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.
Cover story May 2026
Agentic AI Platform for SAP
Anyone who believes they can successfully implement an S/4 migration with the lift-and-shift concepts brownfield or greenfield is mistaken. Pure code conversion - even in SAP Clean Core - leads to strategic failure. Emma Qian, Prof. Alexander Zeier and Sam Yang from Nova Intelligence focus on understanding instead of conversion: Cleanfield and Composable ERP for sustainable transformation.
No alternative for schemes and rules
April 28, 2026
How do you keep track of changes in SAP payroll accounting? The internationally active family business Iwis shows how transparent analyses of schemas and rules reduce testing effort, minimize risks and bring more security to HR processes.
Sovereign Stack: AWS, Suse and SAP for Europe
April 27, 2026
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud has been live since January 2026. Together with Suse and SAP, a Sovereign Stack is being created that enables regulated industries such as finance and healthcare to innovate in the cloud with full data sovereignty and local control.
AI starts with ERP and engineering data
April 23, 2026
The success of AI in industry depends on the quality of the database. „Fit for AI“ from simus systems offers data services that significantly facilitate AI projects in product development, ERP processes, automation, predictive maintenance, quality assurance and customer service.
In recent years, the AI debate has been heavily influenced by the various AI models; parameter sizes, data volumes and benchmarks have taken center stage. Today, however, a different picture is emerging in practice.
After the S/4 implementation, the next modernization phase begins for SAP users and with it new security risks. Innovation can only succeed with strong software supply chain security and a zero-trust approach for AI agents.
SAP penetration tests: Blind spots at the core of IT
April 21, 2026
Companies invest heavily in cyber security, but their most valuable data often remains unprotected. SAP systems, the heart of critical business processes, are often overlooked in penetration tests - a fatal omission that opens the door to attackers.
AI agents in Composable ERP
April 23, 2026
SAP CEO Christian Klein propagates the dawning age of Agentic AI, in which autonomous AI agents as digital „super workers“ no longer just passively answer questions, but independently analyze, orchestrate and execute complex end-to-end processes in Composable ERP.
All-in on Abap
April 16, 2026
In the new Abap Cloud world, unlimited direct access to database tables, the local file system or the kernel of the application server is strictly prohibited. For existing SAP customers, this development doctrine results in a painful and expensive refactoring process.
AI Scare Trade and SaaSpocalypse
April 9, 2026
Investors fear that expensive cloud software subscriptions will be radically devalued as sophisticated AI agents perform the tasks of office workers largely autonomously, drastically reducing the need for thousands and thousands of individual licenses.
E3 Roundtable on ERP Platforms, Data Streams, and E2E Workflows
Successful ERP, supply chain management, and CRM architectures are built on IT platforms. Data streaming and collaboration are essential to the orchestration of ERP systems. IT platforms are the new operating system for cloud computing. The E3 Roundtable will highlight the importance and strategy of platforms for a holistic IT infrastructure and ERP architecture. SAP customers will implement platform technologies for digital transformation. The E3 Roundtable will discuss the ERP architecture principle of platforms using Boomi's offering as an example.
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April 27, 2026
Sovereign Stack: AWS, Suse and SAP for Europe
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud has been live since January 2026. Together with Suse and SAP, a Sovereign Stack is being created that enables regulated industries such as finance and healthcare to innovate in the cloud with full data sovereignty and local control.
After the S/4 implementation, the next modernization phase begins for SAP users and with it new security risks. Innovation can only succeed with strong software supply chain security and a zero-trust approach for AI agents.
April 20, 2026
Software Is Eating the World
Good and old program development is based on a waterfall model. Modern algorithms are created in dialog with AI. SAP overslept the Internet a long time ago, but currently does not understand AI either.
April 15, 2026
Getting better to stay good
SAP's clean-core strategy and exponentially growing AI capabilities are accelerating the pace of digital transformation. Some basic thoughts on how the accelerated change can succeed.
SAP News
DSAG's Technology Days 2026 in Hamburg in March focused on AI, data and security. The user association is calling for more clarity from SAP. At the same time, companies themselves are required to consistently align their IT strategies and actively drive forward transformation.
