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 April 2026
Trends and investment 2026
The year 2026 is a critical turning point for the SAP community: SAP's visions meet the reality of existing customers. As the end of maintenance for the old ERP system approaches in 2027, the pressure for S/4 migrations will increase massively and shape the market for service providers.
AI Trends 2026
February 3, 2026
With the end of the experimental phase, questions that determine the success of entire strategies are taking center stage: how can AI be operated reliably, how can it remain affordable, and how can companies prevent new dependencies?
What finance and procurement teams can expect
February 2, 2026
Not every year is one of the biggest upheavals for SAP. From today's perspective, 2026 is likely to be one of them. It is more likely to be months of pragmatic transformation.
When Execution Becomes a Bottleneck
January 30, 2026
As supply chains continue to grow in complexity, the core focus for many organizations has shifted from which products are physically moved to whether their execution data can be handled consistently across planning, operations and finance.
Practical check of digital applicant management
January 30, 2026
A wide range of applicant management solutions are available, from simple tools to AI-based end-to-end platforms. A customer satisfaction analysis shows which providers score best with users.
David Robinson Named President of SAP North America
January 29, 2026
SAP announced the appointment of David Robinson as president of SAP North America.
SAP and Teradata Antitrust Case
January 29, 2026
In 2025, there were significant developments in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Teradata, a California-based software company that offers cloud-based data and analytics products and services.
Keeping ERP in Balance
August 28, 2025
The CIO is not an innovator, but rather a steward of successful business processes and a facilitator of necessary orchestration. At the same time, the CIO must strike a balance between ERP business management, the IT organization, technology, and licensing fees.
AI Is Not an SAP Business Model
August 21, 2025
AI is delivering ever more spectacular results and penetrating more and more business areas, but the share prices of IT providers that should be benefiting from this AI hype are falling. What is going wrong with artificial intelligence?
Fast Fashion ERP by Lovable
August 14, 2025
Artificial intelligence has a destructive power: why not use Lovable and a few AI agents to build a new composable ERP based on SAP BTP and BDC? Between traditional Abap ERP and AI, things could get tight for SAP in the cloud.
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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October 22, 2025
Clean-core strategy with hybrid integration and AI
Rise with SAP, BTP, AI and integration will challenge companies until 2027. Between cloud roadmaps and proven on-prem systems, it is important to choose the right path at your own pace.
October 21, 2025
Sovereign SAP Sapphire Europe
SAP wants to get involved in the booming business of „sovereignty“. For the time being, there is cloud functionality for SAP's own data center for existing customers, but this fig leaf will not be enough! SAP itself must become sovereign.
October 20, 2025
From Open Source Project to Secure Enterprise Solution
There is further proof of the open source success story: Confidential Containers are now available on a public cloud. A community project has quickly become an enterprise-grade solution for critical processes.
October 15, 2025
The AI that understands your business
SAP wants to integrate AI into all processes and products. CEO Christian Klein promises an increase in productivity of up to 30 percent through automated routines, faster processes and smart analyses to support decision-making. A status check.
SAP News
November 18, 2025
89 Percent Affected by Data Theft
Nine out of ten German companies have been affected by data theft in the past three years. 92% see an acute need for action due to geopolitical risks and are adapting their cyber strategies. Weaknesses are evident in protection against AI and quantum risks.
November 18, 2025
SAP Outsourcing From Cologne to New Zealand
Just imagine: It's 6 p.m. in Frankfurt. An SAP manager finishes his working day, takes one last look at the system dashboard - and breathes a sigh of relief.
November 13, 2025
Boomi Introduces New Change Data Capture for SAP Data
SAP customers can now unlock real-time data from ECC, S/4 Hana, and BW, with integrated CDC and no custom code.
November 10, 2025
Agent-Based Transformation With Real-Time as an SAP BTP Alternative
Boomi is opening up another data channel in the SAP universe, giving SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) considerable competition with the Databricks extension. It remains to be seen who will ultimately win the race for the final ERP data platform.
Business Management
27 May 2025
Is This a Strategy or Can It Be Discarded?
I've often noticed recently that our business vocabulary is relatively martial: "I'm planning to assassinate you", "We have to fight on all fronts now" or "The tasks are not decisive for the war".
May 21, 2025
New hosting model: shifting up a gear
MTS, a medium-sized provider in the automotive and bicycle parts trade, generates a large part of its turnover online - stable SAP operations are therefore critical to its business. Since mid-2024, a new hosting model has ensured improvements in availability and performance.
May 20, 2025
Why transformation projects fail
The expectations of today's SAP transformations could hardly be greater. Companies expect leaner processes, state-of-the-art technologies and massive efficiency gains. However, there is often a considerable gap between these ambitious goals and reality.
Document management systems (DMS) have been tried and tested on a large scale for years. However, the integration of e-invoices brings a new dimension of speed and security. What advantages does e-invoicing offer over conventional digital workflows?
IT Management
February 17, 2025
Code security for SAP BTP
New offering provides industry-leading application security testing for SAP BTP development.
January 31, 2025
SAP data integration without ODP
The integration of SAP data is a challenge, especially with incremental data updates and large volumes of transaction data. SAP Note 3255746 prohibits the use of ODP Data Replication APIs for access via the RFC interface.
December 23, 2024
Q3-2024 release: SAP Business AI for IT and platforms
Three months earlier than planned in our roadmap, SAP presented 100 functions for generative AI that can be used immediately in all SAP cloud applications.
December 5, 2024
UiPath Presents New Vision of the Future
UiPath presents Agent Builder, a tool for automation developers and business users to create, test, and publish agents.
Economy
20 years of expertise in SAP The digital, consulting and software company Valantic strengthens its SAP expertise with the SAP consultancy ComSol. The SAP partner ComSol offers consulting services for retail and consumer goods companies and supports companies in the holistic S/4-based business transformation: from the design of competitively differentiated business processes to implementation and subsequent operation (application management). ComSol offers SAP implementation and...
23 December 2022
Commitment to the Swiss Market
More SAP expertise for Swiss companies: Syntax and Xiting deepen partnership
19 December 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in November 2022
Alliance for networked SCM The Myleo/dsc platform is now connected to Logistics Cloud and opens up partner networking. Leogistics and Logistics Cloud, software providers in the field of data integration and connectivity, have agreed on a partnership. The aim of the collaboration is to map collaborative logistics processes as simply as possible and to optimally integrate upstream and downstream systems. In this...
November 14, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in October 2022
Leap into digitization Focusing on customer benefits: Pit-Cup and Ceyoniq announce the expansion of their long-standing partnership. In the future, Ceyoniq's digital information management solution, nscale, and pitFM, the system for computer-aided facility management (CAFM), will be linked even more closely. Pit-Cup has been relying on the nscale information and document management system for several years. Now...
E3 book tip
Getting started with SAP S/4HANA
Get to know SAP S/4HANA using practical examples! In this book, Christian Drumm, Bernd Scheuermann and Stefan Weidner introduce you to the most important modules and business processes of SAP S/4HANA. You will get an overview of the applications for sales, purchasing, production, warehouse management, accounting and controlling. Many exercises, case studies and practical cases enable you to implement what you have learned directly in the system. Currently for the example company Global Bike 4.3.
The prerequisite for using the exercises, case studies and practical cases is access to an SAP system with Global Bike Client version 4.3. SAP UCC Magdeburg.
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