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
Jim Dugger Cost Control in SAP BTP: The Critical Need for Automation The cloud is the cheapest processing you can buy… until you get the bill! Unfortunately, Cloud service costs are notoriously opaque when it comes to transactional and operations costs. The results can... Apr 1, 2026
Jim Dugger Did we miss the end of LaMa? In mid-2024, SAP announced the discontinuation of SAP Landscape Management (“LaMa”). This wasn’t a huge surprise, as the 2027 end-of-support date aligns neatly with Solution Manager, Focused Run and s... Mar 11, 2026
Jim Dugger Landscape Operations Automation beyond SAP Landscape Manager During the summer of 2024, SAP quietly announced the end of the Landscape Manager product. You can find out more from SAP directly here, including linked SAP Notes. LaMa Discontinued Community Post Un... Feb 10, 2026
Jim Dugger RISE with SAP Monitoring: Overcoming the 'Black Box' Challenge of monitoring Cloud ERP Organizations transitioning from traditional on-premises SAP systems to Cloud ERP (formerly known as “RISE” and “GROW”) have a new set of monitoring challenges. Unlike the familiar on-prem landscape, ... Jan 20, 2026