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When pricing, supply and sovereignty pressures can upend plans within weeks, infrastructure that absorbs change beats your best prediction.

Post-quantum readiness goes far beyond doing a few software updates and swapping some encryption libraries. Early movers understand the challenge, but are also more confident in meeting regulators’ deadlines.

Running AI on infrastructure you control is no longer just a fallback when the hyperscaler option isn’t suitable. For most organisations the answer is cloud plus sovereign, with each workload placed where it fits.

Every change programme starts by rediscovering the IT estate, then lets that knowledge decay. Keep it current and shared, and every initiative gets a head start.

Almost half of SAP customers don’t expect to be running S/4HANA in the cloud five years from now, despite the vendor pushing hard in that direction. SAP’s roadmap doesn’t have to be yours.

You can delegate data protection, but not the liability. Against the backdrop of constant movement across systems boundaries, protection needs to travel with the data, not stay behind with your infrastructure.

AI planning fixates on GPUs, but success depends at least as much on storage. The most experienced adopters settle their storage requirements early and favour versatile platforms.

Most organisations clean and reshape the same data again and again. Shift that work upstream and it gets done once. High performers are nearly three times as likely as low performers to be doing this strategically.