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A Head of Manufacturing running SAP ECC understands a unique challenge: the production line cannot stop for days on end. A guide to migrating ERP to the cloud generally does not address this. This article separates the real benefits of RISE with SAP on the production floor from the migration considerations specific to the manufacturing industry. In short, RISE with SAP for manufacturing is a subscription package, Business Transformation as a S...

IT and transformation leaders often hear plenty of claims about “autonomous AI.” Yet the difference between an assistant that only answers questions and an agent that gets the work done is often unclear. This can make investment decisions harder. This article explains the concept of agentic AI, sets it apart from generative AI, and maps its potential to automate work across a range of functions. It also gives an example of how it is a...

Sales data in the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, branch POS (point of sale) summaries, and the finance team's spreadsheets often show different numbers. The problem usually lies not in the dashboard but in the data path leading to the company's data warehouse. ETL is the standard mechanism for resolving these discrepancies. This article covers the three stages of ETL, how it differs from ELT (Extract, Load, Transform), and why...

Once the project is approved and the budget locked, the board's main question is: when do we go live? Without a clear map of the phases, that question is hard to answer, particularly with the SAP ECC support deadline ticking down. This article sets out the RISE with SAP migration timeline phase by phase, using official SAP data as the reference, and counts back to the latest possible date to start your ERP migration to the cloud project. I...