May 11, 2020

An exciting keynote speech, interesting user reports on cu solutions and a design thinking workshop are just some of the highlights of the cuAcademy in...

May 7, 2020

Sometimes it takes brutal food for thought to not only question traditional patterns of behavior, but to completely eliminate them. After the Mobile World...

May 7, 2020

Working from home is not enough. Working from home is a megatrend in the current situation. Everyone should work in their own...

May 7, 2020

End customers expect goods to be available across the entire omnichannel. What options does the SAP product range offer retailers to meet this challenge?

May 7, 2020

Data loss prevention, the protection against the leakage of confidential data, is a combination of technical aspects and employee-related measures.

May 7, 2020

By acquiring the XM platform Qualtrics last year, SAP has added a new cloud solution to its portfolio and has thus...

May 7, 2020

The SAP maintenance extension was a big step, but one that experienced SAP observers expected. What does this mean for the companies that...

May 7, 2020

Creating new possibilities in the development of Abap code by using open source tools not only sounds good, but can also be used in...

May 7, 2020

A look at a special partnership that has succeeded in providing the same reliability with Hana under Linux as in the...

April 30, 2020

We live with restrictions. Things we take for granted become impossible. Business trips and conferences are taboo. Professional life goes on when information and communication...

April 30, 2020

The car is becoming a networked device on wheels and provides a wealth of new services in addition to driving performance. Ease of use and safety...

April 30, 2020

The SAP App Center - SAP's digital B2B marketplace - has been around for almost two and a half years. Almost 1000 different partners...

April 30, 2020

The maintenance extension for Business Suite 7 is good news for SAP customers who are still in the early stages of their S/4 Hana migration efforts. Equally...

April 30, 2020

Now it is here, the state of emergency, the disaster, and with it deep cuts in the way we normally shop, produce...

April 30, 2020

Professor Hasso Plattner is at the levers and defines the members of the SAP Executive Board. Despite customer dissatisfaction, little changes and many...

April 30, 2020

"Digitalization is not ready for series production in many companies," is the result of a DSAG survey of member companies. Purchasing is also...

April 29, 2020

In sales, Beumer has made great progress towards standardized processes across all locations.

April 28, 2020

Jochen Fuchs, Head of Legal Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer, and Rayk Zimmermann, SAP Senior Consultant for companies in the energy sector,...

April 28, 2020

The aim of the journey to the cloud: to standardize the very heterogeneous IT infrastructure, which has grown organically from many subsidiaries, and to merge processes...

April 28, 2020

Is the cloud secure, am I allowed to outsource my data at all and what about compliance in the cloud? These and...

April 28, 2020

DIN, GDPR and auditors notwithstanding: operational practice still shows in many companies, especially SMEs, that...

April 28, 2020

Itelligence spins off part of its customer relationship management solutions business into its subsidiary itmX.

April 27, 2020

With the acquisition, Itesys and ITPS combine their expertise and create synergies, especially in development and support.

April 27, 2020

Global foreign trade is shrinking as a result of the coronavirus crisis. However, sanctions lists, trade restrictions and complex legal regulations remain in force. With SAP GTS...

April 24, 2020

Only very few managing directors and board members in Germany really know their way around digital platforms - and yet they...

April 24, 2020

Until recently, processes and technologies were considered separately, but at Hannover Messe 2020 the focus will be on a holistic presentation of...

April 23, 2020

Whether S/4, C/4 or BW/4: there will only be one platform for all SAP software offerings in the future. Hana is more than...

April 23, 2020

Change dominates everyday working life. Workflows and roadmaps have an ever shorter half-life. This means that the requirement for a sustainable...

April 23, 2020

With Hana 2 SPS4, SAP has introduced another technology: The use of non-volatile memory technologies (non-volatile memory).

April 23, 2020

Companies that use SAP ERP or S/4 Hana often struggle with process gaps in the SAP standard. Innovative IT solutions provide a remedy here.

April 22, 2020

The automotive industry has made better progress than expected with its smart factory initiatives over the past two years and is now planning to pick up the pace....

April 21, 2020

Appian and Celonis launch integration initiatives to combine Appian's low-code platform with Celonis Intelligent Business Cloud (IBC) process mining technology to...

April 21, 2020

In the future, the two companies will work closely together on human resources management in SAP and on the sale of the SAP SuccessFactors cloud solution.

April 20, 2020

KassenSichV, TSE, DSFinV-K - these are buzzwords that are currently raising questions in the retail sector. With the enactment of the Cash Register Security Ordinance, the...

April 17, 2020

It feels like companies are faced with new challenges every week that need to be mastered. If you want to keep pace, you not only need...

April 16, 2020

Stephan Timme is the new COO of SAP Switzerland, new Senior Director Solutions Engineering at NetApp and more now back in...

