Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) aren’t just businesses; they’re the pillars that uphold the global economy, accounting for 50% of global GDP and 70% of jobs. Their influence is undeniable – which is why Huawei has created a new digital platform to support them. Despite their vast numbers, a significant portion of SMEs are only now…
What do the top manufacturing countries have in common? Their manufacturing industries are laser-focused on melding IT with OT to create the smartest digital production lines possible. The world of manufacturing is undergoing a quiet revolution: the integration of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT). These two domains have traditionally been separate – IT has provided…
Less than a year after most CIOs and business leaders even heard the expression “generative artificial intelligence,” for the first time, this technology has set off a wave of innovation that will dramatically change how businesses are run. However, we at SAP are not entering this race as newcomers. In fact, we have been at…
Generative AI is quickly changing the landscape of the business world, with rapid adoption rates across nearly every industry. Businesses are turning to gen AI to streamline business processes, develop proprietary AI technology, and reduce manual efforts in order to free up employees to take on more intensive tasks. A recent survey of senior IT…
Data architect role Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations. The data architect is responsible for visualizing and designing an organization’s enterprise data management framework. This framework describes the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create,…
You’re an IT leader at an organization whose employees are rampantly adopting generative AI. Now what? You require a strategy for efficient, productive, and responsible corporate use. Although it’s early days, as many as 75% of organizations reported quantified outcomes from GenAI projects, with 26% expecting productivity gains, according to a Dell Technologies survey of…
Enterprises subscribing to Rise with SAP, a bundle of services wrapped around the core S/4HANA Cloud ERP application, can now pay extra for Premium Plus, a package of some of SAP’s newest innovations. Premium Plus includes access to sustainability insights derived from business processes’ carbon footprints and financial costs (SAP’s “green ledger”), new generative AI…
In the business world, service desks are commonly designated as cost centers, a label that can sometimes limit their access to essential resources and support. This categorization tends to encourage a more reactive approach, as they often find themselves responding to incidents rather than proactively shaping outcomes. Such views of service desks can diminish their…
Surely, you can feel it. It’s hot out there. July 3, 2023, set a record for the highest mean global temperature ever recorded. Then July 4 came along and was even hotter. All-in-all, July 3-6 were the hottest four days ever recorded on planet Earth — but probably not for long. There’s a climate crisis. We’re all…
Microsoft is planning to appeal a claim of $28.9 billion in back taxes that it has received from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the company said on Wednesday. The Notices of Proposed Adjustment were received on September 26, related to intercompany pricing or transfer pricing, Microsoft said in a regulatory filing. The IRS is…