September 23 2015

Once you have decided on the basic design of an SAP IT infrastructure landscape, changes are in fact only made on a small scale. With "Design and...

September 22, 2015

High-speed spaceships and fighting elves, preferably in surround sound - plus chips and a cold beer. The evening is saved. On the other hand...

September 22, 2015

When it comes to the Internet of Things, many people think of hip objects such as smartwatches, fitness trackers or cars with Wi-Fi. But basically...

September 4, 2015

I'm committed to tradition and so after the clear-out in the cellar and attic - like...

September 3, 2015

The digital transformation must be mastered in order not to miss the global boat. Faster data transfer would only be a short-term solution....

September 3, 2015

Do SAP service providers actually use SAP solutions themselves to map their business? This question was addressed by the IA4SP Applications topic group in a...

September 3, 2015

In many companies that have opted for SAP, redundant or unused licenses accumulate over the years. How...

September 3, 2015

Cybernetics: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. SAP seems to have recognized this wisdom for its own licensing model.

September 3, 2015

E-3 Magazine has obtained a recording of an appearance by SAP CEO Bill McDermott from well-informed and very reliable sources....

September 2, 2015

Around a third of all servers are in operation even though they are not needed. These zombie servers not only consume electricity, they...

September 2, 2015

The contact point for SAP users at IBM celebrated its birthday. Working group leader Manfred Engelbart and Peter Althapp invited the SAP-on-IBM-i users to the Heinz Nixdorf Museum...

September 2, 2015

Current survey underscores displeasure with confusing, time-consuming and complicated billing processes.

September 2, 2015

Coincidence? ERP manufacturer Wilken has been using S/4 as the name for its development platform since 2011. Three years later, SAP presented its new application suite...

September 2, 2015

Having to complete an ongoing IT project as a new employee sounds like a daunting task. It...

September 2, 2015

Until 2006, Melitta technicians received their orders from a graphical scheduling solution via push e-mail. Feedback was provided via MDE...

September 2, 2015

The Limited Professional User is dead. This will probably be the most discussed topic at the DSAG Congress in Bremen - alongside...

September 2, 2015

With the recently released version 8.5 of BlueCopySuite, automation tool specialist Empirius also supports Hana system copies.

September 2, 2015

S/4 Hana will have to prove that it offers more flexibility in the mapping of processes and more individuality for the individual...

September 2, 2015

Archived data is becoming increasingly important in the analysis of big data. According to a recent Gartner study, as early as 2017...

September 2, 2015

Channel partner T.Con presents its portfolio of solutions, services and consulting in the SAP environment. The focus will be on: Automation, predictive analytics and production cockpits with...

September 2, 2015

Companies are challenged to adapt strategies and business models to the growing complexity associated with digital transformation.

September 2, 2015

AOK Sachsen-Anhalt relies on SAP. When the desire arose to be able to efficiently manage contracts in addition to the regular health insurance contracts, the...

September 2, 2015

At the annual congress, Realtime will be presenting solutions for master data and logistics, sales and production as well as industry solutions. Doreen reports from the field...

September 2, 2015

KGS Software, a provider of SAP archiving and document management, has expanded its product suite on the basis of current major projects since the last...

September 2, 2015

With solutions that make everyday IT life easier, Libelle AG is presenting itself in a new old guise at this year's DSAG Congress: The...

September 2, 2015

The user interface of the newly presented S.Siam Web solution allows typical actions related to the management of access data, such as...

September 2, 2015

Apicon, a provider of system integration and data maintenance in the SAP environment, will present its solutions at the DSAG Annual Congress.

September 2, 2015

As the customer base grows, so do the demands on a high-performance accounts receivable management system.

September 2, 2015

At the annual congress, Mobisys will demonstrate the quick and easy implementation of mobile processes in the SAP system and present practice-oriented mobile solutions.

September 2, 2015

Mobile devices are not only finding their way into the private sphere. They are also increasingly in demand in companies. This trend is also...

September 2, 2015

In order to strengthen direct contact with end customers in the future, TTI, a Chinese supplier of power tools, garden and floor cleaning equipment, has...

September 2, 2015

If the CIO's forehead is beaded with sweat, it's not just because of the summer temperatures: SAP has...

September 2, 2015

Industry 4.0 solutions from Orbis can already be used quickly and easily for individual processes in an existing SAP environment.

September 2, 2015

The disclosure and manipulation of internal company data and documents can have business-damaging consequences. Within the SAP system, this data is relatively secure.

September 2, 2015

SAP hosting providers play an important role in the operation of these applications, with around 68 percent of all application hosting services in Germany relating to SAP in 2013....

September 2, 2015

Optimizing processes is easier said than done. Here, in particular, the analysis of the current state plays an important role.

September 2, 2015

Traditional systems for transactions (OLTP) or analyses (OLAP) are not designed for Big Data, unlike the open source platform Hadoop.

September 2, 2015

Time is also an important factor in turning trade fair leads into successful business relationships. It took Stiebel Eltron up to six weeks to...

