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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.

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Cover Story December 2025

The CCoE Experiment

The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.

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SAP Plans Acquisition of LeanIX

September 8, 2023
E3 Magazine
SAP has entered into an agreement to acquire LeanIX, an enterprise architecture management (EAM) company

Cloud Usage is Growing

September 7, 2023
E3 Magazine
According to the digital association Bitkom, cloud computing has established itself in Germany and is now on the verge of significant growth. In five years, 56 percent of all companies want to run more than half of their IT applications from the cloud.

SAP Startup Spotlight Series: Sedna

September 6, 2023
Laura Cepeda
E3 Magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP Startup Spotlight series. In today's episode, we feature Sedna, a company that provides a platform for the maritime and supply chain industries.
Large public cloud providers win

Interview: Cloud Computing for SAP

September 6, 2023
E3 Magazine
SAP users must convert to S/4 by 2027 or face paying expensive fees. At the same time, IT infrastructures should be converted to cloud computing to ensure companies fully use all the new possibilities.

Test Automation as a Service

September 5, 2023
Abdurassul Magiun, Camelot
André Richter, Camelot
Testing applications, especially in the SAP environment, is a much greater burden on companies today than it was a few years ago. New approaches to reducing testing efforts help to introduce SAP solutions faster, more cost-effectively and with higher quality.

Keep SAP in your own data center and still go to the cloud: The best of both worlds

September 1, 2023
Albrecht Munz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
What do SAP customers do if they don't want to move to the public cloud, but still want the benefits of using cloud technology? The answer is simple: they use the cloud in their own data center with HPE and Intel technology.

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

Digital Transformation
It is likely that once the Covid 19 pandemic ends, the supply of IT jobs will increase again. Fittingly, a study by Futurelearn, which has published a "2020 Best Cities for Jobs Index".
Licenses
The Coronavirus has caused considerable economic dislocation. The hope that the spook will end soon is understandable, but there could be more software audits on the part of the manufacturers in the period thereafter.
Embrace
Many companies are facing major challenges. Digital transformation and innovation are essential. How can Embrace help companies meet these challenges?
NoName
You could accuse me of naivety in calling for security, planning reliability and dependability in the current situation. But I think planning security is more important now than ever, don't you? SAP owes answers.

SAP News

August 12, 2022

Interest increases

Today more than ever, companies are faced with the challenge of continuously integrating new technologies. Managed servers make an important contribution here.
A data-driven approach is crucial for companies in times of digital transformation. Lack of real-time access leads to wrong decisions and lost revenue.
August 12, 2022

Blessing or curse?

A new study reveals that the increasing digitization in IT is not only positive, but also negative. But what exactly is lacking?
August 10, 2022

Companies pay on it

The average damage caused by cyberattacks on industrial facilities reaches millions of dollars.

Business Management

IT Management

People Management

E3 Book Tip

The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI

Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.

• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.

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Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the fourth time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-66-24355460

Event date

Wednesday, June 10, and
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Early Bird Ticket

Regular ticket

Subscribers to the E3 Magazine Ticket

reduced with promocode CCAbo26

Students*

reduced with promocode CCStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
EUR 390 excl. VAT
available until December 20, 2025
EUR 590 excl. VAT
EUR 390 excl. VAT
EUR 290 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

Early Bird Ticket
Regular ticket
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Available until December 20, 2025
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Subscribers to the E3 magazine
reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students*
reduced with promocode STStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
EUR 290 excl. VAT
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.