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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.

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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.

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AI Trends 2026

February 3, 2026
Max Murakami, Red Hat
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?
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
E3 Magazine
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.
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.
SAP announced the appointment of David Robinson as president of SAP North America.

SAP and Teradata Antitrust Case

January 29, 2026
E3 Magazine
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 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?
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.

Comments

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.
No-name column
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.
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.
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

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.
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.
SAP customers can now unlock real-time data from ECC, S/4 Hana, and BW, with integrated CDC and no custom code.
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

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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
More SAP expertise for Swiss companies: Syntax and Xiting deepen partnership
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...
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...

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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 fourth 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

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-662-4355460

Event date

Wednesday, June 10, and
Thursday, June 11, 2026

AI experience workshop only on June 11, 2026 (limited places)
Bonus: Access to all lectures on June 11, 2026

Regular ticket

Lectures, evening event and, depending on availability, the AI workshop on June 11, 2026
Places at the AI experience workshop are limited and registration is required.

Subscribers to the E3 Magazine Ticket

reduced with promocode CCAbo26

Students*

reduced with promocode CCStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
EUR 305 excl. VAT.
EUR 590 excl. VAT
EUR 390 excl. VAT
EUR 290 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

AI onlyExperience workshop on April 23, 2026 
Bonus: Access to all lectures on April 23, 2026
Regular ticket
April 22, 2026: Lectures and evening event
April 23, 2026: Lectures and AI workshop
EUR 305 excl. VAT
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Subscribers to the E3 magazine
reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students*
reduced with promocode STStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
EUR 290 excl. VAT
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
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 2026, 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.