April 3, 2016

OpenText has announced the expansion of its global reseller agreement with SAP. As part of the collaboration, SAP will distribute the Hybris Digital...

April 3, 2016

PAC has now published almost 200 tested and evaluated case studies from the field of Industry 4.0/Internet of Things (IoT) in the online service "Innovation...

April 3, 2016

The reduction of the maintenance effort for master data and a general improvement in master data quality are the main benefits that customers can expect after...

April 3, 2016

Voice e. V. represents the interests of CIOs and IT managers in Germany and has surveyed user acceptance of the...

April 3, 2016

Traditional project management software works with milestones, time buffers and priority lists. But how can you reduce complexity and cut project lead times?

April 3, 2016

Leading companies use hybrid clouds more than their competitors. 90 percent cite the hybrid approach as crucial for strategy and...

April 3, 2016

Although board members and managing directors are aware of the great importance of data security, they often do not provide the necessary resources....

April 3, 2016

Survey examined the relationship between professional customer data management and digital transformation.

April 3, 2016

Outdated and heterogeneous IT solutions made it necessary for the surface finisher WHW to replace its previous systems. The aim was to modernize all processes...

April 3, 2016

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

April 3, 2016

SAP's new head of security and a change in management at Itelligence. You can read this and more here in the latest personnel news.

April 3, 2016

Working from home, a better work-life balance, highly flexible working hours - there are many demands on the modern working world. But how...

April 3, 2016

Identifying and attracting qualified employees is a difficult task in the SAP environment. Retaining them in the long term is one of the...

April 3, 2016

Cloud computing is also increasingly becoming an alternative to the classic on-premise world in the HR sector. E-3 wanted to find out from Rainer Brand, Managing Director of...

April 3, 2016

With the current study "Business Travel Processes 2015" Techconsult takes a detailed look at travel management processes.

April 3, 2016

Version 7.2 of the Solution Manager offers a number of new functions for the efficient operation of Hana environments. In addition to the technical...

April 3, 2016

With Hana and S/4, a new programming model is entering the Abap world. SAP users who are considering the cloud should consider customer-specific developments...

April 3, 2016

SAP users don't have it easy. For years, they could choose between different databases and did so. Now, with...

April 2, 2016

Every SAP customer new to the Hana platform asks questions about the architecture concept, high availability, backup, maintenance & life cycles and know-how development.

April 2, 2016

A short interview with Hana busters Guido Hoepfner and Matthias Kneissl from Q-Partners.

April 2, 2016

SAP can be operated more efficiently than many people realize. Even small applications and the precise adaptation to individual requirements can...

April 2, 2016

SAP is supporting personalized medicine with a completely new product line based on Hana. Insights from big data are to enable targeted, individualized...

April 2, 2016

70 percent of Industry 4.0 laggards have neither a defined strategy nor responsibilities. The pioneers, on the other hand, invest an average of 18 percent of their R&D budget...

April 2, 2016

The takeover of AkzoNobel's paper business presented the chemical company Kemira with the challenge of managing the new sites in 18 countries in...

April 2, 2016

Many business applications need to access master data from SAP systems. This data must be accessible to a large number of different clients, including mobile clients.

March 31, 2016

After assisted living, there is now assisted driving - see the new Mercedes E-Class - and soon there will be an assisted...

March 31, 2016

For the use of Hana to be worthwhile, it is evident that consistently high performance is provided. Those who rely on Suse get...

March 31, 2016

The upheavals in the storage market are strongly driven by open source. Users can benefit if they know the rules of the game.

March 31, 2016

There are still many IT departments that manage their SAP transports manually. A ChaRM introduction makes more than sense here, should...

March 31, 2016

They have dominated the headlines in recent weeks: Attacks with malware actually forced hospitals in Germany to shut down their operations in...

March 31, 2016

Organizational challenge in the product development process - or how do I keep the life cycle of a product sustainable for the company.

March 31, 2016

Inefficient processes prevent a consistent brand message in omnichannel management. The remedy is automation by means of digital asset management.

March 31, 2016

Two unequal opponents? Are we comparing apples and oranges here? No! Numerous conversations in and around Walldorf have shown me that...

March 31, 2016

SAP has always left it up to customers to assign SAP user licenses manually in accordance with the agreement (contract). Vague descriptions of what an SAP user can do with...

March 31, 2016

In the SAP community, at least in the critical part, it is almost good manners to talk about S/4 Hana and the...

March 31, 2016

The topic is old and is known both as AI (artificial intelligence) and AI (artificial intelligence). The terms are for...

March 31, 2016

For many years, SAP was an honest partner and friend to existing customers. The well-known, global SAP community emerged. Perhaps it was...

March 24, 2016

Professor Hasso Plattner has masterfully revitalized and revolutionized in-memory computing technology. The Hana database was a disruptive event. The first generation of the...

