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.
Many companies and public authorities currently want to intensify digitization and modernization. In many cases, the existing IT infrastructure that has grown over many years represents an obstacle.
Knowmad Mood, a technology consultancy specializing in digital transformation solutions, has announced the acquisition of Vanture ESS, a Barcelona-based IT consultancy with over 15 years of experience in enterprise management solutions.
CAF Migrates to S/4 Hana Cloud Private Edition
June 25, 2025
SAP announced that CAF, a company specializing in in urban rail and bus systems, has successfully migrated to S/4 Hana Cloud Private Edition.
Alibaba Collaborates With SAP
June 25, 2025
SAP has entered into a strategic partnership with Alibaba to accelerate cloud transformation.
The Spanish ECM specialist Brait Consulting will offer its customers SAP-certified solutions from xSuite, a provider of automation solutions for accounts payable accounting.
Seamless Instead of Clueless—SAP Interface Migration
June 20, 2025
The Finnish chemical company Kemira has implemented one of the world's largest interface migrations to the SAP Integration Suite with "Leap". The success was based on a precise assessment, a clear roadmap, and efficient implementation.
BTP From Hana, to AI to Clean Core
January 16, 2025
"Hello World" was programmed by SAP employee Raja Gupta in numerous programming languages and frameworks on SAP BTP to demonstrate the openness and flexibility of this platform (see community.sap.com). The SAP Cloud Application Programming Model will also be discussed at the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025 in Heidelberg, Germany.
AI Looks to SAP
January 9, 2025
ChatGPT from OpenAI is capable of providing rapid responses to a wide range of inquiries; however, it should be noted that the accuracy of these responses may not always be guaranteed. Specialized AI systems can be beneficial tools, as demonstrated by our experiment with a Google system based on the multimodal chatbot Gemini 1.5, which was fed four years’ worth of E3 Magazine’s articles.
RISE, Cloud, and Exit
December 19, 2024
A typical RISE with SAP contract is an agreement to provide full disclosure to the ERP market leader. Following a RISE conversion, the SAP customer has almost only obligations and hardly any rights. Will the EU provide assistance with the implementation of the Data Service Act?
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.
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March 3, 2025
Preventing Chaos in SAP Systems With Trento
In the fast-moving world of SAP, even a brief outage can cause considerable costs. This is where Trento comes in—your reliable companion that protects your SAP systems from costly service interruptions.
February 28, 2025
SAP Has Found the Golden Record
The latest message from SAP headquarters from CEO Christian Klein is in: data is important and valuable. The year is 2025 and SAP has invented the golden record. Another loss of reality in the SAP universe.
February 27, 2025
What Was That?
For this article’s title, I‘ve borrowed a phrase from Friedrich Merz, a member of the German Bundestag, who used it in the last German Bundestag debate before the election in response to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's speech. This article has been inspired by German politics.
February 14, 2025
The drive of the future for SAP workloads
SAP workloads require maximum availability and security. SLES for SAP Applications 16 solves this challenge with high availability, security and optimized management for a stable and efficient SAP environment.
SAP News
April 28, 2025
All for One Receives 2025 SAP Pinnacle Award
The IT company is honored by SAP in the Sales Success Midmarket category.
April 25, 2025
Snowflake Introduces Innovations in Apache Iceberg
Customers now have the opportunity to benefit from the flexibility and interoperability of Iceberg combined with the Snowflake platform.
April 22, 2025
Investment planning mixed
In terms of IT and SAP investment budgets, many companies continue to show a high willingness to invest. The overall IT budget is increasing at 40% of the companies surveyed in the DACH region, compared to 43% a year ago.
April 21, 2025
MSG founder honored for lifetime achievement
This year's Lünendonk Business-to-Business Service Award in the "Lifetime achievement" category goes to Hans Zehetmaier, founder of IT consultancy MSG.
Business Management
August 12, 2024
Industrial Transformation
Plant and machinery companies are facing one of the biggest transformations: they must evolve from manufacturers to service providers. End-to-end digital processes that go beyond ERP play a key role in this transformation.
The migration to S/4 is complex, and data migration is seen as one of the biggest challenges. This is because the data in the legacy systems should ideally be consolidated into the new data model with a central business partner master.
For the survey, a total of 600 supply chain management executives worldwide were asked about their experiences over the past year.
June 4, 2024
A New Interface Offers More Possibilities
A number of companies have already made the switch to a future-oriented business warehouse such as BW/4 Hana and Datasphere as a cloud solution, or a combination of both. Large corporations basically all already use a data warehouse.
IT Management
SAP customer Schaeffler achieves rapid software provision across the entire value chain with low-code. 30 widely used applications with more than 4000 users are in use.
April 3, 2024
The End of Data Chaos
E3 Magazine was invited to the Kafka Summit London 2024. Here are our observations on the latest innovations in the Kafka Apache world.
E3 Magazine spoke with Greg Murphy, Staff Product Marketing Manager at Confluent, about Confluent's data streaming platform and its integration with SAP Datasphere on the BTP.
March 28, 2024
Success factors for successful test environments
Today, companies rely on complex IT systems to ensure cost-effective operation. This requires continuous testing of functions, interfaces and data transfers.
Economy
July 2, 2021
Exuberant mood in the digital industry
The business climate for IT and telecommunications companies is on a strong upswing. SAP also posted good figures in the first quarter, not least thanks to Rise with SAP.
16 June 2021
Bundled competence
ZetVisions and KPMG have agreed on a partnership for SAP master data management.
June 7, 2021
Autonomous, networked, mobile
With the acquisition of ESG Mobility, Cognizant is expanding its expertise in development for intelligent mobility.
June 4, 2021
Enowa becomes part of ConVista
The merger of the two companies expands the range of services in the insurance industry.
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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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