Enterprise CIOs are leading their companies through pandemic-era business disruptions on multiple fronts today. New technology initiatives are being accelerated by urgent business needs for greater IT resiliency and flexibility to respond swiftly to supply chain challenges, emerging customer demands, and a volatile market. This SAPinsider Executive Research report takes the pulse of CIOs and IT leaders from organizations across the globe in order to assess their top priorities in 2021 and their plans for investments in key technologies such as SAP S/4HANA, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and adoption of cloud technology. This report also analyzes the strategies, tactics, and technologies they are employing to meet those priorities as well as the approach they are taking to manage their most critical staff resources and project teams as they navigate the COVID-19 era.

In this report, you will learn:

• How CIOs are leveraging or planning to use cloud technology to meet rapidly changing business demands and to deliver a more resilient IT infrastructure for their organization
• How top executives are navigating the “new normal” of a distributed workforce and how they are balancing the demands for increased productivity with the complexities of remote work
• How the current global business climate is impacting each organization’s SAP budgets and spending, the staffing of their SAP-related teams, and their investments in transformative projects like SAP S/4HANA migrations and implementations
• How technology executives are responding to global business disruptions and in which business processes they are investing time and resources to help navigate unprecedented market volatility