E3 Category: Coverstory 18-05

Many have recognized the need to end solo orchestration in IT, but only a very few vendors have built up expertise in this area and taken action - even though the topic of orchestration affects every existing SAP customer. Peter M. Färbinger, E-3 Magazine, spoke with Peter Wohlfarth, Stefan Reuss and Patrick Theobald (from left) from SAP partner Theobald Software about...

Why do existing SAP customers want to interface with other systems at all? What is the business benefit? And how do you do the whole thing from a technical point of view without incurring more disadvantages than advantages?

High data and document throughputs characterize every project business. Unexpected information bottlenecks usually occur at the interface between SAP ERP and SharePoint. A customer also felt this in his projects and found a solution to the problem.

As part of the standardization of business processes and systems as part of the customer's corporate strategy, SAP for Retail based on SAP ERP 6.0 was introduced as the central retail system through which the orders of the country subsidiaries are collected.