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 October 2025
AI with ERP, BTP and BDC
Mathematician Ada Lovelace is also considered the first female programmer. It may be a romantic view from a computer science perspective, but it is worth questioning what has fundamentally changed in recent years: Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) have taken over. AI for and with ERP, SAP BTP and BDC is therefore under scrutiny.
SAP Can Do More
July 4, 2025
The broad—and unfortunately often poorly orchestrated—SAP offering is surprising. There are real software gems, but there is little to no communication. Can SAP itself no longer see the forest for the trees?
Data is everywhere: in our systems, our processes, and our heads. We collect, store, and transfer it—and sometimes lose track of it. So, what do we actually do with all this data?
For years, SAP PI and PO were the central integration solutions in many companies. Their era is coming to an end, however, with the shift towards the cloud, APIs, and agile IT: SAP is discontinuing further development and support is coming to an end. It is time to realign the integration strategy.
Process Optimization Runs Better With a Plan
July 1, 2025
What about process optimization? This question becomes relevant for S/4 projects at the latest. This is where Signavio comes into play: it allows users to delve deep into their processes, uncover weak points, and optimize their business processes. A practical recap shows how this works.
German Federal Employment Agency Relies on RISE
June 30, 2025
The German Federal Employment Agency is relying on RISE with SAP to operate its central payment systems for social benefits on a cloud basis in future. By licensing RISE, the organization is using SAP's private cloud offering in a German SAP data center.
Ready, Set, Migrate to S/4HANA
June 26, 2025
For many companies, the introduction of SAP S4/HANA is a strategic milestone on the road to digitalization. The quality and structure of the master data represent a key challenge.
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.
The Future of SAP BTP and AI
January 30, 2025
In an interview with Handelsblatt editor Christof Kerkmann at the WEF 2025 in Davos, SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig modified the popular saying “You’ve made your bed, now lie in it.” Saueressig said: "You shape your own future.”
SAP Business Suite 2033
January 23, 2025
Members of the SAP community were surprised to read an announcement in the German business magazine Handelsblatt this week, which stated that there could be an ECC maintenance extension until 2033. If an adapted RISE with SAP contract is signed, SoH should be possible for several more years.
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
March 7, 2025
Beware of Open Source Washing in AI
The unreserved and uncritical use of AI is not justifiable in a business-critical SAP environment. This means trustworthy AI will become increasingly important and, with it, transparent open source principles, technologies, and solutions.
March 5, 2025
Transparency and Communication
SAP cannot be accused of lacking composure, but of lacking transparency and comprehensible communication. The presentation of the new SAP Business Suite and Business Data Cloud leaves only one question unanswered: what is SAP attempting to communicate to the community?
March 5, 2025
Is 2025 the Age of Reason for the Tech Ecosystem?
After a year of economic, political, and geopolitical uncertainty, global dynamics will continue to impact businesses in 2025. For many, 2024 was about breaking new ground.
March 4, 2025
Bravo, SAP CFO Dominik Asam
SAP's share price is soaring. Deutsche Bank analysts put it at 300 EUR. The CEO and CFO are doing a great job. But how are they managing this?
SAP News
Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work, and at Workday's flagship event, Elevate 2025, Workday is showcasing how companies are embracing this change.
Many existing SAP customers are at a crossroads as to whether SAP's ERP should continue to play a leading role in the future or whether there are a variety of alternatives with a composable ERP. SAP is countering this with a new Business Suite.
April 30, 2025
Study on AI in Practice
A recent study shows that AI is particularly important in quality control and automated data and document management.
April 28, 2025
Minsait Implements an AI Assistant at Helvetia
The assistant analyzes each query to provide relevant and useful content, adjusts the depth of responses according to the complexity of the question, and offers clear, comprehensive solutions tailored to the context, avoiding excessive use of technical jargon.
Business Management
September 16, 2024
AI Offers Guidance
Although AI brings enormous benefits, especially in purchasing, users remain hesitant. Many companies simply lack the specialist expertise necessary. An AI strategy that supports them in the selection and implementation of suitable intelligent purchasing tools would be helpful.
September 11, 2024
SAP add-on for decarbonization
The digital transformation towards sustainability presents managers with challenging transformation tasks. They demand economic solutions through number-based decisions as a valid foundation for all "green" endeavors.
September 9, 2024
S/4 Hana Transformation in Retail
The retail sector continues to find itself in a challenging market situation. Despite a slight increase in sales, as the industry association BEVH recently announced, sales are below the previous year's level.
September 2, 2024
Efficiency in purchasing: supply chain integration from the cloud
Outdated systems are still slowing down business-critical communication processes in companies today. In purchasing, for example, unstructured, partly analog data often comes together that has to be processed manually.
IT Management
May 14, 2024
Purchase requisition: SAP Ariba Guided Buying
Purchasing departments working with SAP software also have the problem that the majority of free text purchase requisitions are not described sufficiently or incorrectly. This puts a strain on purchasers and drives up throughput times.
Most people use moving house as an opportunity to declutter. They make a list of things they want to throw away, give away, store and take with them. Data housekeeping is nothing else. It's just for moving data.
April 22, 2024
Vector Engine as a Booster for AI
Uncover hidden insights and patterns with SAP’s Knowledge Graph. The Hana DB platform and Datasphere can do vector math! Why is this important? Because vectors in multidimensional space make it easy to represent the distance between data points, often even by calculating mentally. Generative AI requires this knowledge.
April 12, 2024
S/4 Conversion—On-Prem, Hybrid, Private or Public Cloud
SAP S/4 Hana is available both in the cloud and on-prem. Although SAP as a company prefers the cloud, there are many reasons to opt for a local installation, including security. This article compares both options.
Economy
November 2, 2021
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships
Working successfully from anywhere Salesforce has announced that the acquisition of Slack Technologies has now been completed. Companies around the world have learned over the past year that if you don't have a way to connect digitally with your employees, customers and partners, you have little chance of surviving. The office of today is no longer...
14 October 2021
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships
SNP and All for One expand partnership The partnership includes the expansion of joint projects to include the upper midmarket and the acquisition of additional SNP software by All for One. Following a successful start, SNP is expanding its partnership with All for One from Filderstadt. As a consulting and IT group, All for One supports over 2500 customers...
14 October 2021
SNP acquires SAP data specialist
Whether S/4 migration or digital transformation, data is indispensable - as long as the quality is right. Transforming and preparing it presents many a company with a problem. SNP now has the solution.
August 23, 2021
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships
Possible sale not ruled out q.beyond is examining the sale of its existing colocation business IP Exchange alongside other strategic options. Since January 1, 2021, the IT service provider's housing and hosting business has been concentrated in its wholly-owned subsidiary IP Exchange. This company has three data centers in Munich and Nuremberg. The aim of the spin-off was to expand the strategic options in...
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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