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.
Cloud Migration in the Automotive Sector
January 16, 2026
The automotive supplier Brose from Coburg has successfully migrated its central SAP systems to SAP Cloud ERP Private on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Further steps to modernize the IT landscape are now to follow.
SAP ECC Through 2030 and Beyond
January 15, 2026
The end of support for SAP ECC is approaching and organizations face a pivotal moment in their ERP lifecycle. Businesses must prepare for migration to other ERP systems (not necessarily from SAP), while continuing to ensure uninterrupted SAP ECC operation—until 2030, but probably even beyond.
For years, the healthcare system has evolved and thrived in clinical advancements, but it falls short in operational efficiency.
SAP's New Clothes
January 14, 2026
After the cloud fashion fiasco, the king has switched to AI. The new clothes don't suit him, and the stock market's response has been lackluster. However, financial analysts still believe in a positive outcome. But can SAP truly master AI?
AI as a Growth Driver for Data Centers
January 13, 2026
By 2030, the AI capacities of German data centers are expected to quadruple. The connected load in watts will then rise from the current 530 megawatts to 2020 megawatts.
Data Sovereignty for SMEs
January 12, 2026
Digital transformation is a reality in small and medium-sized enterprises, but it is often incomplete. According to Bitkom, 77 percent of companies have a digitalization strategy, but only 19 percent implement it consistently—mainly due to a lack of data sovereignty.
Joule, the SAP Agent Thriller
June 26, 2025
SAP is rightfully proud of its ERP automation with the AI agent, Joule. However, in its excitement about this successful product, SAP overlooked holding a briefing with customers to discuss where and how far the AI agent can go.
SAP Optimizes, but AI Revolutionizes
June 18, 2025
Savoir-vivre—the art of enjoying life! The French seem to have achieved this even with information technology. Viva Technology, an annual IT and AI festival in Paris, attracts 180,000 visitors. AI is revolutionizing information technology. SAP is working on evolutionary optimization.
SAP Joule Compliance
June 12, 2025
Although AI agents like SAP Joule show great potential, their ability to adhere to all compliance rules has yet to be proven. Might SAP and other AI providers suffer the same fate as the sorcerer's apprentice in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's eponymous ballad?
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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September 18, 2025
Sustainable Solutions Instead of Pipe Dreams
At the DSAG Annual Congress, experts will discuss current challenges facing the SAP community—from BTP to AI. The aim is to prevent SAP's visions from bursting like balloons in the face of harsh user reality.
September 18, 2025
Against Your Better Judgment, Right?
With customs barriers, trade barriers, and wars, the world is being atomized and defragmented by autocrats. Fortunately, we have a global SAP community with a website in German, English, Spanish, and now, French.
September 17, 2025
AI Is Not a Luxury
For around three years, we have been experimenting with various combinations of artificial intelligence with our interns. Although a discussion has been initiated, no decision has yet been made regarding the direction to take.
September 4, 2025
SAP Clean Core 2016
E3 Magazine already addressed the topic of "cleaning out" ERP systems in 2016. To that end, the SAP system has been heavily modified in recent years. What now?
SAP News
October 24, 2025
Q3 2025: SAP Relies on Continued Cloud Growth
SAP has published its results for the third quarter of 2025 and presents a mixed, but overall solid picture. The cloud business remains the key growth driver, while total revenue and the outlook are somewhat more subdued.
October 24, 2025
S/4: Opportunities and challenges
SAP customers must migrate from SAP Business Suite to S/4 by the end of 2027. However, the migration will open up new opportunities for companies to digitalize and optimize their entire business processes.
October 22, 2025
No Successful S/4 Migration Without Master Data Maintenance
The changeover from SAP R/3 to S/4 casts a harsh light on the data quality of master data, EDI connection, and decades of customizing. We take a look at the most common issues.
October 17, 2025
Integrate High Quality, Extensive SAP Data With Other Systems
At Boomi World 2025, which took place in Dallas in May, Ann Maya, EMEA CTO at Boomi, spoke with Laura Cepeda, Managing Editor International, E3 Magazine. The conversation focused on Boomi's role in the SAP environment and the interfaces and opportunities in the EMEA region.
Business Management
The SAP world is on the verge of change: CMIS is the new standard interface between S/4 and ECM systems, while the future of ArchiveLink on the SAP Public Cloud is sealed. However, there is no need to panic, as with a solid archiving strategy (a crucial element), companies can save millions.
March 17, 2025
S/4 Hana Utilities: 24-hour change of supplier
The IT service provider Adesso has successfully supported the energy group Uniper with the introduction of SAP S/4 Hana Utilities. Uniper is one of the first companies in the energy industry to work productively with the new platform in the "supplier" market role.
March 11, 2025
A Low-Disruption S/4 Transition
Festo is often referred to as the jewel of German industry. It has been a year since the successful company switched from SAP ERP ECC to S/4 Hana. Looking back, we can see why a differentiated view of SAP is of great importance.
February 7, 2025
User story: Successful S/4 go-live in the big bang
The Blanc & Fischer Group was faced with the task of modernizing its ERP systems. To this end, the company carried out two S/4 transformations in its operational corporate groups E.G.O. and Blanco. The smooth go-live of the E.G.O. Group took place after a project duration of 2.5 years.
IT Management
September 20, 2024
Oracle Java Usage
84 percent of respondents who have already migrated from Oracle Java report that the process was easier than expected or went as planned.
September 18, 2024
IT2media Protects Its Systems With SAP Partner SecurityBridge
What a typical medium-sized company does to counter growing SAP cybercrime: implement monitoring with SolMan and round-the-clock support for the SAP landscape.
September 18, 2024
Optimization is possible: SAP licensing according to authorizations
SAP is increasingly pushing customers towards licensing according to authorizations. Most existing SAP customers are therefore threatened with additional payments and a time-consuming inventory of the roles and authorizations previously assigned.
September 11, 2024
Rise with SAP: Mastering challenges through proactive license management
SAP describes itself as The Cloud Company and has greatly expanded its range of cloud-based solutions in just a few years. The introduction of the S/4 Cloud Public Edition and Rise in particular underpins the cloud-first approach.
Economy
April 28, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships - April 2022
Effective protection against cybercrime SecurityBridge and Trusted Cyber Security Solutions (TCSS) are combining their expertise in a strategic partnership to offer Austrian companies effective monitoring and protection of their SAP systems. The agreed collaboration brings together the technology of SecurityBridge with the cybersecurity consulting expertise of TCSS. SAP platforms are at the heart of many companies and store strategic and sensitive data.
29 March 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships - March 2022
New record high 2021 was a record year for mergers and acquisitions in the IT services industry. Last year, 47 percent more transactions were carried out than in 2020, 190 in total. The value of these transactions even increased by 63 percent. Available capital saved up during the pandemic, low interest rates and strong demand for digital transformation services...
March 15, 2022
Proving Yourself More
As Managing Director of Henrichsen4s, Beate Kirwa will be responsible for the SAP business of the Bavarian IT specialist. She explains in an interview what the spin-off is all about.
March 1, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships - February 2022
Record number of takeovers in the IT services market The market research and consulting company Information Services Group (ISG) has recorded a brisk takeover activity in the IT services market. In 2021, the number of managed services providers that were acquired by other companies was higher than in the previous record year of 2017: while the number of takeovers four years ago totaled 142, by the end of the third...
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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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