Jim Dugger Are You Audit-Ready? Drift Happens. Six months ago, your SAP landscape passed audit cleanly. Today? You couldn’t say for certain without a manual scramble across Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to reconstruct wh... Jul 27, 2026
Jim Dugger SAP Cloud ERP in 2026: What’s Included, What Isn’t, and What It Means for Your Migration Since our firm first published the Cloud ERP (then it was “RISE”) F.A.Q., a lot has changed with SAP, the market, and adoption trends. It’s worth a revisit: how Cloud ERP is packaged and sold by SAP h... Jul 23, 2026
Jim Dugger SAP AI agent governance For three parts of this series, we’ve been talking about the AI agent as the object of change management: the new downstream consumer of every transport you ship, the new reasons a low-impact customiz... Jul 16, 2026
Jim Dugger From Zero to Managed in Record Time If you’ve spent any time in the SAP ecosystem, you know the “Configuration Tax.” It’s that invisible, compounding fee paid in hours, manual effort, and caffeine. SAP teams pay tax every time new syste... Jul 16, 2026
Jim Dugger Home Sweet Hybrid – There’s more to your transition than core ERP Most large enterprises elect a hybrid approach to SAP operations, but this is a more recent trend. And, as SAP operations professionals, we are still learning about the impacts of this choice and appr... Jun 28, 2026
Jim Dugger Agentic AI is only as good as the ERP platform beneath it Agentic AI won’t fix poor ERP governance. It will amplify it across your entire landscape. SAP made it clear at Sapphire 2026 that the Autonomous Enterprise is a key focus for its strategic future, an... Jun 23, 2026
Jim Dugger Sapphire 2026 – Why SAP’s Business AI Platform expands the scope of Change Management In part 1 of this series, we set the stage for how the Autonomous Enterprise reframes the work of change management. Classic transports and the changes they deliver now live in a world where intellige... Jun 9, 2026
Jim Dugger SAP Autonomous Enterprise: Key Notes of Change from SAP Sapphire 2026 At SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, CEO Christian Klein took to the stage and unveiled a huge reframing of SAP’s product story. The “Autonomous Enterprise” is the new vision. It is an AI-driven ERP ecosy... May 27, 2026
Jim Dugger Clouds Without the Fog: Unified Control for Hybrid SAP SAP customers with complex SAP know the challenges of managing multiple landscapes well. While classic tools like SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) and Focused Run served us well for years, they were bu... May 26, 2026
Jim Dugger Stop Guessing, Start Fixing: AI Root Cause Analysis Automating root cause analysis is often regarded as the holy grail of IT operations. A solution capable of automatically identifying issues, resolutions and even prevention. Performed correctly, autom... May 20, 2026
Jim Dugger Sapphire 2026 - Key Observations & Advisory May 12-14, Orlando, FL The 2026 Sapphire event represented the most significant set of announcements and strategy shifts by SAP itself in a decade or more. This report focuses on what software firms i... May 15, 2026
Jim Dugger SAP BTP isn’t Immune to Change Management Challenges Change management, compliance, and governance don’t disappear just because ERP moved to the Cloud. In fact, without the right strategy, the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) can introduce a new l... Apr 29, 2026