Demand for technology skills in Africa is rising, but organisations may be overstating progress toward a skills-based hiring approach, according to SAP Africa HR director Genevieve Koolen. Genevieve Koolen, HR director at SAP Africa | image supplied She says many companies continue to rely heavily on traditional qualifications even as they talk about shifting to…
Blue Turtle views this moment as more than a technology swap. (Image: Blue Turtle) As SAP PowerDesigner approaches its end of life, data and architecture leaders must decide how to protect the consistency, governance and long-term value of their enterprise data models. When a tool loses updates and vendor support, organisations face outdated technology, limited…
Chee Tan, Vice President of Ecosystem & Alliances at Vasion, leads Vasion’s global strategic ecosystem partnerships. He drives the integration of AI-powered output management and document workflows with leading enterprise solutions such as SAP S/4HANA, enabling organizations to modernize print infrastructure, consolidate environments, and automate enterprise document workflows. Vasion, a leader in serverless printing and…
Spar Group has revised its SAP roll-out strategy, separating its finance systems migration from distribution centre operations in an effort to reduce disruption – a move that comes as the wholesaler faces a R168.7-million lawsuit from a major franchisee family over the original botched implementation. In a trading update on Monday, Spar said the amended…
Spar Group encountered multiple obstacles during the rollout of the SAP software in 2023. Retail chain Spar has confirmed being hit with a R168.7 million lawsuit by one of its largest franchisees, the Giannacopoulos family, over failures in the SAP system rollout at its flagship KwaZulu-Natal distribution centre. This, after BusinessDay this week reported that…
German software giant SAP plunged as much as 14% Thursday after reporting weaker-than-expected growth in its cloud contract backlog in the fourth quarter. It’s the biggest daily fall since October 2020, when its stock dropped 22% following disappointing third-quarter results. The stock is also on track to close at its lowest price since mid-2024. SAP’s…
The City of Cape Town’s latest tender calls for a service provider to supply, install, operationalise and provide post-go-live stabilisation support for the SAP ERP solution. With the year’s end firmly on the horizon, activity on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal is starting to shift to projects that will be considered in 2026. However, there is…
Global Study Finds Most SAP Customers Favor Multi-Vendor Composable ERP for Faster Innovation, Including AI Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, managed services and innovation solutions, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced research findings around the SAP roadmap. In an…
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support and innovation solutions and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. The Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of unified solutions to run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application,…
SecurityBridge, the leading SAP security software provider, acquires MFA and SSO software company CyberSafe. SecurityBridge, the creator of the Cybersecurity Command Center for SAP, today announced the acquisition of CyberSafe, a UK-based pioneer in multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) solutions for SAP users. The acquisition marks a significant milestone in SAP security innovation,…
