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SAP names Philipp Herzig as chief artificial intelligence officer

It’s a small promotion and a change of title for one man, and a sign of a larger change in strategic focus for many others at SAP.

Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany

Microsoft plans to support enterprises in Germany with investments in data center capacity and in AI training for more than 1.2 million people.

Henkel embraces gen AI as enabler and strategic disruptor

Out of necessity, the German consumer packaged goods company is putting generative AI at the core of its five-year digital transformation mission.

Oracle Cloud SCM gets new capabilities to help manage logistics

The new updates have been added to Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management applications, which are a part of Oracle’s Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) suite.

SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

As SAP continues to position itself as a leader in generative AI and innovative technologies, customers must prepare to navigate new service offerings and an inevitable move to SAP RISE.

SAP has a new succession plan

SAP’s board wants to bring former Nokia chairman Pekka Ala-Pietilä on board to succeed founder Hasso Plattner as chairman.

Salesforce’s Einstein 1 platform to get new prompt-engineering features

The two new features, still in the research phase, are expected to help developers do prompt engineering faster, thereby speeding up the development of generative AI applications.

SharePoint Premium highlights the hard road CIOs face with generative AI

Microsoft’s newly transformed content and collaboration platform depends on more capable artificial intelligence capabilities. But it won’t be successful without more capable human beings.

SAP and IBM under scanner of Indian investigative agency for Air India deal

Air India failed to adhere to the rules while awarding an ERP contract worth $27 million to SAP India and IBM India.

SAP offers big discount to lure on-prem S/4HANA customers to Rise

By making it cheaper to adopt its subscription-based Rise with SAP cloud offering, the company hopes to counter complaints about its cloud-only innovation strategy.