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.
Healthcare: Moving into the SAP Cloud at the right pace
January 26, 2026
Technological upheaval, new regulations and the demands of patients and staff pose challenges for the healthcare sector with stagnating budgets - especially for hospitals with modern diagnostics and care.
Companies Still Wary of SAP Joule
January 23, 2026
SAP's AI assistant Joule is designed to drive automation, but its potential has so far mainly been exploited by early birds. Six out of ten companies still have their hands full with the S/4 conversion. The management consultancy Horváth recommends targeted use in standardized processes.
Please Report!
January 22, 2026
This number has been disconnected—this is a phenomenon that my colleague Andrea Schramm from Marketing and Sales and I are confronted with more and more often: Is there no longer a culture of conversation?
Europe and AI Sovereignty
January 21, 2026
Companies are increasingly asking for their own AI infrastructure. In Germany, three quarters are planning to increase their investments in sovereignty and control over cloud, AI, data, and security.
Companies expect AI returns to double
January 20, 2026
SAP has presented a new study that shows that German companies are already achieving measurable business success with artificial intelligence.
Who Actually Controls AI Agents?
January 19, 2026
Why is seamless governance in the use of AI agents now essential for companies, to ensure security, compliance, transparency and sustainable value creation?
SAP Cloud First
July 17, 2025
Legacy systems are not uncommon in the fast-paced world of IT. Many computer users are currently experiencing the pain of being forced to switch from the familiar Microsoft Windows 10 to the barely improved—albeit more secure—version 11. For SAP customers, it means saying goodbye to ERP/ECC 6.0 and AnyDB.
Pressure to Innovate for SAP and Partners
July 10, 2025
The “Innovator's Dilemma”, as defined by Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen, is evident in the SAP community every day. While SAP and its partners are cautious, their competitors are rushing ahead with innovations.
The Innovator's SAP AI Dilemma
July 3, 2025
Artificial intelligence requires a radical new approach in many areas of IT. How should SAP guide its well-established and highly successful ERP system through the AI revolution? It's an AI dilemma.
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
September 26, 2025
Users Are Different
The SAP community is increasingly diverging from SAP's plans. There is a wide gap between the global ERP market leader's dreams and reality.
September 24, 2025
10 years of S/4: racing car with API handbrake applied
Ten years ago, SAP presented S/4 as a new beginning for the digital backbone of the economy. Real-time, simplified data models, cloud focus. Much was achieved. In the meantime, it is less a question of "if" and more a question of "how".
September 23, 2025
Playing in the Neighbor's Garden
An ERP system from SAP provides an excellent opportunity for consultants, IT experts, and competitors to earn money. It's only logical that SAP would have its own set of rules for this. What does Celonis want from SAP?
September 22, 2025
SAP Takes a Beating
The legendary saying, "Red Bull gives you wings," is probably familiar to most people. However, things are not going well for the beverage company in soccer and Formula 1 right now. The sports press writes: "Red Bull is taking a beating."
SAP News
October 29, 2025
Pole position with SAP Cloud ERP?
The Mercedes-AMG-Petronas F1 team will rely on SAP solutions in future. The focus: the 2026 season.
October 28, 2025
Snowflake Study on the AI Labor Market in Spain
Lack of trust and talent shortages are the main obstacles to the adoption of AI in companies in Spain, according to a new study on the Artificial Intelligence Job Market in Spain, published by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company.
October 28, 2025
Exascale calculator for digital sovereignty
Jupiter, the fastest and most energy-efficient supercomputer in Europe, has gone into operation at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The system is the first in Europe to be designed and equipped in such a way that it will reach the mark of one trillion computing operations per second (1 ExaFLOP/s).
Excerpt from “ServiceNow’s Intelligent IT Service Management: a Comprehensive Guide to Implementing the Platform’s AI Capabilities for IT Managers.”
Business Management
April 14, 2025
Easy Custom Code Adaptation
The migration of SAP systems is often complicated by custom code that has grown over time and is insufficiently documented. Fujitsu Easy Custom Code Adaption (ECCA) minimizes risks, reduces costs and accelerates the migration process with an innovative solution.
April 11, 2025
SAP-integrated tolerance line check
In order to remain competitive, automotive supplier Harman relies on digital solutions and efficient processes. An SAP-based tolerance line check enables precise demand planning, automated checks of delivery call-offs and fast reactions to tolerance violations.
April 4, 2025
Artificial intelligence: Digital 2030 trend study
More than two thirds of companies are seeing measurable added value from AI applications.
April 3, 2025
User story: SAP standard recipe for more structure
Pasta manufacturer Bürger is modernizing its logistics with S/4 Hana and SAP EWM. Together with Prismat, the company is replacing 25-year-old software with a future-proof solution designed to create transparency, efficiency and growth potential.
IT Management
November 8, 2024
Solved: SoD problems during S/4 migration
As part of an S/4 migration, the agricultural company U.S. Sugar was looking for a solution to check segregation of duties conflicts for its approximately 2,500 employees. It chose Pathlock, a global market leader in access governance and application security.
October 22, 2024
Quick Transformation From a Single Source
The cloud blurs the differences between applications from different providers. Functions are developed, replicated, and provided more quickly. Switching to the cloud is difficult, but offers enormous opportunities.
October 16, 2024
Consistent GRC for SAP cloud applications
Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) are closely linked, essential areas of a company. A mix of on-premises and cloud is now increasingly being used for business applications. This increases the number of networked applications, but also the security risks.
October 6, 2024
Data Integrity Trends
A study on data integrity—carried out out by Precisely and Drexel University's LeBow College of Business—reveals widespread issues with trust in data and the impact on data and AI initiatives that trust or lack thereof has.
Economy
12 July 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in June 2022
New addition to cbs An innovation partner with a manufacturing and IoT focus becomes a subsidiary of cbs Corporate Business Solutions. Trebing + Himstedt has trusted renowned manufacturing companies with their digital transformation for 30 years. The focus is particularly on innovation and implementation consulting in the areas of manufacturing and the development of digital, IoT-based services. The strengths of cbs in global...
June 9, 2022
Enterprise Architecture Management
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) from LeanIX is available as an SAP Endorsed App in the SAP Store. The solution is designed to help companies relate their business processes to their enterprise architecture and their SaaS and non-SAP microservices landscape, giving them improved visibility and control over their processes.
June 3, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in May
Logistical planning The owner-managed SAP consultancy ITeanova has been part of the msg group since February 2022. The Heidelberg-based company has been working closely with SAP since its foundation in 2005 and enjoys an excellent reputation as a specialist for solutions in the field of complex and multi-level logistics planning scenarios. ITeanova brings a wealth of experience in the context of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), in particular...
May 10, 2022
Pandemic Leads to Rethinking
Due to the turbulence of the past few years, companies not only had to ensure an efficient IT infrastructure, but also increasingly had to consider the economic aspects.
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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