March 3, 2016

The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more or less important statements of the community.

March 3, 2016

With S/4, SAP has launched an ambitious ERP project. Everything is new, so SAP does not see it as a successor to ECC...

March 3, 2016

Building services provider TECE was faced with the challenge of modernizing and consolidating its IT landscape. With an SAP-based industry solution, the prerequisite for...

March 3, 2016

SAP Switzerland appoints new head of sales and Fujitsu appoints new head of Germany. That and more now back here.

March 3, 2016

The HR departments of globally active SMEs often have little room for their core tasks: Manual, non-harmonized processes and non-uniformly defined...

March 3, 2016

SAP plans to extend the functionality of SuccessFactors Performance & Goals to include continuous performance management.

March 3, 2016

Talent management is a top priority for managers and HR managers if they want to stay ahead of the competition for qualified employees.

March 3, 2016

While the use of the public cloud for core SAP operations is not yet a real option, it is precisely the projects...

March 3, 2016

SAP applications are business-critical and must be able to run again immediately and seamlessly should they fail. Regularly validated backups via restore are therefore...

March 3, 2016

SAP subsidiary Concur and T-Systems, a pioneer in information and communications technology, market the business travel management solutions hand in hand.

March 3, 2016

PwC is further expanding its technology consulting services in Europe. With the Outbox Group, a European IT consulting company for innovative IT solutions, PwC complements its...

March 3, 2016

SAP CEO Bill McDermott appeared in New York with no less a claim than that SAP is helping to change the world and...

March 3, 2016

For the machine tool manufacturer MAG IAS Fertigungssysteme, the guiding principle "The Power of One" also stands for the idea of standardizing core...

March 3, 2016

Bystronic sends up to 10,000 spare parts items to customers all over the world every month. The supplier of sheet metal processing systems has opted for a barcode-supported...

March 3, 2016

9600 storage spaces and an area of 6600 square meters: The new warehouse complex of the chemical company AlzChem in Trostberg meets the latest standards and...

March 3, 2016

One question in advance: Do you know the brand of your car tires or their size? No? You are certainly not alone in this.

March 3, 2016

Which cloud solution is the right one? Before user companies outsource IT platforms and services, they must analyze their systems, processes and requirements in detail.

March 3, 2016

Always fast, always better - this is a hallmark of digital transformation. To avoid being swept away by the digital tsunami,...

March 3, 2016

Jurgen Appelo, expert on Agile and DevOps and one of the best speakers on leadership, will open on June 20, 2016...

March 3, 2016

At the end of the 90s, at the height of the first dotcom bubble, SAP was harshly criticized for its lack of web capabilities. Since then, much...

March 3, 2016

Many cloud and outsourcing providers, especially larger ones, deny the marketability of outsourcing without offshore supply in Germany. Robert Schuhmann, Managing Director at...

March 3, 2016

Having your own private cloud can greatly simplify the hosting of SAP systems and pave the way to the hybrid cloud. The...

March 3, 2016

IT and SAP experts have launched a CIO Roundtable in Heidelberg. The aim is to create a platform for IT managers to discuss...

March 3, 2016

The demand for IT specialists has continued to rise significantly in recent months. This is the result of an analysis by more...

March 3, 2016

Organizations want to use hybrid clouds to support their business processes in a more agile way and drive digitization more strongly.

March 3, 2016

According to the latest Capgemini IT Trends Study, most companies are currently still busy digitally mapping information and processes and...

March 3, 2016

We are deep in the process of digital transformation. Where structured ERP data meets unstructured social media data, hybrid on-premise business models are...

March 3, 2016

Small and medium-sized enterprises can save time and money with digital technologies. At CeBIT, medium-sized users meet IT groups...

March 3, 2016

WMD presents process solutions for S/4 Hana and archive solutions for filing and retrieval based on UI5.

March 3, 2016

Switzerland occupies a leading position in the implementation of digitization strategies. As CeBIT Partner Country 2016, it will provide the digital economy with important...

March 3, 2016

Celonis presents the advantages of process mining for the visualization and analysis of business processes. The big data solution is almost as simple...

March 3, 2016

At CeBIT 2016, Scheer will be presenting products and solutions that help customers to exploit the opportunities of the transformation process while...

March 3, 2016

There was a time when the IT department was the driver of progress. Their impulses have contributed to networking and helped companies to...

March 3, 2016

Energy suppliers gain directly from switching to SAP for Utilities on Hana. This is shown by the results of the IT service provider Gisa from...

March 3, 2016

Fujitsu study highlights the hurdles and contradictions of digitization in Germany and Europe: The outcome of digitization projects is seen as a...

March 3, 2016

Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things and e-commerce are the dominant themes among solution providers and in the supporting program of this year's LogiMat....

March 3, 2016

In the classic cost blocks of "software" and "hardware", the optimal solutions can still save quite a bit in the budget.

