Author: E3 Magazine

Following its acquisition by VINCI Energies, All for One Group SE is restructuring its supervisory board. Burim Mirakaj, CEO of VINCI Energies DACH & CEE ICT, will assume the chairmanship. Luc Penninckx, Klaudius Heda, and Gerd Renner are also joining the board. Employee representatives Maria Caldarelli and André Krüger will remain in their positions. The new…

After nearly 30 years with the xSuite Group, Matthias Lemenkühler is stepping down from his operational responsibilities and will join the advisory board effective October 1, 2026. As a shareholder, he will remain associated with the SAP specialist. Lemenkühler joined the company in 1997 and became managing director in 2003. He played a key role in shaping the company’s transformation from a systems integrator to a software manufacturer. Responsibility for technology and product…

As additional provisions of the EU AI Act gradually come into effect, the requirements for companies using AI are increasing. Commvault cites recent incidents involving autonomous AI systems and publicly accessible chat content as examples of potential security and data protection risks. Robust governance structures, clearly defined access rights for AI agents, continuous monitoring, and a resilient recovery strategy are therefore crucial.…

KGS Software GmbH is expanding its executive team: Effective October 15, 2026, Dirk Kruse will join CEO Winfried Althaus in taking on responsibility for growth and internationalization. Kruse has 25 years of experience in the SAP ecosystem, particularly with SAP S/4 Hana and Rise with SAP, as well as international sales and go-to-market expertise. At KGS, he will be responsible for the strategic development…

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into businesses, a new job role is emerging: the AI automation engineer. Unlike AI researchers or prompt engineers, this professional does not develop models; instead, they analyze business processes, identify opportunities for automation, and integrate AI tools with existing systems. Areas of application include document processing, reporting, data maintenance, accounting, and internal workflows. According to McKinsey, by 2030, around 27 percent of today’s…

Output management has been a well-established ERP discipline since SAP R/3, and this functionality remains in high demand and is widely used even in ECC 6.0. Global ERP architectures—including on-premises and hybrid installations—continue to make output management highly attractive to existing SAP customers.

According to a recent study by Lünendonk and Hossenfelder, CIOs are facing increasing demands while operating with limited budgets. Fifty-five percent of the companies surveyed plan to increase their IT spending in 2026. At the top of the investment agenda are cybersecurity (92 percent) and IT modernization (74 percent), followed by professional development, digital sovereignty, and system integration. At the same time, AI is becoming an integral part of corporate IT. 83 percent…

Agent-based AI is becoming an autonomous actor that retrieves data, prepares decisions, and initiates workflows. This increases the need for a governance layer that controls access, roles, approvals, and responsibilities. According to Mathias Herrmann, CEO of Alleherzen, governance is a prerequisite for secure and sustainable deployment in enterprise environments. The Colossos solution is designed to serve as a „Governed Access Layer“ between…

BlackLine received multiple awards in 2026 for its Agentic Financial Operations Platform. At the FinTech Tech Ascension Awards, the company won in the „Best AI/ML-Based Solution“ category. BlackLine also received four Top-Rated Awards from TrustRadius for financial close, financial risk management, accounts receivable, and quote-to-cash. According to the company, the TrustRadius awards are based on verified customer reviews. BlackLine views the…

One in two German respondents to the McKinsey report „The State of AI in 2026: On the Road to ROI“ reports that their organization is already scaling up AI; at the same time, 43 percent of respondents from organizations using AI are unable to quantify AI’s contribution to operating profit.

Maick enables users to query SAP data using natural language and efficiently and securely analyzes even large volumes of data. Companies have extensive data in their SAP systems from finance, sales, purchasing, production, projects, and other business processes. However, accessing this data often requires complex transactions, reports, and specialized SAP knowledge. The Milliarum AI Construction Kit (Maick) simplifies this access: Users…

Celonis and deepset are combining their technologies to create a robust AI platform for business-critical processes. The partnership integrates Celonis’ Process Intelligence and the Celonis Context Model (CCM) with deepset’s platform for AI agents, which is based on the open-source Haystack framework. The goal is to create trustworthy and auditable AI systems for government agencies, security organizations, the defense sector, and critical infrastructure. The joint solution is designed to consolidate fragmented process data, documents…