April 15, 2020

SAP has set a maintenance extension for ERP/ECC 6.0 and Business Suite 7. Until 2027, the leading ERP product will remain in the...

April 14, 2020

A technological paradigm shift is currently taking place in many areas of logistics, and digitization and artificial intelligence will be the first to break through.

April 14, 2020

Two keynotes, over 100 presentations, hands-on sessions and 40 partners: That was the DSAG Technology Days 2020 in Mannheim.

April 10, 2020

At the specialist forum for SAP-integrated document and contract management on April 22 and 23, 2020, participants can expect an interesting and...

April 10, 2020

There was the New Economy (Internet bubble). It was the time when SAP almost faded out of the World Wide Web. With all the more...

April 9, 2020

Embrace: Everyone has probably heard this term when it comes to SAP and Microsoft. But who is actually embracing whom...

April 9, 2020

The term DevOps first made the rounds in 2009 and triggered a rethink in software development in many companies. To what extent...

April 9, 2020

Big data is a prerequisite for digital transformation. This term is often translated as "mass data". However, this is too...

April 9, 2020

With SAP Hana XSA, different deployments are possible within a single Hana database. Various security criteria must be observed to ensure that application development...

April 9, 2020

When migrating to S/4, availability or access to old but important data must be ensured for various reasons. In particular...

April 9, 2020

Answer: No, you don't. The demand and answer in the form of an imaginary tweet are on the cover of the business magazine...

April 9, 2020

For banks that work with SAP systems and plan to do so in the future, the question inevitably arises as to when and how the...

April 9, 2020

With SAP Data Intelligence, the Walldorf-based software group is enriching the SAP Data Hub solution in a beneficial and sustainable way. Kubernetes is set...

April 9, 2020

There were rumors. However, a conversation with Andreas Oczko last fall brought certainty: whatever the cost, SAP...

April 9, 2020

EagleBurgmann has overcome one of the most important hurdles in the digital transformation of ERP systems.

April 8, 2020

The complexity of SAP projects is high. ERP projects have become increasingly complex due to technical change and the current requirements for new business models.

April 8, 2020

Anyone who has already familiarized themselves with the SAP Hana database and the S/4 migration will notice that the SAP Basis infrastructure is significantly more complex than...

April 8, 2020

Big data, the Internet of Things, machine learning and robot-assisted process automation cannot be realized without the right data. Companies employ...

April 8, 2020

When should in-house developments be implemented in the core ERP system and when is it better to implement them on the cloud platform? Basic criteria help with the decision.

April 7, 2020

Technologies such as IoT, big data analytics and AI produce vast amounts of data that require cloud storage. Manufacturers such as SAP are pursuing...

April 7, 2020

Salt Solutions is a member of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. The goal is to create interoperable Industry 4.0 solutions.

April 6, 2020

Outdated structures and rigid hierarchies: In the search for new models of collaboration, agile working is often seen as a promising solution for the future.

April 3, 2020

What was increasingly demanded by the SAP community last year has now been officially announced by SAP at the beginning of February....

April 3, 2020

As part of its cooperation with Microsoft, Fujitsu is promoting the modernization of local infrastructures.

April 2, 2020

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

April 2, 2020

In recent years, SAP has thrown many new terms into the opaque fog of licensing. Both in the cloud...

April 2, 2020

SAP will provide maintenance for the core applications of Business Suite 7 (ERP/ECC 6.0) until the end of 2027 and will then offer...

April 2, 2020

The SAP bosses were the source of mistrust and dissatisfaction. Those innocent of mistrust should now be judged by customer satisfaction.

April 2, 2020

The pot is big. The stakes are too. Not only customer behavior and the requirements for individual product and pricing models, but...

April 2, 2020

Up-to-date data, fully automated processes, well-networked customer-supplier relationships - for many buyers in the SME sector, this is not part of everyday life. Digitalization in purchasing...

April 2, 2020

AI is not just one of these fast-moving trends, but a technology that is here to stay. However, only companies that...

April 2, 2020

SAP's CFOs have always known how to increase sales and maximize profits. For 2019, too...

April 2, 2020

Cloud computing is already a reality for many companies today. Cloud-based applications (software as a service).... are also becoming increasingly widespread

April 2, 2020

Master Data Governance (MDG) opens up many possibilities for the maintenance, validation and distribution of master data - an important prerequisite for projects...

April 1, 2020

From April 21 to 23, 2020, everything at the Berlin exhibition grounds will revolve around digital healthcare: The DMEA goes...

April 1, 2020

There is currently increasing pressure on manufacturing companies to be able to deliver cost-effectively in line with customer-specific requirements. This is becoming increasingly...

March 31, 2020

Analog driving means driving on sight, and that will no longer be enough in the future. According to Bitkom, companies need a consistent...

March 30, 2020

According to a new ISG study, German companies are also increasingly moving ERP applications to the cloud, although until recently they...

