The SAP migration risk that never makes it to the steering committee
We have watched S/4HANA programs stall in ways that never show up on a project dashboard. The blockage is rarely technical. It is the pile of business decisions that got deferred because someone assumed the answer would become obvious later.
The SAP role that keeps appearing in every manufacturing mandate we take
Manufacturing companies across the DACH region are asking for a skill set that combines shop-floor systems expertise with data architecture fluency. The shift from reactive reporting to autonomous, real-time decision systems is changing who gets hired and at what level.
The vendor lock-in question every DACH data hire will face
A recent conversation about AI infrastructure surfaced a tension we hear in almost every data leadership search: companies want cutting-edge capability, but they also want the freedom to change course. The candidates who can articulate that trade-off are the ones getting called back.
CFOs are being asked to run before their governance can walk
Avalara’s latest survey shows finance leaders facing pressure to deploy agentic AI and prove ROI while their accountability frameworks remain half-built. We hear the same tension in every SAP finance search we take.
Every ERP vendor now says ‘agentic AI’, but the hiring specs tell a different story
We have spent the past quarter watching SAP, Oracle, and IFS race to announce agentic AI capabilities. The manufacturing clients we work with are more cautious. They want to know which of these tools actually work before they hire for them.
SAP’s cloud backlog growth is quietly rewriting job descriptions across DACH
SAP’s latest results show current cloud backlog continuing to climb. That backlog represents a sustained wave of S/4HANA implementations stretching the demand for hybrid talent beyond what most employers expected.