March 3, 2016

The IT service provider Abat will be presenting itself at LogiMat 2016 with a demo scenario for SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and Transportation...

March 3, 2016

The use of a new component in industrial production is often a tour de force: Product-specific adaptations must be made from development to...

March 3, 2016

Many online stores continue to exist as silo systems, detached from other business applications. However, there are many reasons why the prospects for success...

March 3, 2016

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

March 3, 2016

With S/4, SAP has launched an ambitious ERP project. Everything is new, so SAP does not see it as a successor to ECC...

March 3, 2016

Building services provider TECE was faced with the challenge of modernizing and consolidating its IT landscape. With an SAP-based industry solution, the prerequisite for...

March 3, 2016

What is S/4? What is Hana? SAP says: a revolutionary ERP combination. The SAP customer knows: S/4 only runs with the Hana database....

March 3, 2016

With Hana, IT infrastructure and operations managers are faced with two key questions: How can downtimes be minimized and how can optimal high-availability...

March 3, 2016

SAP is currently promoting version 7.2 with the slogan "the best Solution Manager". Much has changed and...

March 3, 2016

In Germany, we pride ourselves on our caution; derogatorily referred to as "German Angst". Take cloud computing, for example: some companies see...

March 3, 2016

The digital revolution is bringing about a paradigm shift and changing the processes of future production, thus also determining the...

March 3, 2016

Together, e-commerce and SAP are harnessing the opportunities of digitization. A close interlinking of e-commerce, ERP and CRM shows the connections...

March 3, 2016

What was long considered impossible is now part of everyday life. The maintenance fee can be reduced through negotiations with SAP. The application...

March 3, 2016

Indirect use is the current bugbear of all existing SAP customers. Is there a threat of massive relicensing? Naturally not, because nothing is eaten so hot...

March 3, 2016

Energy supply companies can already migrate their IS-U to Hana. This brings added value and, above all, you are well...

March 3, 2016

The first sentence in Spiegel's in-house press release no. 7/2016 reads: "Journalists are used to being criticized for their work."...

March 3, 2016

With 9000 euros, the existing SAP customer is on board when it comes to starting the S/4 release change. But what users can expect...

March 3, 2016

I rarely make anagrams. It fits here: open source software - open source software, OSS - and the Linux of the cloud...

February 25, 2016

Can the new S/4 Business Suite also fulfill the promise of a "digital core for digital business processes" for supply chain and logistics?

February 25, 2016

With S/4, SAP has launched an ambitious ERP project. Everything is new, so SAP does not see it as a successor to ECC...

February 25, 2016

The DSAG figures clearly show that SAP is currently programming past the needs of existing customers. What SAP sees as the future is...

February 25, 2016

With a 24 percent market share worldwide, SAP is the standard in many companies. If, in the course of the digital transformation, extensions, additions...

February 25, 2016

Many people back up their data - perhaps all of them. But does this guarantee data availability? Data security is only guaranteed at the end when...

February 4, 2016

A year ago at the SAP Fkom in Barcelona (Field Kick-off Meeting), a hot needle was used to knit the...

February 4, 2016

Things went very badly for SAP in 2015, and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Professor Hasso Plattner, was forced to...

February 4, 2016

SAP Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) usage based on HCP (Hana Cloud Platform) is growing rapidly. As members of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, SAP and Suse...

February 4, 2016

The majority of German companies see digitization as an opportunity. A dynamic data center is the be-all and end-all for...

February 4, 2016

"The IS has its own encrypted WhatsApp" - this was the headline recently. After events like those in Paris, politicians are...

February 4, 2016

The digital factory - people - processes - workflows. Simulations and automation of manufacturing processes and workflows minimize the company's risk in the...

February 4, 2016

Digitalization is spreading. Seven years ago, there was no Apple App Store. Today, there are more than...

February 4, 2016

The succession of Gerd Oswald by Michael Kleinemeier holds and is thus optimally solved. More painful matters at the start of the year....

February 4, 2016

Only if you can prove your point with objective information against the automated system measurement, the annual SAP license audit will not be a case...

February 4, 2016

SAP has by far the largest installed base in mechanical and plant engineering. The new SAP S/4 Hana provides both the...

February 4, 2016

Uncertain economic and political developments as well as constantly changing framework conditions make the work of strategy departments increasingly complex.

February 3, 2016

In contrast to SAP, DSAG does not see all requirements for analyses and reporting in its new position paper through S/4...

February 3, 2016

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

February 3, 2016

Hitachi Data Systems appoints Germany CEO, Nils Brauckmann becomes CEO of Suse and other new personnel announcements can now be read here.

February 3, 2016

In application processes for highly qualified IT jobs, companies make more mistakes than applicants. IT professionals are rare. Highly qualified specialists, such as...

February 3, 2016

Marek Dutkiewicz has not only made the leap into the SAP world, but also into the cloud world. The native Pole shows how...

