SAP Archives - Kai Waehner

Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink in the Cloud in Healthcare and Pharma at Cardinal Health

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Data Streaming in Healthcare and Pharma: Use Cases and Insights from Cardinal Health

ByKai Waehner
28. November 2024
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This blog delves into Cardinal Health’s journey, exploring how its event-driven architecture and data streaming power use cases like supply chain optimization, and medical device and equipment management. By integrating Apache Kafka with platforms like Apigee, Dell Boomi and SAP, Cardinal Health sets a benchmark for IT modernization and innovation in the healthcare and pharma sectors.

SAP Datasphere and Apache Kafka as Data Fabric for ERP Integration

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SAP Datasphere and Apache Kafka as Data Fabric for S/4HANA ERP Integration

ByKai Waehner
3. January 2024
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SAP is the leading ERP solution across industries around the world. Data integration with other data platforms, applications, databases, and APIs is one of the hardest challenges in the IT and software landscape. This blog post explores how SAP Datasphere in conjunction with the data streaming platform Apache Kafka enables a reliable, scalable and open data fabric for connecting SAP business objects of ECC and S/4HANA ERP with other real-time, batch, or request-response interfaces.

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Building a Postmodern ERP with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
20. November 2020
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Postmodern ERP represents the next generation of ERP architectures. It is real-time, scalable, and open by using a combination of open source technologies and proprietary standard software. This blog post explores why and how companies, both software vendors and end-users, leverage event streaming with Apache Kafka to implement a Postmodern ERP.