E3 Category: Editorial
Here writes the editor-in-chief of E-3 Magazine. Very personal, critical and constructive based on 20 years of experience in the SAP community. Counter-positions, comments and letters to the editor are expressly welcome: pmf@b4bmedia.net
April 30, 2024
S/4, the successor to SAP Business Suite 7, is and will remain an on-prem system. SAP CEO Christian Klein is unlikely to achieve his cloud goals this way, which says nothing about the quality of S/4 Hana itself.
March 29, 2024
What is SAP's value proposition? There are few studies on this, but SAP is most probably not a technology company like Microsoft, Apple, Meta, or Google, or a bookseller like Amazon.
March 5, 2024
It was a dramatic time at SAP headquarters in Walldorf as many Supervisory Board members, Executive Board members and executives fought to keep their jobs. SAP Supervisory Board member and former Chairman-designate Punit Renjen was a danger that had to be averted.
January 31, 2024
For SAP, there are very good reasons why the public cloud should be the future operating model. Users and the SAP community should have more autonomy to pursue their own interests.
December 6, 2023
Rarely before has the community been so surprised by SAP: the share price is reaching all-time highs, innovation is at rock bottom, and customers are angry and unsettled.
November 7, 2023
With Professor Hasso Plattner’s departure from the SAP Supervisory Board next year, the company will soon commence an evaluation of the actual function and duties of a Supervisory Board Chairman.
11 October 2023
In October, with an outlook to 2024, the question is: can SAP still be trusted? What was once an innovator for standard business software has now become hesitant, lagging behind.
September 22, 2023
Christian Klein has not only made a mess of SAP's AI development, but is currently being overtaken left and right by his own existing customers when it comes to AI. An old pattern continues.
29 June 2023
SAP CEO Christian Klein has achieved a great feat: the pre-programmed crash was prevented. SAP has turned the corner, has not landed in the ditch and is now in calm waters. But where will the company go from here? No one at SAP knows.
May 25, 2023
Officially, Christian Klein still believes in "cloud first" and hopes for "cloud only". Thousands of SAP's existing customers and his own experts know better: Cloud computing remains out of reach for ERP in the medium term.
April 27, 2023
The end of SAP as the community knows it. The supervisory board, the executive board, and the IT community would have the chance to save SAP. But false consideration and convenience are preventing the retread.
