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E3 Category: CFO - Column

CFO: The Chief Financial Officer has gone from being a numbers and finance manager to an influential shaper of the digital transformation. It is in his hands to identify risks at an early stage and to develop central visions and strategies for his company.

Trust is a great asset that is more easily gambled away than won. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals' confidence in their companies' financial figures has increased in recent years.
In uncertain times, it is important to know who or what you can rely on. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals have increased their confidence in their companies' financial figures in recent years.
Valid financial figures and realistic forecasts are a top priority for companies. If you want to meet this demand, you have to establish end-to-end processes and ensure that everything meshes when it comes to automation.
Using innovative technologies, insights are derived from data in real time. To fulfill his new role, the CFO needs better data understanding and data access.
A Chief Financial Officer today wears a variety of hats - and not all of them have to do with pure numbers. Companies still have to plan and weigh the benefits against the risks for all transactions.
A new risk category is establishing itself. Many companies are increasingly required to report on the sustainability of their operating business and financial assets. What does this mean for your SAP system landscape?
Companies around the world are required to make the right decisions quickly. The challenge here is to receive prepared data from the ERP system at any time.
There is a growing shortage of personnel for the digitization of the economy. Anyone who then discourages the urgently needed young talent with manual processes and outdated software is giving themselves a leg up.
In the USA, the economy is struggling with a new phenomenon: almost four million employees have quit their jobs. This is the highest number ever and 24 percent higher than before the pandemic. What does this mean for our market?
For the finance departments of corporate groups, many conversions to S/4 Hana do not bring the desired results. The only solution that can help is one that companies should consider even before the migration.
As already announced in 2017, with the Libor rates the globally most important money market rates for most currencies will no longer be available from 2022. What does this mean for your SAP TRM and CML modules?
"Overcoming media discontinuities" is a magic word for better linking process steps. But it doesn't go far enough: If we want to achieve truly digital work, we have to eliminate media discontinuities.

Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

More information will follow shortly.

Event date

Wednesday, May 21, and
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Early Bird Ticket

Available until Friday, January 24, 2025
EUR 390 excl. VAT

Regular ticket

EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, March 5, and
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Early Bird Ticket

Available until December 20, 2024

EUR 390 excl. VAT
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.