Author: E3-Magazine

The podcast for the E3 cover story is a supplement and continuation of the online texts from the E3 print magazine. A dialog between two AI avatars with knowledge from the German-speaking E3 editorial team provides an insight into the processes surrounding SAP and the SAP community. Translations into English, Spanish and French are provided by DeepL and Google.

It is not only the geopolitical situation that makes data sovereignty a must. Rather, the increasing spread of AI jeopardizes the protection of sensitive data if the data pool cannot be protected against unauthorized or malicious access.

S/4 migration, data protection, legacy decommissioning, skills shortages and data quality: transformation projects combine technical, regulatory and organizational challenges. With AI-supported functions, JiVS wants to turn this into a controllable modernization step.

Robotics is reaching a new dimension: machines that can move like humans, react to their environment and work together with people are no longer dreams of the future, but reality.

The digital transformation to SAP S/4 ruthlessly reveals the failures of the past in data management, because anyone who migrates historical legacy data, duplicates and inconsistent master data to the new in-memory environment without reflection not only causes the operating costs for the expensive Hana storage to explode, but also slows down the new ERP system right from the start.

Disproving an incident after it occurs is laborious and often counterproductive. Once the damage is done, effective containment is difficult. SAP should, in any case, proactively address false rumors and communication voids.

After a period of euphoria, managers are increasingly pursuing pragmatic AI strategies. This is shown by two new studies.

Leogistics is expanding its presence in Hamburg and wants to set an example for further international growth by moving into modern offices in the Vespucci building in HafenCity. Together with Materna Information & Communications, cbs and other affiliated companies of the group, 104 modern workplaces are now available in a central location. The company has been in business for over 15...

Entsorgungsbetriebe der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden (EBW) has successfully modernized its IT landscape. Together with Gisa, an IT service provider specializing in SAP, the existing system environment was converted to SAP S/4 Hana. As part of the migration, central business areas such as finance, controlling, maintenance, materials management and sales were modernized. Thanks to a structured approach and close cooperation between all parties involved, a smooth migration was...

Dirk Häußermann has been Managing Director of SAP Germany since January 1, 2026 and is responsible for the Group's business in Germany in this role. He succeeds Sven Mulder, who left the company at his own request at the end of the year. Häußermann has held various management positions at SAP in the Central and Eastern Europe region since April 2024. Previously, he was...

Following its spin-off, the global technology company Aumovio is focusing on a comprehensive cloud strategy using central solutions from SAP. The mobility specialist is thus creating the basis for bringing connected and autonomous technologies to market faster. SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Signavio will create transparent, flexible and...

The German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) has been a member of the German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services Association (BGA) since the beginning of the year, thereby expanding its sphere of influence in digital policy. By joining forces, the application expertise of more than 4,000 member companies will flow into political work in the future. The association expects that topics such as the AI Act, Data Act and e-billing will be more strongly...