Cover story April 2024
SAP Basis with Cloud ALM,
on-prem
and licenses.
Salzburg 2024: Hana and S/4 also need a robust SAP basis. The Customer Competence Center of SAP R/3 and Business Suite 7 is transforming itself with ALM, process mining and enterprise architects. The SAP Competence Center Summit in Salzburg is dedicated to this transformation process.
Cover Story December 2025
The CCoE Experiment
The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.
Snowflake Study on the AI Labor Market in Spain
October 28, 2025
Lack of trust and talent shortages are the main obstacles to the adoption of AI in companies in Spain, according to a new study on the Artificial Intelligence Job Market in Spain, published by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company.
Exascale calculator for digital sovereignty
October 28, 2025
Jupiter, the fastest and most energy-efficient supercomputer in Europe, has gone into operation at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The system is the first in Europe to be designed and equipped in such a way that it will reach the mark of one trillion computing operations per second (1 ExaFLOP/s).
Excerpt from “ServiceNow’s Intelligent IT Service Management: a Comprehensive Guide to Implementing the Platform’s AI Capabilities for IT Managers.”
Q3 2025: SAP Relies on Continued Cloud Growth
October 24, 2025
SAP has published its results for the third quarter of 2025 and presents a mixed, but overall solid picture. The cloud business remains the key growth driver, while total revenue and the outlook are somewhat more subdued.
S/4: Opportunities and challenges
October 24, 2025
SAP customers must migrate from SAP Business Suite to S/4 by the end of 2027. However, the migration will open up new opportunities for companies to digitalize and optimize their entire business processes.
Between Shell Script and Self-Deception
October 24, 2025
Automation is omnipresent in IT. But despite the hype surrounding hyperautomation, it should be clear that it is not an end in itself, and certainly not a panacea. It is worth taking a critical look.
SAP Joule Operating System
June 5, 2025
The idea is obvious yet has not been widely discussed. An operating system for managing AI agents. Instead, SAP is constantly creating new Joule AI universes for specific tasks. Does SAP not see the “big picture” of AI?
Customer Cloud Center of Expertise
May 28, 2025
The familiar CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) could become the CCCoE (Customer Cloud Center of Expertise) because RISE and GROW are not all-inclusive offerings. Without the contribution of SAP customers, little will change. SAP itself is undergoing a transformation!
The Extremely Expensive SAP Cloud
May 22, 2025
It is one of the most discussed topics in the SAP community: license costs for the SAP Cloud ERP Suite. SAP and the hyperscalers claim that cloud computing also brings savings for users. Statements by SAP CEO Christian Klein suggest otherwise.
E3 Roundtable on ERP Platforms, Data Streams, and E2E Workflows
Successful ERP, supply chain management, and CRM architectures are built on IT platforms. Data streaming and collaboration are essential to the orchestration of ERP systems. IT platforms are the new operating system for cloud computing. The E3 Roundtable will highlight the importance and strategy of platforms for a holistic IT infrastructure and ERP architecture. SAP customers will implement platform technologies for digital transformation. The E3 Roundtable will discuss the ERP architecture principle of platforms using Boomi's offering as an example.
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In times of global trade conflicts and protectionist measures, open source—as software and as a principle—is becoming central for companies and regions. It has a lasting impact on workflows, processes, and communication.
July 4, 2025
SAP Can Do More
The broad—and unfortunately often poorly orchestrated—SAP offering is surprising. There are real software gems, but there is little to no communication. Can SAP itself no longer see the forest for the trees?
Data is everywhere: in our systems, our processes, and our heads. We collect, store, and transfer it—and sometimes lose track of it. So, what do we actually do with all this data?
June 17, 2025
Nip It in the Bud
Currently, there is an extensive debate about SAP's diversity targets. The goal of having 40 percent of women in leadership positions within the group has been rejected. Apparently, SAP CEO Christian Klein is bowing to the US administration's requirements.
SAP News
September 19, 2025
Archiving: more than just filing and disposal
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.
September 17, 2025
SAP Change Competence Is Now Critical
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.
September 16, 2025
S/4 Finance for Group Reporting
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.
September 15, 2025
A Strategic Opportunity for S/4 With Bluefield
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.
Business Management
April 3, 2025
User story: SAP standard recipe for more structure
Pasta manufacturer Bürger is modernizing its logistics with S/4 Hana and SAP EWM. Together with Prismat, the company is replacing 25-year-old software with a future-proof solution designed to create transparency, efficiency and growth potential.
The SAP world is on the verge of change: CMIS is the new standard interface between S/4 and ECM systems, while the future of ArchiveLink on the SAP Public Cloud is sealed. However, there is no need to panic, as with a solid archiving strategy (a crucial element), companies can save millions.
March 17, 2025
S/4 Hana Utilities: 24-hour change of supplier
The IT service provider Adesso has successfully supported the energy group Uniper with the introduction of SAP S/4 Hana Utilities. Uniper is one of the first companies in the energy industry to work productively with the new platform in the "supplier" market role.
March 11, 2025
A Low-Disruption S/4 Transition
Festo is often referred to as the jewel of German industry. It has been a year since the successful company switched from SAP ERP ECC to S/4 Hana. Looking back, we can see why a differentiated view of SAP is of great importance.
IT Management
November 8, 2024
Solved: SoD problems during S/4 migration
As part of an S/4 migration, the agricultural company U.S. Sugar was looking for a solution to check segregation of duties conflicts for its approximately 2,500 employees. It chose Pathlock, a global market leader in access governance and application security.
October 22, 2024
Quick Transformation From a Single Source
The cloud blurs the differences between applications from different providers. Functions are developed, replicated, and provided more quickly. Switching to the cloud is difficult, but offers enormous opportunities.
October 16, 2024
Consistent GRC for SAP cloud applications
Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) are closely linked, essential areas of a company. A mix of on-premises and cloud is now increasingly being used for business applications. This increases the number of networked applications, but also the security risks.
October 6, 2024
Data Integrity Trends
A study on data integrity—carried out out by Precisely and Drexel University's LeBow College of Business—reveals widespread issues with trust in data and the impact on data and AI initiatives that trust or lack thereof has.
Economy
August 1, 2022
M&A Booster: Modern Accounting
Why merging IT systems is so important in mergers and how a digital accounting process can help.
12 July 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in June 2022
New addition to cbs An innovation partner with a manufacturing and IoT focus becomes a subsidiary of cbs Corporate Business Solutions. Trebing + Himstedt has trusted renowned manufacturing companies with their digital transformation for 30 years. The focus is particularly on innovation and implementation consulting in the areas of manufacturing and the development of digital, IoT-based services. The strengths of cbs in global...
June 9, 2022
Enterprise Architecture Management
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) from LeanIX is available as an SAP Endorsed App in the SAP Store. The solution is designed to help companies relate their business processes to their enterprise architecture and their SaaS and non-SAP microservices landscape, giving them improved visibility and control over their processes.
June 3, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in May
Logistical planning The owner-managed SAP consultancy ITeanova has been part of the msg group since February 2022. The Heidelberg-based company has been working closely with SAP since its foundation in 2005 and enjoys an excellent reputation as a specialist for solutions in the field of complex and multi-level logistics planning scenarios. ITeanova brings a wealth of experience in the context of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), in particular...
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The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI
Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.
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