February 3, 2016

Mobility involves more than just portable devices and apps. In order for business benefits to materialize, it is not only necessary to develop applications that...

February 3, 2016

This makes it easy to display and use complex SAP processes in customer service on a tablet or smartphone.

February 3, 2016

Today, the maintenance and servicing of complex systems and machines requires specific expert knowledge. Even technically specialized service technicians are confronted with...

February 3, 2016

Infraserv Höchst has introduced SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management to optimize efficiency in supplier management. The aim was to optimize interfaces to...

February 3, 2016

The Georgsmarienhütte steelworks is completely reorganizing its yard logistics and has reorganized its internal logistics processes, taking into account all relevant modes of transport with the help of...

February 3, 2016

The most important aspect of cloud computing is the protection of critical company data. Choosing a service provider for cloud, hosting and/or IaaS with...

February 3, 2016

The digital transformation is changing production in the long term. With the Multi-Process Suite (MPS) platform from Orbis, the basis for...

February 3, 2016

Public clouds can lead to a significant reduction in the operating costs of SAP systems. Before using them, however, it is important to...

February 3, 2016

If you follow the SAP publications on simple Finance, you get the impression that sFin represents a revolution in SAP accounting. Structural simplifications...

February 3, 2016

Data quality has been at the top of the agenda for IT managers in companies, and not just since the advent of big data....

February 3, 2016

SAP SolMan is the central management tool for the on-premise SAP landscape. In recent years, this toolbox has become extremely functional...

February 3, 2016

The standard SAP world is still dominated by old-looking, blue-dominated interfaces. They are oriented less towards individual benefits and more towards...

February 3, 2016

Graph theory is an integral part of mathematics and computer science and is therefore well researched and precisely formulated. As a database engine, this theory is...

February 3, 2016

According to a survey by Ernst & Young, the ten most valuable companies are all based in the USA. SAP is...

February 3, 2016

Hardly any occupation can currently be completely replaced by computers. Only 0.4 percent work in jobs that can be replaced by computer technology and automation.

February 3, 2016

Where will the German economy be in ten years' time? Bitkom asked this question to 556 managing directors and board members from the automotive,...

February 3, 2016

CIOs are placing DevOps at the center of their innovation efforts. This is one of the key findings of the new PAC study "DevOps - Reality Check in German...

February 3, 2016

The 28th annual conference of the DOAG Deutsche Oracle-Anwendergruppe e. V. brought together more than 2,100 users from November 17 to 20, 2015....

February 3, 2016

The main theme of CeBIT 2016 is the continuation of last year's motto: "d!conomy: join - create - succeed". People as decision-makers and creators...

February 3, 2016

It is important to take advantage of the opportunities presented by digital transformation: Companies are developing new business models, need new business processes and new interfaces. It...

February 3, 2016

New developments around the process solutions of xSuite are the focus of this year's CeBIT appearance of WMD.

February 3, 2016

The majority of German energy supply companies see themselves threatened by digitalization. Although energy supply companies recognize digitalization as a top priority, they are...

February 3, 2016

Cloud or not cloud? As is so often the case in German-speaking countries, the - quite justified - doubts about this question...

February 3, 2016

Under the motto "Acting innovatively - shaping change", intralogistics providers will be presenting their range of services for efficient processes in intralogistics at this year's LogiMat....

February 3, 2016

Mobisys will be demonstrating the potential of the Abap add-on MSB Mobisys Solution Builder at LogiMat 2016.

February 3, 2016

Companies that want to remain successful tomorrow must actively address the digital transformation - and do so now.

February 3, 2016

It can be seen as SAP's new self-image that the annual balance sheet figures are now only presented to analysts and journalists in...

February 3, 2016

The Bullion servers from Bull, the Atos brand for technology products and software, show the best performance according to the international benchmark of the Standard Performance Evaluation...

February 3, 2016

IT security, cloud computing and Industry 4.0 are the three most important digital topics of the year. This was revealed by the digital association Bitkom in its...

February 3, 2016

Business intelligence continues to be one of the fastest-moving areas of the economy. E-3 spoke to Henrik Jörgensen, Country Manager Tableau, about the current...

February 3, 2016

Banks in particular, such as the Czech Ceská Sporitelna, have to comply with numerous legal requirements. This applies equally to operational...

January 28, 2016

How much of the company data is correct? Two thirds could be "dark data". This is data whose usefulness is unknown....

December 4, 2015

The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, together with TNS Infratest and ZEW Mannheim, has presented the "Monitoring Report Economy Digital 2015".

December 4, 2015

Where is master data management currently heading? How do companies find the right offer for themselves? In a recent market study, the...

December 4, 2015

The Hamburg Alliance for Families has awarded Innobis the Hamburg Family Seal.

December 4, 2015

New network aims to pave the way for Germany as a production location into the digital age.