March 30, 2020

The SAP Hana database is unbeatable because it cannot be compared.

March 30, 2020

Partly through no fault of our own, partly very much through our own fault, we have slid into a health, social and economic crisis:

March 30, 2020

SAP Manufacturing Execution (production control system) is gaining momentum and popularity.

March 30, 2020

Brexit, trade disputes, sanctions lists: there is a high risk that companies will unintentionally violate customs and foreign trade law. Why they should use the software...

March 27, 2020

Netz98 joins Valantic as the next step on the way to becoming a future-proof service provider for digitization.

March 26, 2020

The Artdeco cosmetics group, which operates successfully internationally with a whole range of brands, consistently implements innovative branding concepts and individual sales strategies....

March 26, 2020

Networking, integration and system coupling play a key role in digitalization projects. In this context, modern web APIs - APIs for short - are increasingly...

March 26, 2020

"Integration Platform as a Service" is the integration of applications and data from cloud and on-premises environments. With iPaaS, the...

March 26, 2020

Companies that put digital transformation projects into practice will not be able to avoid setting up a hybrid integration platform. The business...

March 26, 2020

The digital transformation needs a foundation for applications such as S/4, SuccessFactors, Ariba and for concepts such as IoT, machine learning and...

March 26, 2020

Almost once around the world for a good cause, for one summer: From June 21 to September 23, 2019,...

March 25, 2020

Even though many have already arrived in the new year, the question remains as to which IT trends will occupy us in 2020. The magic words...

March 24, 2020

The modernization of IT and the associated cloud transformation are and will remain top issues for CIOs in 2020....

March 24, 2020

The USA continues to have by far the largest share of the global IT market. Business with IT is also growing in China...

March 23, 2020

According to a recent study by Adito, executives consider the continuous development of the CRM strategy to be a very important success factor.

March 20, 2020

ERP security is one of the most important success factors in companies - whether SAP, Oracle or other business software is in use. To ensure the...

March 19, 2020

Especially in winter, children in Syria suffer. With a donation, Allgeier Experts made children's eyes brighter just in time for Christmas.

March 18, 2020

The networking of companies to date is hardly sufficient for winning new customers. What is needed are professional sales skills.

March 17, 2020

Growth in sales at Data Migration International, Percy Hamer joins the BTC Board of Directors and more now back in the current...

March 17, 2020

The use of OSS offers many advantages for the German economy. Nevertheless, many companies are not yet taking a strategic...

March 16, 2020

The globally active software manufacturer is unifying its external presence and will in future operate under the name of its established solution range xSuite.

March 13, 2020

License negotiations with SAP are unavoidable, and customers can realize enormous potential savings through skillful and targeted preparation.

March 12, 2020

IT and telecommunications companies in Germany are expected to create 39,000 additional jobs by the end of the year - that would mean 1.2 million...

March 12, 2020

Fellowmind merges with Orango and eCraft to expand its position as a Microsoft business application partner.

March 11, 2020

Winshuttle announces an alliance with one of the leading robotic process automation (RPA) providers, Automation Anywhere.

March 10, 2020

IT departments are busy with SAP, digitization and optimization projects. Who is taking care of the targeted transformation?

March 10, 2020

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

March 10, 2020

Netflix and Spotify have led the way - more and more companies are discovering subscription models as a new business model for their products and services.

March 10, 2020

Under the congress motto "Inspire your future" at the Valantic Visiondays on March 25 and 26, 2020 in Hamburg, guest speakers from...

March 10, 2020

Knowledge transfer is becoming increasingly important for the rapid developments in customer relationship management. Digitization congresses bring together thought leaders, designers and experts for a...

March 10, 2020

Atos has signed an agreement to acquire X-Perion Consulting in Germany.

March 9, 2020

Whether 2025 or 2027 - why now is the right time to rethink your SAP operations.

March 9, 2020

A Skillsoft survey shows that IT employees need more training and support to stay on the ball when it comes to know-how.

March 9, 2020

There are clear rules for the user-oriented development of apps in logistics. Those who master these will achieve greater satisfaction with...

March 6, 2020

In the course of digitalization, development banks are upgrading in order to remain interesting for their customers: They are investing in the development of digital...

March 6, 2020

The acquisition of Carbonite will create access to a new consumer segment for OpenText.

March 6, 2020

Gerold Gülker Systemberatungen will add products from the xSuite Group to its portfolio.

March 6, 2020

SAP manager Christian Mehrtens explained at an SAP partner event in Frankfurt/M that one of the reasons for the extended availability of...

March 5, 2020

The number of SAP board members grows, declines, grows again, and is now declining after an apparent round of consolidation. Why?

March 5, 2020

The good news is that there is an SAP maintenance extension for ERP/ECC 6.0, Customer Relationship Management 7.0, Supply Chain Management 7.0 and Supplier...

