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.
Red Hat Introduces Red Hat AI 3
November 27, 2025
Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced Red Hat AI 3, an evolution of its enterprise AI platform.
Salary Transparency as a Competitive Advantage
November 27, 2025
Things will get serious in 2026: with the EU Directive on pay transparency, companies in Europe will have to disclose how they are doing in terms of equal pay. The aim is to uncover and eliminate gender-related and other unjustified pay differences.
Multi-vendor composable ERP for SAP customers
November 26, 2025
Companies that use modular architectures with third-party support achieve above-average performance in 83 percent of cases, compared to 27 percent for traditional approaches.
Simplifying SAP infrastructure operations with an AI companion
November 26, 2025
You can now use any LLM to automate the complex, manual analysis of your SAP infrastructure. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) securely connects data from tools such as Trento to AI, without any model training.
A New Era in Hospital Controlling
November 25, 2025
Real-time data and process design with SAP Analytics Cloud and BW/4 Hana: Traditional controlling is giving way to data-based real-time consulting, which actively shapes clinical processes and optimizes patient care.
AI—From Start to Finish
November 24, 2025
It's common knowledge that AI feeds off the vastness of the World Wide Web. For AI, texts, photos, videos, and graphics are the source of "knowledge." ChatGPT and similar programs provide the answers. But what if the sources dry up?
SAP Share Is Slipping
March 13, 2025
The U.S. stock markets are tumbling. Investors are attempting to sell and flee to Europe with their capital, and yet SAP cannot benefit from this. The magic of cloud, Datasphere, and AI has evaporated. The true value of SAP is being revealed.
SAP Clean Core Deal
March 6, 2025
Deals" are currently the order of the day and SAP's clean-core requirement is a deal with its own existing customers and partners. SAP demands a lot from its own community in return for planning security.
Innovation vs. SAP Licensing
February 27, 2025
In many cases, SAP's licensing policy seems counterproductive. Innovation comes from experimentation, learning, and experience. For proof-of-concepts, SAP customers need a test environment that runs without a license.
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
June 2, 2025
Less Effort, More Security for SAP Compliance
How to sustainably reduce compliance and security costs in SAP landscapes without sacrificing cross-system SAP security management.
May 30, 2025
S/4 potential for disappointment
SAP has potential and the current altitude is high. It will require a great deal of skill on the part of the Supervisory Board and Executive Board to maintain this successful course. It lacks a unique selling point.
27 May 2025
Is This a Strategy or Can It Be Discarded?
I've often noticed recently that our business vocabulary is relatively martial: "I'm planning to assassinate you", "We have to fight on all fronts now" or "The tasks are not decisive for the war".
May 14, 2025
2027: The S/4 countdown begins
With the deadline for S/4 approaching, a well thought-out migration is essential. An SAPinsider 2024 survey emphasizes the urgency of minimizing risks and choosing the right migration path to make the transition efficient.
SAP News
September 10, 2025
SAP Receives Responsible AI Impact Award
During the London Climate Action Week 2025, where over 45,000 visitors came together to take part in 700 different events, SAP was presented with a Responsible AI Impact Award.
September 9, 2025
AI, cloud and platforms: SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Business Data Cloud
In the future, standard business software will be orchestrated on IT platforms and determined by AI and cloud computing. AI agents will probably control the company's organizational structure and processes.
Atos, A French IT services provider, has been certified as an SAP Global Operations Partner for the tenth consecutive year and has received the Golden Certificate from SAP.
August 28, 2025
Direct Communication From SAP
In the digital age, it is no longer enough to just use SAP systems to manage business processes. Companies expect fully integrated, seamless communication that is secure, reliable and globally scalable.
Business Management
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.
September 16, 2024
AI Offers Guidance
Although AI brings enormous benefits, especially in purchasing, users remain hesitant. Many companies simply lack the specialist expertise necessary. An AI strategy that supports them in the selection and implementation of suitable intelligent purchasing tools would be helpful.
IT Management
April 3, 2024
The End of Data Chaos
E3 Magazine was invited to the Kafka Summit London 2024. Here are our observations on the latest innovations in the Kafka Apache world.
E3 Magazine spoke with Greg Murphy, Staff Product Marketing Manager at Confluent, about Confluent's data streaming platform and its integration with SAP Datasphere on the BTP.
March 28, 2024
Success factors for successful test environments
Today, companies rely on complex IT systems to ensure cost-effective operation. This requires continuous testing of functions, interfaces and data transfers.
March 21, 2024
Due diligence for SAP Rise projects
All that glitters is not gold - not even at SAP. The supposed all-round carefree package Rise with SAP also has its pitfalls. However, many companies are aware that S/4 Hana paves the way for completely new, innovative business cases.
Economy
June 3, 2021
Continuous Testing meets Performance
Tricentis acquires Neotys to address the need for integrated end-to-end approaches to test automation.
June 2, 2021
For more RPA in the European midmarket
Syntax and UiPath partner to strengthen Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in European industrial SMEs.
June 2, 2021
New full-service IT provider
Ikor and Matrix Technology are bundling solution offerings for system integration, cloud architecture and platform economy under the new umbrella brand X1F. With this merger, the partners will continue to drive forward their buy-and-build strategy as a full-service IT provider. With a combined workforce of around 500 employees, the two companies will continue to operate independently under the leadership of the existing management. In addition to their duties as Ikor and Matrix board members, the...
11 May 2021
Cloud Move for Azure
SNP enters into an alliance with Microsoft to provide SAP customers with an easy and fast path to SAP on Azure.
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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