September 2, 2015

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

September 2, 2015

Hardly any other professional IT sector has been as driven and fertilized by the private sector in recent years as mobile and...

September 2, 2015

NTT Data gets new Germany CEO and Microsoft manager moves to All for One Steeb. That and more in the latest personnel news.

September 2, 2015

More and more existing SAP customers are switching from classic SAP to Hana on BW, Suite on Hana or S/4 Hana. Realtech...

September 2, 2015

New business cases and expanded SAP application options are fueling Hana and S/4 usage. This requires changes to SAP IT infrastructures and operating models. With...

September 1, 2015

More and more SAP applications are being moved from traditional IT infrastructures to the cloud. In some cases, this means using OpenStack as the central...

September 1, 2015

With the acquisition of Born Informatik, Adesso Switzerland will now be able to offer its entire service portfolio from its Zurich and Bern...

September 1, 2015

Nionex is to be merged with Bertelsmann Group sister company Arvato Systems S4M. Both companies will now operate together on the market as Arvato Systems...

September 1, 2015

Libelle and Infolytics have entered into a cooperation for the distribution of Libelle products and services around the asynchronous data mirroring software DBShadow.

September 1, 2015

The Fraunhofer IAO has analyzed Chinese patent activities for Industry 4.0. China has applied for important patents and will in future have...

September 1, 2015

Digitalization is one in a series of numerous economic megatrends that have been influencing the global economic system since the beginning of the 19th century and...

September 1, 2015

The globalization of the SAP solution world increases the demands on IT and SAP support. Global solutions require larger time windows, bring additional...

September 1, 2015

Lean data management aims to continuously improve processes. The question arises: How can this be...

September 1, 2015

SAP environments have been becoming increasingly complex for years. The demands on maintenance are all the higher. One example is the increasingly complex...

September 1, 2015

Since 2014, the clothing retailer Ernsting's Family has been managing all logistics processes for store deliveries with an SAP EWM-based warehouse management system. The associated consulting,...

September 1, 2015

How can new functionalities be converted into tangible benefits? We explore this question in three articles. First of all...

September 1, 2015

Chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport has put its SAP processes and controlling workflows to the test and embarked on a path that looks...

September 1, 2015

Third-party maintenance, as Rimini Street has been offering for ten years, has potential for existing SAP customers. Gartner speaks of an option and opportunities to...

September 1, 2015

With SAP Integrated Business Planning for Sales and Operations (SAP IBP S&OP), a new Hana-based platform for enterprise-wide planning is available...

September 1, 2015

Why use SAP BW when everything is easier and faster with Hana? Actually, it should read: Why use a...

September 1, 2015

There are various reasons for redesigning authorizations in the SAP environment. Auditors or the internal audit department have often identified deficiencies or...

September 1, 2015

The SAP community had to wait a long time. Now there is an alternative to the little-loved Intel Xeon processor. The combination of IBM Power and Suse...

September 1, 2015

SAP ERP becomes S/4 Hana, SAP HCM becomes Employee Central - will we soon be able to move on from SAP HCM...

September 1, 2015

Growing data volumes and deteriorating query performance prompted an existing SAP customer to introduce a nearline storage solution. The time frame for the project was tight...

September 1, 2015

Following SAP's commitment last year to support OpenStack, an increasing number of existing SAP customers are relying on OpenStack as part of their cloud...

September 1, 2015

Hana opens up innovative potential. This is demonstrated by two joint research projects between Pforzheim University and Pikon. An integrated Hana ERP system serves as the...

September 1, 2015

The in-memory option for Oracle Database 12c has been certified with SAP NetWeaver applications since June 30, 2015. This makes Oracle's in-memory technology...

September 1, 2015

When using Hana and S/4, data center managers must align their IT infrastructure in such a way that the specialist departments can implement new business cases as...

September 1, 2015

Eclipse means solar eclipse. But the Eclipse-based Query Designer offers new application possibilities - bringing light to development tasks. SAP uses...

August 27, 2015

In many respects, the SAP community is undergoing a constant process of transformation. Digital change management is the meta-level. In the...

August 22, 2015

New Vice President Sales EMEA/APAC at Onapsis, FIS expands management board and Frank Thonüs takes over the management of EMC Switzerland. The...

23 July 2015

The Internet of Things will not only promote the automatic control of connected machines. New professional fields, such as that of cyber...

23 July 2015

How can license measurement be handled cleanly and prepared professionally without bending license conditions? How high can the toll on the...

23 July 2015

We have too! We even have several Chief Digital Officers (CDO) worldwide, but they are responsible for digital use and business...

23 July 2015

The German government has declared Industry 4.0 a top priority. Working shoulder to shoulder with industry, it is pursuing the noble goal of...

23 July 2015

Paid media is the well-known and successful form of paid advertising. This form of advertising is not only successful, but also transparent...

23 July 2015

A Chief Digital Officer should have better things to do than pitch CRM licenses from the cloud for a few dollars -...

