This Week in Tech (Jan 6 - Jan 12)

Hej!

Welcome to "This week in Tech" providing you with weekly tech messages, capturing the mood and the moment with storytelling and insights.

Each week our newsletter focusses on

—????Tech tip of the week,

—????Tech companies in the news this week,

—????Tech events this and next week,

—????Tech trainings this and next week,

—????Tech tools in focus this week.

This week it deals with AI-generated videos.

No clickbait, just smart advice.

Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and SAP

?? N/A due to back to work after Christmas break

Read about the latest initiatives of tech companies, and other top tech company news.

Subjectively pre-selected articles from the big tech giants.

Microsoft

?? CES 2025: The year of the Windows 11 PC refresh

?? Microsoft announces $3B investment to accelerate AI, skilling and innovation in India

?? The future of retail with Dynamics 365 AI-powered ERP solutions

AI and agents will transform retail in 2025?

In 2025, the retail industry will be shaped by three transformative trends that will set the pace of growth and success in the evolving retail landscape:??

• delivering hyper-personalized customer experiences across physical and digital channels.

• redefining convenience through innovative fulfillment and flexible shopping options.

• embedding sustainability and ethical sourcing at the heart of business strategies.

Delivering better customer experience

• Transforming the shopper’s journey
• Seamless omnichannel experience

Turning fulfilment into a competitive advantage

• Proactively mitigate supply chain disruptions
• Flexible and fast fulfilment

Ethical sourcing and sustainability?

• Enable recommerce and drive sustainable practices
• Ethical supplier management

?? Revolutionizing mobility: Solutions for an AI-powered future

?? Retail Ready: Agentic AI built for the future of retail—ready now

?? Celebrating Windows 11 PC innovations announced at CES 2025

Oracle

?? Export Control Diffusion Confusion: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/export-control-diffusion-confusion-2025-01-05/

?? Oracle Exadata X11M Delivers Extreme Performance, Increased Efficiency, and Improved Energy Savings for Data and AI Workloads: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-introduces-exadata-x11m-platform-2025-01-07/

?? Oracle Textura Surpasses $1 Trillion in Construction Payments Processed: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-textura-surpasses-one-trillion-in-construction-payments-processed-2025-01-08/

Salesforce

?? Holiday Shoppers Spend a Record $1.2T Online, Salesforce Data Shows: https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2025/01/06/2024-holiday-shopping-data/

Online sales and order growth reached new peaks:?

• Online sales reached $1.2 trillion globally and $282 billion in the U.S.
• This represents a 3% global year-over-year (YoY) increase and a 4% YoY increase in the U.S.?
• Online sales also grew 1% YoY in the European Union (EU).

?? Salesforce Unveils Agentforce for Retail to Boost Productivity with Digital Labor and Retail Cloud to Unite In-Store and Digital Shopping; https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2025/01/10/agentforce-retail-cloud-pos-announcement/

SAP

?? N/A

Microsoft

?? AI Show | Biweekly, every 2nd Friday, 11:00 - 12:00, until July 2025 |

Learn more here: ? https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/aktionen/ai-show

?? Microsoft Webinar Series: ?Lift-off with the Cloud“ | 10 December 2024 - 28 March 2025 virtually

Learn more here: ? https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/events-de/azure-lift-off/default.aspx

?? Microsoft Azure Tech Week: Fit for AI in 5 steps | 28-31 January 2025 virtually

Learn more here: ? https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/events-de/azure-tech-week/default.aspx

Oracle

?? Oracle at EuroCIS | 18-20 February 2025 | Hall 10, Stand C42

Learn more here: ? https://engage.oracle.com/oracleateurocis

?? Oracle Executive Dinner at EuroCIS | 18 February 2025 at Saittavini in Dusseldorf, Oberkassel

?? Breuninger Store Tour & Dinner | 19 February 2025 in Dusseldorf ??

Salesforce

?? ?Humans With AI Agents: Live Webinar Series | https://www.salesforce.com/eu/events/humans-with-ai-agents/

?? ?TDX | 5-6 March 2025 in San Francisco

https://www.salesforce.com/tdx/

?? ?Education Summit | 11-13 March 2025 in Chicago

https://www.salesforce.com/events/education-summit/

?? ?Tableau Conference | 15-17 April in San Diego

?? ?Connections | 11-12 June 2025 in Chicago

?? ?Dreamforce | Fall 2025 in San Francisco

SAP

?? OCM meets SAP Enable Now | 16 January 2024 virtually https://events.sap.com/eur/kaffee-ecke-januar/de/registration.aspx

Die Eventsprache ist Deutsch.

Please get in touch with Seyde Sosnovski or Thomas Jenewein if you want to join SAP's Change and Training community, SAP's Learning Hub or have any other question.

?? SAP Concur Fusion | 18-20 March 2025 in Seattle, United States https://fusion.concur.com/?pid=web&cid=sap&cookie_preferences=gdpr

?? SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference Orlando | May 2025 in Orlando, United States https://www.sap.com/cmp/nl/sap-sapphire-orlando/index.html

?? SAP Sapphire Virtual | May 2025 virtually https://www.sap.com/cmp/nl/sap-sapphire/index.html

?? SAP Sapphire Madrid | May 2025 in Madrid https://www.sap.com/cmp/nl/sap-sapphire-emea/index.html

Microsoft

?? Microsoft AI for Beginners | Learn more here: ? https://microsoft.github.io/AI-For-Beginners/

?? Microsoft Dynamics 365 Virtual Training Day: Accelerate Seller Productivity (9 January 2025) | Learn more here: ? https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/461713/157-GQE-382

Oracle

?? N/A

Salesforce

?? Winter '25 Release Highlights | Learn more here: ? https://trailhead.salesforce.com/de/content/learn/modules/winter-25-release-highlights

?? Künstliche Intelligenz – Grundlagen | Learn more here: ?https://trailhead.salesforce.com/de/content/learn/modules/artificial-intelligence-fundamentals

?? Künstliche Intelligenz für den Kundenservice | Learn more here: ?https://trailhead.salesforce.com/de/content/learn/modules/artificial-intelligence-for-customer-service

SAP

?? Applying a Human-Centered Approach to Identify and Define Business AI Use Cases

openSAP is SAP Learning now: https://learning.sap.com/opensap-course-migration?source=email-openSAP-250624

Browse the learning catalog: https://learning.sap.com/courses?page=1&subtype=mooc-content

Each week our newsletter focusses on different technology tools.

Based upon our 20+ years’ experience in Business and IT Transformation projects, we recommend the following tools.

?? As always: depending on the platform, you should stick to the software family.

AI-GENERATED VIDEOS

?? Runway Act-One

???? ?????? ???????? ?????? ???????? ????????????????????? Do you look for best practice approaches, methods, and tools or simply get an understanding how all these tools fit together into your IT system landscape? Send me a direct message (DM) ([email protected]) to discuss the options.

Read more?This week in Tech?next week.

Ha en bra helg. (Swedish for "Have a good weekend.")

/Antje