Cover story December 2025/January 2026:
The CCoE experiment
The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.

The CCoE experiment
Members of the SAP community from the R/2 and R/3 era have fond memories of the CCC. The Customer Competence Center provided first-level support to existing SAP customers through their own IT departments. Because SAP obviously considers everything that comes from a successful on-premise era to be „the devil's work,“ the CCC became the CCoE, or Customer Center of Expertise. An experiment!

Delivering on the promise of SAP BTP
The SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is considered the standard for side-by-side development. However, alternatives such as the low-code platform Simplifier offer medium-sized SAP and Rise with SAP users flexible, cost-effective options.

The LLM Revolution SAP Testing
For anyone involved in SAP projects, software testing—or „quality engineering“—is often a misunderstood area. Let's be honest: few people enjoy testing unless they have to.

