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.
Profit from Linux security
August 16, 2023
The silo security of a traditional SAP environment is reaching its limits in an era of increasing interconnection between SAP and non-SAP systems. Does this lead to sacrifices for the security of a process landscape?
MES and MII support
August 15, 2023
The SAP user group DSAG has achieved that SAP extends the maintenance for the manufacturing solutions Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII) until the end of 2030.
Swiss Federal Railways Drives Cloud Migration With Red Hat
August 14, 2023
Red Hat Consulting helps rail company move mission-critical applications to new cloud environment with Red Hat AMQ Streams
The general AMS
August 11, 2023
Application Management Services are an essential part of digital transformation. They help companies to operate and manage software and IT services more efficiently in order to achieve their goals.
Clean master data for S/4
August 9, 2023
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.
Sapphire once and now
August 8, 2023
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.
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 2, 2020
Master Data Governance for Automated Processes
Master data governance (MDG) opens up a realm of possibilities regarding upkeep, validation and distribution of master data—an important requirement for Industry 4.0 projects.
March 5, 2020
We are ERP
At the turn of the year, I was skiing with my wife in Austria, at Nassfeld in Carinthia. One evening I watched the Austrian TV slapstick "Wir sind Kaiser" again. But our SAP is in no way inferior to the funny Austrians!
March 5, 2020
Everything done right!
In mid-January, Der Spiegel reported online on a study by the HR consultancy Heidrick and Struggles analyzing typical and successful careers of CEOs. The simple question of a complex process is: What do I have to do to become CEO?
Consumability of data today means: distributed data infrastructures are needed, for which the open source database Apache Cassandra is particularly suitable.
SAP News
May 10, 2022
Sustainability with IT
One in five companies does not yet understand the extent to which IT can support a sustainability initiative, according to market researchers IDC. In recent years, however, awareness of social issues with global consequences for the future has grown rapidly.
May 9, 2022
Stabilize, Balance and Reimagine
There are new challenges in supply chain management: Cost and efficiency pressure to secure and expand one's competitive position; supplier failures and delivery bottlenecks; price sensitivity and demand fluctuations in the sales market.
May 6, 2022
The Journey to S/4 and the Color Dilemma
S/4 Hana is SAP’s fourth ERP generation. Most companies want to master the digital transformation to S/4. Rightly so in my opinion, because the new solution is leading in the market—both in terms of technology and functions.
May 5, 2022
This is how the role change succeeds
Role and authorization management in S/4 projects is not a routine exercise. The functionality and authorization concept of the Fiori apps are new for users and SAP managers. These innovations must be taken into account for project planning.
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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