Munich, February 04, 2015 – Last night, earlier than expected, SAP presented S/4 HANA, the successor to SAP ERP (ECC 6.0) in New York. Since the announcement of SAP HANA a couple of years ago, it has been clear that SAP had to rebuild the existing ERP in order to achieve the full benefits the real-time platform provides. They finally achieved this earlier than one could have expected since this meant to change an ERP codebase of around 400 million lines of code. It’s a very bold move for SAP. It
Munich, October 13, 2014 – CFOs are increasingly under pressure to effectively support business performance and manage business risk. New digital technologies are increasingly important enablers for this. A new report by market research and strategic consulting company Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), published with HP, finds that while CFOs are aware of the impact of digital technologies on the finance function, some still underestimate the wider and far-reaching implications resulting from dig
Paris, March 11, 2014 – An expanding threat landscape, the Internet of Things and skills shortage are the three top challenges for cyber security in 2014. According to the European IT market analysis and consulting firm Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), CIOs and CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) are increasingly challenged by managing the plethora of individual point solutions for cyber security to cope with the growing number of specific threats. Vendors that can deliver on the vision