23 July 2015

With the Fiori design concept, SAP is trying to bridge the gap between private Internet use, for example online shopping, and business IT.

23 July 2015

Time and again, I find that IT managers associate the Solution Manager exclusively with technology when it comes to monitoring. The SolMan...

23 July 2015

The topic of security is firmly anchored within Hana Datacenter Readiness. Sophisticated protection against attacks and threats when using Hana...

23 July 2015

I forgot, what did I want to write here? Something about SAP. Well, the right was claimed on the web...

22 July 2015

Does honest really last the longest? As a child, this question was easy to answer, but even as a teenager, some people...

July 3, 2015

The administration, management and control of IT landscapes and individual components have always been part of system or enterprise management. In the topic stack of...

July 3, 2015

Three computer science students from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) have won 5,000 euros in prize money with an app designed to make idle waiting for services...

July 3, 2015

Deceptive security: Eight out of ten Austrian companies have already experienced an IT incident.

July 3, 2015

CIOs are struggling to meet basic business requirements because legacy infrastructures are hampering business operations in many places. This is shown by a global study of...

July 3, 2015

The second edition of the English-language book SAP on the Cloud has been expanded to include essential parts such as S/4 Hana.

July 3, 2015

SAP's global data center in St. Leon-Rot has won the Datacentre Sustainability Award 2015. As part of the Datacloud...

July 3, 2015

Who would have thought that after 30 months SAP could already name 320 customers with a productive Suite-on-Hana (SoH) system?

July 3, 2015

Google is and remains the most popular employer for computer science graduates, followed by SAP and the BMW Group

July 2, 2015

Internet users should consider in good time what will happen to their digital data, such as social media profiles, after their death...

July 2, 2015

Banks that map their derivatives transactions for portfolio management in SAP FSCM are often faced with the difficulty that the values determined there are...

July 2, 2015

CIOs complained to E-3 Magazine about the complexity and stability of Hana and are considering HEC as a solution to...

July 2, 2015

Megatrends such as Industry 4.0, big data, cloud and in-memory computing also have an impact on the development and use of SAP systems.

July 2, 2015

In March 2015, Rimini Street conducted a global survey of 233 SAP Business Suite application license holders....

July 2, 2015

Previous security solutions are not enough to stop attacks. Instead, it is now necessary to minimize the consequential damage. This is demonstrated by a...

July 2, 2015

Several thousand square meters of warehouse. A dozen rack aisles with various storage and retrieval machines from different manufacturers. Various conveyor technology control systems. Several shuttles on one rail. At the...

July 2, 2015

Digitalization is the buzzword of our time: digital business, digital transformation, digital chaos. The current, turbulent developments make working with...

July 2, 2015

Hardware is out - topics such as cloud computing, big data, business analytics and social collaboration are setting the pace today....

July 2, 2015

The world of work in Germany is not prepared for networked production (Industry 4.0). Almost every second company lacks...

July 2, 2015

With the motto "ERP/4 Customer: More than fast and simple?", DSAG is focusing on S/4 Hana. SAP wants to...

July 2, 2015

DSAG has published two recommendations for action with example scenarios and practical tips.

July 2, 2015

More and more companies are adopting a dual-platform strategy in order to combine the advantages of different software solutions. The most prominent example is the integration of...

July 2, 2015

Software and consulting company DataVard has expanded its Gartner award-winning analysis tool DataVard ERP Fitness Test: Hana Readiness Check and Security & Compliance.

July 2, 2015

The SAP world is undergoing radical change. Previously isolated systems are to be replaced by new technologies such as cloud computing, big data and mobile...

July 2, 2015

The G.I.B-Dispo-Cockpit family has grown: The new "Purchasing Workbench" module provides optimum support for ordering processes in SAP and will be...

July 2, 2015

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

July 2, 2015

Soccer and technology - Germany can do both. Playful intelligence, willingness to perform at the right time perfectly complemented by technical innovation and the...

July 2, 2015

New Realtech CEO, Capgemini appoints Chief Sales Officer. That and more in the latest personnel news.

July 2, 2015

SAP consultants are among the most sought-after and best-paid professions in Germany. This is also due to the fact that there is no...

July 2, 2015

The DAX 30 companies have been able to continuously optimize their governance structures in terms of personnel and quality in recent years. This is the conclusion of the "DAX 30 Supervisory Board Study"...

July 2, 2015

Anyone applying for a job must expect that, in addition to their application documents, their profiles on social networks will also be thoroughly...

July 2, 2015

The digital transformation is opening up completely new opportunities for the manufacturing industry. In a smart factory, the value chain is networked with the help of modern technologies....

July 2, 2015

As a classic one-off manufacturer, Denios develops and produces hazardous materials storage systems and containers precisely according to customer requirements. The company has recently optimized its master data maintenance...

July 2, 2015

The IT specialist for the energy industry Gisa, the Institute for Applied Computer Science (InfAI) at the University of Leipzig and the IT specialist Evermind...