December 4, 2015

In the study "Hana service providers in comparison", the Experton Group and West Trax examine the performance of German service providers in the...

December 4, 2015

The fiscal burden for SMEs has decreased in recent years - but this is not only due to the tax rates...

December 4, 2015

In future, SAP customers will be able to deploy and use Fiori apps in both on-premise and cloud environments with the help of new services. They can...

December 4, 2015

Recent study by Concur and Techconsult: Companies should evaluate how their travel management is set up.

December 4, 2015

Data is the basis of all business processes - but according to a Gartner study, around 25 percent of it is incorrect. Data quality is...

December 4, 2015

The SAP community is wondering whether SAP has found the happy medium with the Hana in-memory computing database or whether Hana is a compromise between all...

December 4, 2015

With the new Master Data Governance 8.0 release, SAP is introducing functions for the first time that require the use of Hana. In addition to new...

December 4, 2015

The International Data Corporation (IDC) has published its forecasts for the ICT industry for 2016 in the FutureScape report. According to this...

December 4, 2015

At the Fujitsu Forum 2015 in Munich, Fujitsu presented its extended Cloud Services for SAP Solutions. A new version...

December 4, 2015

SAP has developed the nearline solution SAP NLS for BW specifically for use under Hana, which uses the analytical database SAP...

December 4, 2015

Faulty customer code is a highly critical security risk for SAP systems. This was discovered by Virtual Forge in an Abap Quality Benchmark. Andreas...

December 4, 2015

Sympatex, the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech functional materials, purchases SAP maintenance services for its ERP deployment from third-party provider Rimini Street. E-3 spoke with CIO...

December 4, 2015

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

December 4, 2015

The alleged need to license modifications and add-ons in the sense of "indirect use" concerns existing customers and partners alike. But still...

December 4, 2015

Tobias Ortwein moves from PAC to Accenture and Hinrich Mielke moves from Realtech to Alegri. This and more in the...

December 4, 2015

Design thinking has evolved from a creativity technique to a driver of corporate change. This is one of the main findings of the...

December 4, 2015

According to a recent study, 70 percent of companies expect temporary work to grow. The 50/50 temporary staff/employee ratio is not far off...

December 4, 2015

The digitalization of the world of work will require all employees to have more IT qualifications in the future. This is confirmed by the latest analysis by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training...

December 4, 2015

The German economy sees a great need for further training of its skilled workers on digital topics. More than four out of ten companies (45...

December 4, 2015

More and more companies are turning to cloud solutions. There are still security concerns in Germany. The termination of the Safe Harbor Agreement between the USA and...

December 4, 2015

With Industry 4.0, some topics are being re-evaluated: E-3's editor-in-chief, Peter, spoke about the new significance of logistics and...

December 4, 2015

Intelligent add-ons enable companies to utilize the full power of the Hana real-time platform: Up to 90 percent performance gain, better decision-making basis through...

December 4, 2015

Big Data, Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things are far more than just buzzwords and have long since found their way into our...

December 4, 2015

Cenit acquires a majority stake in Coristo, a consulting company in the field of SAP product structure management.

December 4, 2015

The factoring specialist Fidis and the credit agency Bürgel have entered into a cooperation. The aim is to support factoring providers in systematically identifying fraud...

December 4, 2015

On the fringes of the German-Chinese meeting of economic advisors with Chancellor Angela Merkel, SAP signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Chinese construction machinery...

December 4, 2015

WorkForce Software, a cloud workforce management provider, has signed a global reseller agreement with SAP.

December 3, 2015

The vast majority of companies in Europe (92 percent) state that they are not prepared for the introduction of the EU's digital single...

December 3, 2015

Fiori 2.0 includes hundreds of web applications. In addition, many SAP partners offer solutions based on Fiori, and every SAP customer can develop their own Fiori apps....

December 3, 2015

Dell wanted to drive its business forward by further improving the performance of its sales organization. Consolidation, standardization and greater efficiency in...

December 3, 2015

For all CIOs, IT managers and SAP executives, i.e. for the readers of this magazine, communication is one of the most important success factors...

December 3, 2015

In IT system management, the principle of "avoiding errors instead of correcting errors" has not yet become established. However, forward-looking IT quality assurance, which...

December 3, 2015

Companies must regularly adapt their application systems. Even SAP applications are anything but static and are constantly changing. The increasing digitalization...

December 3, 2015

With SAP ERP on Hana as a centralized, standardized company platform, the construction equipment manufacturer Wacker Neuson has succeeded in streamlining its process and system...

December 3, 2015

Suspa wanted to optimize its store floor processes as well as the productivity and capacity utilization of its systems. The gas spring manufacturer has achieved this with a new solution,...

December 3, 2015

Customer proximity in all sales channels is essential for the retail-oriented telecommunications company Freenet Group. The prerequisite for this is a perfectly functioning logistics chain. Therefore...

