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Zeiss Group, the German optics giant with nearly twelve billion euros in annual revenue, has quietly abandoned its years-long attempt to migrate to SAP's latest S/4HANA platform from scratch. The company is now pursuing a so-called brownfield approach, meaning it will carry its existing system forward rather than rebuilding from the ground up — a frank admission that greenfield ERP migrations remain brutally difficult even for large, well-resourced organisations.
Shifting from corporate software to the skies, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is making the most of its final days. The satellite is falling out of orbit, but before it goes, engineers have restarted its onboard telescopes for one last round of observations. It is a quietly moving story about squeezing every last bit of science from a machine that has served its mission well.
And on the jobs front, a new report from research firm Verdant is throwing cold water on the data centre hiring boom. The firm estimates all currently planned UK data centres will generate just ten thousand four hundred permanent operational jobs — suggesting that companies and governments may be overstating employment figures by as much as four to five times. Megawatts, it turns out, do not automatically translate into livelihoods.
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