As the largest ERP vendor, SAP makes the software that runs much of the world's business. And whenever SAP makes a major change in its product portfolio, its customers often must scramble to adapt.
No change in the past two decades has had more impact than SAP's decision to replace its popular ERP Central Component (ECC) software and related Business Suite applications with S/4HANA, a new generation of ERP that only runs on SAP's HANA in-memory database. SAP is also pushing customers to change deployment models by moving off Business Suite and the first incarnation of S/4HANA – both of which run on premises – to cloud versions of S/4HANA. More recently, the technological tsunami from the 2022 introduction of generative AI is transforming the SAP product portfolio yet again.
Since 1991, Americas' SAP User Group (ASUG) has strived to help members through such changes with networking events, education and research on SAP products while serving as their advocate with SAP. ASUG claims to be the world's largest SAP user group with 130,000 members across North America.
In this podcast, ASUG CEO Geoff Scott shares member feedback and his personal take on SAP S/4HANA, cloud migration and generative AI with TechTarget Industry Editor David Essex and News Writer Jim O'Donnell.
Scott, who has been ASUG CEO since January 2014, came from senior IT roles that involved implementing and managing enterprise applications from SAP, Oracle and other vendors. He was CIO of TOMS, a footwear and apparel maker, and JBS, a global meat processor and distributor. Prior to that, he was a senior IT manager at Ford, after being CIO of Edcor Data Services and a consultant at PwC.
Other topics discussed in the podcast include:
- what to expect from the upcoming Sapphire conference in Orlando, which ASUG co-sponsors with SAP
- the success of the Rise with SAP and Grow with SAP services for moving to S/4HANA
- how ASUG manages its relationship with SAP to keep customer concerns front and center
Host: David Essex, Industry Editor, TechTarget
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