There are persistent signs that all is not well in the land of SAP.
The German enterprise applications leader is in the midst of laying off thousands of people. Its cloud efforts have sputtered. Its product line confuses customers. HANA, the in-memory columnar database that was supposed to save the company, has been eclipsed by newer, more cloud-friendly players.
With the throng of cloud native enterprise resource planning providers nipping at SAP’s heels, it has found itself in need of game-changing innovation – and it looks like the company has moved its chips all-in on artificial intelligence.
Whether Leonardo, SAP’s core AI offering, will save the company is still an open question. Is it one more item on a too-long list of SKUs? Can it compete with the likes of IBM’s Watson or Salesforce’s Einstein, or any other AI product named after some smart dead white guy?
It seems that AI-washing is de rigueur for enterprise software providers this year. Is SAP following suit, or is it executing on true innovation that can save the company?
Read the entire article at https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/19/can-artificial-intelligence-save-sap/.
IBM and SAP are former Intellyx customers. IRM UK paid part of Jason Bloomberg’s travel costs to its conference, a standard industry practice.
