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.
Rackspace Technology, an end-to-end hybrid, multicloud and AI technology solutions company, has announced the launch of Rackspace UK Sovereign Services as part of its next generation product range.
Study shows that safety and ethics as well as a persistent lack of AI knowledge remain a problem in the AI sector.
An E3 interview with Matthias Lemenkühler, CEO of xSuite Group.
Pekka Ala-Pietilä was elected Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board with 95 percent of the votes.
According to a Capterra study, companies are using AI to combat AI-based cyberattacks.
Without words
16 May 2024
SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig is co-author of a book on the Business Technology Platform. The graphic below is offered as supplementary material.
Technical version change 2025
June 13, 2019
Please read on, because this is not about SAP's S/4 Damocles 2025, but about the technical version change of your database.
Is SAP losing its claim to leadership?
May 29 2019
Everything used to be better: SAP was the "inventor" of holistic, integrated, business management software and thus created a new IT market.
C/4 is dead, long live Qualtrics
May 23 2019
A year ago, at Sapphire 2018 in Orlando, SAP CEO Bill McDermott promised the ultimate CRM suite. If the competition can only produce CRM programs, then it is time for SAP to launch an end-to-end CRM suite.
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
December 6, 2021
What must not be missing from S/4 transformations
The S/4 Hana transformation implies not only the technology change, but also human resources components. Users need to see sense, they need expert training and good user training.
December 2, 2021
Covid-19: Curse or blessing?
In the discussion about digital transformation, the pandemic is often seen as an accelerator for digitization projects. Does this assumption pass the fact check?
December 1, 2021
Cloud computing is not an option
As a driver of digital transformation, the cloud now plays a key role in corporate success. However, users are often restricted by the provider when it comes to implementation. It is important to weigh up the options wisely.
November 30, 2021
Enterprise RTOS
ERP is dead. The Intelligent Enterprise no longer has a future either. No AI will save this concept. The new "Connected Platform" is a real-time operating system, i.e. an enterprise operating system in real time.
SAP News
August 4, 2023
Short Facts July/August 2023
No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to minor news as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked. Companies and people are not indexed.
August 3, 2023
Document Management
Flexibility, speed of response and cost efficiency are becoming increasingly important in logistics due to increased process costs, the ongoing shortage of skilled workers, competitive pressures and geopolitical disruptions in international freight traffic.
August 2, 2023
Fiori interface
With the "Digital University Hospital Frankfurt" project, management is speeding up work processes and making information more easily available throughout the hospital.
August 1, 2023
SAP Quality Award 2023
e-commerce project in the area of business transformation convinced the jury. The SAP team reviewed more than 100 go-lives for award-worthy customer projects.
Business Management
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October 1, 2016
Predictive Maintenance - Giving Meaning to Data
Predictive maintenance is the ideal entry point for industrial companies into highly automated production based on Internet technologies and the Internet of Things.
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October 1, 2016
Flexible with customs
For companies operating internationally, the handling of customs and foreign trade is becoming increasingly complex. The stakes are high: it is important to maintain the status of Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) as a reliable and trustworthy trading partner through correct accounting.
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September 1, 2016
Half past six in the morning in Germany
Imagine you are in support for a business warehouse. Now imagine an SAP consultant comes in and promises that real-time reporting with SAP BW on Hana will revolutionize your business. Do you believe him? That's exactly what the protagonist in this story is all about.
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September 1, 2016
How does S/4 fit into my plan?
With S/4 Hana, SAP is breaking new ground. How does this course fit with the priorities of the DACH industry? The innovations around S/4 Hana can be combined with the in-house business strategy in a meaningful and valuable way. The right approach is the key to a sustainable IT Agenda 2020+.
IT Management
February 3, 2016
SolMan from the cloud
SAP SolMan is the central management tool for the on-premise SAP landscape. In recent years, this toolbox has grown extremely in functionality. Holistic deployment costs a lot of resources, but there are alternatives.
February 3, 2016
HTML5 vs. SAPUI5
Old-looking, blue-dominated interfaces still dominate the standard SAP world. They are oriented less to individual benefits and more to the mapping of generally valid processes. But: SAP Dynpro is dying - the trend is towards WebDynpro and SAPUI5/HTML5.
February 3, 2016
Computer science theory becomes practice through Hana
The graph theory is a fixed part of mathematics and computer science, thus well researched and precisely formulated. As a database engine, this theory is relatively young - but successful.
December 3, 2015
Why S/4 add-ons?
Process- and industry-specific, it often makes sense to extend SAP products with additional functions and interfaces for production logistics. Here, first experiences are described that one can extend S/4 Hana with special planning functions.
Economy
April 1, 2013
Emergency threatens the change
Single European Payment Area - SEPA for short - sounds harmless at first glance, but it has a lot going for it. February 1, 2014 is the Europe-wide deadline for the introduction of a single European payment area for transactions in euros.
Uniserv, headquartered in Pforzheim, offers a plausibility check for bank data with bank.International. The practice-oriented solution processes conventional data such as bank code and account number as well as the formats of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), which will become mandatory as of February 2014.
April 1, 2013
Goodbye paper
Alfresco, the open content management and collaboration platform, announced the acquisition of WeWebU Software AG at the end of January 2013. WeWebU is a leading provider of content-centric business applications.
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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