E3 Category: SAP News

The starting point of this article is a current lawsuit filed by Celonis against SAP in the USA¹. The aim of the lawsuit is to remove barriers to competition that prevent Celonis from working with SAP systems.

With the go-live of the SAP Cloud ERP solution, the consulting and auditing firm PWC is consolidating its global business processes and creating a standardized platform for more than 100,000 employees in 19 countries.

At packaging manufacturer Karl Knauer, the standard SAP system lacked adequate mapping of the order backlog - a central KPI for production and sales planning. Thanks to an enhancement, this can now be evaluated in real time and used for well-founded decisions.

The EU Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether SAP may have distorted competition in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services related to an on-premises type of software, licensed by SAP, used for the management of companies' business operations, in the European Economic Area.

At MainDays 2025, Perlen Papier received the Maintainer Award for excellence in maintenance.

We are currently experiencing an explosion of interest in AI agents. However, companies should be aware of the growing risk of inaccuracies and bias.

There are currently around 109,000 unfilled IT positions in the German economy. Despite a decrease compared to 2023 (149,000), 85% of companies still see a significant shortage.

AI is increasingly becoming the central driver of corporate processes. This is the result of the current study "AI Projects to Profits" by IBM.

Rise with SAP, cloud integration and S/4 Hana create complex, fragmented data landscapes. Strategic archiving helps to simplify these, reduces the data load, ensures compliance and optimally prepares for migrations.

86 percent of enterprises believe SAP change management is now critical to competitive advantage, with the ability to continuously adapt recognized as a defining factor for success.

S/4 Finance for Group Reporting enables the real-time consolidation of financial data, automates processes and supports well-founded decisions. It is particularly suitable for complex structures and offers scalability and compliance.

The digital transformation has long been a reality for top managers. For many companies, the SAP S/4 Hana transformation, which involves moving an SAP system into the cloud, is at the heart of this far-reaching change.