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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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Clean master data for S/4

August 9, 2023
Leo Kurt Kaiser, Adesso Orange
With the conversion from ECC 6.0 to S/4, the long-known business partner concept becomes mandatory. It is therefore not possible to convert an ECC system in the brownfield approach without prior conversion.
The-Last-Satire

Sapphire once and now

August 8, 2023
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
SAP's in-house trade fair Sapphire repeatedly prompts SAP CEOs to verbal feats and bold statements. Anyone who suspects anything untrue here is a Pinocchio.

People in July/August 2023

August 7, 2023
E3 Magazine
The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people who are taking on a new professional challenge.

Master data - ready for S/4 Hana?

August 4, 2023
Simus Systems
ERP systems offer hardly any effective means for data maintenance. This is particularly noticeable when a migration is pending. With established standards, proven procedures and efficient tools, simus systems has been supporting the optimization of ERP master data for S/4 Hana for years.
Shortfacts

Short Facts July/August 2023

August 4, 2023
E3 Magazine
No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to minor news as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked. Companies and people are not indexed.
Use S/4 cleverly to access legacy data

Document Management

August 3, 2023
E3 Magazine
Flexibility, speed of response and cost efficiency are becoming increasingly important in logistics due to increased process costs, the ongoing shortage of skilled workers, competitive pressures and geopolitical disruptions in international freight traffic.

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

Embrace
Of course, our high level of data protection is a great achievement and sensitive data does not belong in e-mails without encryption. But that is no reason to dispense with digitization altogether.
Embrace
Within Embrace, customers and partners are transforming: becoming bolder, taking on new roles, and focusing on agility and innovation. This is essential, especially in these times.
Internal Communications
Sometimes it takes brutal food for thought to not only question, but completely eliminate, established patterns of behavior. After the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2020, the Geneva Motor Show was also canceled, followed by many other events: Leipzig Book Fair, Hanover Industrial Fair, etc.
Open Source
Creating new possibilities in the development of Abap code by using open source tools not only sounds good, but can really convince in practice.

SAP News

As part of the Cloud Computing Market Barometer Germany 2022, cloud service providers based in Germany were asked for their assessment of the status of the cloud market.
Many years ago, the user association DSAG postulated that SAP Business Suite 7 could be sufficient for digital transformation. Now the proof.
Sapphire Vintage 2022
For its 50th anniversary, SAP presents itself in a retro look on the Sapphire stage. Photos from the past show that the ERP group has hardly evolved in the past 20 years. Welcome to mySAP.com!
Shortfacts
No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

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.