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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 October 2024

End-to-end ERP

Michael NeuhausManaging Director, Networker Solutions and Trilux Digital Solutions, and Ralf KrohnManaging Director, Networker Solutions, explain and solve the challenges of E2E processes for variant manufacturers.


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No-name column
I have borrowed a series title from the German-language Manager Magazin, because many things are also going very well and successfully at SAP. But there is just as much room for valuable and sustainable optimization.
The Lufthansa Group is much more than a well-known provider of passenger flights. The Lufthansa Group includes a large number of associated companies, including those in the Logistics and MRO segments as well as other companies and Group functions.
Integrate partners, reduce costs and take advantage of growth opportunities with Retarus Procurement Solutions

Triad of the community

October 1, 2024
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
The SAP community of existing customers, partners and IT providers is emancipating itself and is getting better and better at achieving its goals without SAP. The question of the relevance of SAP itself resonates in the triad of the DSAG Annual Congress 2024 in Leipzig.
Summer. Sun. Barbecue season. A successful party usually includes beer, preferably fresh from the barrel. Austria's largest brewery company, Brau Union Österreich, offers its customers the opportunity to pick up the hoppy refreshment directly from more than forty locations.

SAP Quality Awards 2024: Mewa and Sybit

September 27, 2024
E3 Magazine
Award for multi-cloud solution in the area of business transformation.

SAP Platform Economy

October 3, 2024
IT platforms should create clear structures for the user and consolidate ERP applications. After NetWeaver, HCP (Hana Cloud Platform) and other attempts, SAP has landed on BTP, Business Technology Platform. It is a promise of the ERP future.

Triad in the SAP community

September 26, 2024
The old IT adage applies: Never change a running system! The DSAG investment survey reveals that only just over half of DSAG members believe that the relevance of SAP for the future of their company will remain the same.

The SAP CEO Alternate

September 19, 2024
SAP CEO Christian Klein is a dedicated and hard-working executive. Following the departure of three members of the SAP Executive Board, he has been required to assume responsibility for a number of additional tasks. Klein is adept at multitasking and consistently maintains a high level of productivity. However, the ERP company is lacking in innovation.

Moving SAP Targets

September 12, 2024
The SAP community is familiar with the terms "clean core" and "BTP." SAP has been reluctant to provide detailed information regarding the specifics behind these terms, any relevant roadmaps, or any associated costs. SAP’s visions of a clean core and BTP appear to be only half-finished.

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No-name column
I have borrowed a series title from the German-language Manager Magazin, because many things are also going very well and successfully at SAP. But there is just as much room for valuable and sustainable optimization.
October 1, 2024

Triad of the community

The SAP community of existing customers, partners and IT providers is emancipating itself and is getting better and better at achieving its goals without SAP. The question of the relevance of SAP itself resonates in the triad of the DSAG Annual Congress 2024 in Leipzig.
Summer. Sun. Barbecue season. A successful party usually includes beer, preferably fresh from the barrel. Austria's largest brewery company, Brau Union Österreich, offers its customers the opportunity to pick up the hoppy refreshment directly from more than forty locations.
September 23, 2024

10,000 SAP Positions

The Chinese Cultural Revolution resulted in both significant achievements and the irreparable loss of numerous resources. SAP’s work culture is now undergoing a similar period of reform.

Community News

Award for multi-cloud solution in the area of business transformation.
The aim of the collaboration is to provide customers with new solutions in the area of SAP Analytics.
An analysis by Accenture shows that the maturity level of supply chains is worryingly low. As a result, they can only benefit from generative AI to a limited extent.
Valantic user survey shows that the AI trend is spurring interest in BTP and Joule.

Business Management

To ensure readiness for unanticipated developments, retail managers are examining an ever-increasing volume of data. Real-time data provides maximum transparency, enabling swift and effective reactions to forthcoming developments.
Companies in the energy and utilities industry continue to face the challenge of implementing complex regulatory requirements, optimizing operational processes, driving digitalization and ensuring the security of their critical infrastructure.
September 16, 2024

AI Offers Guidance

Although AI brings enormous benefits, especially in purchasing, users remain hesitant. Many companies simply lack the specialist expertise necessary. An AI strategy that supports them in the selection and implementation of suitable intelligent purchasing tools would be helpful.
The digital transformation towards sustainability presents managers with challenging transformation tasks. They demand economic solutions through number-based decisions as a valid foundation for all "green" endeavors.

IT Management

September 20, 2024

Oracle Java Usage

84 percent of respondents who have already migrated from Oracle Java report that the process was easier than expected or went as planned.
What a typical medium-sized company does to counter growing SAP cybercrime: implement monitoring with SolMan and round-the-clock support for the SAP landscape.
SAP is increasingly pushing customers towards licensing according to authorizations. Most existing SAP customers are therefore threatened with additional payments and a time-consuming inventory of the roles and authorizations previously assigned.
SAP describes itself as The Cloud Company and has greatly expanded its range of cloud-based solutions in just a few years. The introduction of the S/4 Cloud Public Edition and Rise in particular underpins the cloud-first approach.

Economy

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.
Preferred Partnership agreed for convenient procurement processes.
Natuvion Data Conversion Server. The SAP architects at Adesso Orange and the digital relocation specialist Natuvion have expanded their partnership.

People Management

E3 book tip

ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model

SAP has revolutionized ABAP development! Learn how to use Core Data Services, Behavior Definitions and UI annotations to develop applications that are optimized for SAP S/4HANA - whether on-premise or in the cloud. The authors introduce you to the new development tools and technologies and show you the optimal procedure in end-to-end examples. This second edition has been extensively expanded: now with ABAP Cloud, extensibility functions and the new business object interfaces.

 - Application development for SAP S/4HANA and the cloud
 - From the data model to the behavior definition to the user interface
 - Working with CDS, annotations and SAP Fiori Elements

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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

Early Bird Ticket

Available until Friday, January 24, 2025
EUR 390 excl. VAT

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
Early Bird Ticket

Available until December 20, 2024

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 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.