Category Archives for Manufacturing – News

What’s love got to do with it? Why consumers love or leave brands

How much does customer service matter? Well, an estimated $62 billion in retail revenue is lost due to poor customer service, and while 80% of companies believe they are providing outstanding service, only 8% of consumers believe…

Machine Learning And Business Problem-Solving

2018 at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley is off to a roaring start, with three of its projects heavily focused on the topic of artificial intelligence. This project work spans machine learning, cognitive…

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1802 Release Highlights

The latest SAP S/4HANA Cloud update is now available. We’re pleased to announce more intelligent functionality in machine learning, in-memory analytics, in-context collaboration, and much more. New features will bring impact to the entire enterprise, including all-new…

Enterprises will spend $7 trillion on digital transformation by 2021

Global enterprises will spend more than $7 trillion dollars in the next four years as they struggle to modernize, build a global technology foundation for growth, and support simple, secure, and reliable access to data and…

The 6 biggest hurdles slowing the pace of AI innovation

At first glance, the artificial intelligence industry seems to be on fire, with tons of consumer demand and ample investor interest. In fact, VC investment in AI startups rose from $3.2 billion in 2014 to…

Five Business Opportunities Unlocked By Intelligent Cloud ERP Adoption

Investing in intelligent cloud ERP today can enable organizations to achieve the technology baseline needed to compete against today’s fast-changing market pressures. Deloitte’s research on enterprise tech trends confirms that a standardized, flexible architecture can allow IT…

The Future of Consumption: A Question of Trust

As a boy growing up in Hong Kong, I often joined my father on business meetings. These meetings typically took place in restaurants in Kowloon, loud, crowded, and smoky, where deals were sealed over rice…

Machines Can’t Dream

People are concerned about robots. Ever since a computer system defeated chess champion Gary Kasparov 20 years ago, public perceptions of progress in artificial intelligence (AI) research have been defined in terms of high-profile competitions…

Sales Digital Transformation: It’s Now Or Never!

Where is your company on this continuum of sales digital transformation? After writing about, speaking about, and advising clients on this topic for more than two and a half years, I believe we have crossed…

2028: What Work Will Look Like a Decade from Now

Experts met recently at the SAP Innovation Center in Potsdam to weigh in on the future of work. Predicting the future is risky business. You never really know if you are going to get it…