March 5, 2020

In mid-January, Der Spiegel reported online on a study by the HR consultancy Heidrick and Struggles, in which typical and successful careers...

March 5, 2020

At the turn of the year, I was skiing with my wife in Austria, at Nassfeld in Carinthia. One evening I saw...

March 5, 2020

SAP applications contain business-critical data and often represent the heart of the company. Backup and recovery are therefore a key aspect of IT security...

March 5, 2020

The principle of the "Paperless Factory" not only saves paper at ZF Friedrichshafen, but also increases efficiency on the store floor by...

March 5, 2020

Security concerns about cloud-based HR software are still widespread. However, there are many arguments in favor of hosting...

March 5, 2020

Digital transformation and new technology trends are leading to changes in SAP systems. Why do many companies find it so difficult to...

March 5, 2020

Containerization with Kubernetes is finding its way into the SAP environment. After the success of SAP Data Hub, it is now Hana's turn. Linux...

March 5, 2020

Consumability of data today means: distributed data infrastructures are needed, for which the open source database Apache Cassandra is particularly suitable.

March 5, 2020

Existing SAP customers are moving towards S/4 Hana. A few are almost there. Others are still searching, evaluating and planning....

March 5, 2020

After ten successful years in Austria, BearingPoint ventures the next step towards the future with a merger.

March 4, 2020

DevOps is in vogue. A development that began successfully in previous years will continue this year, adds...

March 4, 2020

As enterprise IT and cloud environments become more complex, developers are increasingly taking development strategies into their own hands.

March 3, 2020

How can the full potential of the SAP Sales and Distribution module be exploited? The independent user seminar Sales and Distribution with SAP has...

March 2, 2020

At the center of Dominion's lawsuit was the allegation of deception against SAP Mexico. This allegation has now been confirmed and...

March 2, 2020

IDC predicts that the global economy will achieve "digital dominance" by 2023, accounting for more than half of total global GDP (Digital...

February 28, 2020

Individual and fast - these are the standards of today's customers. They no longer want to wait long to receive their...

February 27, 2020

Discovering conceptual gaps at an early stage helps to reduce project costs, develop faster and achieve a rollout with a high level of acceptance. User...

February 27, 2020

SAP does not come off well when it comes to communicating its license strategy. Many decision-makers rate SAP's information policy as rather...

February 27, 2020

While SAP goes on a shopping spree, integration falls by the wayside. But it is more important than ever if the...

February 27, 2020

The Internet is also opening up new sales models such as B2B2C for the retail sector. However, it is important for both...

February 27, 2020

With SolMan with Focused Build and Focused Insights, Cloud ALM and Focused Run, SAP currently offers the best ALM product portfolio...

February 27, 2020

The countdown is on because SAP has terminated the contracts with the database providers. The S/4 transformation is like a new ERP implementation, one reason...

February 27, 2020

After Bill McDermott's cloud reign of terror, co-CEOs Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein are trying to help SAP users into the digital transformation...

February 27, 2020

Digitization presents companies with major challenges. If you want to avoid failures, you need a structured approach - this also applies to...

February 26, 2020

In order to achieve the ambitious goals of integration and transparency in terms of product strategy, SAP is making some organizational changes to the Executive Board...

February 26, 2020

Schenck Process is a global technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany. Schenck Process has five plants in North America, three of which...

February 25, 2020

For 2020, SAP plans to buy back shares and/or pay a special dividend with a total volume of €1.5 billion.

February 24, 2020

Platforms such as Amazon, YouTube, Spotify, Alibaba and Booking.com are currently changing the world, but many companies in Germany are facing digital platforms...

February 21, 2020

The public cloud is becoming increasingly popular: according to the Bitkom Cloud Monitor, 35% of German companies were already using applications from a "public cloud" in 2018.

February 21, 2020

The cloud has also become an integral part of ERP projects in German SMEs. As we all know, many roads lead to Rome...

February 21, 2020

The Process Analytics Factory's process mining tool PAFnow, which is integrated into Microsoft Power BI and Office 365, is now available...

February 20, 2020

Digitization is a business, organizational, technical and licensing challenge. The tasks go far beyond an ERP release change. Also...

February 20, 2020

Telekom maintains an extensive partner network that benefits business customers of all sizes. Certified partnerships already exist with SAP and Microsoft...

February 20, 2020

Only seven years to go until 2027 - when the ultimate upgrade to S/4 will be necessary, with extended maintenance the...

February 20, 2020

Artificial intelligence, big data or the switch to SAP S/4 Hana: medium-sized SAP customers are gradually setting the technological and process-related course...

February 20, 2020

Deutsche Telekom is no longer just synonymous with telecommunications and network connectivity, but also wants to make it easier for companies with its IT services to...

February 20, 2020

A new ServiceNow study shows that weaknesses in people and processes are hindering digital transformation.