December 3, 2015

Depending on the process and industry, it often makes sense to extend SAP products with additional functions and interfaces for production logistics. Here...

December 3, 2015

A large number of components make software development a complex process: the procurement of development resources, the flexible on-boarding of internal...

December 3, 2015

The zeitgeist of the mobile age has reached SAP. The focus on mobile users is changing the DNA of the company....

December 3, 2015

As SAP announced last year, all new NetWeaver releases after 7.40 and products based on it will only be available with...

December 3, 2015

In-memory systems, such as SAP Hana, keep most of the data in the main memory. In order to ensure high availability, CIOs should optimize their...

December 3, 2015

Some people think that with in-memory you no longer need to worry about data storage. Oracle has...

December 3, 2015

Since the moment SAP tried to position the Hana database in the IT market, the term "data mining" has taken on a new...

December 3, 2015

SAP has created facts with Linux internally. For the provision of server workloads in its data centers, the Group relies on...

December 3, 2015

Colloquially, the Solution Manager is also known as the Swiss army knife. Even if many things are debatable, IT managers have long been familiar with the...

December 3, 2015

Blackmail enjoys unbroken popularity among cyber criminals. Once they have tasted blood, they quickly thirst for more. Anyone who...

December 3, 2015

Will digitalization make people superfluous? New occupational fields will emerge and taboo topics such as regular working hours, home office and shift models will be...

December 3, 2015

Our planning and budget discussions are complete. Time to prepare for 2016. It's time to take stock and continue the digital transformation process....

December 3, 2015

SAP license audits can not only result in additional costs for the company, but also legal violations and risks for the company's own data and IT systems. SAP licensees...

December 3, 2015

At the moment, the topic of migration and refugees is of particular concern to society and the economy. And there is no question that it is a...

December 3, 2015

It is in keeping with the spirit of the times that traditional journalism is being confronted with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. To put it simply: on the one hand...

December 3, 2015

A small step for SAP, perhaps a major catastrophe for existing customers. Anyone who has modified their SAP system currently faces three challenges:...

November 26, 2015

Sympatex, the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech functional materials, purchases SAP maintenance services for its ERP deployment from third-party provider Rimini Street. E-3 spoke with CIO...

November 26, 2015

Digital transformation is not a reduction to the binary system of digital electronics, but rather the creation of new business processes based on the...

November 12, 2015

The digital transformation processes have only just begun. Industry and commerce 4.0 are just beginning. The Internet of Things is becoming a reality. C-level management...

November 5, 2015

SAP users today are faced with constantly growing demands. The aim is to improve the efficiency and performance of mission-critical applications and to develop new...

November 3, 2015

Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) is available on Oracle Exadata for SAP for the first time. The article deals with the use of Oracle's own...

November 3, 2015

The debate about Industry 4.0 has matured in German industrial companies over the last twelve months, but many companies are still struggling with...

November 3, 2015

Data is the raw material of our time. German companies are relying more and more on data analysis. But which companies use which data to...

November 3, 2015

The winners of this year's ERP System of the Year competition, in which over 70 systems were nominated for participation, are...

November 3, 2015

56 percent of manufacturing companies are already using Industry 4.0 software solutions, according to a recent study.

November 3, 2015

We have taken note of the decision of the European Court of Justice. The individual's right to informational self-determination and thus the...

November 3, 2015

The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung receives around 25,000 invoices a year from its suppliers. A workflow system that has been in use for several years was...

November 3, 2015

The fashion and lifestyle company s.Oliver is now handling its indirect purchasing in a self-service process via SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).

November 3, 2015

Decision-makers in SMEs see a great need for change in management skills. The reason for this is the digital transformation of business models. 58 percent of...

November 3, 2015

Machine tool manufacturer Trumpf wanted to increase the accuracy of freight cost checks and minimize manual effort. A freight cost solution implemented directly in SAP processes...

November 3, 2015

DSAG Chairman Marco Lenck carefully packaged the bitter truth so that it might not have been noticed by SAP Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert - because...

November 3, 2015

Especially with time-critical deliveries, customers want to know quickly where their order is. Complicated registration processes make shipment tracking a difficult and...

November 3, 2015

It is annoying when you find a payment request for a long-paid broadcasting fee in your letterbox. Even for the organization that...

November 3, 2015

What does SAP want to achieve with "indirect use"? The situation is complex, the answer is simple: more license and maintenance fee revenue...

November 3, 2015

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

November 3, 2015

Six out of ten employees would like to process vacation requests and travel expenses online in the future.

November 3, 2015

Self-service systems are in vogue. The HR department is relieved, work efficiency increases and paper is saved. Recently, therefore, the...

November 3, 2015

Despite a number of difficulties, cloud computing has now also established itself in Germany. More and more, hybrid...

