SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade

SAP has launched a raft of AI and cloud technologies amid ongoing attempts to shift its majority on-prem ERP customer base onto a stack better suited to the fluffy white stuff. Analysts described the deal with Microsoft AI stack as "low-hanging fruit" and said the core ERP offer was not always going far enough to justify the …

[Korev]

"The big help here is generative AI which technically and commercially needs to live in the cloud."

I'd love to know why this couldn't run on-prem. I suspect this is yet another attempt to get SAP users onto expensive cloud subscriptions...

[Anonymous Coward]

SAP have abandoned their loyal on-prem customer base in search of shiny new things.

I understand not everything can be on-prem but they really are doing their best to push customers away to competitors