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Protecting SAP ERP Availability & Data Privacy—Be a hero vs victim Dec 23, 2025 — Modern cloud ERP exposes new challenges to both SAP ERP availability and privacy. Before October 2025, more than 2,000 organizations believed they were protected by multi-regional cloud architecture, only to be impacted by a single hyperscaler DNS outage that disrupted access across multiple countries for more than 14 hours. That same year, geo-political sanctions abruptly […]

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Modernize Without Disruption: Top Considerations for Your SAP Transformation Journey Dec 2, 2025 — SAP modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar on demand, we reveal an alternative to costly rip-and-replace methods. Join us to see how process orchestration and automation platforms can act as an “agility layer” to streamline your ERP modernization—ensuring business continuity and dramatically reducing your migration timeline. Whether you’re planning to migrate to S/4HANA or are still exploring your options, now is the time to modernize front-end applications and equip your workforce with new capabilities. See how, with Appian, you can show value in weeks, keep your core clean, and reduce risk at every stage of your journey. Watch now to: - Identify the critical SAP blind spots and complexities—such as managing undefined processes and difficult integrations with external applications —that can hinder a smooth S/4HANA Cloud migration. - Learn how housing customizations on an agility layer helps you retain business value and future-proof your systems. - Explore the key business benefits of this approach, including cost savings, improved efficiency, and maximizing investments in your existing systems. See how the Appian Platform helps

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Driving Tax Determination Excellence: How Hyundai Powers U.S. Sales Tax with Sovos + SAP S/4HANA Dec 18, 2025 — Watch this webinar to discover how Hyundai: - Eliminated manual tax calculations across high-volume transactions - Handled tax determination in all U.S. jurisdictions with precision and speed - Achieved real-time compliance using Sovos’ certified SAP connectors and automated rule updates - Future-proofed tax operations with scalable architecture and regulatory monitoring This session is ideal for SAP finance, tax, and IT leaders seeking to modernize legacy tax engines, reduce audit risk, and align tax compliance with digital transformation initiatives.

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From Technical Debt to Optimized Execution: EWEB’s Automation Adoption Dec 12, 2025 — Watch how Eugene Water and Electric Board modernized operations and reduced institutional overhead by orchestrating complex processes with RISE with SAP, SAP BTP, and RunMyJobs by Redwood. This session focuses on the business challenge of automating a complex process like meter to cash and shows how EWEB worked to eliminate technical debt and institutional overhead while modernizing operations. SAP and Redwood experts demonstrate how RISE with SAP, SAP BTP, and RunMyJobs work together to innovate, integrate, and extend automation, which enables high-performing autonomous execution of even the most complex processes. You will also hear directly from EWEB on how these capabilities automated their utility-specific meter-to-cash process and strengthened the core backend operations that enterprises across nearly every industry depend on. The session will highlight patterns to automate complex and high-value processes across the enterprise, including meter-to-cash, treasury and finance, file transfer, and more, without brittle scripts or manual handoffs. Whether you are consolidating legacy systems, accelerating SAP modernization, or building resilient automation across business and IT, you will walk away with practical learnings you can apply immediately. Watch now to learn: - How to reduce technical debt from outdated automation systems - How to identify patterns and business processes to automate - How to optimize workload automation systems for reliability, observability, and scalability

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SAPinsider Research Webinar: Tax Technology in SAP Environments Dec 19, 2025 — Tax and finance leaders running SAP are moving from fragmented, spreadsheet‑driven tax activities to integrated, AI‑enabled tax operations that are tightly aligned with SAP S/4HANA roadmaps and global compliance demands. By standardizing on end‑to‑end tax automation, central data governance, and embedded tax engines, leading organizations are decoupling tax logic from SAP core systems, improving audit readiness, and creating scalable tax platforms that can keep up with rapid regulatory change. In this SAPinsider webinar session, learn how benchmark leaders are architecting tax technology across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, and key third‑party solutions to support direct and indirect tax, e‑invoicing, and global reporting without over‑customizing SAP. The speakers walk through concrete SAP scenarios showing how intelligent mapping, AI‑driven anomaly detection, and cloud‑based tax engines are being used to maintain clean tax data, automate calculations and filings, and provide real‑time visibility to tax, finance, and IT stakeholders. Watch this webinar to: - Discover how an end‑to‑end tax automation layer can accelerate SAP S/4HANA projects by isolating tax rules and compliance logic from the SAP core, reducing upgrade risk, technical debt, and manual work. - See practical, SAP‑centric use cases where integrated tax workflows, AI, and analytics improve user experience, shorten close cycles, and strengthen compliance across regions facing diverse e‑invoicing, ESG, and indirect tax requirements. - Learn lessons from SAPinsider’s 2025 benchmark on how peers are funding tax technology, managing integration challenges, closing skills gaps, and using the DART model to prioritize next‑step investments in AI, data quality, and third‑party solutions like Avalara, Vertex, and others.