July 2, 2015

EMC has acquired Virtustream. The cloud software provider is to operate as an independent company for managed cloud services within the EMC federation, consisting...

July 2, 2015

The SAP Document Presentment application from OpenText, the specialist for Enterprise Information Management (EIM), also utilizes integration points in the platform...

July 2, 2015

To ensure that Germany and Europe do not fall behind in international competition, rapid measures are needed to support the digital transformation of the economy....

July 2, 2015

Industry 4.0 will arrive by 2025 at the latest and will strengthen Germany's competitiveness as a business location. According to a recent survey by the...

July 2, 2015

The digital transformation of business models and processes is keeping companies busy. If the first steps do not result in a company-wide vision of the future and integrated...

July 2, 2015

Test management projects are often difficult: the software is not ready on time, test systems and authorizations are missing and test cases, if they exist, are...

July 2, 2015

More than 15,000 invoices, credit notes and reminders in over 20 languages are generated, sent and archived at Ifco Systems every month....

July 2, 2015

Only with an efficient ERP system can sustainability be ensured throughout the entire value chain in chocolate production. Seamless batch traceability, transparent production...

July 2, 2015

Who can do what? In SAP systems, SAP authorizations determine who is allowed to see or edit which data. The problem...

July 2, 2015

How do companies succeed in bringing globally distributed locations up to a uniform SAP standard? The critical success factor here is data migration: from...

July 2, 2015

In order to provide customers with even more comprehensive and service-oriented advice, 300 sales representatives from the Winkler Group also use SAP on the move, via apps on...

July 1, 2015

IT remarketers are also benefiting from the trend towards outsourcing to the cloud. These companies recycle hardware that is no longer required and...

July 1, 2015

If you believe the one or other marketing film from Walldorf, the days of conventional business intelligence systems such as the...

July 1, 2015

There are already more than 300 apps that make using SAP easier and more mobile. However, the new browser-based user interfaces pose...

July 1, 2015

The location of the Norwegian Opera House is spectacular in itself. Snow-white and built as a peninsula on stilts in the fjord, the...

July 1, 2015

For many years, SAP's database dilemma only affected IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. Then SAP itself entered the market with MaxDB, Sybase ASE/IQ and...

June 25, 2015

An E-3 cover story about variant configuration? Something for specialists or the entire SAP community? Digitalization is changing the entire economy. Industry 4.0...

23 June 2015

At the beginning of April, the digital association Bitkom sent out the following press release: "Industry 4.0 is highly topical in the media, politics and business.

23 June 2015

Object-oriented programming is modern and there is no alternative for the growing demand for mobility. Now the experienced Abap trainer Alexander Maetzing has spoken on the subject of...

23 June 2015

Object-oriented programming is modern and there is no alternative for the growing demand for mobility. Now the experienced Abap trainer Alexander Maetzing has spoken on the subject of...

June 22, 2015

Celonis, provider of the novel process mining technology, is the winner of the prestigious 2015 Hana Innovation Award in the "Most Transformative" category.

June 22, 2015

Comparative study identifies hesitant implementation of forward-looking approaches in customer management.

June 22, 2015

The majority of Germans are selective online shoppers. More and more stationary purchases are being prepared online. Amazon lands at...

June 22, 2015

The digital transformation will permanently change industrial production and the associated processes in logistics and intralogistics - industry...

June 22, 2015

German companies have been increasing their spending on IT security for years. However, many companies do not notice attacks on their SAP system. It...

June 22, 2015

How do German SMEs manage their IT licenses? What opportunities does professional license management offer? And which trend should companies not miss?

June 22, 2015

Every year, the western SAP community meets in Orlando. With the active support of the Americas SAP Users Group (ASUG)...

June 22, 2015

No Sapphire without Industry 4.0 and IoT. Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert presented a cooperation with Siemens in Orlando. The aim is to...

June 22, 2015

SAP and Ariba partner Apsolut is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. E-3 spoke to Tim Kollmeier and Thomas Herbst, the...

June 22, 2015

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) see advantages in using professional customer data management solutions. However, the assumption prevails: Technical solutions are too...

June 22, 2015

A study has identified the most frequently used attack methods on SAP systems. The majority of the SAP systems examined have vulnerabilities that hackers can use to access...

June 22, 2015

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

June 22, 2015

At Sapphire this year in Orlando, Hasso Plattner was asked whether Hana has a chance of penetrating the ERP market....

June 22, 2015

Talent management study: Only every second management position in SMEs is filled from within the company's own ranks.

June 22, 2015

According to an initial evaluation of the large 2015 hourly rate survey conducted by the IT recruitment agency Gulp, 45.4 percent of respondents -...

June 22, 2015

Itelligence is becoming the leading provider of Hana-based business solutions. Why? Herbert Vogel, CEO of Itelligence AG, and his colleagues see...

June 22, 2015

Medium-sized companies that want to successfully master the digital transformation need an experienced and innovative SAP service provider to help them along the way.

