Finance teams spend more time verifying AI-polished reports

When AI tools produce polished but hollow work, colleagues lose the cues they once relied on to judge quality. For hiring teams and candidates alike, that credibility gap creates a new kind of risk.

Knowledge graph and AI security roles now compete for same candidate pool

Agentic AI deployments are pushing companies to hire for skills that sit outside traditional data engineering teams. Knowledge graph expertise and AI-specific security experience now appear in the same searches, often with unrealistic expectations about who can do both.

AI agent workloads push companies to hire for query optimisation

When a single user request triggers dozens of database queries from an AI agent, the old rules for capacity planning stop working. We are advising data teams to rethink how they staff for this shift, because the infrastructure change is pulling through to hiring.

SAP ECC support ends 2027 as Oracle and Microsoft set own timelines

Support deadlines make for attention-grabbing announcements. We find that companies fixate on calendar milestones when they should be asking whether they have the internal capability to execute a migration at all.

Enterprises weigh build, buy or partner options as AI changes software economics

The build-versus-buy question in enterprise software has become a build-versus-buy-versus-partner question, and the answer changes depending on the workload. The shift is reshaping how companies define their SAP and data architecture roles across the DACH region.