If you’re an SAP S/4HANA user, it’s crucial to understand the role Compatibility Packs play in your system and the importance of monitoring their expiration dates. These temporary solutions were created by SAP to help businesses transition from older SAP…
Planning for SAP changes – large or small – is rarely a straightforward process. The sting of past projects that were fraught with delays, cost overruns and missed deadlines lingers over teams and stakeholders as they prepare for the next…
Failure in change management is often defined as identifying issues or inaccuracies well into the latter stages of the change’s lifecycle or, in the very worst-case scenarios, after going live. This issue is costly, time-consuming and it’s holding businesses back…
The cascade of failures that can stem from even the smallest change within IT systems was brought into sharp focus in recent weeks when a seemingly routine content update for Windows systems by cyber security vendor CrowdStrike caused chaos across…
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are all about synergies. But they are also enormous undertakings that place huge stress on already stretched teams. The same can be said for demergers when organizations choose to separate their operations or make changes to…
The CrowdStrike outage on Friday 16th July 2024 is widely accepted as the biggest IT failure in history, making global headlines, impacting millions around the world and wiping more than $20bn off CrowdStrike’s own valuation. Thinking back to my…
Only 57% of ECC customers will have completed their transformations to S/4HANA when mainstream maintenance finishes at the end of 2027. Like many organizations and individuals in the SAP space, I’ve attempted to estimate S/4HANA adoption several times over the…
