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 June 2026
Money Makes the World Go Round
The current SAP cloud and licensing model in no way serves to technically and organizationally liberate existing customers, but rather binds them more closely to Walldorf. Those who rely on Rise with SAP without a sound IT strategy, external legal advice and license control risk high costs and permanent dependence on the software giant.
The Use of AI Is Changing the Project Business
January 8, 2026
AI will fundamentally change the business of IT service providers—not only in testing and software development, but also in consulting. Experienced consultants will benefit, but junior consultants will find it more difficult to get started at first.
The HR Data Engine From SAP
January 7, 2026
SAP has presented several product announcements for its HR and HCM solutions. New features in the SAP SuccessFactors cloud portfolio focus on artificial intelligence, skills-based employee development, and data-driven insights.
Business Data Fabric From SAP and Snowflake
January 5, 2026
A new partnership between SAP and Snowflake aims to give companies access to comprehensive data and AI applications to accelerate their business processes.
Printing in the Age of the Paperless Office
December 19, 2025
Despite digital processes, document printing in SAP systems remains an issue. In an interview with E3 Magazine, Waldemar Suchy, founder of Suchy MIPS, explains why the paperless office is not yet a reality, what challenges exist, and how modern output management can help.
Artificial SAP Chaos and AI Disaster
December 18, 2025
SAP has embarked on an inevitable disaster involving AI assistants, agents, patchwork, Joule, and Frankenstein-like architectures. SAP has essentially created AI chaos theory 2.0.
AI and S/4 as Transformation Accelerators
December 17, 2025
A new study by PwC shows how companies can accelerate their transformation, increase efficiency, and create sustainable business value by integrating artificial intelligence into S/4.
SAP Clean Core Deal
March 6, 2025
Deals" are currently the order of the day and SAP's clean-core requirement is a deal with its own existing customers and partners. SAP demands a lot from its own community in return for planning security.
Innovation vs. SAP Licensing
February 27, 2025
In many cases, SAP's licensing policy seems counterproductive. Innovation comes from experimentation, learning, and experience. For proof-of-concepts, SAP customers need a test environment that runs without a license.
Fragmentation of the SAP world
February 20, 2025
In recent years, the SAP universe has been atomized. The consistent R/3 black box has become a heterogeneous conglomerate of ERP modules and cloud applications. From blockchain to IoT: SAP seemed to have to follow every IT trend. Today, AI chaos rules the SAP world.
E3 Roundtable on Generic ERP platforms: Alternative S/4 APIs, AI, and Interfaces
The era of monolithic ERP architectures is ending. SAP customers increasingly reassess cloud-only strategies, clean core requirements, and growing platform dependencies. The E3 Roundtable discusses how composable ERP architectures, independent IT platforms, and hybrid cloud strategies strengthen digital sovereignty and reduce vendor lock-in risks. Using examples such as Boomi, OpenShift, and modern integration platforms, the discussion explores how organizations orchestrate SAP and non-SAP systems while building flexible, future-ready enterprise architectures.
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Data is everywhere: in our systems, our processes, and our heads. We collect, store, and transfer it—and sometimes lose track of it. So, what do we actually do with all this data?
June 17, 2025
Nip It in the Bud
Currently, there is an extensive debate about SAP's diversity targets. The goal of having 40 percent of women in leadership positions within the group has been rejected. Apparently, SAP CEO Christian Klein is bowing to the US administration's requirements.
SAP relies on open source infrastructure for ERP and Hana—this brings opportunities and new challenges. Find out how you can make SAP systems robust, flexible, and future-proof with best practices in planning, security, and operation.
June 13, 2025
Image Mode as a Game Changer for Linux
Many SAP users stop halfway through automation. The potential of tools such as Ansible and end-to-end automation remains untapped—and with it the opportunity to combine migration with modern future-proofing.
SAP News
Oracle plans to open a third cloud region to help Spain’s financial sector and other key industries increase resilience and take advantage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s high performance and built-in security, powerful data and AI, and distributed cloud capabilities.
Accenture and Microsoft Corporation are co-investing in the development of advanced generative AI-driven cyber solutions, which can be used to help organizations mitigate threats and consolidate technology tools.
The technology consulting firm Seidor has consolidated its alliance with Adam, a provider specializing in data centers with facilities in Madrid and Barcelona, to strengthen its critical infrastructure architecture in Spain.
July 30, 2025
AI in the Supervisory Board
Although German supervisory boards are better than the global average in many aspects of AI, they are still self-critical.
Business Management
September 2, 2024
Efficiency in purchasing: supply chain integration from the cloud
Outdated systems are still slowing down business-critical communication processes in companies today. In purchasing, for example, unstructured, partly analog data often comes together that has to be processed manually.
August 12, 2024
Industrial Transformation
Plant and machinery companies are facing one of the biggest transformations: they must evolve from manufacturers to service providers. End-to-end digital processes that go beyond ERP play a key role in this transformation.
The migration to S/4 is complex, and data migration is seen as one of the biggest challenges. This is because the data in the legacy systems should ideally be consolidated into the new data model with a central business partner master.
For the survey, a total of 600 supply chain management executives worldwide were asked about their experiences over the past year.
IT Management
March 19, 2024
Control and Automate SAP Transactions Without SAP GUI
In future, SAP transactions can be easily controlled and automated without using the SAP user interface. Data entry via the SAP GUI is not self-explanatory and requires time-consuming user training.
March 18, 2024
Automation of System Operation with SAP System Copies
Automation tools have long since become established for creating SAP system copies. SAP Basis teams expect providers to provide them with such software systems based on the latest technologies.
March 18, 2024
Agrana Quality Management Application With SAP BTP
Austrian SAP customer Agrana is one of the world's leading food and industrial goods companies. In Germany, Agrana is probably better known for its strategic partner Südzucker, which is also an SAP user.
March 12, 2024
SAP Invoicing of the Future
Invoicing is often still manual and thus prone to errors. During a labor shortage, it also deprives companies of valuable capacity for more value-adding activities. AI-based invoicing provides a remedy here.
Economy
April 27, 2021
Red Hat acquires StackRox
Red Hat plans to acquire StackRox, a specialist in container and Kubernetes-native security solutions. StackRox's integration with Red Hat OpenShift will provide enterprises with a holistic, open hybrid cloud platform through which they can securely develop, deploy and operate virtually any application. Red Hat OpenShift takes a layered approach to securing containers. With...
April 26, 2021
Bundled SAP expertise
Valantic and LinkIT Consulting join forces to form a new Competence Center for ERP Consulting.
April 26, 2021
Increased international presence
All for One Group wants to acquire a majority stake in SNP Poland. The acquisition is planned for the first quarter of 2021.
April 23, 2021
Tech Data cooperates with AWS in Europe
Under the agreement, Tech Data will install local AWS sales and technical teams in European countries.
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