November 3, 2015

Simplified administration of Oracle databases for SAP solutions has long characterized Dell Toad. The toolset also supports SAP ASE, SAP...

November 3, 2015

Dell has steadily expanded its portfolio to provide companies with holistic support in the digital connected world. The Hana services range from...

November 3, 2015

In May, Dell opened its Global SAP Center of Excellence in Walldorf. With the new office and a data center,...

November 3, 2015

Flexera Software has acquired Secunia, a leading provider of vulnerability management software solutions.

November 3, 2015

The full-service IT provider Gisa is expanding its business and will take over the Wilken business activities of B&S Kampehl, an industry specialist in the field of...

November 3, 2015

Celonis enters into a global reseller agreement with SAP. SAP will distribute Celonis' process mining technology under the name SAP Process Mining.

November 3, 2015

Dell has bought the storage specialist EMC for 67 billion dollars (59 billion euros). This is the largest corporate acquisition in the...

November 3, 2015

Dell wants to buy EMC. If it succeeds, two IT giants will merge. It cannot be a takeover in the classic sense...

November 3, 2015

Only seven percent of decision-makers in companies have so far combined the skills of a digital leader and can provide important impetus for digital...

November 3, 2015

Unstructured data, the Internet of Things, machine learning and decision-making: For many customers, five, ten or 15 years into the...

November 3, 2015

The digitalization of industry is not a short-term trend, but is significantly changing the strategies and processes of every company. This also applies...

November 3, 2015

We make dozens of decisions every day at work. Many of them are based on information such as time or location, often...

November 3, 2015

Together with SAP, T-Systems has developed a globally unique logistics concept. It optimizes the flow of traffic and goods and thus ensures...

November 3, 2015

The medical technology company Otto Bock Kunststoff has merged its Foam Plants and Foam Systems business units. The merger of the two legal entities into one...

November 3, 2015

Increasing requirements and data volumes at Stuttgart Airport were pushing the NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) to its limits. A long-term data management strategy and...

November 2, 2015

The topic of security is heavily dependent on the respective use of Hana. The security concepts differ depending on the use case. In the following...

November 2, 2015

Lumira and Design Studio Apps are the two applications that SAP relies on for visual data analysis. The question is...

November 1, 2015

For many companies, SAP with an Oracle database forms the backbone of their business. The data that is processed there is correspondingly sensitive....

November 1, 2015

Automation is not the panacea for cost reduction in test management. Since the creation, maintenance and management of automated tests is associated with...

November 1, 2015

Europe's companies have finally started to implement digital testing strategies. Previous budgets for testing are moving towards testing...

November 1, 2015

The TDI configuration Tailored (Datacenter Integration) from Hana is more flexible and more scalable than the appliance configuration. However, when planning...

29 October 2015

The SAP landscape has grown in recent years - both in size and complexity. To cope with the complexity...

29 October 2015

The Chinese IT and telecommunications (ICT) market is booming: according to the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO), in 2014 alone, the...

29 October 2015

No crystal ball is needed in the SAP community. The 2025 deadline will not be met, as all existing customers now know. Hana and...

29 October 2015

One of the biggest challenges for the future in the implementation of Industry 4.0 will be the creation of a standardized data structure and...

29 October 2015

In regulated corporate environments in particular, it is always of interest to generate test data instead of creating system copies. The...

29 October 2015

This year SAP TechEd is taking place in Barcelona. Like every year, I asked for accreditation in Walldorf....

29 October 2015

Linux is nothing new in the SAP community. Everyone is familiar with the term "open source". Nevertheless, one can speak of a revolution...

29 October 2015

It is astonishing that classic business intelligence is still a hot topic. This becomes clear when it comes to investment planning and management...

29 October 2015

Free of charge! Free of charge! Free! There are many terms for labeling software. What seems to mean the same thing at first glance is...

29 October 2015

The use of Hana is always about High Availability (HA). Anyone who wants to run Hana on IBM Power8-based servers with the Suse Linux operating...

29 October 2015

Two major German corporations are fighting over intellectual property - who invented it? SAP or VW. Since the emissions scandal...

October 4, 2015

After two years of declining sales and minimal growth, Europe's ICT business will pick up again in the current year.

October 4, 2015

Big Data can mean a commercial advantage for 74 percent of all European companies.

October 4, 2015

Successful investment round brings Onapsis $17 million. Evolution Equity Partners leads the way as lead investor.

October 4, 2015

In its key issues paper on venture capital, the German government acknowledged that financial resources for startups are low.

October 4, 2015

Austria-wide data on Industry 4.0 is available for the first time. The digital transformation brings a planned investment volume of four billion euros per...

October 4, 2015

Since September, the user type Limited Professional User is no longer included in the SAP ERP software price list. Users should now define the scope of functions...

October 4, 2015

Existing SAP customers are familiar with the GTC and PKL (price and conditions list). But it is also said that nothing is eaten as hot as...

