E3 Category: IT Management

For most developers, „unit testing“ and „test-driven development“ have long been familiar terms. Nevertheless, for a variety of reasons, not many programmers actually use them in practice.

Why low-code and AI are currently business boosters for SAP and non-SAP users, and how low-code-supported AI applications support users in their everyday work—here is a compact overview of how both technologies fit together perfectly and orchestrate business together.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping supply chain planning at an unprecedented pace. Traditional, linear processes are giving way to data-driven strategies powered by advanced technologies and sophisticated platforms. Among these, SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) stands out as a foundational tool for enabling an agentic AI framework.

Isolated solutions and a lack of shared document access resulted in complex, error-prone handling. SSE introduced S/4 Hana for the MCAD team and created a powerful, expandable solution for efficient product data management with SAP ECTR.

Many companies need to reorganize their IT security. SAP and hybrid systems can also be secured with "Zero Trust". The SAP Business Technology Platform with services such as Identity Authentication and Build Work Zone creates a central, secure access point for this.

Almost all SAP customers also use non-SAP systems, which also need to be managed. Empirius wants to take greater account of such tasks in future. CEO Hans Haselbeck talks about his views on SAP and non-SAP in an interview with E3 Magazine.

The vast majority of companies in Germany use open source software, and also see this as an opportunity for greater digital sovereignty.

Companies in the energy and process industry are under pressure to implement innovations, meet legal requirements, and optimize their operational processes at the same time. Outdated ERP landscapes are making this increasingly difficult.

In the data-driven economy, data quality is becoming a success factor: precision, consistency, and reliability are no longer a nice-to-have, but a clear competitive advantage.

AI has long since ceased to be a trend. It is an unavoidable necessity. The integration of AI into SAP systems offers companies the opportunity to increase their efficiency, make informed decisions in real time and remain competitive in the long term.

SAP investments are usually a matter for the boss and decisions are made in conjunction with the IT management. Automation potential in the SAP infrastructure or in system operation is often not considered until it is too late. This leads to missed opportunities.

When introducing a new distribution system, Munich's public transportation company (MVG) had to rethink its archiving concept. Instead of migrating five million documents, it opted for a hybrid archiving architecture.