For the past 25 years, I have been working in the area of automation.  But this is not where I started my career. During my master’s program at USC, I was first introduced to artificial intelligence, a field which immediately fascinated me.  At that time, jobs related...

Although S/4HANA is formally not a successor…

The fear of automation has been around ever since machines started to replace manual work on a mass scale.

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SAP HANA is an in-memory product, designed to…

SAP systems are often mission critical. They support ongoing core operations of the companies that rely on them.These companies need to be able to support their production systems at all times, which includes addressing critical bugs and urgent enhancements in a...

Most companies face the continuous challenge of modernizing their…

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Research shows that roughly 80 percent of IT…

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Last week, in a meeting with a client, we were asked…

In software development, a Proof of Concept (PoC)…

IT housekeeping projects are not popular, and it can be hard to secure budgets to fund them. Removing unused code from your existing SAP systems is a prime example of this type of technical debt that often goes unaddressed. Between 40% and 70% of the customizations in the average SAP system are not (or no longer) in use. Addressing this problem presents a very real opportunity. Here are a couple of arguments, why Custom Code Management and ongoing removal of unused code in you SAP system matters: