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Altran-Capgemini : un géant mondial de la transformation numérique de bout en bout du secteur indust...
3 questions à Patrick Rahali Director & Market Leader
Dans l’Expert View que vous avez co-signée sur la stratégie de SAP sur le marché des PME, vous soulignez une certaine concurrence entre 3 offres de SAP, y compris S/4HANA. Peut-on établir des profils types de PME pour chaque offre, ou est-ce plus compliqué que cela ?
Salesforce: integration drives the evolution of the services business
Our recently published report delivers insights into the market for Salesforce-related services. In it, we explain the growth drivers and how the expanded Salesforce portfolio, including the MuleSoft acquisition, is changing the services value chain.
SAP TechEd: SAP Cloud Platform aims to make SAP applications smarter
SAP has redefined the role of its SAP Cloud Platform: Its main objective is to integrate the various SAP applications, provide an environment to develop extensions and add-ons and to augment solutions with machine learning and predictive analytics.
Oracle NetSuite: cloud ERP with both a vertical and local flavor
Last week, PAC attended two events held by Oracle NetSuite, SuiteConnect in London and Grow Live in Frankfurt. Two years after Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite, a massive expansion program has been set in motion by the vendor, with plans to strengthen the market presence of NetSuite in local markets such as France or Germany. Both events ...
From S/4HANA to C/4HANA: SAP proclaims an end-to-end business software strategy
SAP's Sapphire NOW event is currently taking place in Orlando (June 5-7), and some major announcements have been made, one concerning the launch of the C/4 HANA suite for the customer experience space. By this move, SAP gives a very strong message to customers, partners and the competition that it has lifted the customer-related area to the ...
Tendances 2018 : plus d'intelligence et d'automatisation
Le numérique reste un sujet prédominant dans le programme des DSI pour l'année à venir. Ce concept a déjà fait couler beaucoup d'encre et suscité de nombreuses discussions. Bon nombre d'entreprises ont déjà lancé des projets et augmenté leur budget numérisation de manière significative. Pourtant, il est clair qu'il reste encore beaucoup à ...
How SAP Ariba intends to digitize procurement
From June 12-14, 2017, SAP Ariba held its annual conference dedicated to European customers. The conference reunited the entire Ariba ecosystem, customers, partners, press and analysts.
A few novelties were presented and announcements made, such as on the launch of SAP Ariba® Spot Buy capability for European customers with Mercateo as the ...
SAP Leonardo: lots of potential but still a work in progress
Artificial Intelligence: Innovating Applications and Related IT-Services
Artificial intelligence is becoming mainstream as more and more vendors of application software and providers of applications-related services are making use of these technologies. Although still at an early stage, many examples suggest that AI is going to augment the software and software-related services business in a number of different ways.
SAP S/4HANA: IT users and vendors need to rethink
As more and more companies evaluate SAP S/4HANA, IT users as well as IT service providers are thinking about whether, why and how they should move to the next-generation application platform. The opportunities for both sides are huge – and so are the challenges, as a recent PAC Market InSight report shows.
Les défis des DSI en 2016
2016 sera une année consacrée à la transformation numérique.
SAP S/4HANA: Innovation is not in the driver's seat yet
In a comprehensive study, PAC analyzed the relevance and the expectations of German SAP customers regarding SAP S/4HANA. The analysis, which was conducted in cooperation with Dell, Intel, Arvato Systems and SNP AG, reveals that the driver for S/4HANA is not the creation of new business models.
SAP HANA - Kennen Sie Ihren Storage-Bedarf wirklich?
SAP HANA – Warum Sie ihren Storage Bedarf im Auge behalten sollten…
SAP Services simplifies customer engagements with “One Service”
At this year’s SAP Services Analyst 1 day prior to SAPPHIRE 2015, the services organization announced it would be following the software organization down the road of simplification. All units of the services organization (support, education, consulting, CDS, cloud delivery) are going to merge their forces under a new “One Services” ...
Capgemini Deutschland: Digitalisierung groß geschrieben
In der vergangenen Woche hatte Capgemini Deutschland eingeladen, um einen Einblick in die aktuellen Entwicklungen der Firma in Deutschland zu geben. In Übereinstimmung mit der globalen Strategie setzt auch Capgemini Deutschland einen strategischen Hauptfokus auf das Thema Digitalisierung.
IP-led innovation: TCS has its way with NETRA
TCS Assurance services unit is the enterprise testing arm of TCS with over 28,000 testing professionals. Assurance services has setup over 65 test centers of excellence globally and provides a host of Test Consulting and Advisory Services, Test Services Implementation, and Managed Services to over 500 clients across the world. As a next step ...
SAP HANA: disruptive or non-disruptive? What a question!
There is a lot of talk these days about ‘disruptive’ and ‘non-disruptive’ innovation within and outside the IT world. The question is whether such a discussion makes any sense.
PAC's view on SAP S/4HANA
With S/4 HANA, SAP announced the next generation of its core product SAP Business Suite. Our thoughts on this topic.
How Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Oracle and SAP drive the application-related services market
The market for consulting and system integration services for the “Big Four” in the business application space is very different considering topics, regions, countries and vertical industries. As a result, a “one-size-fits-all” strategy won’t work for service providers.