June 22, 2015

Rösler Oberflächentechnik has repositioned itself with a Road to Hana. The specialist departments were quickly able to benefit from the improved analysis possibilities of...

June 22, 2015

BI and controlling provider XAX has expanded its solution portfolio with the business intelligence & performance management solution Board from the software provider of the same name.

June 22, 2015

Alpha Business Solutions has spun off the SAP Business ByDesign division. All4Cloud takes over the business with the leading cloud ERP solution from SAP....

June 22, 2015

Berkley Technical Services becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of ISec7 Group.

June 22, 2015

The Axxiome group of companies has expanded its range of services in the areas of business intelligence and innovations with the acquisition of QuSqu Intelligence.

June 22, 2015

SAP and Phizzle announce their global strategic partnership for automated fan engagement.

June 22, 2015

Infolytics and the distributor ALSO have signed an agreement for the distribution of the SAP MaxDB Enterprise Edition database bundle via the...

June 22, 2015

Amazon's figures for the first quarter of 2015 also include those of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the first...

June 22, 2015

A new study clarifies the expectations of the Information Generation and identifies the most important criteria for companies to...

June 22, 2015

One of the advantages of R/3 is the freedom to choose the server, operating system and database. Anyone who has mastered the combinatorics knows immediately...

June 21, 2015

Within 25 years, Fressnapf has developed into a global pet food retailer. With a modern cross-channel strategy and a...

June 21, 2015

The trend is clear. More and more suppliers are converting their invoices and payment advices into PDF files and sending them by e-mail...

June 21, 2015

Technology topics such as Hana, cloud and mobile are very popular. Providers promise simplification, acceleration, cost reduction and flexibility. Increased performance and individualization....

June 21, 2015

Medium-sized and large industrial companies in the DACH region rely on consolidated global SAP solutions and close-to-home management of SAP operations by a local...

June 21, 2015

Industry 4.0 is slowly finding its place in companies' internal discussions. What should the solutions look like and...

June 21, 2015

Trouble with your energy supplier? If the service isn't right, electricity customers are quick to look for alternative providers. With the multitude of...

June 21, 2015

What would the world be without inventions? Innovations such as a revolutionary payment app or a smartphone-controlled toilet are designed to make our lives easier....

June 21, 2015

For a long time, there was speculation about IBM entering the Hana market with its own Power systems. Many already believed in...

June 21, 2015

The anticipation of technical innovations sometimes obscures the view of the necessary licenses: Those who switch to Hana can fall into the...

June 21, 2015

Anyone migrating their systems to S/4 Hana should be aware of unnecessary license and maintenance costs for third-party databases. The remedy is...

June 1, 2015

According to SAP, behind the unwieldy term "SAP BPC 10.1 embedded" lies the best of "SAP Business Warehouse Integrated Planning"...

June 1, 2015

Anyone who tests is a coward, I was told again by a customer just last week. In this context, I wanted...

June 1, 2015

Suse Linux has introduced the Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. New functions such as complete system rollback, live kernel patching and...

June 1, 2015

The fact is: Hana facilitates the operation of large SAP systems and enables completely new application scenarios. However, many users do not realize to what extent...

April 1, 2015

Naturally, the catastrophe was programmed: Sapviertel (S/4Hana) is a disruptive technology that hides behind a barrier called Compatibility View....

October 1, 2014

Is SAP an enabler or a stumbling block in the digital transformation?

14 July 2014

From the SAP community for the SAP community. Orientation for us! A successful ERP landscape has emerged from the monolithic R/3, which is...

March 4, 2014

Companies often use the classic SAP Variant Configurator (LO-VC) for product configuration. However, managing and maintaining SAP relationship knowledge is time-consuming....

27 February 2014

Manufacturing and production are inconceivable without scheduling, planning and controlling. With its ERP modules and the SAP...

27 February 2014

The SAP testing market has developed into a market worth billions in recent years. According to PAC estimates, companies worldwide spent more than...

27 February 2014

At some point, every company that uses SAP has to decide whether it wants to continue using SAP's payroll solution or switch to...

27 February 2014

With Hana, SAP has been developing a new technical basis for its applications for several years. The motivation for this may lie in the...

27 February 2014

An almost completely revamped SAP presented itself in Potsdam in mid-February on the occasion of the opening of the Innovation Center. Professor Hasso Plattner was...

February 24, 2014

Germany wants to become a world leader in big data and the intelligent analysis of mass data. With practical and...

February 5, 2014

Tables and reports from SAP systems are not always intended for every eye. Data is often passed on by means of exported...

February 4, 2014

Google data glasses are becoming a multifunctional device for warehouse employees. iTizzimo and Salt Solutions have developed the first SAP EWM-integrated application with Google data glasses....

January 30, 2014

Everything is going digital. A digital tsunami is rolling towards us, say the analysts at Gartner. And so more...

January 30, 2014

Standard maintenance for the previous version of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 expired at the end of 2013. Those who do not switch must accept higher security risks...

