Dragon’s Breath
Dragon’s Breath is where SAP stops being tech and starts being your tactical industry 4.0 business investment.
This blog exists to cut through the noise and show CFOs, CIOs, and business leaders how to unlock real value from SAP in the age of Industry 4.0 and AI everywhere.
Forget SAP’s “Clean Core” Obsession Focus on Benefit Alchemy
Rethinking SAP clean core: why Benefit Alchemy offers a more practical, value-driven approach to SAP transformation and business outcomes.
Alisdair Bach
Setting Up SAP AI Projects for Success Avoiding “Junk AI”
Learn how to avoid “junk AI” in SAP programmes by focusing on data readiness, strong use cases, and practical foundations for success.
Alisdair Bach
SAP’s Healthcare Reset
SAP’s healthcare strategy reset explained, covering digital transformation, AI, data integration, and what it means for healthcare providers.
Alisdair Bach
Palantir and SAP the Battle for Enterprise Value
SAP vs Palantir: how ERP meets AI-driven platforms and what it means for enterprise architecture, data strategy, and business value.
Alisdair Bach
Fixing the Data Foundation for AI-Driven SAP Enterprises
Discover how combining SAP with Reltio MDG fixes fragmented data foundations and unlocks AI, analytics, and intelligent enterprise value.
Alisdair Bach
“Lessons from the Front Line of S/4HANA Public Cloud Delivery”
Many organisations assume S/4HANA Public Cloud is just another SAP implementation. It isn’t. After 35 years delivering SAP programmes — and more recently supporting Public Cloud projects — I’ve seen where teams succeed and where they run into trouble. Here are some lessons from the front line.
Alisdair Bach
Why SAP “Modernisation” No Longer Means Anything - SAP's Singularity Problem
Modernisation is dead. Long live evolution.
The word modernisation has become one of the most misused in the SAP ecosystem, often justifying huge rip-and-replace programmes with little actual value. At the same time, AI, robotics and agentic systems are compressing change cycles faster than traditional projects can deliver.
This week’s newsletter cuts through the noise and shows why modernisation no longer means anything, why continuous platform evolution matters, and how leaders should rethink SAP strategy in the age of AI rather than chase transformation theatre.
If your SAP roadmap still centres on big bang rewrites, this one is for you.
Guns, AI and SAP, The Defence Revenue Pivot
Europe is rearming. SAP is repositioning. Why defence could drive the next revenue surge across the SAP ecosystem.enterprises.
When the Machines Take Over, Who Remembers Who We Are? The Loss of Corporate Memory
As AI and robotics take over more decisions, many organisations are quietly losing something far more valuable than efficiency, their corporate DNA. This piece explores why institutional memory, customer expectation, culture, and lived experience matter more than ever in the age of intelligent systems, and why automating without preserving that memory risks building fast, efficient, and strangely hollow enterprises.
CIOs and CFOs avoid “the charge of the AI Cherry Bums”
Boards are being told to “charge” into AI or be left behind — but most SAP estates aren’t ready. Drawing on the cautionary tale of the Charge of the Light Brigade, this blog argues that blind AI heroics create modern-day “AI Cherry Bums”: brave leaders paying the price for broken systems and deferred change. AI in SAP doesn’t need a reckless charge, it needs adaptive governance, controlled pilots, and a focus on outcomes before speed. Go at a canter, not full gallop.