Author: Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

In an era of geopolitical upheaval, volatile markets, and pressure to migrate to S/4, the transformation of global supply chains has evolved from a mere efficiency initiative into a matter of survival for existing SAP customers. In this challenging arena, GIB—a software specialist based in Siegen—has held a distinguished and unique position for decades.

To close the functional gaps in its own data portfolio and prevent existing customers from migrating to generic cloud platforms, SAP has designed the BDC as an open ecosystem and established partnerships with third-party providers.

Boomi's vendor-neutral positioning is proving to be a disruptive alternative to the proprietary standardization doctrine of the global ERP market leader in today's SAP market.

The fundamental risk of the SAP Autonomous Enterprise lies in the contradiction between how artificial intelligence works and the mathematical nature of an ERP system.

AI is currently generating significant financial value for SAP. SAP has always had a special knack for turning technology into a financial advantage.

The SAP Clean Core doctrine has sparked a veritable gold rush for consultants and deep despair among IT managers in the SAP community. Faced with this organizational and architectural dilemma, SAP has released a tool whose name borders on real-life satire: Project Kernseife.

SAP won't save ERP with BDC (Business Data Complexity). The Autonomous Enterprise is a new composable ERP. AI apps remain volatile, while ERP data is successfully consolidated using agentic AI.

Mathematical necessity dictates that existing SAP customers must move away from the two-dimensional logic of relational SQL tables. A knowledge graph is based on mathematical graph theory and structures information in the form of nodes, edges, and properties.

A roundtable discussion hosted by E3 Magazine—streamed on YouTube—featuring licensing experts Myrja Schumacher of DLC, Andreas Knab of Soterion, and Lorenz Müller of HiSolutions reveals many pitfalls and areas in need of improvement in the SAP ERP universe.

This is a call for participation in DSAG’s organizational work: At the DSAG Annual Convention in Cologne this October, DSAG members will elect a new chairperson—it’s going to be a close race!

SUSE is much more than just an SAP operating system provider: The company serves as a strategic anchor for Europe’s digital sovereignty. Faced with the pressure of SAP’s end-of-maintenance, forced migration to the cloud, and monopolization in the AI market, SUSE offers a reliable, technically mature solution.

Those who decouple their data architecture can implement AI innovations more flexibly and at a fraction of the cost through external specialized providers, without falling into the next licensing trap set by Rise and BTP. The future does not belong to SAP’s closed monopoly, but to a composable ERP model.