March 25, 2026
Small but fine AI
RPT-1 is SAP's technical attempt to transfer Transformer technology from language processing to SAP's core competence - relational business data - in order to eliminate the weaknesses of conventional LLMs.
March 24, 2026
Digital resilience in security and defense
SAP has opened a Defense Innovation Hub in Munich to reaffirm its long-term commitment to strengthening digital readiness as a central component of modern defense capabilities.
The discontinuation of SAP IS-H presents hospitals with a key strategic decision: How can patient billing be secured in the long term - on time, economically and without dependencies on SAP Basis technology?
Business Management
April 7, 2026
Pressure to act is there
The wave of certificate shortening is rolling. The main aim is to increase the security of web communication. Certificate lifecycle management software with automation functions is the order of the day. An interview with Empirius CTO Marcus Bogenstätter.
April 7, 2026
Good reasons for SAP Business Suite
Manuel Sedlak, Head of SAP Public Cloud Services at Nagarro, explains in an interview with E3 magazine how the transformation to an „Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise“ can succeed with the SAP Business Suite.
March 24, 2026
E-bills without borders
Electronic invoicing has gone from a nice-to-have to a must-have for companies. New laws around the world - including those aimed at combating tax fraud - are driving change and accelerating the transition from paper to digital invoices and archiving.
March 16, 2026
Clean S/4 intelligence
Clean Core and Agentic AI are interrelated: SAP Clean Core and clean data are the prerequisite for AI agents to work in a scalable manner, while AI agents are the tool to efficiently create the Clean Core.
IT Management
April 21, 2026
SAP penetration tests: Blind spots at the core of IT
Companies invest heavily in cyber security, but their most valuable data often remains unprotected. SAP systems, the heart of critical business processes, are often overlooked in penetration tests - a fatal omission that opens the door to attackers.
April 21, 2026
What a data platform should do
When talking to companies about data platforms, the discussion often quickly turns to technologies, manufacturers or feature lists - and surprisingly rarely to the central question: What business benefits do we want to achieve with our data?
Companies are faced with the challenge of combining stable SAP core systems with the speed of modern development. Hybrid architectures, low-code platforms and AI agents create new scope for action.
March 31, 2026
Switching ERP to SAP
The migration to SAP offers many advantages, but is complex. The impetus often comes from IT: consistent processes, scalability and updates ensure a future-proof architecture. In production, this means rethinking processes, migrating data and adapting workflows.
Economy
April 16, 2026
AI: increasing need for external support
The use of artificial intelligence is increasing the need for external support for data and analytics initiatives in many companies. This is shown by a recent study by BARC (Business Application Research Center) based on 972 participants.
April 3, 2026
Edge computing facing strong growth
Edge computing is becoming increasingly important worldwide. According to IDC, spending is set to rise to around 450 billion US dollars by 2029. Edge AI and real-time applications in particular are driving significant investment in hardware, infrastructure and services across all industries.
March 11, 2026
USA dominates AI race
Europe and Germany are clearly lagging behind the USA and China in terms of rapid AI scaling despite good prerequisites. KPMG study sees opportunity for Europe to strengthen technological sovereignty and reduce dependencies without abandoning responsible standards.
March 9, 2026
From data labyrinth to real-time control
Companies are under increasing pressure in reporting due to stricter regulation, shorter decision-making cycles and volatile markets. While operational processes are digitized, corporate consolidation often remains stuck in fragmented, grown system landscapes.
E3 book tip
Getting started with SAP S/4HANA
Get to know SAP S/4HANA using practical examples! In this book, Christian Drumm, Bernd Scheuermann and Stefan Weidner introduce you to the most important modules and business processes of SAP S/4HANA. You will get an overview of the applications for sales, purchasing, production, warehouse management, accounting and controlling. Many exercises, case studies and practical cases enable you to implement what you have learned directly in the system. Currently for the example company Global Bike 4.3.
The prerequisite for using the exercises, case studies and practical cases is access to an SAP system with Global Bike Client version 4.3. SAP UCC Magdeburg.
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