Mr Liam Donnelly Crossroads: The Challenge of S/4 HANA - Online indir

Global software giant SAP has announced a new direction. Its business software, installed in a significant number of the world’s largest corporations, is being replaced with a new version. Upgrade will require a costly technical system conversion or a potentially disruptive reimplementation. Meanwhile, existing users of the former version will see their support withdrawn. Where does leave the users? Are manufacturing companies compelled to re-engineer their complex production and shop floor operations? Will the big banks be prepared to reinstall their vast back-office accounting systems? Will Retail and other sectors accept imposition of proprietary strategies? Should users follow SAP’s advice without qualification, or find replacement software products; or retain the product that they know, but find a different party to support it? What about the future? Best Practices and Machine-based learning? Or Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud applications? Or do they even matter? And how considerable will be the impact on SAP itself, if its strategies turns out to be flawed? Experienced SAP professional and author Liam Donnelly weighs up the evidence, assesses the interests of all the parties involved, and draws some surprising conclusions.