ERP Confab

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  • Résumé

  • ERP Confab features in-depth conversations about the vendors, trends and technologies driving the enterprise resource planning market. TechTarget’s resident ERP expert David Essex chats with the C-suite executives, industry insiders and expert ERP observers. From the factory floor to the metaverse, and everything in between, ERP Confab has it covered.
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  • SAP in 2025: S/4HANA, cloud pressure builds
    Jan 28 2025

    A case can be made that for the past decade and a half, SAP has been almost entirely focused on two things: getting customers to adopt its next-generation ERP platform, S/4HANA, and shifting its development efforts from on-premises systems to the cloud – and getting customers to follow.

    Now, with the calendar turned to 2025, the December 31, 2027 deadline -- when SAP says it will stop supporting legacy on-premises ECC and R/3 systems, in effect requiring most customers to upgrade to S/4HANA -- looms uncomfortably near. A Gartner survey shows most have yet to make the move.

    SAP enters the new year having struggled through a 2024 that presented its own challenges. The vendor underwent major personnel shakeups as three C-level executives left the company, legendary cofounder Hasso Plattner retired, and 10,000 employees were moved into strategic initiatives – primarily AI -- or left after being bought out.

    SAP customers and industry analysts will be looking to see if SAP can stabilize its management structure and re-establish trust with its employees. At the same time, SAP will face more pressure than ever to show progress on getting customers to move to S/4HANA and the cloud.

    In this podcast, Jim O'Donnell, senior news writer at Informa TechTarget's SearchSAP website, joins host David Essex to discuss last year's developments and their impact on SAP and its customers going forward. They also analyze the effectiveness of the Rise with SAP and Grow with SAP programs in guiding customers on a path to S/4HANA Cloud, and what SAP must do to right the ship and show more progress in moving customers to S/4HANA and the cloud.

    Other topics discussed in the podcast include:

    • the impact of SAP'S promise to limit major innovations to the two cloud versions of S/4HANA
    • how confusion over S/4HANA migration could benefit competitors like Oracle and Workday
    • whether SAP might extend the 2027 deadline

    Host: David Essex, Industry Editor, Informa TechTarget

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    33 min
  • Sentient documents, anticipatory interfaces and the next UI
    Dec 16 2024

    ERP vendors have been eager to ride the generative AI wave, and it has become commonplace for them to assert that machine learning and other types of AI will revolutionize the way people interact with business applications and data. AI is already enabling natural language data queries and commands and starting to take over workflows that cross ERP modules. Chatbots are evolving from simple logic machines to become "smart" agents capable of communicating and making decisions like humans. The user interface will become so automated and abstracted from the underlying applications, proponents say, that users will rarely need to interact directly with back-end systems.

    John Bates, CEO of Bonn, Germany-based SER Group, sees the next generation of software UIs as centering on the documents and other digital content that are the lifeblood of commerce. He says "sentient" documents will soon be developed that are self-aware enough to communicate what they are and the information they contain. As documents become essentially conscious, they will be able to initiate actions, remove language barriers and glean fresh insights from enterprise data. Sentient documents will be the foundation of anticipatory UIs that can figure out what users need and execute processes for them, often before they have to ask.

    In the podcast, he explains how sentient documents and anticipatory interfaces will work and the important role of AI.

    Bates earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Cambridge University in 1994, after which he became a tenured professor leading research on distributed computing. He has held executive positions at Progress Software and Software AG and founded startups in algorithmic trading and the internet of things. He joined SER Group, which sells an enterprise content management platform called Doxis, in 2022, and is the author of the book, Thingalytics: Smart Big Data Analytics for the Internet of Things.

    Other topics discussed in the podcast include:

    • why today's AI hasn't achieved true intelligence, despite the claims of AI advocates
    • how the European Union's strict privacy regulations could stifle innovation
    • the importance of agentic AI in processing digital content
    • why people's enthusiasm for natural language interfaces is fading

    Host: David Essex, Industry Editor, Informa TechTarget

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    33 min
  • EY, SAP and the role of sustainability consulting
    Nov 26 2024

    ERP increasingly serves as the hub of organizations' environmental sustainability strategies. But so far, it has mostly been used to standardize and automate the collecting and reporting of environmental, social and governance (ESG) data for customers, investors and regulators. There's a growing sense that ERP can be put to greater use if it's more closely integrated with enterprise technology that has a direct impact on sustainability, such as supply chain visibility, logistics and asset management, to effect real change.

    This more ambitious vision of IT-driven sustainability calls for digital transformation of business processes and presents daunting development and integration challenges. So ERP vendors have set up partnerships with the professional services and Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC to make it a reality.

    One prominent example is EY's partnering with SAP to help customers implement sustainability through their SAP systems.

    In this podcast, EY partner Marsha Reppy shares her experiences and insights on the challenges of sustainability and assesses where companies stand on the maturity curve. Reppy heads EY's sustainability consulting practice for the Americas, having joined the firm in 2006 after five years at Deloitte. She has worked for more than 20 years helping consumer products and retail companies with their digital transformation initiatives through technologies like analytics, AI and intelligent automation, and has extensive experience working with SAP systems.

    Other topics discussed in the podcast include:

    • what sustainability means in practice for organizations
    • the biggest technical challenges of sustainability
    • EY's role in the SAP partnership

    Host: David Essex, Industry Editor, TechTarget

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    26 min

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