Editor’s note
When COVID-19 travel restrictions forced SAP to rethink its annual conference, the company moved quickly to turn disappointment into an opportunity to show how digital transformation can make businesses more resilient.
SAP Sapphire 2020 was moved online and extended across two months, beginning in April with pandemic-related videos and leading to seven days of events that started with a June 15 keynote by CEO Christian Klein. The intelligent enterprise was Klein’s core message as SAP repackages the three-year-old theme as essential in surviving challenging times.
In a pre-conference video, Klein named SAP Cloud Platform as the foundation of this AI-automated integrated system of SAP applications. He promised to triple integration by year’s end and hinted at better support for vertical industries. Attendees of Sapphire Now 2020 also got a sense of Klein’s leadership style and vision after his recent appointment as sole CEO.
1News from the show
Along with coverage of SAP’s industry cloud, sustainability and intelligent enterprise strategies, read about the latest developments as reported by TechTarget editors from the virtual show floor of the Sapphire Now 2020 conference.
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Current crisis clarifies value of SAP intelligent enterprise
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SAP C/4HANA leads discuss future of CX platform
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SAP C/4HANA users describe e-commerce pivots amid COVID-19
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Sapphire Now 2020 unveiled a new, more forward-looking SAP
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SAP Business Technology Platform aims for simplification
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SAP’s Climate 21 program sets sights on global sustainability
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Despite glitches, SAP shines light on intelligent enterprise at Sapphire
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Sapphire 2020: Christian Klein steps back from products to push ‘intelligent enterprise’ resilience
2Pre-conference coverage
Read what industry analysts expect from the virtual SAP Sapphire 2020 conference, and learn how recent changes in the SAP executive suite might affect the vendor’s strategies for cloud applications, services and infrastructure; the HANA in-memory database; and experience management technology.
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SAP reimagines Sapphire Now 2020 as a virtual event
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SAP co-CEO Morgan departs, leaving Klein to fly solo
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2005 focuses on supply chain
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At Sapphire Now, McDermott targets the experience economy
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Plattner: Cloud is the way forward for S/4HANA systems