January 30, 2014

If the data of a Hana application can no longer be processed by a single server node (scale-up), then the data must be transferred to...

January 23, 2014

Hybris, an SAP company and provider of e-commerce platforms, presents the results of its study on B2B e-commerce. Under the title "Online and...

January 13, 2014

Digitization is changing our world. The Internet and modern technologies are shaping private life and, above all, the business world.

January 3, 2014

SAP has announced that it will intensify its cooperation with Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. SAP solutions that work with Big...

December 1, 2013

The end of the year should come to a conciliatory close. Time to tidy up the desk. Perhaps also to take stock. We have a workshop...

November 30, 2013

Life is change. Of course, double-entry bookkeeping was invented in Italy. Standard business software was first developed in Germany by SAP and...

November 29, 2013

The recently released SLES 11 SP 3 for SAP Applications provides users with a number of new features - including Hana-centric features. In the...

November 28, 2013

In the search for a personal application scenario or business case for the use of big data, there is a risk that...

29 October 2013

When the IT world was still in order: the server manufacturers supplied the operating system. Mostly it was Unix and sometimes VMS for...

29 October 2013

Dakota Indian wisdom says, "If you discover you're riding a dead horse, get off!"

29 October 2013

Enterprise computing without open source is like a fish without water. Linux has proven itself as an operating system platform for SAP...

28 October 2013

Since the high-impact Business ByDesign launch in 2007, SAP has significantly scaled back its marketing activities for the SaaS ERP suite. The Walldorf-based company now sees its...

27 October 2013

Since the high-impact Business ByDesign launch in 2007, SAP has significantly scaled back its marketing activities for the SaaS ERP suite. The Walldorf-based company now sees its...

24 October 2013

The SAP community wellness strategy is coming to an end. Storm clouds are gathering. Oracle and SAP terminate the JDK support contract. SAP is in breach of contract with IBM...

24 October 2013

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has opened the world's eyes and given us the certainty that our data is not private, that the...

24 October 2013

Two thirds of German-speaking SAP users now use mobile applications, according to an online study by DSAG. Hana...

24 October 2013

Often SAP barcode solutions entail high license costs and dependencies on the system supplier. With smiScan, mobile transactions can now be developed independently.

23 October 2013

Oracle wants to give SAP a run for its money. Thanks to an add-on module that will be available in the database giant's portfolio in the first half of 2014,...

23 October 2013

SAP partners T-Systems and IBM see enormous potential in the Hana platform, not only because of its speed, but above all because...

4 October 2013

Budding entrepreneurs should concentrate on their ideas. The technology and start-up center InnoWerft, located in Walldorf, supports them with...

4 October 2013

Walldorf is not enough for Plattner. Europe also seems to be getting too tight for him. Regardless of whether SAP is now internationally...

4 October 2013

Ciber recently announced the addition of Michael Schmidt to its management team. Since June 2013, Schmidt has represented the Managed Services division...

4 October 2013

Following record results in 2013, SAP Ventures is strengthening its strategy with a new fund and an expanded team to support entrepreneurs in...

4 October 2013

Business processes in banks are largely IT-supported. Internal IT organizations are therefore faced with the challenge of mastering the complex application landscapes in order to...

4 October 2013

The acquisition of Hybris, a Swiss provider of e-commerce technology, by SAP has been completed. The Group is thus investing in the...

4 October 2013

If you look at the top topics of various market watchers, big data and cloud computing are at the top of the list. What is the...

4 October 2013

A recent survey conducted by Pierre Audoin Consultants among decision-makers in companies in the German automotive industry has shown that the new communication channels...

4 October 2013

Chaos and panic reign at SAP. Our beloved Walldorf-based company is in trouble. After Business ByDesign, the Group is gambling away a...

3 October 2013

Business process management - BPM for short - is not only on the corporate agenda for 70 percent of DACH companies in 2013, but is also regarded as...

September 20, 2013

What impact will the resignation of Jim Hagemann Snabe of Denmark as co-CEO of Germany's largest software group SAP have on its European...

September 20, 2013

In a moment that could be seen as a turning point for the entire IT industry, Oracle announced at the end of June - for the first...

September 17, 2013

Every year it's time to tidy up, then celebrate. Before my CIO barbecue, I clean the house with my wife and children. I have...

September 17, 2013

With the Hana Enterprise Cloud Announcement at the beginning of May, SAP is continuing to consistently implement its cloud strategy and at the same time...

September 17, 2013

The quantity of announcements from Walldorf has decreased. SAP is increasingly becoming a normal international company with its advantages and...

August 5, 2013

The deal is simple, the temptation is great, and there are - apparently - only winners. Whoever decides to renew...

August 5, 2013

Problematic interaction of unclear quality specifications and responsibilities as well as missing data quality tools prevent systematic data quality management.

August 5, 2013

When Fuzzy! Informatik was acquired by SAP in 2007, nothing changed for users at first. But by the end of 2011...

