SAP's strength is the basics: Not RPA or AI, but 'consistent' data models that make sense for actual business processes

However, this same nitty-gritty ERP stuff is not cloud-ready, and that's the big vendor's weakness

Comment Among the fads of the last couple of years have been the bolting on of AI, automation and user experience" onto enterprise application work-horses. The pressure to follow the trend has been so strong that SAP, Microsoft and Oracle have all jumped on the bandwagon to ensure their products look suitably on-trend....