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 2024
Power of Three
Here, the whole is more than the sum of its parts: This is the claim that the Public Cloud Group (PCG), NetApp and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are making to the SAP community. The challenge is the successful S/4 conversion and the development of a cloud architecture for Hana, S/4 and SAP BTP.
SAP cuckoo's egg
April 26, 2024
In May 2024, Professor Hasso Plattner will step down as Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. A successor was elected last year with 99% of shareholder votes.
Datasphere and Joule: SAP in the age of AI
April 25, 2024
SAP has announced news such as generative AI in SAP Datasphere and the availability of Joule in the SAP Analytics Cloud.
SAP Q1 2024 Results
April 24, 2024
SAP has released the results of the first quarter of 2024. The results show that cloud revenue is up 24 percent, and cloud ERP suite revenue is up by 32 percent. The current cloud backlog is of 14.2 billion EUR, up 27 percent.
Danfoss Selects HPE GreenLake for Hybrid Cloud Journey
April 24, 2024
RISE with SAP and HPE GreenLake enable Danfoss to run SAP workloads on its energy efficient and sovereign modular data centers
SNP appoints Phillip Miltiades for Asia-Pacific
April 24, 2024
SAP partner SNP appoints Phillip Miltiades as the new President and Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific region to continue the strategic transformation.
Complex structures require consistent orchestration. The Silicon Valley Europe initiative and E3 magazine are sponsoring the global SAP partner community. We start with a German-language online event on May 7 from 3 pm.
Does the SAP way have a goal?
April 18, 2024
SAP CEO Christian Klein gave an interview to the German magazine Computerwoche and promised improvements in ERP conversion and maintenance in five years with the help of AI. The journey seems to be the goal. But is it worth the wait? SAP is meandering through IT.
SAP Cloud Rental Model
April 11, 2024
In a week's time, the E3 editorial team will be publishing a report on SAP licenses in our German May 2024 issue, with the recommendation that companies should perhaps select a larger cloud license package than is currently necessary in certain situations. Why is that?
The Hana Database Alternative
April 4, 2024
S/4 is only the successor to ECC 6.0, but the SAP Business Technology Platform brings new perspectives, expanding horizons. SAP, however, is losing its unique selling point, and customers are gaining new freedoms.
The SAP Engine Is Sputtering
March 28, 2024
On the trading floor, SAP CEO Christian Klein is taking off at breakneck speed. His reputation in the SAP community, however, is in tatters. Even the well-intentioned call for a reset by the German magazine Manager Magazin has not moved him to improve the situation.
How Relevant Is SAP?
March 21, 2024
The new central star in the SAP universe is supposed to be the BTP (Business Technology Platform). However, analyst Joachim Hackmann of PAC has found that only 24 percent of SAP customers are consciously using the BTP.
Comments
April 26, 2024
SAP cuckoo's egg
In May 2024, Professor Hasso Plattner will step down as Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. A successor was elected last year with 99% of shareholder votes.
April 19, 2024
SAP balance of innovation and risk management
Companies are facing various challenges and key issues in the digital transformation. The integration of AI and machine learning in particular is increasingly becoming an unavoidable trend.
April 11, 2024
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Many are familiar with the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. The first time I tried to read the English original in 1989, I failed. However, after a lecture by AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber, I purchased the German edition and devoured it from cover to cover.
April 4, 2024
SAP Basis Without SAP
It is becoming increasingly difficult for SAP customers to obtain relevant information about the capabilities of the ERP software they are using. The SAP list of prices and conditions seems to be the only remaining source of information.
Community News
April 25, 2024
Datasphere and Joule: SAP in the age of AI
SAP has announced news such as generative AI in SAP Datasphere and the availability of Joule in the SAP Analytics Cloud.
April 24, 2024
SAP Q1 2024 Results
SAP has released the results of the first quarter of 2024. The results show that cloud revenue is up 24 percent, and cloud ERP suite revenue is up by 32 percent. The current cloud backlog is of 14.2 billion EUR, up 27 percent.
April 24, 2024
Danfoss Selects HPE GreenLake for Hybrid Cloud Journey
RISE with SAP and HPE GreenLake enable Danfoss to run SAP workloads on its energy efficient and sovereign modular data centers
April 24, 2024
SNP appoints Phillip Miltiades for Asia-Pacific
SAP partner SNP appoints Phillip Miltiades as the new President and Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific region to continue the strategic transformation.
Business Management
April 5, 2024
The Basics of Cybersecurity
Minimizing attack surfaces, stregnthening applications—no SAP customer can avoid these cybersecurity basics today. Proactive SAP cybersecurity is a requirement. SecurityBridge has acquired a leading position in this area in recent years.
SAP-based purchasing reaches its limits when it comes to seamless collaboration with construction service providers. EVH, a municipal energy service provider in Halle (Saale), closes unpleasant process breaks with innovative 2bits tools.
Processing incoming invoices is often a major challenge for many organizations. Scanning, recording, checking, approving and then processing receipts takes a lot of time and offers great potential for automation.
March 25, 2024
AI and green IT: the pioneering ERP trends of 2024
In an era characterized by rapid technological progress and a constantly changing economic landscape, the ability of companies to adapt to new circumstances is more crucial than ever.
IT Management
April 22, 2024
Vector Engine as AI booster
Uncover hidden insights and patterns with the Knowledge Graph. The Hana DB platform and Datasphere can do vector math! Why? Because vectors in multidimensional space make it easy to represent the distance between data points, often even with mental arithmetic. Generative AI needs this knowledge.
April 12, 2024
S/4 Conversion—On-Prem, Hybrid, Private or Public Cloud
SAP S/4 Hana is available both in the cloud and on-prem. Although SAP as a company prefers the cloud, there are many reasons to opt for a local installation, including security. This article compares both options.
SAP customer Schaeffler achieves rapid software provision across the entire value chain with low-code. 30 widely used applications with more than 4000 users are in use.
April 3, 2024
The End of Data Chaos
E3 Magazine was invited to the Kafka Summit London 2024. Here are our observations on the latest innovations in the Kafka Apache world.
Economy
March 26, 2024
CNT and Amazon Business: Partnership for SAP solutions
Preferred Partnership agreed for convenient procurement processes.
March 25, 2024
Natuvion and Adesso Orange intensify their cooperation
Natuvion Data Conversion Server. The SAP architects at Adesso Orange and the digital relocation specialist Natuvion have expanded their partnership.
December 8, 2023
Syntax and Beyond Technologies Officially Join Forces
Merger creates broad portfolio, strengthens SAP expertise, and expands team strength and global reach
December 7, 2023
IBM RapidMove and SNP CrystalBridge for SAP transformation
SNP and IBM expand their long-standing partnership and establish a global Center of Excellence for SAP transformation.
E3 book tip
SAP S/4HANA - Architecture
If you use SAP S/4HANA, you need to know the system inside out. This book will help you master the technical architecture of SAP S/4HANA! Understand the new data and programming models and how they differ from SAP ERP. Learn more about technology components such as embedded analytics, extensibility and enterprise search. The authors guide you through the architecture of the individual application areas such as finance and logistics and show how they are integrated with each other.
- Technical basics and principles of SAP S/4HANA
- Application architecture of central areas such as finance, logistics, procurement and sales
- Special features of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition architecture
- Technical basics and principles of SAP S/4HANA
- Application architecture of central areas such as finance, logistics, procurement and sales
- Special features of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition architecture
