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.
IBM Study on Mandatory Use of AI Agents
September 22, 2025
AI is increasingly becoming the central driver of corporate processes. This is the result of the current study "AI Projects to Profits" by IBM.
SAP Takes a Beating
September 22, 2025
The legendary saying, "Red Bull gives you wings," is probably familiar to most people. However, things are not going well for the beverage company in soccer and Formula 1 right now. The sports press writes: "Red Bull is taking a beating."
Archiving: more than just filing and disposal
September 19, 2025
Rise with SAP, cloud integration and S/4 Hana create complex, fragmented data landscapes. Strategic archiving helps to simplify these, reduces the data load, ensures compliance and optimally prepares for migrations.
AI Is Becoming an Integral Part of Everyday Life
September 18, 2025
The discourse surrounding artificial intelligence is often characterized by myths, ranging from fears of job loss to visions of a dehumanized working world. Current studies address the extent to which these concerns are justified.
Sustainable Solutions Instead of Pipe Dreams
September 18, 2025
At the DSAG Annual Congress, experts will discuss current challenges facing the SAP community—from BTP to AI. The aim is to prevent SAP's visions from bursting like balloons in the face of harsh user reality.
Against Your Better Judgment, Right?
September 18, 2025
With customs barriers, trade barriers, and wars, the world is being atomized and defragmented by autocrats. Fortunately, we have a global SAP community with a website in German, English, Spanish, and now, French.
Hybrid SAP BTP
December 5, 2024
The SAP Business Technology Platform serves as the central foundation for both current and future ERP solutions. ECC customers are already leveraging this platform for consolidation and customization. It is not feasible to implement S/4 without BTP, as Abap modifications will continue to exist.
SAP Virtualization, RISE, and GROW
November 28, 2024
SAP's objective with RISE and GROW is to provide new and current customers with a pathway to the public cloud. The offerings present a challenge due to their complexity, and many SAP customers would prefer to remain in an on-prem environment with virtualization.
Transformation Backlog in the SAP Community
November 21, 2024
Given SAP's comprehensive range of ERP and cloud products, it seems surprising that many members of the SAP community criticize the slow pace of digitalization. There is a transformation backlog, perhaps because there is a lack of orientation.
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
March 4, 2025
Bravo, SAP CFO Dominik Asam
SAP's share price is soaring. Deutsche Bank analysts put it at 300 EUR. The CEO and CFO are doing a great job. But how are they managing this?
March 3, 2025
Preventing Chaos in SAP Systems With Trento
In the fast-moving world of SAP, even a brief outage can cause considerable costs. This is where Trento comes in—your reliable companion that protects your SAP systems from costly service interruptions.
February 28, 2025
SAP Has Found the Golden Record
The latest message from SAP headquarters from CEO Christian Klein is in: data is important and valuable. The year is 2025 and SAP has invented the golden record. Another loss of reality in the SAP universe.
February 27, 2025
What Was That?
For this article’s title, I‘ve borrowed a phrase from Friedrich Merz, a member of the German Bundestag, who used it in the last German Bundestag debate before the election in response to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's speech. This article has been inspired by German politics.
SAP News
June 6, 2025
Horizontal Versus Vertical AI
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?
The company’s AI-powered platform can assist companies with democratizing change intelligence.
May 28, 2025
SIA Is Now Minsait Cyber
SIA, a Spanish company specializing in cybersecurity, has acquired the trade name Minsait Cyber, adopting the Minsait brand.
Boomi, an iPaaS provider, announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), for the 11th consecutive time—the longest in the report’s history.
Business Management
In times of international crises and wars, it is more important than ever for companies to secure their value creation. To achieve this, all supply chains must be organized as flexibly and resiliently as possible. The foundation for this is valid data.
May 21, 2024
Supply Chain Planning
Impending recession and supply chain problems: Germany's companies are facing numerous challenges.
May 14, 2024
Swiss technology company SFS Group implements digital future platform for 2025 and beyond
The challenge for the selective transformation approach was to reduce the complexity created over the past twenty years by in-house developments and to standardize processes worldwide.
April 5, 2024
The Basics of Cybersecurity
Minimizing attack surfaces, stregnthening applications—no SAP customer can avoid these cybersecurity basics today. Proactive SAP cybersecurity is a requirement. SecurityBridge has acquired a leading position in this area in recent years.
IT Management
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.
February 20, 2024
Additional Benefits of Automation and System Management Software for SAP Basis: Infrastructure Knowledge Free of Charge
It is now well known that automation solutions for SAP Basis also bring rationalization benefits. However, they also bring additional benefits for the staff that manages SAP Basis and infrastructure staff; these benefits should not be underestimated.
Economy
April 28, 2021
Diva-e invests in cloud expertise
With the establishment of Diva-e Cloud, Diva-e combines its competencies in the field of cloud services.
April 28, 2021
Strategic partnership
Valantic and UBH promise turbo on the road to digital transformation.
April 27, 2021
Hybrid Cloud Initiative for Real-Time IoT
Siemens, IBM and Red Hat announce a new collaboration that will provide an open solution for real-time operational data.
April 27, 2021
Red Hat acquires StackRox
Red Hat plans to acquire StackRox, a specialist in container and Kubernetes-native security solutions. StackRox's integration with Red Hat OpenShift will provide enterprises with a holistic, open hybrid cloud platform through which they can securely develop, deploy and operate virtually any application. Red Hat OpenShift takes a layered approach to securing containers. With...
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