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 September 2025
License behavior
SAP license management, once characterized by complex rules and opaque metrics, has developed into an even denser jungle over the past three years. This has been driven by SAP's cloud strategy and the introduction of the Full Use Equivalent (FUE) license model, which many existing customers can barely keep track of.
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.
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.
SAP Change Competence Is Now Critical
September 17, 2025
86 percent of enterprises believe SAP change management is now critical to competitive advantage, with the ability to continuously adapt recognized as a defining factor for success.
AI Is Not a Luxury
September 17, 2025
For around three years, we have been experimenting with various combinations of artificial intelligence with our interns. Although a discussion has been initiated, no decision has yet been made regarding the direction to take.
Turning point in SAP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
September 17, 2025
With the end of maintenance for SAP Solution Manager, new options in SAP Cloud ALM, the S/4HANA transformation and the potential of cloud and AI, companies must now realign their ALM strategy - or risk being left behind.
Keeping ERP in Balance
August 28, 2025
The CIO is not an innovator, but rather a steward of successful business processes and a facilitator of necessary orchestration. At the same time, the CIO must strike a balance between ERP business management, the IT organization, technology, and licensing fees.
AI Is Not an SAP Business Model
August 21, 2025
AI is delivering ever more spectacular results and penetrating more and more business areas, but the share prices of IT providers that should be benefiting from this AI hype are falling. What is going wrong with artificial intelligence?
Fast Fashion ERP by Lovable
August 14, 2025
Artificial intelligence has a destructive power: why not use Lovable and a few AI agents to build a new composable ERP based on SAP BTP and BDC? Between traditional Abap ERP and AI, things could get tight for SAP in the cloud.
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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September 17, 2025
AI Is Not a Luxury
For around three years, we have been experimenting with various combinations of artificial intelligence with our interns. Although a discussion has been initiated, no decision has yet been made regarding the direction to take.
September 4, 2025
SAP Clean Core 2016
E3 Magazine already addressed the topic of "cleaning out" ERP systems in 2016. To that end, the SAP system has been heavily modified in recent years. What now?
September 3, 2025
AI Doomsayers
AI doomsday preachers are gaining momentum, but the IT industry is not prepared to disrupt itself. Clayton M. Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" is relevant once again.
August 25, 2025
False SAP Prophets
SAP is not only a stock market darling and star, but also the source behind much business, technical, and licensing discourse in the IT scene. Who has the power of interpretation?
SAP News
September 17, 2025
SAP Change Competence Is Now Critical
86 percent of enterprises believe SAP change management is now critical to competitive advantage, with the ability to continuously adapt recognized as a defining factor for success.
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.
Business Management
July 9, 2025
SMEs Must Catch Up With SAP Ariba
Digitizalition in purchasing? Still a non-issue for many SMEs. Yet SAP Ariba provides a modular platform for procurement and supplier management that enables SMEs to gradually come to grips with the topic.
July 1, 2025
Process Optimization Runs Better With a Plan
What about process optimization? This question becomes relevant for S/4 projects at the latest. This is where Signavio comes into play: it allows users to delve deep into their processes, uncover weak points, and optimize their business processes. A practical recap shows how this works.
June 20, 2025
Seamless Instead of Clueless—SAP Interface Migration
The Finnish chemical company Kemira has implemented one of the world's largest interface migrations to the SAP Integration Suite with "Leap". The success was based on a precise assessment, a clear roadmap, and efficient implementation.
June 12, 2025
Core Strengths
The switch to S/4 Hana is about strategic future viability. How can the Clean Core approach be used to create a modern, maintainable system architecture, providing the foundation for agility, innovation, and compliance?
IT Management
Switching to S/4 Hana offers opportunities for digitalization and automation. However, the new license model increases the pressure to act. In order to reduce licensing costs and avoid compliance risks, strategically aligned authorization management is essential.
For years, SAP PI and PO were the central integration solutions in many companies. Their era is coming to an end, however, with the shift towards the cloud, APIs, and agile IT: SAP is discontinuing further development and support is coming to an end. It is time to realign the integration strategy.
June 17, 2025
Equal Rights for AI Agents
While the current diversity policy of the Trump administration is being discussed in the USA, and SAP has scrapped its diversity targets, there is suddenly a new class of employee in the ERP environment: AI agents are here to stay!
June 10, 2025
The Data Management Platform of the Future?
SAP Datasphere is an open data ecosystem that makes information easily accessible and usable throughout an entire company. But how exactly does Datasphere work, and does it truly meet the expectations of modern data architectures?
Economy
June 3, 2024
Are AI and Digitalization Our Saviors?
The many changes in business, technology, politics, and society can make you think. And the more innovations there are, the greater the desire for orientation and clarity.
March 26, 2024
CNT and Amazon Business: Partnership for SAP solutions
Preferred Partnership agreed for convenient procurement processes.
March 25, 2024
Natuvion and Adesso Orange intensify their cooperation
Natuvion Data Conversion Server. The SAP architects at Adesso Orange and the digital relocation specialist Natuvion have expanded their partnership.
December 8, 2023
Syntax and Beyond Technologies Officially Join Forces
Merger creates broad portfolio, strengthens SAP expertise, and expands team strength and global reach
E3 Book Tip
SAP S/4HANA Finance - Customizing
This book will help you navigate safely through the configuration of FI/CO in SAP S/4HANA. A continuous example shows you how to make all the important settings. You will learn how to create master data and set up organizational structures. You will also learn how to set up the central processes in Financial Accounting and Controlling. The authors also explain which methods have proven successful for migration. The completely revised 4th edition includes all the functions of Release 2023 - for example Advanced Valuation. Many screenshots and practical tips will help you to successfully implement SAP S/4HANA Finance.
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- With a practical example throughout and lots of tips and tricks
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
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