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.

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SAP’s Stormy Cloud First strategy needs a ray of sunshine !

So SAP are really pressing all the wrong buttons with a key part of the SAP ecosystem, in their drive to hit its SAP Cloud ☁️ Revenue targets.

Strike One:

In the space of a week SAP have announced all new product enhancements will only be made available to SAP RISE Cloud customers and no longer to the traditional on-premise install customer base. Ouch imagine being a loyal customer for 40+ years and then being told your not going to benefit, its clear ageism !

Strike two:

Then no sooner had the first message landed that SAP announced an increase to on-premise customer maintenance, where has the love gone ?

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Cloud First has become SAP’s Ideology ! but it’s alienating it’s most loyal customers !

" Cloud First" has become a disruptive Ideology and its impacting SAPs relationship with its most loyal customers.

Dragon ERP co-founder Alisdair Bach looks at how SAP needs to evolve to fend off the current customer revolt.

Cloud first is the overriding mantra coming out of SAP, its peers and most of the consulting industry, but not all end clients agree, and it could a schism in SAPs legendary loyal customer base.

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Get ahead of the 2027 SAP Migration Tsunami

Get ahead of the SAP Migration Tsunami , Start your SAP migration roadmap now using Dragon ERP's “SAP Roadmap Architecture as a Service”

The deadline for switching legacy SAP ECC6 to SAP S/4HANA is 31st December 2027.

Between 2023 and 2027 there will be a tsunami of SAP migration programmes, but there is insufficient capacity or capability in the SAP ecosystem to support them all (Gartner).

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“Grow with SAP” Dragon ERP will Fire up your SAP Journey

Dragon ERP helps CFO’s and CIO’s take the risk out of SAP selection and adoption.

“Grow with SAP” takes the best of the SAP S/4HANA global ecosystem and enables mid-tier organisations to benefit from the incredible business model innovation and operational resilience opportunities leveraged by many tier 1 organisations, 92% of the Global 2,000 and 99 out of the top 100 global companies. Dragon ERP helps to de-risk what is a highly complex and disruptive once in a Generation business change challenge.

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Cheese Burgers, Trailer Parks and SAP

Cheese Burgers, Trailer Parks and SAP

This Canadian cheese burger consumer loves a burger,

But if weekend trailer park supervisor Randy, (take a look at IMDB,) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290988/

Came to the UK and visited McDonalds, he would be frustrated,

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Specialist SAP Assurance service help’s avoid programme delivery failure and reputational damage

Dragon ERP, A SAP system integrator changing the way organisations unlock the value of their SAP investment.

Whatever your programmes circumstance, failure isn’t inevitable.

Organisations never set out to fail, but a high number of business transformation programmes do hit the buffers and unfortunately according to World Economic Forum, $2 out of every $3 invested in digital business transformation is wasted.

In just 28 days our Fire Fighter service provides you with a clear understanding of the areas of weakness within your programme and a plan of the actions required to drastically improve your chances of successful delivery.

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SAP Information Security - Helping CIO’s and CISO’s with their infosec strategy

CIO’s and CISO’s need convincing SAP Cloud products and services and hardened and secure.
This rolling blog page from Dragon ERP is design to provide CIO’s and CISO’s with the detailed content to enable evidenced based decision making.

Dragon ERP has developed a Plug and Play implementation methodology enabling organisations to embrace rapid benefit realisation as part of a mature Digital Kaizen strategy.

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It’s a Citizens Revolution

Citizen Developers are leading and winning the business innovation fight back - Digital KAIZEN reinventing continuous improvement

Two years ago I would have asked is the citizen developer revolution worth the risk ?

Covid, a dysfunctional Russia, the shift to Net Zero and fragmentation of the global economy has led to the rise of the citizen developer;

Manning the barricades and sitting in the operational trenches business subject matter experts from every part of the enterprise are embracing low code / no code solutions to mitigate disruption and drive digital Kaizen (micro services)

So the answer is YES, it’s worth the risk

And Ill explain why

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