E3 Category: MAG 17-12

With S/4, many routine tasks are being redesigned. For example, traditional transactions for creating and maintaining customers and suppliers are no longer required. This also affects their checking for sanctions lists and embargoes. It makes sense to convert these functions before the S/4 migration.

Digitization creates new products and services and brings down old business models. SAP consultants support companies in transforming their processes and design the appropriate IT architecture.

The agile idea of DevOps is gaining more and more followers in the SAP community as well, but this does not necessarily make it a successful model for companies.

Disruption through technology will displace four out of ten companies within the next few years. This is not a gloomy vision of the future, but a bitter reality. Waiting, persisting or ignoring are not options if you want to be competitive.

Technologies for automatically capturing business processes are said to bring users up to 40 percent faster test automation.

Cloud applications and the business network improve collaboration and execution at a significantly lower cost.

University of Oxford uses new supercomputer from SAP partner Atos for deep learning program.

At E-World, numerous companies, associations and players will be presenting sustainable solutions for energy generation, transmission and storage as well as consumption control.

Meanwhile, 27 SAP customers and partners with a combined market volume of $819 billion are participating in the SAP initiative for joint innovation around blockchain technology.

For many years, the Swiss electronics retail chain Interdiscount has relied on SAP ERP throughout the company and also has a document archive in use. Since the old archive solution was very license and maintenance intensive, they were looking for an efficient system.

Programming skills are becoming increasingly important in the digital world, but only just one in ten young people (eleven percent) can code themselves.

In 2015, four graduates of the Hasso Plattner Institute founded Valsight. Their vision: to improve the controlling of large companies by using state-of-the-art technologies. E-3 spoke with Managing Director Khai Tran about "Performance Management" in a digitalized world.