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 September 2025
License behavior
SAP license management, once characterized by complex rules and opaque metrics, has developed into an even denser jungle over the past three years. This has been driven by SAP's cloud strategy and the introduction of the Full Use Equivalent (FUE) license model, which many existing customers can barely keep track of.
Core Strengths
June 12, 2025
The switch to S/4 Hana is about strategic future viability. How can the Clean Core approach be used to create a modern, maintainable system architecture, providing the foundation for agility, innovation, and compliance?
The Data Management Platform of the Future?
June 10, 2025
SAP Datasphere is an open data ecosystem that makes information easily accessible and usable throughout an entire company. But how exactly does Datasphere work, and does it truly meet the expectations of modern data architectures?
From modernizing outdated technology to implementing responsible AI governance, a recent report has examined the key factors for the success of artificial intelligence in companies in 2025.
Horizontal Versus Vertical AI
June 6, 2025
Horizontal AI integrates AI solutions across different applications and business areas. Vertical AI, on the other hand, focuses on specific tasks or industries. What are the advantages of these two approaches?
Strong SAP Foundation
June 5, 2025
ERP programs, apps, and engines come and go. What has made us successful is a competent, agile and knowledgeable SAP Basis team. We have always built our SAP systems on a strong foundation.
ERP Complexity at SAP
June 5, 2025
The SAP cosmos includes many ERP modules, such as ECC, BTP, BDC, Private Edition, Transition Option, Customer Evolution, and New Business Suite. Who can keep track of them all?
SAP Technology, Innovation, and Openness
November 14, 2024
The fundamental technology underlying SAP is still the R/3 Abap tables. However, SAP has long since stopped providing instruction in the field of ERP technology. Additionally, the company displays only a limited willingness to address SAP customers’ concerns and wishes.
SAP Without a Unique Selling Point
November 5, 2024
Because SAP has watered down the business and organizational components of its offering, but has only achieved limited success against overpowering competitors with databases, cloud, and AI, the focus has shifted to maintaining the share price, which is a success story only in the short term.
SAP Cloud ALM
October 31, 2024
In the cloud, SAP customers require appropriate tools to orchestrate their ERP applications. SAP's Cloud ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) could be an effective solution for this. However, it is still an unfinished product.
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
February 3, 2025
Generative Journalism
Writing this is akin to a tautology, i.e., saying the same thing twice. Isn't journalism necessarily always creative? Whether it's court reporting or a discussion on rising SAP share prices, creativity is always needed to produce something.
January 30, 2025
The role of banks in the sustainable transformation
Banks have a significant influence on the degree of economic sustainability through capital allocation. A 5-stage model can be used to evaluate and support their path towards a necessary role model.
January 29, 2025
Embedded AI
At the beginning of the year, I had the opportunity to visit our subsidiaries in the USA and attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The topic of AI has become a focal point for our company, and Nvidia is emerging as a potential partner.
January 27, 2025
The SAP Man
Every January, the discussion about the "Davos Man" resumes. SAP is also seeking to play an important role at the WEF, so here we will begin a discourse on the Davos Man in general and SAP in particular.
SAP News
April 9, 2025
Ready for onboarding: Agentic AI, your AI agents
This new AI class is becoming a game changer: role-based AI agents. They raise the cooperation between humans and AI to a rapidly productive level. Workday predicts thousands of these agents. How do you orchestrate AI and humans? What should CHROs, CEOs and CIOs bear in mind?
April 7, 2025
E3 exclusive interview: Quo vadis, SAP Basis?
Something essential for SAP customers is sovereignty and control over SAP systems, all with a reliable basis. Thankfully, a good deal has been achieved with SAP Basis automation over the past 20 years. What influence do SAP's cloud strategy and Rise have? Empirius Head of Technology Marcus Bogenstätter explains.
March 31, 2025
Extended AI functions: New S/4 release
SAP has introduced a new S/4 Cloud Private Edition. Enhanced AI and automation functions are intended to improve user-friendliness and the transformation of business processes.
March 21, 2025
SAP Sports One: Soccer in 3D
A new prototype from SAP Sports One uses Apple Vision Pro to offer a 3D view from the player's perspective to provide a deeper insight into game situations in soccer.
Business Management
SAP-based purchasing reaches its limits when it comes to seamless collaboration with construction service providers. EVH, a municipal energy service provider in Halle (Saale), closes unpleasant process breaks with innovative 2bits tools.
Processing incoming invoices is often a major challenge for many organizations. Scanning, recording, checking, approving and then processing receipts takes a lot of time and offers great potential for automation.
March 25, 2024
AI and green IT: the pioneering ERP trends of 2024
In an era characterized by rapid technological progress and a constantly changing economic landscape, the ability of companies to adapt to new circumstances is more crucial than ever.
March 11, 2024
AI and Education With Workday
Workday invited several members of the press, among them E3 magazine, to take a look behind the scenes of some of the inner workings of their EMEA headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Workday spoke about AI, AI policy, educational outreach, and diversity.
IT Management
March 12, 2024
SAP Invoicing of the Future
Invoicing is often still manual and thus prone to errors. During a labor shortage, it also deprives companies of valuable capacity for more value-adding activities. AI-based invoicing provides a remedy here.
March 8, 2024
Seamless GAEB Integration in SAP
Although the GAEB file format considerably simplifies and accelerates the purchasing of construction services, it is not supported by SAP. This can be particularly problematic for energy suppliers.
March 7, 2024
From ECC to SAP S/4Hana
With a size of more than 30 TB, the BMW Group's SAP ECC had reached its limits. The car manufacturer opted for S/4 and Natuvion as its transformation partner.
February 20, 2024
Data Security and Data Quality Are Top Concerns
Barc, a provider of user surveys, software evaluations and analyst advisory services, recently released its "Data, BI and Analytics Trend Monitor 2024," which identifies trends in data management, business intelligence, and analytics based on responses from more than 2,300 users, consultants, and software vendors.
Economy
June 2, 2021
New full-service IT provider
Ikor and Matrix Technology are bundling solution offerings for system integration, cloud architecture and platform economy under the new umbrella brand X1F. With this merger, the partners will continue to drive forward their buy-and-build strategy as a full-service IT provider. With a combined workforce of around 500 employees, the two companies will continue to operate independently under the leadership of the existing management. In addition to their duties as Ikor and Matrix board members, the...
11 May 2021
Cloud Move for Azure
SNP enters into an alliance with Microsoft to provide SAP customers with an easy and fast path to SAP on Azure.
April 30, 2021
q.beyond strengthens cybersecurity offering
With a new partnership with Northwave, q.beyond is expanding its expertise in the area of cybersecurity. The aim of the partnership is to provide medium-sized companies with proven defense mechanisms, especially in the acute phase of a possible cyber attack. Northwave specializes in this area, as well as in the topic of forensics, i.e. the investigation of cyberattacks, among others. The company, headquartered...
April 30, 2021
Corona fuels Amazon's cloud business
According to a new ISG study, the pandemic continues to fuel the fledgling market for SAP in the AWS cloud.
E3 Book Tip
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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