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.
Compliant artificial intelligence
December 3, 2025
New services create transparency, promote trust, and support companies in the responsible use of artificial intelligence.
SAP certificate management is becoming increasingly complex, and the use of resources is rising continuously. Automation software for certificate management addresses these challenges in several ways.
Reducing Bureaucracy With SAP HCM
December 1, 2025
The consensus notification procedure (KMV) represents an important step toward digitizing and standardizing reporting processes. In this interview, SAP HCM expert Andre Weis explains how the FIS/HRD KMV tool reduces the workload for organizations through automated, error-free processes.
EU Competition Proceedings Against SAP
November 28, 2025
The European Commission initiated formal antitrust proceedings against SAP on September 25. The allegation is that SAP may have exploited its dominant position in the ERP software market by imposing abusive contract terms.
Why unit tests?
November 28, 2025
For most developers, „unit testing“ and „test-driven development“ have long been familiar terms. Nevertheless, for a variety of reasons, not many programmers actually use them in practice.
Boomi, a provider of AI-driven automation, announced that it has been named a leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management.
SAP can do everything
April 3, 2025
It makes a big difference whether an existing SAP customer is presented with extensive and diverse IT tools for their challenges, or whether SAP and partners offer clear answers to defined problems. SAP can do everything, but at the expense of its existing customers.
Exit strategy: SAP BTP
March 27, 2025
Existing SAP ECC and S/4 customers who want to participate in the latest IT innovations such as AI, LLMs, databases, cloud and edge computing should customize the Business Technology Platform. SAP BTP offers all the degrees of freedom that S/4 denies.
ERP yes, SAP no
March 20, 2025
The SAP community is still interested in innovation, AI and digital transformation, but SAP is less and less the "preferred vendor". The DSAG Innovation Report 2025 shows a lasting skepticism towards the global ERP market leader.
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.
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SAP relies on open source infrastructure for ERP and Hana—this brings opportunities and new challenges. Find out how you can make SAP systems robust, flexible, and future-proof with best practices in planning, security, and operation.
June 13, 2025
Image Mode as a Game Changer for Linux
Many SAP users stop halfway through automation. The potential of tools such as Ansible and end-to-end automation remains untapped—and with it the opportunity to combine migration with modern future-proofing.
June 5, 2025
Strong SAP Foundation
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.
June 5, 2025
ERP Complexity at SAP
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 News
September 16, 2025
S/4 Finance for Group Reporting
S/4 Finance for Group Reporting enables the real-time consolidation of financial data, automates processes and supports well-founded decisions. It is particularly suitable for complex structures and offers scalability and compliance.
September 15, 2025
A Strategic Opportunity for S/4 With Bluefield
The digital transformation has long been a reality for top managers. For many companies, the SAP S/4 Hana transformation, which involves moving an SAP system into the cloud, is at the heart of this far-reaching change.
September 12, 2025
Systems, Strategies, and Stumbling Blocks: New SAP Implementation
As the industry leader, SAP remains the first choice for ERP systems, as implementation is more than just a technical changeover—it is a strategic decision that has long-term effects on the respective company structure.
September 11, 2025
Competence, efficiency, transparency: CCoE and SAP for Me make everyday SAP life easier
Future-proofing is a key issue for existing SAP customers. Due to accelerated digitalization, S/4 conversion, AI, cloud and growing IT complexity, knowledge about their own SAP ERP is becoming increasingly important.
Business Management
November 8, 2024
Initial Public Offering in SAP S/4 Hana
During the hypercare phase of the S/4 transformation, specialty glass manufacturer Schott carried out a carve-out that included the separation and migration of the pharmaceutical division into a new legal structure.
October 30, 2024
Stabilo International—Writing the Future With S/4 Hana
Stabilo International, a family business since 1855, combines tradition with innovative strength. The migration from ECC 6.0 to S/4 with NTT Data Business Solutions marks a strategic shift towards more standardization, flexibility, and future-oriented business processes.
October 18, 2024
AI Must Be Seen as a Team Initiative
The use of AI and ML is continuously increasing. However, it is associated with numerous challenges, which range from development to provision and 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.
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
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
Easy growth for channel partners
Suse and Ingram Micro offer partners a new way to integrate Suse solutions.
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
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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