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.

Paul Byrne Paul Byrne

Do you still approach SAP S/4HANA as an IT-topic?

70% of SAP programmes fail to deliver their expected outcomes, a high proportion are run by IT as IT upgrade programmes opposed to business transformation. SAP isn’t tech its a best of breed target operating model.

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Paul Byrne Paul Byrne

SAP Growth Podcast series

Paul specializes in change management, value assessment, risk mitigation, and governance strategies. With expertise in stakeholder management, business process optimization, and transformative IT leadership, Paul has successfully guided prominent clients through business transition projects.

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Paul Byrne Paul Byrne

AI Hurry Up and Wait? Wait Don’t Wait

Great question form the “Will AI Pose a Threat to the ERP Marketplace? #InsightJam Live Panel

Do you think that Microsoft Copilot and Dynamics Copilot will expand into other vendors' ERPs like SAP S/4HANA or will it stay within the Azure cloud platform?

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Alisdair Bach Alisdair Bach

SAP AI Goes Marching on with HANA Cloud Vector Engine!

SAP AI singularity marches on with SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine

Yet again I'm in awe of SAP, when they say they are going to become the leaders in a new business enabling tech they mean it.

SAPs aim is to become (I think they are there already) the number one for enterprise application software and business AI

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Alisdair Bach Alisdair Bach

Duck tape, AI and Data Alchemy !

Today I read a post which said

"AI 🤖 is only as good as the data its based upon" ! (ffs deep sigh)

Which is essentially the old "dross in dross out statement", which has been the problem statement for most failed data strategies over the last three decades.

Leading to

Many organisations having a hotch potch of data and analytic solutions (data repositories) littering the enterprise architecture, all under utilised and failing to deliver the shinny over optimistic outcomes promised.

And that got me thinking 🤔

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Alisdair Bach Alisdair Bach

Why the SAP “Clean Core” message is proving problematic

Why the SAP Clean Core message is proving problematic to land, for customers, it adds a further level of complexity (Adopting a new standard target operating model across the organisation is a major organisational change undertaking and will need significant business sponsorship and resource, leading to a reluctance to commit to SAP S/4HANA and RISE as for many this will be seen as an unnecessary and disruptive activity at a time when the global economy is rocking.

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