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...

April 1, 2013

Industry 4.0 is currently on everyone's lips and has not only gained importance in the manufacturing-related specialist media. In a...

April 1, 2013

Many users of our Hydra MES solution have already been able to increase the efficiency of their production, but in the future they will continue to rely on...

April 1, 2013

Things are moving in the factory and in logistics. Naturally, over the past 20 years there have been more...