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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 February 2025

Steampunk, Clean Core, and BTP

Why Clean Core? Why BTP? Why Abap and Steampunk? 

The best minds from the SAP community plus an analyst from PAC in Munich and a guest from the IT scene and platform economy explain the ERP opportunities and most successful SAP roadmaps.

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SAP master data with sustainability

February 18, 2025
E3 Magazine
NTT Data has introduced Sustainability Data Simplified, a new product for the precise calculation and analysis of CO2e values.

One Data Transformation Approach?

February 18, 2025
E3 Magazine
Transformation projects are very extensive and complex. This is why consultants are often called in. However, hardly any consultant has experience with all manufacturers, offers all services along the transformation or supports all migration processes.

Looking back: BTC SAP Summit 2024

February 17, 2025
E3 Magazine
What moves IT decision-makers. The SAP Summit organized by IT consulting company BTC will take place in June 2025. Trends such as Grow vs. Rise, BTP and AI will be highlighted for the third time. A look back shows how a lively exchange of experiences with added value for the participants was already created in 2024.

Code security for SAP BTP

February 17, 2025
E3 Magazine
New offering provides industry-leading application security testing for SAP BTP development.

The drive of the future for SAP workloads

February 14, 2025
Dimitra Katsoli, Suse
SAP workloads require maximum availability and security. SLES for SAP Applications 16 solves this challenge with high availability, security and optimized management for a stable and efficient SAP environment.
SAP has announced new AI capabilities across the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite for improved workforce planning, training and operational development.

SAP RISE 2.0

February 13, 2025
With a complex ERP initiative for a hidden maintenance extension and an alternative cloud roadmap, RISE with SAP should have been given a second chance at survival earlier this year. The announcement of the Business Data Cloud in addition to the Business Technology Platform has finally put S/4 out of business.
SAP recognized the value and importance of data early on, but failed to develop a stable solution across multiple ERP generations. From NetWeaver to Datasphere, there have been ambitious attempts, but no data orchestration in the ERP space.
In an interview with Handelsblatt editor Christof Kerkmann at the WEF 2025 in Davos, SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig modified the popular saying “You’ve made your bed, now lie in it.” Saueressig said: "You shape your own future.”

Comments

SAP workloads require maximum availability and security. SLES for SAP Applications 16 solves this challenge with high availability, security and optimized management for a stable and efficient SAP environment.
SAP Edge Integration Cell (EIC) is currently a much-discussed topic. SAP users should also see it as an opportunity to use open source as a strategic foundation to drive modernization and implement innovations.
How often have you read about innovations recently? You get 1,850,000,000 search results on Google. The frequency with which I come across innovations that, on closer inspection, are not innovations is relatively high.
Which cloud is best for SAP Hana and how do the different providers compare? With how widespread SAP is, the security and performance of these systems are critical.

Community News

NTT Data has introduced Sustainability Data Simplified, a new product for the precise calculation and analysis of CO2e values.
Transformation projects are very extensive and complex. This is why consultants are often called in. However, hardly any consultant has experience with all manufacturers, offers all services along the transformation or supports all migration processes.
What moves IT decision-makers. The SAP Summit organized by IT consulting company BTC will take place in June 2025. Trends such as Grow vs. Rise, BTP and AI will be highlighted for the third time. A look back shows how a lively exchange of experiences with added value for the participants was already created in 2024.
SAP has announced new AI capabilities across the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite for improved workforce planning, training and operational development.

Business Management

The Blanc & Fischer Group was faced with the task of modernizing its ERP systems. To this end, the company carried out two S/4 transformations in its operational corporate groups E.G.O. and Blanco. The smooth go-live of the E.G.O. Group took place after a project duration of 2.5 years.
The crane and lifting platform manufacturer Tadano increased efficiency and quality in design and production by optimizing parts list management and introducing SAP GSS.
NTT Data has introduced the "SAP Integration with SiGreen" solution as part of the Siemens Xcelerator Business Platform. Siemens SiGreen is a solution for data communication in the supply chain.
Paper-based processes can still be found in production - to the detriment of the environment and efficiency. Modern MES solutions such as SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM) provide a remedy here by helping companies to digitize their production processes more easily.

IT Management

February 17, 2025

Code security for SAP BTP

New offering provides industry-leading application security testing for SAP BTP development.
The integration of SAP data is a challenge, especially with incremental data updates and large volumes of transaction data. SAP Note 3255746 prohibits the use of ODP Data Replication APIs for access via the RFC interface.
Three months earlier than planned in our roadmap, SAP presented 100 functions for generative AI that can be used immediately in all SAP cloud applications.
UiPath presents Agent Builder, a tool for automation developers and business users to create, test, and publish agents.

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

More information will follow shortly.

Event date

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

Regular ticket

EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, March 5, and
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 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 2025, 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.