August 5, 2013

Ariba welcomed more than 600 international participants to its annual Ariba Live conference from June 3 to 6, 2013, which...

August 5, 2013

SAP consultants are still among the top earners. Even career starters with no project experience can earn annual salaries of between 40,000 and 50,000 euros....

August 5, 2013

Sending business documents by e-mail from SAP ERP is only possible to a limited extent with the standard functions. Orders, purchase orders,...

August 5, 2013

The SAP ERP modules PS and PP are used to map the data model in the manufacture of locomotives. This is supplemented by methods for...

August 5, 2013

With the DriveBenefits value-added portfolio, SEW-Eurodrive generates benefits for its customers' business processes in the areas of purchasing, materials management and intralogistics.

July 17, 2013

With a Unix-Linux migration and a one-to-one transfer of the Unix-SAP architecture, the database license costs can explode due to the high number of Intel cores. Dem...

July 12, 2013

Schadenfreude is not an honorable virtue. When I read the reports on Spiegel Online about the US NSA's Prism spying program (National...

July 11, 2013

Social Collaboration (SC) in Germany: Companies must abandon the tendency toward German perfection.

July 8, 2013

The amount and size of data generated has been exploding for years. Despite unprecedented opportunities to utilize these mountains of data in a business-effective manner, many...

July 5, 2013

Today, companies no longer want to be tied to just one software provider, not even SAP. They want to use the software...

July 5, 2013

From our point of view, it is still highly interesting to follow SAP's mobility strategy.

28 June 2013

Thanks to cloud, Hana and mobile, SAP is off to a strong start in 2013, in line with IDC forecasts for 2013, according to which between...

June 22, 2013

Salesforce.com introduced the Salesforce Platform Mobile Services at the beginning of April, with which the company aims to secure its share of the growing mobile...

20 June 2013

Now it's here, the Hana Enterprise Cloud. Editor-in-chief Färbinger made me watch the recording of the Plattner/Sikka presentation from Palo...

June 17, 2013

SAP Cloud Computing strikes. Did you know that the SAP Cloud Enabler LVM has historically evolved from Adaptive Computing...

June 17, 2013

Cluster - to some ears, the term sounds like a relic from years gone by. Why should we use it in times...

May 25, 2013

Non-European production locations and markets are becoming increasingly important. China plays a central role alongside Brazil, Russia and India.

May 17, 2013

Hana is probably spreading faster than many had expected. In the BW environment, it is almost common practice to use classic...

May 12, 2013

I was delighted to read this sentence on Spiegel Online, where a report blames Microsoft for the crash of the PC market....

May 12, 2013

In March 2013, Salesforce.com organized an event on the Marketing Cloud for analysts in London. The focus was on both the product roadmap...

May 8, 2013

HP and SAP have been partners for over 20 years. During this time, HP has implemented over 77,000 SAP applications worldwide. Almost the...

April 1, 2013

You have to understand, turn one into ten, let the license go, and make Hana the same, so SAP is rich, lose...

April 1, 2013

Thousands of trade visitors, journalists, developers and executives travel to the world's largest computer trade fair in Hanover every year (those onlookers who are only interested in...

April 1, 2013

How can the search for and in audiovisual media such as web videos be made as easy as the search for texts? The...

April 1, 2013

Shorter throughput times and lower inventories in the supply chain, despite production in small quantities with many variants, the highest possible adherence to delivery dates and an increase in...

April 1, 2013

The "Heidelberger Frühling" music festival, which has been held annually since 1997, enables young artists in song, chamber music and composition to engage in an intensive exchange with...

April 1, 2013

A survey of 436 companies in Germany revealed that a good third (37 percent) used cloud computing in 2012.

April 1, 2013

The introduction of the Syslink Xandria system management and monitoring solution at Migros IT-Services has increased the stability of the SAP systems and...

April 1, 2013

SAP is now an official premium partner of the German Football Association (DFB) and the senior national team. The SAP logo will therefore be used at official...

April 1, 2013

With Solution Manager 7.1, SAP has provided a number of innovations that are now waiting to be discovered. The new features...

April 1, 2013

SAP Business ByDesign had a really difficult start. At first, it took forever for the software announced by SAP to become available.

April 1, 2013

The general willingness to invest has increased further in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This is the result of the 10th investment survey of the German-speaking...

April 1, 2013

The short answer is SAP Note 1524246 - Relationship of licenses and business functions. The long answer starts in the year...

April 1, 2013

The annual trade fair for distribution, material and information flow in Stuttgart is attracting more visitors and exhibitors than ever before. Companies and...

April 1, 2013

The growing complexity in the healthcare sector costs an enormous amount of money. If you try to use external service providers, for example for the prescription billing process, you can save...

April 1, 2013

More than 80 percent of German executives believe that employees should use and understand data within their company.

April 1, 2013

Where many people come and go every day, a dangerous security gap can quickly arise. Not everyone has the same access rights everywhere....

April 1, 2013

Enterprise social collaboration IT support is becoming increasingly important to organizations, and many companies are expanding their offerings to meet this demand....

