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Cover story April 2024

SAP Basis with Cloud ALM, on-prem
and licenses.

Salzburg 2024: Hana and S/4 also need a robust SAP basis. The Customer Competence Center of SAP R/3 and Business Suite 7 is transforming itself with ALM, process mining and enterprise architects. The SAP Competence Center Summit in Salzburg is dedicated to this transformation process.

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Cover story May 2025

SAP hybrid cloud and AI strategy

From left: Hussein Keilani and Volker Sommerboth Fsas Technologies, Jens Adam and Friedrich Kreyboth from Suse. Never before has there been such a wide range of IT tools, ERP solutions and end-to-end business processes as well as AI support at SAP. SAP partner Fsas Technologies and Suse have jointly decided to take users by the hand.

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The assistant analyzes each query to provide relevant and useful content, adjusts the depth of responses according to the complexity of the question, and offers clear, comprehensive solutions tailored to the context, avoiding excessive use of technical jargon.
The IT company is honored by SAP in the Sales Success Midmarket category.
Customers now have the opportunity to benefit from the flexibility and interoperability of Iceberg combined with the Snowflake platform.

Investment planning mixed

April 22, 2025
E3 Magazine
In terms of IT and SAP investment budgets, many companies continue to show a high willingness to invest. The overall IT budget is increasing at 40% of the companies surveyed in the DACH region, compared to 43% a year ago.
This year's Lünendonk Business-to-Business Service Award in the "Lifetime achievement" category goes to Hans Zehetmaier, founder of IT consultancy MSG.
SAP donation funds new endowed professorship for artificial intelligence at the University of California, Irvine.

SAP Cloud ERP Suite

April 24, 2025
SAP has been using the term "Cloud ERP Suite" for several months and SAP customers have been puzzling over what it means. Now, SAP CEO Christian Klein has shed some light on the matter: the transition from private to public cloud should occur, and it should be successful!
For data management, SAP not only has an SQL database in Hana, but also a platform for graph theory and data vectors. Both methods are often better suited to displaying information than SQL tables. In the past, SAP made little fuss about these IT innovations.
A dashboard for the CCoE manager, Customer Center of Expertise, is a perfect answer to the Composable ERP. Hana, S/4, BTP and BDC create an almost unmanageable ERP architecture. LeanIX can help out to some extent, but SAP for Me is the better answer.

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Companies with SAP workloads are increasingly implementing hybrid cloud strategies. Suse Rancher for SAP Applications offers an easy-to-operate, scalable platform for the secure operation of business-critical applications.
No-name column
April 10, 2025

SAP for Me

There is an SAP portal for us existing customers where our own infrastructure is managed, right down to the licenses. According to my regulars, this is the best-kept SAP secret.
Software licenses are the bread and butter of IT providers. In any case, licenses and maintenance fees are justified. But do the regulations have to be so complicated?
The annual investment report of the German-speaking SAP user group, DSAG e. V., is always eagerly awaited. In addition to the survey data itself, the level of participation is an important indicator of the mood in the SAP community.

Community News

The assistant analyzes each query to provide relevant and useful content, adjusts the depth of responses according to the complexity of the question, and offers clear, comprehensive solutions tailored to the context, avoiding excessive use of technical jargon.
The IT company is honored by SAP in the Sales Success Midmarket category.
Customers now have the opportunity to benefit from the flexibility and interoperability of Iceberg combined with the Snowflake platform.
In terms of IT and SAP investment budgets, many companies continue to show a high willingness to invest. The overall IT budget is increasing at 40% of the companies surveyed in the DACH region, compared to 43% a year ago.

Business Management

April 17, 2025

Individual EWM

Ernsting's Family continuously expanded its SAP environment.
The refrigeration system manufacturer Hauser spent two years optimizing its master data for global S/4 use. With software and services from Simus Systems, the MDM team was able to build a golden client for a secure migration that supports further automation and digitalization.
The migration of SAP systems is often complicated by custom code that has grown over time and is insufficiently documented. Fujitsu Easy Custom Code Adaption (ECCA) minimizes risks, reduces costs and accelerates the migration process with an innovative solution.
In order to remain competitive, automotive supplier Harman relies on digital solutions and efficient processes. An SAP-based tolerance line check enables precise demand planning, automated checks of delivery call-offs and fast reactions to tolerance violations.

IT Management

SAP's clean core strategy reduces maintenance costs and improves system stability. Companies need to check which adaptations are necessary and which can be replaced by standards. SAP BTP enables flexible extensions and future-proof integrations.
Sustainable growth in corporate IT requires more than just cost reductions - it requires strategic ERP management. SAP Gold Partner LeverX is convinced that modern companies must continuously question their ERP strategies in order to remain agile.
The digital transformation is challenging companies. Rise with SAP is intended to facilitate the path to the cloud and optimize processes. But questions remain about costs, data management and scalability. With the right strategy, efficiency can be increased and long-term benefits secured.
Customers in more than 180 countries and around 5000 responsible service technicians rely on being able to obtain spare parts for their Roche Diagnostics laboratory equipment quickly and reliably when needed. The S/4 transformation harmonizes and optimizes these processes.

Economy

Complex SAP-centric business processes continue to hinder comprehensive, company-wide automation. These are the findings of a recent study by the Americas' SAP Users' Group ASUG and Precisely, a global provider of data integrity.
The first cyber insurance policies for companies were offered in the DACH region a good ten years ago. Since then, the market has grown and the insurance offerings have matured considerably.
The many changes in business, technology, politics, and society can make you think. And the more innovations there are, the greater the desire for orientation and clarity.
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People Management

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Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-66-24355460

Event date

Wednesday, May 21, and
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Regular ticket

EUR 590 excl. VAT

Informationen Teilnehmer:

Die nachfolgende Abfrage zur Altersgruppe dient rein statistischen Zwecken. Wir bitten Sie freundlicherweise um eine freiwillige Angabe.


Rechnungsadresse:

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Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Early Bird Ticket
available until 1.10.2025
EUR 390 excl. VAT
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.

Informationen Teilnehmer:

Die nachfolgende Abfrage zur Altersgruppe dient rein statistischen Zwecken. Wir bitten Sie freundlicherweise um eine freiwillige Angabe.


Rechnungsadresse:

Falls Sie hier Ihre E-Mailadresse angeben, wird Ihre Rechnung ausschließlich per E-Mail nach Veranstaltung an die angegebene Adresse gesendet.

Laut Steuergesetz müssen Firmenbezeichnungen in Rechnungen korrekt sein. Ihre eingegebenen Daten werden zur Rechnungsstellung übernommen.