Five Minute Briefing - SAP
March 26, 2025
Published in conjunction with the Independent SAP Technical User Group (formerly the International Sybase User Group), this monthly publication contains news, market research, insight for the SAP user community, as well as ISUG-TECH news and information.
News Flashes
DataRobot, the provider of AI that makes business sense, is introducing AI application suites for finance and supply chain operations with SAP, built to seamlessly integrate AI into customer environments and business processes. According to DataRobot, the new AI suites enable AI teams to rapidly implement AI, securely utilize business data, and accelerate the delivery of AI solutions where and how business users need to work.
Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, is announcing new updates to its Automate SAP Data API that streamline complex SAP ERP integrations while helping accelerate enterprises' digital transformations.
SAP is launching new generative AI innovations and expanding its partnership with American Express. The announcements were made at SAP Concur Fusion, the flagship conference for SAP Concur solutions users and experts. SAP is embedding its generative AI copilot Joule into SAP Concur solutions, bringing the portfolio one step closer toward a fully automated travel and expense management process.
SER Group, a leading provider of Intelligent Content Automation solutions, is acquiring AFI Solutions, a specialist in the digitalization and optimization of document-centric processes in SAP. With this acquisition, SER will leverage AFI Solutions' SAP offering for purchase-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) processes and launch a new global SAP Center of Excellence with AFI's highly experienced team, including over 100 SAP product and field experts, to provide even wider support to its SAP customers.
Think About It
Data lakes and data warehouses are achieving a measure of success in modern data architectures, but the emergence of the data lakehouse offers new challenges and opportunities for database administrators (DBAs). What are the implications for DBAs and their careers? How do their roles evolve as data lakehouse usage expands? Let's examine the concepts, challenges, and opportunities for DBAs in the era of the data lakehouse.