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Going Beyond Clean Core and Neptune Software

A Technical Deep Dive: Building a Resilient and Future-Ready SAP S/4HANA Cloud Landscape Nov 25, 2025 — Migrating SAP S/4HANA to the cloud is a complex undertaking that requires an exceptionally resilient platform foundation. Join SUSE solution architects for a technical, step-by-step deep dive into how enterprises are building secure, high-availability, and cloud-optimized SAP environments. We move beyond the basics to cover critical configuration considerations, automated deployment approaches, and advanced lifecycle management strategies - all engineered to achieve near-zero downtime and maximum efficiency. Discover how SUSE’s collaborative innovations with hyperscalers, including native integration, live patching, and intelligent workload optimization, are designed to safeguard your mission-critical SAP operations from Day 1 to Day 2. By watching this webinar, you will: - Examine a technical blueprint for deploying SAP S/4HANA on SUSE across cloud and hybrid environments, including a look "under the hood" of SAP RISE. - Master strategies to streamline operations, enhance security and compliance, and reduce business disruption for vital SAP workloads. - Explore Day-2 operational excellence: See a live demo of AI-driven tools that provide critical insight, streamline operations, and prevent glitches before they impact the business. - Use case 1 – Compliance: Leverage automated configuration checks to ensure your cluster setup aligns with best practices. - Use case 2 – AI-assisted observability: Use the AI assistant with saptune integration to generate reports identifying hosts with untuned or non-compliant saptune settings. - Use case 3 – Operations: Apply existing operational workflows to prepare a HANA cluster for offline maintenance.

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SAPinsider Research Webinar – The Technology Leader’s 2025 Transformation Report Card Dec 13, 2025 — Technology leaders are under growing pressure to modernize core systems, adopt AI, and drive measurable business outcomes while managing risk, skills gaps, and budget constraints. The SAPinsider Technology Leaders 2025 Transformation Report Card captures how organizations are navigating this shift, highlighting where transformation efforts are delivering value and where execution continues to stall. In this SAPinsider webinar, we unpack the key findings from the 2025 Transformation Report Card, drawing on insights from technology and SAP leaders across industries. Analyst Craig Powers explores how organizations are prioritizing cloud, SAP S/4HANA, data, and AI initiatives, where transformation maturity is strongest, and which barriers continue to slow progress. The session will connect research insights to real-world implications for IT and business leaders responsible for driving change. Watch this webinar to: - Understand the current state of SAP and enterprise transformation maturity in 2025 - Learn which technology investments are delivering the strongest business impact - Identify common gaps in skills, governance, and execution that limit transformation success - Benchmark your organisation against peers and uncover practical next steps for the year ahead This session is ideal for SAP practitioners, business stakeholders, program teams, and anyone involved in planning, executing, or supporting enterprise transformation initiatives.

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SAPinsider Benchmark Research Webinar – RISE with SAP 2025 Dec 5, 2025 — A Market Divided and a Looming Resource Crunch Organizations are facing a pivotal moment as the shift to SAP Cloud ERP accelerates and the end of maintenance for core SAP ERP systems nears. SAPinsider’s latest RISE with SAP Benchmark Research reveals how companies are responding to rising pressure to modernize, the reasons behind their adoption decisions, and the challenges they must overcome. With two thirds of respondents already running, deploying, or exploring SAP Cloud ERP, the findings offer an in-depth look at what is driving ERP transformation in 2025 and where organizations are investing to prepare for the future. In this session, SAPinsider analysts walk through the key data shaping cloud ERP strategy, including the role played by SAP Cloud ERP Private (RISE with SAP), the impact of AI capabilities such as Joule, and the realities of skills shortages, security requirements, and cost considerations. Attendees will gain a research-driven view of how peers are planning, executing, and governing their transitions, along with practical insights they can use to guide their own ERP roadmaps. Watch this session to: - Understand what is driving organizations to accelerate their move to SAP Cloud ERP Private and how adoption differs by company size. - Learn why support from SAP, access to new functionality, and the rise of generative AI are shaping decision making. - Hear which challenges organizations say are most difficult, including data cleansing, custom code remediation, and securing business support. - See how companies are forming strategy teams, involving executives, and preparing for resource shortages in the coming years. - Gain guidance on the steps organizations should take now to prepare for ERP transformation and long term innovation.