October 4, 2015

Susensoftware has not only won a court case against SAP, but is also trying to help existing SAP customers in the long term with innovative business ideas. If...

October 4, 2015

Every second German manager from sales, marketing and HR is preparing a digitalization initiative, for example to increase process efficiency. For...

October 4, 2015

Business processes are not only becoming digital, but also mobile. Mobile computing is intended to optimize the day-to-day work of existing SAP customers and make it more efficient. The...

October 4, 2015

With almost 300 participants, the 8th Info Day on variant configuration with SAP solutions, organized by the software and consulting company Sybit in...

October 4, 2015

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

October 4, 2015

Realtech expands management team and Jean-Pierre Brulard takes responsibility for EMEA at VMware. That and more in the latest personnel news.

October 4, 2015

SAP has introduced new rapid deployment solutions (RDS). The rapid deployment packages are designed to facilitate the introduction of cloud-based SuccessFactors solutions for human capital management (HCM).

October 4, 2015

In May 2014, SAP acquired the vendor management provider Fieldglass. The Group is now using the software to manage external labor...

October 4, 2015

More and more SMEs are also moving their HR processes or parts of them to the cloud. Surveys show that for many, cloud use...

October 4, 2015

SAP is increasingly pushing into the cloud with S/4 Hana Cloud. However, many existing SAP customers are still hesitant, are not clear...

October 4, 2015

The productivity promise of digital processes is only fulfilled when the degree of automation reaches its maximum. With OpenText Business Center for SAP...

October 4, 2015

With S/4 Hana, SAP has finally completed the generational change in its core product. Hana not only replaces relational databases, but...

October 4, 2015

Flexibility, scalability, usage-based billing, security - that's what companies expect from their archive in order to save costs and...

October 4, 2015

In the past, shoe retailer Hamm Reno kept all its real estate documents in archive rooms. The switch to digital files brings security,...

October 4, 2015

s.Oliver processes transactions with 8,000 suppliers via a global supply chain. When redesigning the invoice receipt process, the fashion company replaced local...

October 4, 2015

SAP security is also essential in production control. Anyone who can intervene here without authorization has extensive opportunities for fraud, espionage...

October 4, 2015

Anyone carrying a pile of glued wood, a saw and a pneumatic nailer from the DIY store does not yet have a roof over their head. Similarly...

October 4, 2015

The pharmaceutical company Grünenthal has set itself the goal of using a global SAP ERP system. The sales companies in Brazil and Venezuela have already been working with...

October 4, 2015

Constant market change is making it increasingly difficult for companies to plan their production in line with demand. But how can the entire production...

October 4, 2015

Almost everyone has them: constantly available and "paperless" communication options for exchanging information privately - via WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, email or...

October 4, 2015

More and more all-flash storage arrays are finding their way into data centers. They could dominate the primary storage environment as early as 2018/2019. The CIO...

October 3, 2015

Various big data applications can be used to advantage with Hana and S/4 - even in the cloud. Direct Hana-Hadoop integration plays an important role in this...

September 29, 2015

Even though ITIL has long since left its hype behind, there are still many companies that either do not yet have a Service Desk...

September 29, 2015

What was forbidden at school should not be tried again in professional life. SAP prohibits any kind of copying and...

September 29, 2015

The new SAP generation is here. Simplicity and Hana seem to be turning the IT market upside down, although the new dimension with S/4 Hana...

September 24, 2015

Hana on IBM Power8-based servers together with the Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP Applications platform can be used by SAP customers from...

September 24, 2015

SAP's current database strategy is not immediately obvious to customers. Hana is obviously at the center of...

September 24, 2015

The digital transformation process does not have to be disruptive for almost all existing SAP customers - regardless of technology, use and business cases. "Hybrid"...

September 23 2015

CAD integration in Industry 4.0-specific business processes is still in its infancy. The development and change process in product development must first be established...

September 23 2015

This is not a new chemical formula from Walldorf, but an abbreviation I created for Suite on Hana (SoH) and...

September 23 2015

There is a lot of legal dynamite in the SAP license terms - we not only hear this from our clients, but also experience it in...

September 23 2015

Poor data quality jeopardizes the smooth running of business processes. It leads to delayed sales or loss of sales, high direct and indirect costs...

September 23 2015

Anyone can print or generate other output - or so you think. Printing from the SAP system is also possible without an external output management system (OMS)...

September 23 2015

Hana has many parents. Numerous database engines come together to form a respectable overall concept. This conglomerate of good ideas, own and...

September 23 2015

If you want to get from A to B in IT, you have to be careful not to be swept away by the "digital tsunami".

September 23 2015

It is a complex relationship and offers plenty of material for rumors, misunderstandings and errors. The parties involved: SAP, the community...

September 23 2015

Everything is better with Hana. But what happens to the existing applications? What about the add-ons? The Z programs? Must...