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.
AI and S/4 as Transformation Accelerators
December 17, 2025
A new study by PwC shows how companies can accelerate their transformation, increase efficiency, and create sustainable business value by integrating artificial intelligence into S/4.
NIS 2 Implementation Is Overdue
December 16, 2025
In a recent statement, the digital association Bitkom welcomed the German Bundestag's adoption of the law implementing the EU NIS 2 Directive.
SAP Introduces EU AI Cloud
December 15, 2025
With the new EU AI Cloud, SAP has introduced a central building block for digital sovereignty in Europe and at the same time deepened its cooperation with leading European AI providers.
SAP Concur Study on Working From Home Abroad
December 15, 2025
Location-independent working is no longer a future scenario. Work from anywhere has become established—technically, culturally, and organizationally. But if you work from the beach, you need to consider more than just stable Wi-Fi.
S/4: A complex undertaking with added value
December 12, 2025
As the deadline for migrating to S/4 in 2027 approaches, Precisely and ASUG highlight key obstacles hindering SAP modernization—from process complexity and data quality issues to mixed user interface environments.
Four steps to a modern ERP landscape
December 11, 2025
When SMEs scale up, they face a variety of challenges. At the technical and procedural level, increasing data volumes and growing requirements for compliance, data security, and ESG conformity necessitate a solid operational framework.
The Discontinuation of SAP S/4
15 May 2025
At the virtual SAP Annual General Meeting in mid-May, CEO Christian Klein explained the entire ERP offering and the BTP and BDC platforms. It was a consistent picture, but S/4 was missing and the flagship product was not mentioned. What now?
SAP Semantic Layer
May 8, 2025
The SAP Business Data Cloud, BDC, will be the catalyst for a future ERP digital twin. Computer science has known about the simulation of dynamic systems for many decades, and now SAP has discovered it.
SAP Transition Option
April 30, 2025
This SAP option is an admission of years of failure. SAP has many customers, but SAP also has a good overview of the ERP system portfolio. With a little foresight—not just in terms of stock price—the disaster should be obvious.
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
July 17, 2025
The AI Engine Is Stuttering
Although companies around the world have invested billions in their data infrastructure, the successful implementation of AI remains challenging.
July 16, 2025
Loss of Innovation at SAP
Innovation at SAP has shifted from IT to cooperation. An increasing number of partnerships are intended to mask the company's own lack of imagination.
July 14, 2025
Use Your Own Data Securely
Digital transformation requires secure, scalable IT solutions. SAP's EIC, combined with Suse Rancher for SAP Applications, enables modern, data protection-compliant integration - local, flexible and ready for real-time processes.
July 11, 2025
The Gutenberg Moment
The combination of AI algorithms and powerful hardware, such as Nvidia's graphics processors, has sparked a revolution. The most visible result is ChatGPT, though SAP is also working on the subject.
SAP News
September 29, 2025
Clear view of the order backlog in SAP
At packaging manufacturer Karl Knauer, the standard SAP system lacked adequate mapping of the order backlog - a central KPI for production and sales planning. Thanks to an enhancement, this can now be evaluated in real time and used for well-founded decisions.
The EU Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether SAP may have distorted competition in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services related to an on-premises type of software, licensed by SAP, used for the management of companies' business operations, in the European Economic Area.
September 26, 2025
450 billion through AI agents and humans
At MainDays 2025, Perlen Papier received the Maintainer Award for excellence in maintenance.
September 23, 2025
Agents Conquer Corporate AI
We are currently experiencing an explosion of interest in AI agents. However, companies should be aware of the growing risk of inaccuracies and bias.
Business Management
December 17, 2024
Personnel deployment halved: nice SAP maintenance weekend
TÜV Süd with its 25,000 SAP users has recently started using the SAP Basis automation suite EPOS. The main benefits: a reduction in weekend staff deployment with the option of automating recurring downtimes and scheduled restarts outside regular working hours.
December 16, 2024
Global Template for Sales and Service
International business is of central importance for the mechanical engineering company Windmöller & Hölscher. To enable international reselling directly via the subsidiaries, W&H is introducing a global template for all sales and service entities with the support of cbs.
December 13, 2024
Integration Between S/4 and Siemens SiGreen
NTT Data has introduced the "SAP Integration with SiGreen" solution as part of the Siemens Xcelerator Business Platform. Siemens SiGreen is a solution for data communication in the supply chain.
December 10, 2024
SAP Group Reporting in Practice
SAP Group Reporting promises to compile all relevant data from all sources for financial reports. The introduction of the consolidation tool in the engineering division of Linde, a global industrial gases and engineering company, shows how it can be implemented during ongoing operations.
IT Management
August 5, 2024
Extended Warehouse Management
Since the end of last year, one of the largest EWM projects has been running live at SAP customer Phoenix Contact. The long-established company has since benefited from a highly efficient material flow in its distribution center.
Companies need a functioning IT landscape to ensure smooth business processes. In order to guarantee this, system environments need to be tested regularly—despite increased automation efforts, this is often still a small-scale and time-consuming task.
July 18, 2024
Multicloud–Oracle and Google Cloud
Google Cloud will offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database services and high-speed network connections with Oracle.
June 10, 2024
The future belongs to data streaming pipelines
To facilitate access to this data, most IT departments centralize as much information as possible.
Economy
December 16, 2021
Company under permanent pressure
Nine out of ten companies have already had to stop innovative projects because of data protection requirements. Widespread criticism is levelled at the lack of support from supervisory authorities.
13 December 2021
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships
Freeing data from silos Eccenca and MHP enter into a technological partnership for agile data use in mobility and manufacturing. The collaboration is a direct response to the challenges in the automotive and manufacturing sector of using data across systems. It focuses on the scalable use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable the seamless use and reuse of data across individual systems.
November 2, 2021
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships
Working successfully from anywhere Salesforce has announced that the acquisition of Slack Technologies has now been completed. Companies around the world have learned over the past year that if you don't have a way to connect digitally with your employees, customers and partners, you have little chance of surviving. The office of today is no longer...
14 October 2021
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships
SNP and All for One expand partnership The partnership includes the expansion of joint projects to include the upper midmarket and the acquisition of additional SNP software by All for One. Following a successful start, SNP is expanding its partnership with All for One from Filderstadt. As a consulting and IT group, All for One supports over 2500 customers...
E3 book tip
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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