SAP users who choose strictly between best-of-breed tools and suite solutions for SAP Basis automation solutions are missing out on optimization potential. It makes sense to use a suite as a "central...
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...
Complex SAP landscapes, the pressure to migrate to the cloud and the rise and acute shortage of skilled workers in SAP Basis are shaping the situation at many companies....
The Workday partner ecosystem in the DACH region is growing steadily. With HCM Advisory Service, a boutique partner is establishing itself as both an advisory and...
The two classic SAP operating tasks in the context of SAP on Rise - infrastructure management and SAP Basis administration - are known to be clearly regulated....
As a strategic PaaS offering, the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is designed to help companies develop faster and work more efficiently. But...
With the migration to S/4 Hana, the southern German energy supplier Badenova has renewed its ERP system landscape. Through selective data migration, separation of IS-U...
Slow SAP applications, outages and risk reduction: Ensuring flawless software delivery and meeting rising expectations is more important than ever. A...
The expectations of today's SAP transformations could hardly be greater. Companies expect leaner processes, state-of-the-art technologies and massive efficiency gains. But...
With the introduction of an AI-supported process modeler with text-to-process function for Signavio, SAP aims to further develop Signavio into an agile, sustainable and...
The digital association Bitkom welcomes the creation of an independent digital ministry by the future federal government as well as the many digital policy plans of the governing parties,...
With the deadline for S/4 approaching, a well thought-out migration is essential. An SAPinsider survey 2024 emphasizes the urgency of minimizing risks...
A veritable discussion is underway at the SAP regulars' table as to whether SAP should actively and dynamically shape or continue the legacy of Professor Hasso...
Companies are increasingly confronted with the challenge of making their ERP systems cost-efficient, innovative and sustainable at the same time. The clean core approach...
The SAP Business Data Cloud, BDC, is set to become the catalyst for a future ERP digital twin. The field of computer science is familiar with the topic of simulating dynamic...
The SAP community is undergoing a transformation. The S/4 conversion means challenges in many areas: Automation, testing, data management, ERP modifications, AI u....
The global market leader in thin-film technology Leonhard Kurz is implementing updates to SAP Hana, SAP Kernel and Linux OS as part of an update triple on the...
Document management systems (DMS) have been tried and tested on a large scale for years. However, the integration of e-invoices brings a new dimension of speed...
Efficient digital end-to-end SAP configuration based on the "Model Once - Configure Anywhere" principle will be indispensable for variant manufacturers in the future in order...
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the world of work - experience at the Workday flagship event Elevate 2025 how companies are already successfully...
Because the underlying database in SAP is not correct, many industrial companies are unable to report on REACH (chemical safety), RoHS (hazardous substances) and...
The digital transformation not only demands new technologies from companies, but also an intelligent combination of flexibility, security and performance...
This year's Lünendonk Business-to-Business Service Award in the "Lifetime achievement" category goes to Hans Zehetmaier, founder of IT consultancy MSG.
For two years, the refrigeration system manufacturer Hauser optimized its master data for global S/4 use. With software and service from Simus Systems...
Companies with SAP workloads are increasingly implementing hybrid cloud strategies. Suse Rancher for SAP Applications offers an easy-to-operate, flexible and...
SAP's clean core strategy reduces maintenance costs and improves system stability. Companies need to check which adjustments are necessary and which are covered by standards...
The migration of SAP systems is often complicated by grown, insufficiently documented custom code. Fujitsu Easy Custom Code Adaption (ECCA) minimizes...
To remain competitive, automotive supplier Harman relies on digital solutions and efficient processes. An SAP-based tolerance line check enables precise requirements planning,...
The annual investment report of the German-speaking SAP user group, DSAG e. V., is always eagerly awaited. In addition to the survey data itself, the...
SAP migrations often take longer than expected. It is not for nothing that SAP has extended some maintenance windows. New developments such as automated fit-gap analyses with downstream...
Sustainable growth in corporate IT requires more than just cost reductions - it needs strategic ERP management. SAP Gold Partner LeverX is convinced...
AI research is currently experiencing rapid developments, especially in the field of generative AI. Clearly, this also has an impact on the SAP world and...
External master data management, synchronized with SAP systems, brings added value such as ease of use, cost-conscious design and calculation of the product carbon footprint.
SAP has introduced a new S/4 Cloud Private Edition. Enhanced AI and automation functions are intended to improve user-friendliness and the transformation of...
If you are an existing SAP ECC and S/4 customer and want to participate in the latest IT innovations such as AI, LLMs, databases, cloud and edge computing, you should...
An S/4 conversion is more than just a technical release change. An existing SAP customer should only embark on this roadmap with an experienced team...
