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 September 2025
License behavior
SAP license management, once characterized by complex rules and opaque metrics, has developed into an even denser jungle over the past three years. This has been driven by SAP's cloud strategy and the introduction of the Full Use Equivalent (FUE) license model, which many existing customers can barely keep track of.
Use Your Own Data Securely
July 14, 2025
Digital transformation requires secure, scalable IT solutions. SAP's EIC, combined with Suse Rancher for SAP Applications, enables modern, data protection-compliant integration - local, flexible and ready for real-time processes.
The Gutenberg Moment
July 11, 2025
The combination of AI algorithms and powerful hardware, such as Nvidia's graphics processors, has sparked a revolution. The most visible result is ChatGPT, though SAP is also working on the subject.
Switching to S/4 Hana offers opportunities for digitalization and automation. However, the new license model increases the pressure to act. In order to reduce licensing costs and avoid compliance risks, strategically aligned authorization management is essential.
SMEs Must Catch Up With SAP Ariba
July 9, 2025
Digitizalition in purchasing? Still a non-issue for many SMEs. Yet SAP Ariba provides a modular platform for procurement and supplier management that enables SMEs to gradually come to grips with the topic.
Robots and AI Agents at Boomi World 2025
July 8, 2025
A look back at all the new developments presented at Boomi World 2025 in Dallas, Texas. Developments such as AI agents, expansion in EMEA, better API management and many more.
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.
Fragmentation of the SAP world
February 20, 2025
In recent years, the SAP universe has been atomized. The consistent R/3 black box has become a heterogeneous conglomerate of ERP modules and cloud applications. From blockchain to IoT: SAP seemed to have to follow every IT trend. Today, AI chaos rules the SAP world.
SAP RISE 2.0
February 13, 2025
With a complex ERP initiative for a hidden maintenance extension and an alternative cloud roadmap, RISE with SAP should have been given a second chance at survival earlier this year. The announcement of the Business Data Cloud in addition to the Business Technology Platform has finally put S/4 out of business.
SAP Platforms for Data Management
February 6, 2025
SAP recognized the value and importance of data early on, but failed to develop a stable solution across multiple ERP generations. From NetWeaver to Datasphere, there have been ambitious attempts, but no data orchestration in the ERP space.
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
April 7, 2025
SAP migration booster Fit Gap and Factory
SAP migrations often take longer than expected. It is not for nothing that SAP has extended some maintenance windows. New developments such as automated fit-gap analyses with a downstream factory approach accelerate the transformation.
April 3, 2025
SAP turnaround
It is now becoming clear that the work of SAP CEO Christian Klein is not sustainable: despite the attractive buzzwords such as cloud and AI, the SAP share price plummeted disproportionately. Why?
April 2, 2025
SAP Joule Is an AI Boost for BTP and Abap
AI research is currently undergoing rapid development, especially in the field of generative AI. Of course, this also has an impact on the world of SAP, and the Walldorf-based IT giant is constantly unveiling new services and features in this area.
March 10, 2025
A Fundamentally New Way of Thinking With Cloud
"Cloud" is at the top of my hit list of meaningless IT buzzwords. Although perhaps meaningless is a bit harsh. It's more the mechanics of the discourse that lead us to speak about cloud, but often counterproductively.
SAP News
Boomi, an iPaaS provider, announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), for the 11th consecutive time—the longest in the report’s history.
May 26, 2025
SAP Cloud Stack on the Test Bed
SAP technologies such as Datasphere, Abap Cloud, Analytics Cloud and S/4 Hana Cloud for Group Reporting sound very promising on paper. However, it is with good reason that companies are hesitant to move to the cloud.
The central platform will support ERP users with managing the entire AI agent pool, regardless of whether the agents are from Workday or third-party providers. This solution aims to provide the tools to manage and optimize the digital workforce.
15 May 2025
Statement: Bitkom on the coalition agreement
The digital association Bitkom welcomes the creation of an independent digital ministry by the future federal government as well as the many digital policy plans of the governing parties, but calls for the plans to be fleshed out quickly and funding to be clarified.
Business Management
October 17, 2024
Data Mesh with SAP Business Technology Platform, BTP: efficiency, insights and innovation
Today, a data warehouse architecture is not enough to implement market requirements and adapt processes, but modern data strategies make it possible to gain valuable insights from the multitude of information.
October 16, 2024
Salzgitter AG relies on green technology with S/4 transformation
The transformation to S/4 is a central component of the innovation and sustainability strategy of the German steel group Salzgitter. After reaching important milestones together with cbs Corporate Business, the project is now nearing completion.
September 25, 2024
Team Spirit Beats Algorithms
To ensure readiness for unanticipated developments, retail managers are examining an ever-increasing volume of data. Real-time data provides maximum transparency, enabling swift and effective reactions to forthcoming developments.
September 24, 2024
Implementing regulatory requirements: Basic support keeps the SAP landscape "healthy"
Companies in the energy and utilities industry continue to face the challenge of implementing complex regulatory requirements, optimizing operational processes, driving digitalization and ensuring the security of their critical infrastructure.
IT Management
June 10, 2024
The future belongs to data streaming pipelines
To facilitate access to this data, most IT departments centralize as much information as possible.
When asked whether they ever check their emergency user log, most companies still respond with no. Experience from GRC practice shows that these logs usually gather dust in archives instead of being properly checked and documented.
June 4, 2024
AI at Any Price?
Everyone is talking about AI. Even though generative AI is now facing criticism about its quality and reliability, and privacy advocates are taking legal action against Open AI, AI is here to stay.
A challenge for any organization, especially those moving SAP workloads to the cloud, is to protect data at every stage: at rest, in transit and, perhaps most importantly, during processing.
Economy
15 February 2022
Transformation Goals as a Service
While the disruptive forces of the Covid 19 pandemic continue to shape global business, one important trend remains unchanged: the steady evolution toward a digital-first world.
CloudOps for all With the acquisition, NetApp expands its Spot-by-NetApp CloudOps platform. NetApp announces the final closing of the acquisition of CloudCheckr. The cloud optimization platform provides visibility and insight into the cloud to reduce costs, ensure security and compliance, and optimize cloud resources. Financial details of the transaction will not be disclosed. The acquisition of CloudCheckr complements and...
December 16, 2021
Company under permanent pressure
Nine out of ten companies have already had to stop innovative projects because of data protection requirements. Widespread criticism is levelled at the lack of support from supervisory authorities.
13 December 2021
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships
Freeing data from silos Eccenca and MHP enter into a technological partnership for agile data use in mobility and manufacturing. The collaboration is a direct response to the challenges in the automotive and manufacturing sector of using data across systems. It focuses on the scalable use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable the seamless use and reuse of data across individual systems.
E3 Book Tip
SAP S/4HANA Finance - Customizing
This book will help you navigate safely through the configuration of FI/CO in SAP S/4HANA. A continuous example shows you how to make all the important settings. You will learn how to create master data and set up organizational structures. You will also learn how to set up the central processes in Financial Accounting and Controlling. The authors also explain which methods have proven successful for migration. The completely revised 4th edition includes all the functions of Release 2023 - for example Advanced Valuation. Many screenshots and practical tips will help you to successfully implement SAP S/4HANA Finance.
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- With a practical example throughout and lots of tips and tricks
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
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