February 19, 2020

Although SAP's Capital Markets Day was themed "Growth and Operational Excellence," the focus was clearly on customers.

February 18, 2020

The practical seminar "Sales Tax in SAP" is of interest to employees in the Tax, Accounting, Controlling or Management Consulting business units.

February 17, 2020

Thomas Saueressig joins SAP's Executive Board and Peter Hanke takes over a management position at NetApp. That and more in the latest personnel news.

February 14, 2020

In a remarkable keynote at this year's Technology Days, DSAG Chief Technology Officer Steffen Pietsch postulated: Cloudification is not simplification.

February 14, 2020

Transparent use of funds and accounting as well as employee-oriented personnel policy promote the long-term successful cooperation of IBS and IT-Impulse.

13 February 2020

On March 11 and 12, 2020 in Berlin, the most important issues surrounding the development and successful use of...

13 February 2020

SAP has publicly announced that Business Suite 7 will remain in maintenance beyond 2025 - the deadline has been...

13 February 2020

According to Gartner, 2020 will see a resurgence in IT spending after three years of decline.

February 12, 2020

On November 12, SAP hosted a special Capital Markets Day in New York City to introduce the new management team to the public.

February 11, 2020

QSC acquired shares in AIXBrain, giving it access to innovative AI software and development resources.

February 10, 2020

On February 11 and 12, 2020, DSAG invites you to the Technology Days in Mannheim with the aim of bringing SAP users...

February 9, 2020

When it offered its first cloud services more than fifteen years ago, the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary was a cloud pioneer. And today? T-Systems currently operates...

February 7, 2020

The "i.CONECT 360° Strategy" event series will enter the next round in 2020 with ten exciting summits for executives.

February 7, 2020

The good order situation at many SAP customers and partners means that questions about strategic orientation are being postponed - at the expense of...

February 7, 2020

SAP is fighting a defensive battle with its Utility industry solution. In mid-July of this year, the migration of EnBW's private and public...

February 6, 2020

Management consulting rethought - Ulrich Gauweiler, Andrea Grosse and Tobias Wahner found Just4People and have presented themselves to the public with...

February 5, 2020

SAP has extended the maintenance of Business Suite 7 until 2030. At the same time, SAP published an update on February 4, 2020...

February 5, 2020

SAP postponed the end of maintenance for Business Suite 7 by two years from 2025 to 2027 with extended maintenance until...

February 5, 2020

The new major release 6.7 of Seeburger's Business Integration Suite (BIS) is generally available from 2020. With the...

February 4, 2020

New jobs with new requirements will emerge in the coming years. In a global comparison, German employees are more hesitant about retraining.

February 3, 2020

Cloud software from Nutanix on Fujitsu hardware as a hyperconvergent infrastructure solution can accelerate digitization projects, modernization as well as migration projects and also relieve IT budgets.

February 1, 2020

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

January 31, 2020

A year ago, SAP presented the big embrace with hyperscalers at the 2019 Field Kick-off Meeting in Barcelona and Las Vegas...

January 31, 2020

According to ISG Provider Lens, many SAP user companies have already purchased Hana, but only some of them have the database...

January 30, 2020

Many German administrative staff point out that their municipality is only making limited efforts to implement the Online Access Act (OZG).

January 29, 2020

Digitization does not stop at the consulting industry. Management and IT consultancies as well as auditing and tax consulting firms are not only advising on...

January 28, 2020

50 employees and specialist software now extend the MHP Group's expertise in leanly structured and efficiently managed warehouses.

January 27, 2020

Today, business applications must be available around the clock. This applies in particular to SAP environments that support business processes around the globe...

January 27, 2020

Every year, E-world sets important impulses in the fields of sustainable technologies and intelligent energy supply.

January 24, 2020

On January 23, the German-speaking SAP user group, DSAG e.V., published its annual investment report. The good news: as is the case almost every year,...

January 24, 2020

If you are reading this E-3 Newsletter, the E-3 Magazine February 2020 is also online (PDF download for registered users).

January 24, 2020

A new Mendix study clearly shows that a division is emerging in companies that no longer has anything to do with the silo mentality of...

January 23, 2020

More and more companies are moving away from the manual or manual creation of the necessary SAP system copies and are instead relying on specialized, needs-based...

January 23, 2020

The credo of the open source innovator Suse: to support SAP customers with the same solutions and functions both on-premises and in the cloud....

January 23, 2020

Digitalization, agility, multi-cloud - board members and managing directors are driven by current technology trends. Their efforts are correspondingly great in terms of...

January 23, 2020

The Hana and S/4 transformation is a foregone conclusion for almost all existing SAP customers. Theoretically, there is nothing to prevent this version change. In practice, however, there are...

January 23, 2020

Enno Lückel joins Ceyoniq and former SAP manager strengthens Celonis. That and more in the latest personnel news.

