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 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.
Clean Core and BTP in Day-to-Day Business
October 6, 2025
Companies in the energy and process industry are under pressure to implement innovations, meet legal requirements, and optimize their operational processes at the same time. Outdated ERP landscapes are making this increasingly difficult.
Digital Sovereignty Is A Necessity, Not a Luxury
October 2, 2025
Digital sovereignty is rapidly gaining in importance in Europe. This is creating new requirements—and opportunities—for SAP customers. Open source plays a key role in this and helps companies to become more sovereign.
Data as Strategic Capital
October 2, 2025
In the data-driven economy, data quality is becoming a success factor: precision, consistency, and reliability are no longer a nice-to-have, but a clear competitive advantage.
Open Source Cannot Be Switched Off
October 1, 2025
The volatile macroeconomic and geopolitical environment requires IT landscapes to be operated with confidence. Security and independence are becoming increasingly important. Open source and hybrid cloud offer the necessary flexibility and resilience.
Roadmap for AI implementation in SAP
October 1, 2025
AI has long since ceased to be a trend. It is an unavoidable necessity. The integration of AI into SAP systems offers companies the opportunity to increase their efficiency, make informed decisions in real time and remain competitive in the long term.
Into the cloud with SAP Utilities Core
September 30, 2025
Berlin-based energy service provider Gasag is one of the first energy companies to convert its SAP billing system for grid operations to a cloud-based solution in the Rise model. This is the first part of the largest IT project in the company's history to date.
Fragmentation of the SAP world
February 20, 2025
In recent years, the SAP universe has been atomized. The consistent R/3 black box has become a heterogeneous conglomerate of ERP modules and cloud applications. From blockchain to IoT: SAP seemed to have to follow every IT trend. Today, AI chaos rules the SAP world.
SAP RISE 2.0
February 13, 2025
With a complex ERP initiative for a hidden maintenance extension and an alternative cloud roadmap, RISE with SAP should have been given a second chance at survival earlier this year. The announcement of the Business Data Cloud in addition to the Business Technology Platform has finally put S/4 out of business.
SAP Platforms for Data Management
February 6, 2025
SAP recognized the value and importance of data early on, but failed to develop a stable solution across multiple ERP generations. From NetWeaver to Datasphere, there have been ambitious attempts, but no data orchestration in the ERP space.
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
April 15, 2025
The challenge of SAP Hybrid Cloud
Companies with SAP workloads are increasingly implementing hybrid cloud strategies. Suse Rancher for SAP Applications offers an easy-to-operate, scalable platform for the secure operation of business-critical applications.
April 10, 2025
SAP for Me
There is an SAP portal for us existing customers where our own infrastructure is managed, right down to the licenses. According to my regulars, this is the best-kept SAP secret.
April 9, 2025
Science: SAP licenses
Software licenses are the bread and butter of IT providers. In any case, licenses and maintenance fees are justified. But do the regulations have to be so complicated?
April 8, 2025
The lost trust in SAP
The annual investment report of the German-speaking SAP user group, DSAG e. V., is always eagerly awaited. In addition to the survey data itself, the level of participation is an important indicator of the mood in the SAP community.
SAP News
July 30, 2025
API Management With Boomi
Boomi wants to rethink API management—and this includes SAP customers. In an interview with E3 International Managing Editor Laura Cepeda, Markus Müller (Global CTO of API Management) talks about integration, cloud strategies, governance and why user-friendliness can be the decisive factor.
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 15, 2025
AI Revolutionizes Financial Accounting
Invoice processing is already highly digitized today. Artificial intelligence is now providing an additional boost: rule-based workflows are increasingly being supplemented by self-learning systems. The aim is to achieve a higher degree of automation—without completely replacing tried-and-tested processes.
July 15, 2025
Crossfield for Global Finance—SAP S/4 Hana in One Go
The automotive specialist Voss is strengthening its competitiveness with a global finance system. To this end, the company relied on Consilio when switching to S/4. The result is a global transformation with a downtime of just four days.
Business Management
October 17, 2024
Data Mesh with SAP Business Technology Platform, BTP: efficiency, insights and innovation
Today, a data warehouse architecture is not enough to implement market requirements and adapt processes, but modern data strategies make it possible to gain valuable insights from the multitude of information.
October 16, 2024
Salzgitter AG relies on green technology with S/4 transformation
The transformation to S/4 is a central component of the innovation and sustainability strategy of the German steel group Salzgitter. After reaching important milestones together with cbs Corporate Business, the project is now nearing completion.
September 25, 2024
Team Spirit Beats Algorithms
To ensure readiness for unanticipated developments, retail managers are examining an ever-increasing volume of data. Real-time data provides maximum transparency, enabling swift and effective reactions to forthcoming developments.
September 24, 2024
Implementing regulatory requirements: Basic support keeps the SAP landscape "healthy"
Companies in the energy and utilities industry continue to face the challenge of implementing complex regulatory requirements, optimizing operational processes, driving digitalization and ensuring the security of their critical infrastructure.
IT Management
Most people use moving house as an opportunity to declutter. They make a list of things they want to throw away, give away, store and take with them. Data housekeeping is nothing else. It's just for moving data.
April 22, 2024
Vector Engine as a Booster for AI
Uncover hidden insights and patterns with SAP’s Knowledge Graph. The Hana DB platform and Datasphere can do vector math! Why is this important? Because vectors in multidimensional space make it easy to represent the distance between data points, often even by calculating mentally. Generative AI requires this knowledge.
April 12, 2024
S/4 Conversion—On-Prem, Hybrid, Private or Public Cloud
SAP S/4 Hana is available both in the cloud and on-prem. Although SAP as a company prefers the cloud, there are many reasons to opt for a local installation, including security. This article compares both options.
SAP customer Schaeffler achieves rapid software provision across the entire value chain with low-code. 30 widely used applications with more than 4000 users are in use.
Economy
16 June 2021
Bundled competence
ZetVisions and KPMG have agreed on a partnership for SAP master data management.
June 7, 2021
Autonomous, networked, mobile
With the acquisition of ESG Mobility, Cognizant is expanding its expertise in development for intelligent mobility.
June 4, 2021
Enowa becomes part of ConVista
The merger of the two companies expands the range of services in the insurance industry.
June 3, 2021
Continuous Testing meets Performance
Tricentis acquires Neotys to address the need for integrated end-to-end approaches to test automation.
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
• 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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