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 April 2026
Trends and investment 2026
The year 2026 is a critical turning point for the SAP community: SAP's visions meet the reality of existing customers. As the end of maintenance for the old ERP system approaches in 2027, the pressure for S/4 migrations will increase massively and shape the market for service providers.
Boomi Introduces New Change Data Capture for SAP Data
November 13, 2025
SAP customers can now unlock real-time data from ECC, S/4 Hana, and BW, with integrated CDC and no custom code.
2025 Was All About Open Source: a Review and Outlook
November 13, 2025
An eventful year is coming to an end. There have been numerous new developments relating to Linux and open source. They show that transparent open source principles, technologies and solutions are becoming increasingly relevant.
SAP SmartRecruiters as a Strategic Lever
November 13, 2025
With the acquisition of SmartRecruiters, SAP is sending a clear signal in the HR tech market. In an interview with E3 Managing Editor Laura Cepeda, Dennis Böcker, Vice President EMEA Central, explains how the integration should accelerate innovation and change the market in the long term.
Start-ups with strategic importance
November 12, 2025
The DACH region remains a dynamic field of innovation: start-ups continue to gain in strategic importance. This is shown by the Start-up and Innovation Monitor 2025 of the digital consulting, solutions and software company Valantic.
Security black box S/4
November 11, 2025
How to better secure your company's crown jewels - and take care of SAP security? Oliver Villwock, Consulting Director with a focus on SAP security at cbs, and Robert Stricker, Head of Security Consulting at Materna, talk about this in an E3 interview.
AI Looks to SAP
January 9, 2025
ChatGPT from OpenAI is capable of providing rapid responses to a wide range of inquiries; however, it should be noted that the accuracy of these responses may not always be guaranteed. Specialized AI systems can be beneficial tools, as demonstrated by our experiment with a Google system based on the multimodal chatbot Gemini 1.5, which was fed four years’ worth of E3 Magazine’s articles.
RISE, Cloud, and Exit
December 19, 2024
A typical RISE with SAP contract is an agreement to provide full disclosure to the ERP market leader. Following a RISE conversion, the SAP customer has almost only obligations and hardly any rights. Will the EU provide assistance with the implementation of the Data Service Act?
SAP HR at a Crossroads
December 12, 2024
Leading SAP customers such as Hilti, Unilever, and Maersk have selected Workday as their preferred HR solution. Medium-sized SAP customers are still hesitant to make the switch because they have to weigh the benefits of brand loyalty (SAP) against the potential for innovation (Workday).
E3 Roundtable on ERP Platforms, Data Streams, and E2E Workflows
Successful ERP, supply chain management, and CRM architectures are built on IT platforms. Data streaming and collaboration are essential to the orchestration of ERP systems. IT platforms are the new operating system for cloud computing. The E3 Roundtable will highlight the importance and strategy of platforms for a holistic IT infrastructure and ERP architecture. SAP customers will implement platform technologies for digital transformation. The E3 Roundtable will discuss the ERP architecture principle of platforms using Boomi's offering as an example.
Comments
April 15, 2025
The challenge of SAP Hybrid Cloud
Companies with SAP workloads are increasingly implementing hybrid cloud strategies. Suse Rancher for SAP Applications offers an easy-to-operate, scalable platform for the secure operation of business-critical applications.
April 10, 2025
SAP for Me
There is an SAP portal for us existing customers where our own infrastructure is managed, right down to the licenses. According to my regulars, this is the best-kept SAP secret.
April 9, 2025
Science: SAP licenses
Software licenses are the bread and butter of IT providers. In any case, licenses and maintenance fees are justified. But do the regulations have to be so complicated?
April 8, 2025
The lost trust in SAP
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 level of participation is an important indicator of the mood in the SAP community.
SAP News
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.
July 30, 2025
S/4 Challenges
Many companies struggle with resources, conflicting goals, and quality compromises. S/4 projects lose strategic clarity and stakeholder support as they progress.
Business Management
May 21, 2024
Supply Chain Planning
Impending recession and supply chain problems: Germany's companies are facing numerous challenges.
May 14, 2024
Swiss technology company SFS Group implements digital future platform for 2025 and beyond
The challenge for the selective transformation approach was to reduce the complexity created over the past twenty years by in-house developments and to standardize processes worldwide.
April 5, 2024
The Basics of Cybersecurity
Minimizing attack surfaces, stregnthening applications—no SAP customer can avoid these cybersecurity basics today. Proactive SAP cybersecurity is a requirement. SecurityBridge has acquired a leading position in this area in recent years.
SAP-based purchasing reaches its limits when it comes to seamless collaboration with construction service providers. EVH, a municipal energy service provider in Halle (Saale), closes unpleasant process breaks with innovative 2bits tools.
IT Management
February 16, 2024
Socio-technical approach for the creation of a decentralized data architecture: Data Mesh
The data mesh is regarded as a future-oriented solution for effective data management in increasingly complex system landscapes. What is special about this approach and how can it be successfully implemented?
January 12, 2024
SAP Security Solution
A ransomware attack on the IT infrastructure prompted the internationally active family business to purchase an explicit SAP security solution.
January 10, 2024
Private Cloud for Hana Workloads
As a complement to OVH's existing SAP offerings, Hana on Private Cloud offers system integrators the best of both worlds: Hana-certified servers running on OVH's private cloud infrastructure to ensure the highest security and data protection standards.
December 21, 2023
First Fully Automated Digital SAP Consultant with AI
In an era where artificial intelligence is increasingly coming to the fore, Sysparency presents the world's first fully automated and digital SAP consultant based on AI technology.
Economy
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.
April 1, 2021
Driving S/4 Hana forward in retail
Combined competencies for the digitalization of retail - this is the motto of the partnership between q.beyond and CAS.
March 24, 2021
SCF with Ariba and Marco Polo
When it comes to supply chain finance, many believe that the choice of technology or transaction platform is the deciding factor for a successful implementation. This is not wrong
E3 book tip
Getting started with SAP S/4HANA
Get to know SAP S/4HANA using practical examples! In this book, Christian Drumm, Bernd Scheuermann and Stefan Weidner introduce you to the most important modules and business processes of SAP S/4HANA. You will get an overview of the applications for sales, purchasing, production, warehouse management, accounting and controlling. Many exercises, case studies and practical cases enable you to implement what you have learned directly in the system. Currently for the example company Global Bike 4.3.
The prerequisite for using the exercises, case studies and practical cases is access to an SAP system with Global Bike Client version 4.3. SAP UCC Magdeburg.
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