The Fischer Group is modernizing its ERP system with S/4 Hana in the private cloud. The aim is to create a future-proof IT landscape, transparent processes...
Concur Travel is the first online booking tool to integrate emissions calculations in accordance with the new ISO 14083 standard. In cooperation with Thrust Carbon, SAP Concur is thus...
On February 27, 2025, the first ServiceNow Community Meetup took place in Montreal. The informal meet-and-greet networking event served to promote the exchange and...
Hybrid Cloud with SuccessFactors combines local IT infrastructure with cloud-based solutions. Certain HR functions are used in the cloud, while others...
An unconditional and uncritical use of AI is not justifiable in the business-critical SAP environment. Trustworthy AI will therefore become increasingly important...
LogiMat 2025 will occupy more than 120,000 square meters of exhibition space at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre. From March 11 to 13, global players,...
Customers in more than 180 countries and around 5000 responsible service technicians rely on us to supply spare parts for their Roche Diagnostics laboratory...
SAP Basis automation has undergone rapid development over the past 20 years. SAP customers demonstrably benefit from the "SAP Basis automation suite instead of individual tools" approach....
In many cases, SAP's licensing policy seems counterproductive. Innovation comes from experimenting, learning and gaining experience. For proofs-of-concepts, the existing SAP customer needs...
The role of SAP developers with regard to the security of software systems is similar to that of other software programmers. In terms of the associated...
In recent years, the SAP universe has been atomized. The consistent R/3 black box has been transformed into a heterogeneous conglomerate of ERP modules and...
The crown jewels of countless manufacturing companies are stuck in outdated PDM/PLM systems. In order to get fit for the transformation to new software generations,...
Following the efforts to achieve consistent end-to-end processes, the topics of data economy and data management are now becoming more important with Gen AI. To...
Transformation projects are very extensive and complex. This is why consultants are often called in. But hardly any consultants have experience with all manufacturers,...
SAP workloads require maximum availability and security. SLES for SAP Applications 16 solves this challenge with high availability, security and optimized management...
With a complex ERP initiative for hidden maintenance renewal and alternative cloud roadmap, Rise with SAP was still expected to be a major player at the beginning of this...
SAP Business Technology Platform can become the new basis of a Composable ERP. To do this, the existing SAP customer needs comprehensive business, organizational, technical and...
For some time now, finance departments have been experiencing a phase of transformation. From cash flow and processes to automation and AI, financial...
Empirius recently launched a new version of the SAP Basis automation suite Epos. With new features, some of which offer considerable user benefits for...
The Blanc & Fischer Group was faced with the task of modernizing its ERP systems. To this end, the company carried out two S/4 transformations in its operational business groups...
The crane and lifting platform manufacturer Tadano increased efficiency and quality in design and production by optimizing parts list management and...
Complex SAP-centric business processes continue to hinder comprehensive, company-wide automation. This is the result of a recent study by the Americas' SAP Users' Group...
In an interview with Handelsblatt editor Christof Kerkmann at the WEF 2025 in Davos, SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig quoted the well-known...
Banks have a significant influence on the degree of economic sustainability through capital allocation. With a 5-step model, their path towards a sustainable...
New virtualization-centric approach provides a customized experience for managing virtual machines while offering a roadmap for application modernization
SAP BTP is a central component for companies that want to modernize and digitize their SAP system landscape. It enables companies to be more flexible and...
As one of the first SAP software providers with Clean Core certification, ifm is familiar with the current challenges surrounding BTP. In an exclusive E3 interview, Managing Director...
Boomi is an independent platform provider, but many IT providers such as Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and IBM as well as the hyperscalers also supply platform technology. The...
The SAP community was able to read a surprising announcement this week in the German-language Handelsblatt that there could be an ECC maintenance extension until 2033....
"Hello World" was programmed by SAP employee Raja Gupta in numerous programming languages and frameworks on the SAP BTP to ensure the openness of the...
As a native cloud company, Workday does many things differently to long-established industry giants such as SAP. In partner management, the focus is on class rather than mass. In...
A classic Rise-with-SAP contract is an oath of disclosure to the ERP world market leader. After a Rise conversion, the existing SAP customer has almost only obligations and...
TÜV Süd with its 25,000 SAP users has recently started using the SAP Basis automation suite EPOS. The main benefit: a reduction in weekend personnel deployment with the...
Foreign business is of central importance for the mechanical engineering company Windmöller & Hölscher. In order to be able to offer international reselling directly via the...
Leading existing SAP customers such as Hilti, Unilever and Maersk have opted for Workday in the HR area. Medium-sized SAP customers are still hesitant because...