January 22, 2020

The German economy is still struggling with the General Data Protection Regulation. Almost a year and a half after it came into force, two thirds have implemented the...

January 21, 2020

International trade conflicts, the uncertainties of Brexit, the general cooling of the global economy: the economic climate for trade is becoming harsher.

January 20, 2020

Historically and strategically, we have always been dealing with two companies: SAP D-A-CH and SAP Global - an almost...

January 20, 2020

The Swiss software company plans to work with customers on agile solutions for S/4 Hana migrations in the lounge at SAP's Swiss headquarters in Regensdorf.

January 17, 2020

UsedSoft is divesting its subsidiaries in Asia and South Africa to focus on the European market.

January 16, 2020

If the SAP infrastructure or components of it do not work properly or no longer work at all, processes supported by SAP are also at risk.

January 16, 2020

Open source software (OSS) is becoming increasingly important in the SAP ecosystem. Even companies that believe they do not use OSS themselves are often...

January 16, 2020

One of the most important tasks for quality assurance in finance is the establishment of consistent and reliable processes, especially when switching to new...

January 16, 2020

IT security should maintain control over complex networks and immense amounts of data. AI is making enormous progress due to technical development....

January 16, 2020

I had a great week with my wife in Berlin while SAP celebrated its "SAP Select" event at "Invitation Only"...

January 16, 2020

Press and PR are the two ends of a long communication channel. PR and the press are inextricably linked and yet there are...

January 16, 2020

Although companies are aware of the threat of cyberattacks, many have little ability to take the necessary security measures.

January 15, 2020

A few years ago, Yaskawa decided to standardize its heterogeneous ERP landscape across Europe on SAP. In doing so, the...

January 14, 2020

Mathematicians, computer scientists and computer engineers should take a Hippocratic Oath, according to Hannah Fry, professor of mathematics.

January 13, 2020

Thanks to the cooperation between DSAG and SAP, existing customers will be able to integrate SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) into S/4 Hana...

January 10, 2020

SAP Co-CEO Christian Klein has given a very readable interview to the magazine Spiegel, DER SPIEGEL No. 2 from January 4, 2020,...

January 10, 2020

The next Maintenance will take place in Dortmund on February 12 and 13, 2020 and will provide valuable impetus for future...

January 10, 2020

Vizuu, a subsidiary of the global Schaefer Werke Group, relies on SAP systems for its IoT-based platform solution.

January 9, 2020

The Internet will be 50 years old in October. The Hasso Plattner Institute provides information about its history in a new podcast.

January 9, 2020

Are you familiar with SAP's whirlpool clause? Or do you know why one company uses the Business Suite in its maintenance...

January 9, 2020

SAP turns all the screws and controls to really please everyone. The efforts of Mucic, Morgan...

January 9, 2020

Robotic process automation and artificial intelligence are moving closer together. CIOs can realize the promises in terms of work simplification, seamless integration and...

January 9, 2020

In a data warehouse, the data is stored in a relational database. This is expensive and accordingly there are products from the...

January 9, 2020

New challenges such as digital transformation require different perspectives and tools. The form of support provided by solution manufacturers such as...

January 9, 2020

Existing SAP customers are looking for a new home for SoH and S/4. Their own data center should not be equipped with Hana...

January 9, 2020

SAP ERP will no longer be maintained from the end of 2025. Anyone who has not yet made the switch to S/4 by then will have...

January 9, 2020

According to market researcher ISG, many existing SAP customers are reorienting themselves as support for older SAP products is coming to an end. The DSAG association has...

January 9, 2020

The old dual leadership of Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott has been succeeded at SAP since mid-October by Jennifer Morgan and...

January 8, 2020

SAP security at the touch of a button: This is the motto of the Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt with the analysis tools from Virtual Forge, which...

January 7, 2020

The user should be made as easy as possible - whatever the cost. Anyone who still...

January 6, 2020

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

January 6, 2020

In four stages, "Zukunft ERP" merged the GMH Group's existing four separate ERP systems into a single SAP solution. The consolidation...

January 3, 2020

IT and SAP managers must ensure that SAP systems and databases run around the clock without any problems or failures and that the...

January 2, 2020

Thanks to the p78 Quick Apply app for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, prospective job applicants can now submit their applications on their mobile devices without...

January 1, 2020

Bill McDermott's abrupt departure from SAP probably came as something of a surprise to most existing customers - including DSAG.

20 December 2019

The companies want to enable SAP user companies to quickly switch to S/4 Hana with SNP Bluefield.

December 17, 2019

A Genesys study shows that almost 80 percent of employers are not concerned about unethical use of AI - perhaps...

December 16, 2019

In 2025, SAP Business Suite, which has been on the market since 2004, will be second only to SAP S/4HANA in terms of importance for SAP...

13 December 2019

Many thanks to the SAP community: It was an extremely successful year for the E-3 information and education platform.

