The data centre talent crunch is real, and AI won’t fix the hiring problem

Infrastructure is scaling faster than the people who build and run it. We’re seeing this tension across our Data & Digital mandates in the DACH region, and the implications for hiring strategies are significant.

Public sector ERP overhauls are coming, and they will reshape SAP hiring across Europe

When governments finally move off legacy systems, they do not do it quietly. We are watching the UK public sector ERP conversation closely because these patterns tend to cross borders within 24 months.

SAP’s university push is about to reshape the junior hiring pipeline

SAP is embedding agentic AI into academic curricula across higher education. We see this as a signal that the entry-level SAP talent profile is about to change faster than most hiring managers expect.

Enterprise vendors are buying their way into AI, and SAP teams will feel it first

We’ve watched four major acquisitions land in quick succession. Asana, Coupa, Salesforce, Vertice, all snapping up AI execution capabilities. For SAP professionals in the DACH region, this signals a shift in what ‘core platform expertise’ actually means.