Enterprise Applications Editor, Computer Weekly. Views own.

Joined January 2009
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Thomas Pfiester rejoined by Manos. And a video of some robots. And now the DJ!
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Thomas Pfiester: on back of Gartner stat that only 8% of employees use AI meaningfully -- change management is vital, cites WalkMe. (We touched on that take in a pod at last year's event podcasts.apple.com/es/podcas…. Thomas Buck, CIO, ZF now onstage as a declared productive AI user.
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Lost internet here at IFEMA. Ericsson story very comprehensive with SAP usage, including for talent management.
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Manos: governance a critical topic for SAP customers; cites SOX compliance and stresses human in the loop. Thomas: building of industry AI, with partners. Scale of Joule assistants and agents is in the hundreds now.
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Manos Raptopoulos, Global President Customer Success Europe, APAC, Middle East and Africa, and Thomas Pfiester, Head of Customer Engagement & Adoption onstage for customer keynote at Sapphire in Madrid. #sapsapphire Manos: city of Madrid is an SAP customer.
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Sebastian: industries understanding has always been SAP's superpower -- autonomous industry domains revisits that, he says.
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Sebastian: Joule is critical to reimagining SAP as app-less experience. Spaces in Joule as where work gets done, with no switching between applications. Person not task, he says.
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Sophia Levens, SVP, SAP Design System & Future Experiences demoing financial close agent: instantiation of company memory concept -- it remembers how own finance pros think.
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And now Sebastian Steinhaeuser, doing the Muhammad Alam bit of the keynote. Does this mean he won't have H&M onstage to do his GQ bit? Company context bit has been missing from autonomization of bizapps domains, he says. "Company memory" as KM layer SAP's answer.
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Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI now onstage with CK. AM: sovereignty for Euro public sectors and finance sector key parts of what providing with SAP; a Euro tech stack.
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Philip Herzig's just done a whistlestop tour of the techie elements of SAP's "autonomous enterprise", including the European-specific sovereignty bits, with some Mistral in there. Our Sapphire coverage overall techtarget.com/searchsap/con…
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#SAPSapphire @ChrstnKlein elaborating on the ERP is brain of your company metaphor, and notion that this is a new SAP, projecting autonomous enterprise.
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#SAPSapphire @ChrstnKlein: Orlando a warm up for Madrid: better coffee and tapas!
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"Mandelson mayhem" avoidance -- ie using AI to help with latter phases of recruitment is what F1's Goss would be keen see.
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At Elevate London still: Goss, HR Systems Lead, F1 on stage to talk about CV inundation and how Workday tech helped get a better handle on that -- HiredScore.
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Pell on Workday's research on "copy/paste" economy. Highlights: 78% of UK workers burning time chasing down data to feed AI prompts. 77% stressed out navigating disconnected AI tools and systems.
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At London Elevate, Dan Pell UKI country manager, Workday kicks the event off. 30% bigger this year than last.
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