April 1, 2013

Given the millions of smartphones and tablets sold, is it still fair to ask? Yes, because the wonderful world of end devices is extremely heterogeneous and...

April 1, 2013

DSAG and SAP are once again a harmonious couple and are prescribing ways to keep existing customers fit for innovation. Unofficially, SAP users are plagued by other...

April 1, 2013

Every year and yet different every time. The purpose of CeBIT does not seem to reveal itself, so the...

April 1, 2013

The IT industry is undergoing a transformation process that only takes place in this form every 20 to 25 years. Innovation and...

April 1, 2013

Since 2011, SAP has been offering NetWeaver Gateway, an extension for all SAP products based on NetWeaver ABAP, in order to...

April 1, 2013

A lack of technical and analytical know-how is the most pressing problem in relation to the use of big data. This is a...

April 1, 2013

Anyone who uses Business Suite solutions - or the all-in-one midmarket solutions based on them - has always had to deal with the operating system platform...

April 1, 2013

One week before CeBIT 2013, the DSAG Technology Days took place in Mannheim. The user association published its annual investment survey. Bernd...

April 1, 2013

"Hello, good old Europe! This is co-CEO Jim Snabe. I'm going to Palo Alto to get help!"

April 1, 2013

Sailing races on the open sea are difficult for spectators and coaches to follow. But not with the Sailing Analytics software from SAP:...

April 1, 2013

An independent jury selected the winners of the SAP Hana Partner Race at CeBIT in Hanover. 26 teams worked...

April 1, 2013

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

April 1, 2013

The war for talent is in full swing in the IT and high-tech sector. This is because the growth of many companies depends...

April 1, 2013

Oliver Kelkar creates innovations for MHP and Christian Rudolph becomes Vice President at Borland. Read these and other personnel news...

April 1, 2013

In the shortest month of the year, the number of project contacts to independent IT/engineering specialists handled via Gulp continued to increase.

April 1, 2013

The Sage Group has established a Technology Advisory Group (TAG). The committee includes specialists from the IT industry as well as internal...

April 1, 2013

IT/engineering freelancers receive an average hourly rate of 79 euros. They work 18 days per month on a project assignment for the...

April 1, 2013

Taking work home - many employees are familiar with this phenomenon. But with smartphones, tablets & co...

April 1, 2013

The SHL behavioral study "Employee-related risks in the workplace" analyzes human risk factors in terms of position, function and industry. Companies could use this to improve the risk appetite of their...

April 1, 2013

Cloud computing, mobile applications or software for talent management - what trends are currently emerging in software development for human resource...

April 1, 2013

The success of standard business software is undisputed. After administration, accounting and human resources, production and logistics are the most successful...

April 1, 2013

In cooperation with customers, efficient, transparent and targeted processes in the SCM chain are to be mapped, logistics projects are to be realigned, new paths are to be...

April 1, 2013

Trilux, a manufacturer of lighting systems, currently has over 53,000 saleable materials available. In order to supply customers within the delivery time...

April 1, 2013

Is the potential of G.I.B Dispo-Cockpit being fully exploited? How can users increase added value? For these and similar questions...

April 1, 2013

It is G.I.B's employees who make up the success of the company. Their commitment and expertise are the driving spirit...

April 1, 2013

Logistics managers, SAP project leaders, SCM managers, CIOs: The G.I.B Success Days in Siegen have become the central information and networking platform for all aspects of...

April 1, 2013

You may not be able to win an Oscar and you won't be able to walk the red carpet, but the SCM...

April 1, 2013

Single European Payment Area - SEPA for short - sounds harmless at first glance, but it has a lot to offer. The...

April 1, 2013

Uniserv, headquartered in Pforzheim, Germany, offers bank.International, a plausibility check for bank data. The practice-oriented solution processes conventional data such as bank sort codes and...

April 1, 2013

Alfresco, the open platform for content management and collaboration, announced the acquisition of WeWebU Software AG at the end of January 2013. WeWebU...

April 1, 2013

The fitness of 65 BW systems was examined last year. The results are revealing and offer the opportunity to...

April 1, 2013

Every business process requires communication with the outside world as well as within the company. Documents form the essential basis for this. Technologies such as...

April 1, 2013

IT departments today are confronted with the rapid development of technology. In addition, buzzwords such as cloud computing, app economy, social...

April 1, 2013

Even in a slowing economy, the demographic trap remains a challenge for the German economy: despite staff cuts in some...

April 1, 2013

Structured knowledge management has a significant influence on the success of a company. After all, competent customer service is based on the sound know-how of employees.

April 1, 2013

At the beginning of 2012, the pharmaceutical company Dr. Willmar Schwabe commissioned cbs Corporate Business Solutions to replace the classic SAP general ledger...

April 1, 2013

Forward-looking strategies such as Industry 4.0 with a focus on decentralized manufacturing processes are generating new requirements for manufacturing IT - especially for ERP...