Data Act Access by Design: The ERP Question Hiding Behind the IoT Label

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200

A machine builder in the Hunsrück region is three months out from launching a new generation of connected equipment. The production schedule is set, the first units ship in the autumn, and the control-system supplier has already answered the compliance question in one sentence: “Access by design? We will do that on the PLC.” Everyone in the room nods, because it sounds like a firmware setting and firmware is the supplier’s department.

SAP's 9 June API Cut-Off: One Pipeline Dies, Not All of Them

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200

A data engineer at a German machine builder opens the orchestration log on a Monday morning and stares at a job that has run, untouched, for two years. Every night it pulls S/4HANA finance data into a Microsoft Fabric pipeline through the Azure Data Factory connector. Green checkmarks all the way down. On his second screen sits an internal memo with a single line highlighted in yellow: “SAP API enforcement, 9 June.” He knows the date is real. What he does not know, what nobody in the building can answer in the next ten minutes, is whether that nightly job runs over ODP through RFC, or over something else entirely.

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Data Act Access by Design: The ERP Question Hiding Behind the IoT Label

SAP's 9 June API Cut-Off: One Pipeline Dies, Not All of Them