13 December 2019

The fact that customers are demanding more and more, and faster and faster, is nothing new. For IT managers, this means managing the balancing act...

December 10, 2019

HR administrators can use Centric's master data check programs to check all master data from SAP HCM for errors.

December 6, 2019

Why SAP and BlackLine complement each other perfectly and provide relief in month-end closing SAP and BlackLine have been working closely together for a long...

December 6, 2019

Last week I presented the topic of HXM, Human eXperience Management with Qualtrics, here. On paper, this could...

December 5, 2019

There is only one constant that remains the same regardless of the IT device used and access location: the identity of the user. All the more important...

December 5, 2019

The Internet of Things is the key to digitization success. As a technology, IoT is already fully available today and at an acceptable cost.

December 5, 2019

Discussions about whether a Linux-only SAP Hana deployment is the right way to go are more or less over. Regardless of which Any DB Hana move it is...

December 5, 2019

Yes, brilliantly missed is also past the target, which this time is "Big Data". I was sitting in our canteen with a...

December 5, 2019

Is this the hundredth article about AI implementation strategies and data protection? No, this is about something much more important: It's about...

December 5, 2019

A disruptive change of personnel on the SAP Executive Board is always a source of misunderstanding. This makes it all the more irritating after a long series of surprising...

December 5, 2019

Automation solutions provide transparency and create the basis for a modern financial statement. How real-time data and analytics are revolutionizing finance.

December 5, 2019

2025 - the deadline for S/4 Hana migrations hangs over CIOs like the sword of Damocles. And how can the complexity be managed? The...

December 5, 2019

Salt Solutions is acquiring a stake in the Berlin-based start-up M2MGO, a specialist for services and products relating to the Internet of...

November 29, 2019

Human eXperience Management: Qualtrics should become part of HR, right? Human Capital Management, HCM in the cloud, is to be...

November 29, 2019

HCL Technologies (HCL) has completed the acquisition of selected IBM products for security, marketing, commerce and digital solutions.

November 28, 2019

Many companies will be switching to SAP S/4 by 2025. For the integration of customer and supplier master data, there are...

November 28, 2019

SAP is increasingly facing headwinds from critics who criticize SAP's slow digital transformation, as well as from customers who...

November 28, 2019

Officially, SAP has a new dual leadership. Officially, the departure of ex-CEO Bill McDermott had been planned for a long time. Officially, SAP has...

November 28, 2019

What exactly does the term big data actually mean? Does big data simply mean mass data, i.e. "lots of data" in the data...

November 28, 2019

As normal and ubiquitous as the cloud is today, SaaS solutions are not only popular. In purely technical and qualitative terms, the cloud...

November 28, 2019

High automation rates in document capture are still not the norm. A new method based on deep learning takes this...

November 28, 2019

SAP made a declaration of love at the beginning of this year. With the "Embrace" program, the company wants to embrace hyperscalers. Apparently also the...

November 28, 2019

The expert forum shows how well thought-out analysis concepts can increase the efficiency of the entire plant life cycle.

November 28, 2019

Report: A short story about the long road - In-memory computing with the Hana database: When the concepts of Hana were first...

November 27, 2019

In order to optimally support its growth, Data Migration Services is adapting the company structure with the establishment of an international holding company.

November 26, 2019

From November 2020, invoices for all public contracts in Germany must be issued and sent electronically.

November 26, 2019

The Management Forum Starnberg invites you to an intensive seminar on the topic of supply chain and scheduling.

November 26, 2019

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

November 26, 2019

SAP user Stihl has been producing the bright orange lawnmowers and robotic mowers on 23 assembly lines since 1981. To ensure the success of the company, the...

November 26, 2019

Simplifying and improving the developer experience - that was the core topic of the Cloud Foundry Summit 2019. In addition, participants learned what...

November 25, 2019

One of the biggest tasks currently facing SAP managers is the upcoming migration to S/4 Hana. In the process, the topics of SAP security and...

November 25, 2019

By incorporating the Felten Group into the MPDV Group, the software provider creates access to process manufacturing.

November 25, 2019

With the acquisition of YES Enterprise Solutions, Sycor creates synergies in the areas of business IT and process consulting.

November 22, 2019

In the SAP community, there is often talk of "SAP operation on a cloud platform", i.e. SAP on Azure. At SAP and Microsoft...

November 22, 2019

Good news for customers who also want to move productive Hana environments to the cloud: Azure NetApp Files is now officially...

November 22, 2019

Embrace: At the beginning of 2019 at the SAP Field Kick-off Meeting (Fkom) in Barcelona, the Embrace cloud computing program was born. The aim is to pave the way for existing SAP...

November 22, 2019

The three SAP musketeers have struck again and opened the money spigot: Co-CEOs Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein and the genius...

