SAP CIO topics include some of the most important issues facing SAP customers right now. As companies transform, the position of CIO has become central to that change. CIOs manage the software and infrastructure that enables companies to develop new business models, stay competitive with digital native organizations, and become more resilient against disruption.

As part of our SAP CIO content, we conduct executive-focused research in areas such as CIO priorities, change management, platform innovation, and transformation. Speaking with CIOs about these endeavors, as we do through our Technology Executive Forum, can offer guidance on the most important challenges SAPinsiders are facing, and the technology they are using to address those challenges.

SAP CIO Topics

As part of our Technology Executive Forum, we focus on the following SAP CIO topics:

SAP CIO topics include some of the most important issues facing SAP customers right now. As companies transform, the position of CIO has become central to that change. CIOs manage the software and infrastructure that enables companies to develop new business models, stay competitive with digital native organizations, and become more resilient against disruption.

As part of our SAP CIO content, we conduct executive-focused research in areas such as CIO priorities, change management, platform innovation, and transformation. Speaking with CIOs about these endeavors, as we do through our Technology Executive Forum, can offer guidance on the most important challenges SAPinsiders are facing, and the technology they are using to address those challenges.

SAP CIO Topics

As part of our Technology Executive Forum, we focus on the following SAP CIO topics:

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  • SAP Architecture focuses on the technical requirements of your SAP system landscape and the applications that support it. SAP Architecture is fundamentally based on the three-layer concept of a presentation layer, application layer, and database layer.
  • SAP Digital Transformation includes content on organizations undergoing digital transformations, and best practices for supporting those projects. We talk with executives on their technology strategies as well as their change management and adoption strategies.
  • SAP Sustainability examines how executives can building companies that meet the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations.

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:

SAPinsider has many research reports, case studies, and expert analysis relevant to SAP CIO topics, including:

  • How tech executives are leading organization and technology change. Read this research report to learn the top strategies for addressing and managing change, and what the most successful executives are doing to enable change in their companies.
    • A CIO’s perspective: The 3 Business Challenges Shaping IT Strategy in 2022. Read this article to hear directly from a CIO on what is driving executive-level IT strategy this year.

How ‘The Great Resignation’ is impacting CIO priorities. In this analyst insight, we dig into executive research to find how record quitting levels have impacted how organizations approach hiring, retention, and training

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  1. The Disruptive Dynamics of Customer Engagement

    Published: 26/April/2016

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Customer engagement has always been a challenge. In the digital economy, when customers have a wide range of engaging options before them, it’s even more difficult. Companies use a variety of methods to try to engage their customers on different social media platforms or web apps, but truly successful customer engagement needs to be a…

  2. An Insider Look at Ingevity’s SAP S/4HANA Business Transformation

    Published: 02/April/2021

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Ingevity is a specialty chemical company based in Charleston, South Carolina that current runs a 20-year-old, heavily customized version of SAP ECC 6.0. But, now for much longer — like many companies, Ingevity is focused on building a digital platform that can support technologies like analytics, automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help the…

  3. Make Your Case – Identify the Incremental Value of SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 30/July/2021

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Many organizations could benefit from understanding how SAP S/4HANA can impact their business and help it run better, explains SAP Chief Architect Dr. Marcus-Alexander Funke. That is the goal of the SAP S/4HANA Value Start Program, in which SAP works with the customer to see the value of migrating to SAP S/4HANA. The program helps…

  4. CFO

    CFOs Face Growing Pressure Amid Role Evolution

    Published: 19/September/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    In today’s economy, CFOs are under tremendous pressure to do more with less. The pressure is only growing as executives must now contend with new compliance regulations and increased scrutiny from shareholders. Recent headlines underscore the mounting burden CFOs face as organizations consider all options to improve efficiency.  To better understand the sentiment of CFOs…

  5. digital transformation

    How Digital Transformation Led to Quote-to-Cash Optimization for IBM

    Published: 24/October/2022

    Reading time: 10 mins

    Understand what needs to be fixed, what your pain points are, and what new functionalities S/4HANA brings with it, including the capabilities of SAP BRIM. Prioritize speed and acceleration and forget about the days when companies had five or six years for transformation. Allow your team to focus on speed and agility to move quickly…

  6. Best Practices for Achieving High Performance and Scalability in Your System Landscape

    Published: 01/April/2014

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Companies are looking to IT for much more than internal back-office services — IT must become a strategic partner of the business, providing innovative solutions in customer and partner interactions as well as product and service development. This article provides guidance in specific areas that are fundamental to performing IT processes optimally, including key performance…

  7. Building a Winning Culture For Data Analytics Excellence

    Published: 11/November/2021

    Reading time: 4 mins

    A Series on Data Excellence By Deepa Salem, Vice President and Research Director, SAPInsider “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” – a quote commonly attributed to Peter Drucker, the management expert. This fact rings true today in the realm of enterprise data analytics strategy. Without a data culture that catalyzes the strategy and brings it to life, any…

  8. Process Automation Strategic Tool

    Process Automation as a Strategic Tool

    Published: 22/April/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    As organizations grapple with increasing business complexities and disruptions, the importance of business processes that form the core of how enterprises run, has increased as well. Executives have realized that to build an agile enterprise, they need to run best-in-class processes and have robust visibility and control over these processes. In our recently published SAPinsider…

  9. Women in Leadership

    Women in Leadership Keynote: Perspectives on What Matters in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    Published: 27/March/2023

    Reading time: 8 mins

    As organizations strive to define and execute on DEI objectives, we are discovering disparities between existing initiatives, their value, and their impact on employees. In a panel discussion among women leaders in technology and supply chain at SAPinsider 2023, lessons learned from existing initiatives, as well as misses of these initiatives, were discussed. A core…

  10. Women in SAP Scholarship now available as part of One-of-a-Kind Mastering SAP Collaborate, an SAP TechEd on Tour event in November

    Published: 19/September/2025

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Mastering SAP today announced the Mastering SAP Women in SAP Scholarship is now open for applications. Valued at $44,000, the scholarships provide ten women new to the SAP ecosystem, the opportunity to attend Mastering Collaborate, an SAP TechEd on Tour event as guests of Mastering SAP. “With added focus on the developer and enterprise architecture…