Five Minute Briefing - SAP
April 23, 2025
Published in conjunction with the Independent SAP Technical User Group (formerly the International Sybase User Group), this monthly publication contains news, market research, insight for the SAP user community, as well as ISUG-TECH news and information.
News Flashes
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is unveiling a new Data Transformation Suite for SAP Solutions, delivering full SAP S/4HANA modernization lifecycle support.
SAP and Google Cloud are strengthening their partnership, enabling SAP to provide the next wave of enterprise AI by contributing to the new Agent2Agent (A2A) interoperability protocol, which establishes a foundation for AI agents to securely interact and collaborate across platforms.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers can now gain a powerful competitive edge with full access to SAP Build, helping developers create, extend, and automate business applications faster using AI-powered, code-first, and low-code tools. SAP Build has been designed as the optimal way to extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud and other business applications, according to the company.
SecurityBridge, the Cybersecurity Command Center for SAP, is releasing its SecurityBridge Code Vulnerability Analyzer (CVA) powered by AI, a significant enhancement to its holistic SAP security platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and explain vulnerabilities in custom Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) code.
Think About It
Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with trying to save space. Instead, the desire is to prevent maintenance anomalies. The normalization process involves stepping through the evaluation of normal forms that decompose a data structure into multiple structures based on the needs of these normal forms.