transformation Architect at Xceleon, Brown talks about the business and technology hurdles that organizations face and the strategies that organizations should take to migrate successfully to S/4HANA.
Feb 16, 2023
•6 minute read
Transforming Organizations Into Intelligent Enterprises"Intelligent Enterprise" is the buzzword today. But how can organizations transform into one? What are the drivers for it? How can organizations build innovation delivery platforms? In this interview, Craig Brown, Chief Transformation Architect at Xceleon talks about what an Intelligent Enterprise is and the enablers that allow organizations to become one. He highlights the need for an innovation delivery platform and explains why organizations need to leverage one. Brown states that customers need to take an agile approach to their deployment or transformations into an intelligent enterprise. This is because the need for change is dramatic. Taking an agile approach to change allows organizations to keep their technologies up to speed with the business. Using waterfall approaches to technology deployments result in obsolete by the time projects are completed.
Jan 18, 2023
•3 minute read
Transformation, Imagination, and InnovationIt’s not often that you hear a technology enthusiast advocating to slow down. However, this mandate comes straight from the source and one of the biggest technology fanatics in the world — SAP’s President of Cloud Brian Duffy. Slow down to speed back up again is what Duffy advertises. Duffy’s non-traditional path to his current position driving SAP’s latest offering, RISE with SAP, has awarded him with a rich skill set, resulting in a unique leadership approach founded on hearing (vs. just listening) and problem solving.
SAPinsider’s Director of Editorial Brianna Shipley sat down with the President of Cloud to learn about his role today, how RISE with SAP is evolving, and Duffy’s opinion on buzzwords like imagination, transformation, and diversity.
Read this Q&A and learn:
- How customer feedback has impacted the evolution of RISE with SAP and how the offering is helping businesses holistically transform;
- About Duffy's personal connection to diversity and inclusion and how he sees RISE with SAP complementing D&I initiatives; and
- The advice that Duffy offers to future leaders operating in a digital workforce.
Jul 30, 2021
•8 minute read
How Automation Is Driving Innovative ThinkingSimply migrating to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud are no longer enough to transform the business. SAP customers and SAP partners providing migration services are beginning to view automation as a competitive advantage and a means to take full advantage of new functionality. How can SAP customers quickly gain value and develop innovation initiatives that take their business to the next level?
While technology can help companies become more agile, enable streamlined workflow processes, and derive helpful insights from large amounts of data, people – and brain power – remain at the heart of innovation. SAPinsider recently talked with subject matter experts Michele Coto, Red Hat’s Business Development Manager – EMEA SAP Cloud & Service Provider, and Robert Walmsley, Amazon Web Services’ EMEA SAP Go-to-Market Lead to learn more about what’s driving innovative thinking today and technology’s role in the process.
Read this Q&A and learn:
- About important business and technology trends that SAP customers should be aware of, how these trends can impact their business, and actions and strategies customers can take to be successful;
- How SAP partners are working together to help companies move forward in their SAP journeys and some early results; and
- About the role of automation in business transformation.
May 3, 2021
•6 minute read
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