Inetum announces the extension of its partnership agreement with Dynatrace in the territories of Iberia, Latin America, EMEA and other countries where it...
With immediate effect, Guido Schlief joins the management of the digital consulting, solutions and software company Valantic as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and...
SAP Group Reporting promises to compile all relevant data from all sources for financial reports. How the consolidation tool performs in day-to-day operations...
SAP Business Technology Platform is the central building block of a current and future ERP. Existing ECC customers are already using this platform to...
Transformations with little planning fail, says Natuvion CMO Philipp von der Brüggen. In an exclusive E3 interview, he reflects on the results of the transformation study...
The ServiceNow Dev Meetup, Toronto edition, held on November 12, 2024 brought the city’s developer community together for an evening of innovation, insight, and networking.
The advancing digital networking of industry requires flexible data management. ERP systems offer hardly any support for the adaptation, optimization and maintenance of...
Inetum Solutions, the global business unit of French IT services company Inetum, has announced the appointment of Thomas Saunder as the new Global Head of...
Minsait, a subsidiary of the Spanish IT group Indra, has acquired 100 percent of MQA, an SAP business management solutions company in Colombia and Central America.
SAP's Clean Core concept is not a repair service behavior, but a development scheme for the current and future ERP generation. Clean Core is an approach...
The terms "Change Management" and "Organizational Change Management" have lost credibility because they are used inflationarily and without a deep understanding of...
Common data foundation enables interoperability using a Data Integrity Suite to accelerate the delivery of trusted data for analytics and AI initiatives
German companies are now recognizing the benefits of the cloud in terms of agility, flexibility and scalability and are continuing to invest consistently in this...
German CEOs are increasingly downgrading their own company's growth expectations. Generative AI is seen as the most important growth driver with hurdles in...
Desma, the world's leading manufacturer of shoe machines, has been committed to continuous innovation since its foundation. One example of this is the "Smart...
An international pharmaceutical company accelerated its S/4 transformation thanks to AI-supported test management with ProcessBridge. With 70 percent time savings and autonomous testing, it optimized...
The next AI-driven industrial revolution is leading to a massive need for action in terms of digital IT logistics solutions, especially in the SAP environment. This is also...
As part of an S/4 migration, the agricultural company U.S. Sugar was looking for a solution to check segregation of duties conflicts for its approximately 2,500 employees....
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...
Specialist departments and IT departments have it on the table: artificial intelligence is to be used, provide new insights and increase efficiency....
Because SAP has watered down the business and organizational components of its offering, but with databases, cloud and AI it is only partially able to...
Even in the cloud, existing SAP customers need appropriate tools to orchestrate their ERP applications. Cloud ALM, Application Lifecycle Management, from SAP...
The use of artificial intelligence is by no means new. For many years, technology providers have been using the diverse possibilities to optimize processes. Current...
The cloud blurs the differences between applications from different providers. Functions are developed, replicated and provided more quickly. A switch to the...
Cybercriminals use AI to develop targeted attacks. With machine learning, ransomware programs can identify vulnerabilities in networks and systems more quickly...
Companies are under pressure to secure their competitiveness through digitalization and sustainable processes. IT systems therefore require experienced IT partners at eye level.
The DSAG Annual Congress 2024 revealed the need for an efficient SAP Basis team during and after an SAP Rise project. During a Rise conversion, many tasks...
Today, a data warehouse architecture is not enough to implement market requirements and adapt processes, but modern data strategies make it possible to make the most of the multitude of...
Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) are closely linked, essential areas of a company. Business applications are now increasingly relying on a...
The transformation to S/4 is a central component of the innovation and sustainability strategy of the German steel group Salzgitter. After working together with cbs...
Kubernetes are increasingly coming to the fore in SAP applications. The increased flexibility promises cost savings and new use cases, for example in...
In today's business environment, companies face the challenge of modernizing their IT architectures and being flexible in order to remain competitive....
Solutive AG is an established solution provider in the field of Enterprise Software Management and at the same time a very experienced SAP ALM consulting company - especially...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is finding its way into SAP applications, mainly through the cloud. However, many companies are taking advantage of SAP on-premise....
The xSuite solution brings dependability to KS Large Bore Pistons Group’s procurement and invoicing processes and ensures maximum efficiency by combining them.
The SAP service provider SoftwareOne relies on the SAP Basis automation suite EPOS from Empirius for the provision of SAP Managed Services. The resulting...
Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion.
This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.
For the fourth time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.
Venue
FourSide Hotel Salzburg, Trademark Collection by Wyndham Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria +43-66-24355460
Event date
Wednesday, June 10, and Thursday, June 11, 2026
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Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
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Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 23, 2026
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The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.