Market signal turned into decision criteria.
Public analyses on enterprise technology, applied AI, and SAP Cloud ERP. Current intelligence, with named sources, for the leader who owns the bill and decides before negotiating.
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Brazil’s tax reform in SAP: delivery depends on the maintenance phase
The reform runs to 2033, and SAP supports reform deliveries for releases in mainstream maintenance, or equivalent extended maintenance, on the delivery date of each note. On Alkemia’s reading, that puts a date on the 2027 support option for on-premise ECC, on the S/4HANA on-premise upgrade and, in the private edition, on deciding who implements and tests the corrections.
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In an SAP licence measurement, the customer states the number
Under the published terms, on subscriptions and on-premise the customer is the one who declares its use; on Alkemia’s reading, even where SAP triggers the measurement. On consumption-based BTP, according to SAP’s documentation, the number comes from SAP’s meter.
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The agent still holds the credential, and the decision no longer stands
A policy states what the system may do and an approval records that someone authorised beforehand. Neither answers whether that authorisation was still valid at the instant the action executed.
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The AI oversight a board can only prove if it recorded it first
Between December 2025 and March 2026, three instruments began asking which directors or which committee were named to oversee AI. The answer is a record demanded after the incident that can only be created before it.
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Why SAP Cloud ERP programmes fail
Failure surfaces in delivery, and delivery takes the blame. Nine categories of signal were already legible at qualification. What each one produces later, and why the phase that reads them is the first the schedule cuts.
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Six decisions before signing a SAP Cloud ERP contract
The discount governs the starting price. The cost across the term is set by the measurement base of each service, by what sits inside the fee, by the term, by the service level and by the exit. Which document each one is read in.
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The human review Brazilian law chose not to require
LGPD Article 20 gives people a right to request review, but requires no human reviewer. Without that floor, autonomy limits and the contestation route must be explicit company decisions.
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AI Act: the exposure your AI inventory does not record
Since 2 August 2026, the Article 50 transparency obligations have applied outside the high-risk regime, and they reach companies established outside the Union. What each one owes turns on two variables almost no inventory records.
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AT.40823: what the EU decision changes for SAP on-premise maintenance
The European Commission made binding a set of commitments that re-prices SAP on-premise maintenance. What changed, and what to check in your contract before the next negotiation.
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