Jim Dugger SAP S/4HANA Migration and Testing The SAP community mindshare is dominated by the S/4HANA conversation. Introduced in 2015, migration to S/4 has been encouraged by SAP, Systems Integrators and Management Consultants for many years, ye... Jul 22, 2025
Jim Dugger Solutions for the End of Solution Manager Many SAP customers are already familiar with the scheduled end of support for ECC and the same is also true for SAP Solution Manager. This means many SAP customers have no option but to modernize and ... Jul 22, 2025
Jim Dugger Target Personas & SAP Market Drivers An analysis of market trends and drivers in the SAP ecosystem and how they impact roles including IT leaders, IT technical team managers and business teams. A further evaluation of personas and use ca... Jul 22, 2025
Jim Dugger A New Standard for SAP & Packaged Application Testing Testing for SAP and other enterprise packaged applications such as Salesforce, Oracle, and Workday remain a critical challenge for large enterprises. Yet while testing solutions have existed for decad... Jul 19, 2025
Tam Ellis The Impact of AI on SEO - A New Approach Generative‑AI search experiences such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Gemini are replacing the classic “ten blue links” with direct, cited answers. For B2B technology firms this means thought‑lead... Jul 19, 2025
Jim Dugger You've finally decided to look beyond Solution Manager - here's what you have been missing The end is near! That’s right, mainstream support for SAP ECC will be ending in 2027. While this is fairly well known what is less obvious is that this also includes support for SAP Solution Manager. ... Jul 17, 2025
Jim Dugger Why So Many SAP Development Teams Still Schedule Innovation Prevention? In many organizations, critical business periods are identified well ahead of time. End-of-quarter, end-of-year, seasonal events with high transaction volumes, and so on. During these periods, IT syst... Jul 17, 2025
Jim Dugger Research: SAP Market Drivers Key Market Drivers for SAP software ecosystem vendors in 2025 2025 sees the present SAP market is in transition, with the forced migration to S/4HANA on RISE, Cloud ERP including BTP and the End of So... Jul 17, 2025
Jim Dugger Picking the Right RISE to Cloud ERP: Part 1 Cloud ERP has become a major focus for SAP ERP users – and for good reason. Many of SAP’s newest innovations are Cloud-only, and the end-of-support dates for ECC are fast approaching. While many SAP u... Jul 17, 2025
Jim Dugger Extreme automation and the SAP Cloud ERP journey Cloud ERP arrives as the new holy grail of ERP architecture: a composable, flexible and scalable collection of core business services working together to meet enterprise ERP needs. Of course, getting ... Jul 17, 2025
Jim Dugger What is SAP RISE? A Clear Path to Cloud ERP SAP has rebranded SAP RISE as Private Cloud ERP. It’s not a product as such, but rather an implementation methodology for your Cloud ERP journey. SAP RISE combines services, tools, and licences from b... Jul 17, 2025
Jim Dugger Can You Tell Me How to Get to Rinnaker Street? Dear Large Enterprise SAP User: I don’t typically write or research for you directly – our clients are software vendors – but this one is for you. We all know about 2027. Some of us know about 2025, w... Jul 17, 2025