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Research Webinar: Cloud Architecture for SAP Nov 11, 2025 — SAPinsiders have been moving to the cloud for over a decade but the transformation process is far from complete. In addition, most organizations take a unique path to the cloud. Some started with a lift and shift of older on-premise systems to infrastructure-as-a-service environments, while others may have directly moved to SAP S/4HANA or even RISE with SAP/SAP Cloud ERP Private. Some started their remediation processes for data and code early, while others have done it following the move to SAP S/4HANA, or even after the move to RISE with SAP. What this has made clear is that, while establishing and maintaining cloud architecture for SAP is on nearly everyone’s roadmap, most organizations are still in the middle of that transition. What is clear from this data is that leaders have generally made more progress in their adoption of cloud technologies than either cloud beginners or the hybrid majority. However, that is not true in every instance. For example, more than two thirds (69%) of leaders are already using SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), but this is only slightly more than the hybrid majority (60%) or cloud beginners (57%). This difference is more marked with the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud which is being used by 62% of leaders, 51% of the hybrid majority, and only 23% of cloud beginners. This year's research also explored the cloud or hybrid cloud platforms actively in use in SAP environments, the top priorities for evolving SAP architecture over the next 12-24 months, the impact of adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture in transforming SAP workloads, and the challenges encountered when adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architectures for SAP workloads. The findings indicate that SAPinsiders will not be able to continue to run legacy applications forever. And with the end of 2027 just over two years away, that change will likely come first with the need to move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud through the auspices of a RISE with SAP/SAP Cloud ERP Private contract. SAPinsiders must be prepared for this change, and should follow the guidance of cloud leaders in making this possible. Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans. - Understand the benefits experienced from adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture for SAP or SAP-adjacent systems. - Explore the impact of adopting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture in transforming SAP landscapes. - Learn about the factors impacting cloud or hybrid cloud architecture strategy for SAP workloads. - See what SAPinsiders need to do to be successful in their cloud transformations.

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Research Webinar – Cloud and AI Security for SAP Nov 11, 2025 — Most SAP customers are now running at least some enterprise systems in the cloud. At the same time, organizations are exploring ways to incorporate AI into their enterprise workloads. This convergence of technologies is hugely important from a security standpoint and raises questions about how organizations are planning on securing their expanding cloud footprints while ensuring that their use of AI is protected. In addition, the expanding use of AI to both protect systems as well as defend against attacks is both complicating, while potentially streamlining, the task of protecting cloud-based systems and AI workloads from attack. In exploring the factors most responsible for influencing cloud and AI security strategy for SAP systems, the differences between these respondent groups were significant. For example, more than half the leaders reported that their strategies were most impacted by the emergence of AI-enhanced attack techniques targeting ERP and SAP systems. Meanwhile, the majority group were still focused on tasks like ERP modernization and a demand to standardize security across cloud and hybrid environments. These are factors that are of lesser importance to leaders, reflecting the fact that leaders are more likely to have already addressed these concerns or are on their way to completing modernization plans This year's research also explored the owners of SAP cloud and AI security strategy, how risk associated with using AI in SAP-related operations is being managed, and measurable security outcomes achieved through adoption of cloud or AI security capabilities for SAP workloads. The findings indicate that organizations must start planning for how they will manage security for cloud and AI use in their SAP environments if they are to successfully secure these workloads in the future. Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis and receive recommendations for your own plans. - Understand how SAPinsiders are adjusting their security strategy to manage cloud and AI workloads. - Explore the technologies and partner solutions in use to protect cloud and AI workloads. - Learn about how SAPinsiders are managing risk when it comes to cloud and AI security strategy. - See what SAPinsiders can learn from those leading in cloud and AI security.

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