SAP topics, with our own assessment

One current SAP topic at a time, published regularly, with our own assessment rather than a reproduced news item.

03 October 2026

AI costs: token consumption becomes a budget line of its own

SAP describes, from its own finance organisation, how spending on AI tokens can be managed without slowing down usage – by allocating costs to business areas and setting targeted limits instead of throttling across the board.

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26 September 2026

RFPs: what implementation teams wish their clients knew

An article in the SAP News Center describes, from a systems integrator’s point of view, why RFPs for enterprise software fail – and why some organisations now hold the demo first and write the requirements afterwards.

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19 September 2026

In procurement, the hurdle is no longer the budget but the implementation

A study sponsored by SAP shows that procurement executives no longer see money as the main obstacle to digital transformation, but the task of getting new technology into processes, data and the organisation.

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11 September 2026

Agentic AI is meant to rewrite the cost logic of SAP transformations

SAP and an independent SAP consultancy are challenging the assumption that ECC-to-S/4HANA migrations can only ever hit two of three goals at once – speed, quality, cost.

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