November 22, 2019

The status of digital transformation among DSAG members is lagging behind expectations from the previous year. The hurdles identified in a...

November 22, 2019

Highly secure access control with a high level of user convenience - how does that work? Biometrics makes it possible. PCS Systemtechnik is known as one of the...

November 21, 2019

Money makes the world go round, which may not always be good news, but managing your own finances still has...

November 21, 2019

The billing aspects must be geared even more closely to customer requirements. They therefore also include the payment management of entire product...

November 21, 2019

Digital technologies are opening up completely new opportunities and business areas on the path from product orientation to service orientation. These in turn require...

November 21, 2019

The traditional world of goods is changing drastically: product providers are increasingly becoming service providers with innovative, highly flexible business models. The biggest technological driver for...

November 21, 2019

The diversity of topics in the field of e-commerce is alarmingly high. Together with SAP partners and a recognized SAP analyst from Teknowlogy/PAC, we have succeeded in...

November 21, 2019

Die-hard Star Trek fans know it: in the sixth movie under Captain Kirk, the "old" Enterprise crew sets off on a journey to the...

November 21, 2019

Customer experience is by no means a new concept. Even in the corner store, customers made individual choices when buying products.

November 21, 2019

Ensuring an optimal customer experience involves all processes in retail companies. It has therefore become the driving force behind the digital transformation...

November 21, 2019

By Jürgen Werner, Sector Manager Retail, and Patrick Pierron, Principal Consultant Retail, both CAS AG.

November 21, 2019

Retail is more dependent on the success of digital transformation than any other industry. Where margins are low and the...

November 21, 2019

Retailers must offer digital customers the perfect, personalized customer experience. The requirements of end customers demand a fast and...

November 21, 2019

Today, customers interact via many touchpoints, both in the B2C and B2B sectors. Processes and technologies must not only be optimized company-wide,...

November 21, 2019

Amazon has changed the rules of the game in retail once and for all. Customizing systems is no longer a recipe for success. Rather...

November 21, 2019

When B2B companies introduce online stores or platforms, it's not about a technical solution, but about added value and benefits for the customer.

November 21, 2019

SAP Note 1648480 came as a complete surprise to existing SAP customers. The core message of this note is the end of maintenance for the Abap and Java stacks...

November 20, 2019

Valantic's merger with Linkit expands its service offering in the area of SAP consulting and implementation for finance and controlling (SAP FiCo).

November 19, 2019

Red Bull's Dota 2 team beat the SAP team at the 2019 World Championship in Shanghai - but the...

November 18, 2019

Companies are increasingly confronted with complex threats such as phishing or social engineering. Traditional security mechanisms do not offer sufficient protection here...

November 12, 2019

As part of its digitalization strategy, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen has digitalized the accounts payable process internationally from end to end - right through to invoice posting in SAP and...

November 11, 2019

Cleverly combined, big data, artificial intelligence, facial recognition and eye tracking have the potential to fundamentally change the retail industry by...

November 8, 2019

Where does the value creation of an ERP/CRM system take place? In the back office? In the higher-level business processes?

November 8, 2019

Gerald Pfeifer joins the openSuse board and Swen Rehders becomes CEO of NTT Data EMEA. This and more in the latest...

November 7, 2019

Service staff often don't have an easy job: customers usually turn to them when they have a concern about...

November 7, 2019

The world is turning faster, is more digital and more networked. Product cycles are getting shorter and shorter. Consumers associate Industry 4.0 with...

November 7, 2019

Cyber espionage is the plague of the digital economy - and is usually noticed too late. To protect the crown jewels in their SAP systems...

November 7, 2019

Clean, lean and in the interests of the customer: This is how SAP can get closer to its goal of a pure S/4. "Keep the Core...

November 7, 2019

It was a sad DSAG annual congress. The mood was subdued. Innovations were thin on the ground. The partner community in a wait-and-see attitude. Only the...

November 7, 2019

It's a logical combination: CFO and CIO. But even at our SAP regulars' table, I couldn't find any successful examples of this...

November 7, 2019

After more than 25 years of SAP ERP/ECC, it's time to say thank you. The success of SAP is also the...

November 7, 2019

Tuning or optimizing SAP systems is a kind of existential care to ensure that everything runs as it should. Good that it...

November 7, 2019

With SPS9, SAP SolMan 7.2 provides further improvements in the area of "transport-related checks". Fully integrated in the SolMan WebClient UI of ChaRM is...

November 7, 2019

The summer survey conducted by the DSAG user association confirms the trends in the SAP community: there is a lack of employees and budget for digital change; the...

November 6, 2019

The technology company Trumpf, world market leader for machine tools and laser technology, is restructuring its financial management with Controlling Excellence. The introduction of a global...

November 5, 2019

Whether in business, administration or politics - cyber security is an urgent challenge in the course of digitalization that state and corporate leaders must face...