Five Minute Briefing - SAP
November 19, 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
SAP announced that Brose, a global automotive supplier, has successfully migrated its central SAP systems to SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking a major milestone in its digital transformation journey. In just six months, Brose transitioned its mission-critical systems from internal data centers to the cloud, including complex production processes such as just-in-time and just-in-sequence operations across its global manufacturing plants.
Deloitte, one of SAP's largest and most enduring collaborators, is adopting SAP Joule for Consultants, a solution that is designed to accelerate knowledge search to help drive value delivery and enhance productivity for consulting teams working on SAP projects and cloud transformations.
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and SAP, a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, are partnering to enable organizations to leverage Snowflake's AI Data Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) together with semantically rich data. The joint effort will make Snowflake's data and AI platform available as an SAP solution extension for customers of the SAP BDC solution.
SAP is introducing new AI-driven capabilities in the SAP Build solution, an expanding data ecosystem and powerful Joule Agents empower developers to move from idea to impact with unprecedented speed and confidence. As AI transforms the nature of professional work, SAP also pledges to equip 12 million people worldwide with AI-ready skills by 2030, the company said.
Think About It
Technical debt is a concept most IT professionals are familiar with, but too often it is discussed primarily in terms of application code. Yet, databases are equally susceptible to technical debt, and for DBAs, ignoring it can be costly. Over time, shortcuts in design, hasty implementations, and deferred maintenance accumulate. The result is a database environment that becomes increasingly fragile, expensive to manage, and resistant to change.