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 December 2025
The CCoE Experiment
The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.
Fast SAP modernization with fit-gap analyses and a factory approach
September 9, 2025
An SAP rollout and governance factory approach significantly accelerates SAP modernization projects. Automated fit-gap analyses create transparency in days. In combination with a hybrid platform strategy, they form the basis for innovation, sovereignty, integration and scalability.
AI, cloud and platforms: SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Business Data Cloud
September 9, 2025
In the future, standard business software will be orchestrated on IT platforms and determined by AI and cloud computing. AI agents will probably control the company's organizational structure and processes.
The SAP world is currently undergoing profound change - moving away from monolithic ERP towards flexible, AI-centric architectures. Existing customers must therefore find a path into the future that suits their reality between ambitious cloud roadmaps and proven on-premises systems.
SAP deployment more than applications: Automation in infrastructure and system operation
September 8, 2025
SAP investments are usually a matter for the boss and decisions are made in conjunction with the IT management. Automation potential in the SAP infrastructure or in system operation is often not considered until it is too late. This leads to missed opportunities.
Advising Wisely Thanks to Hybrid Archiving
September 5, 2025
When introducing a new distribution system, Munich's public transportation company (MVG) had to rethink its archiving concept. Instead of migrating five million documents, it opted for a hybrid archiving architecture.
SAP Clean Core 2016
September 4, 2025
E3 Magazine already addressed the topic of "cleaning out" ERP systems in 2016. To that end, the SAP system has been heavily modified in recent years. What now?
SAP Platform Economy
October 3, 2024
It is essential that IT platforms provide a transparent structure for users and integrate ERP applications in a comprehensive manner. Following the introduction of NetWeaver and subsequent developments such as HCP (Hana Cloud Platform), SAP has now unveiled BTP (Business Technology Platform). It represents the future of ERP.
Triad in the SAP community
September 26, 2024
The old IT adage applies: Never change a running system! The DSAG investment survey reveals that only just over half of DSAG members believe that the relevance of SAP for the future of their company will remain the same.
The SAP CEO Alternate
September 19, 2024
SAP CEO Christian Klein is a dedicated and hard-working executive. Following the departure of three members of the SAP Executive Board, he has been required to assume responsibility for a number of additional tasks. Klein is adept at multitasking and consistently maintains a high level of productivity. However, the ERP company is lacking in innovation.
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
January 27, 2025
The SAP Man
Every January, the discussion about the "Davos Man" resumes. SAP is also seeking to play an important role at the WEF, so here we will begin a discourse on the Davos Man in general and SAP in particular.
January 9, 2025
The Five Trends That Will Define Cybersecurity in 2025
According to the report prepared by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) on the state of cybersecurity in the EU, the number of cybersecurity-related incidents will increase by 24 percent in 2025, with ransomware and DoS/DDoS attacks being the most common.
December 24, 2024
Pragmatism Vs. Plans in BTP
There is another way! We have worked intensively with SAP BTP and evaluated that BTP is far more autonomous than SAP officially presents it as with the S/4 roadmap. From a pragmatic perspective, BTP is also a robust platform for ECC 6.0.
December 20, 2024
Dual SAP Rise license
A Rise-with-SAP license is a multidimensional contract. SAP collects at least twice with a Rise contract without any claim to success.
SAP News
April 25, 2025
Snowflake Introduces Innovations in Apache Iceberg
Customers now have the opportunity to benefit from the flexibility and interoperability of Iceberg combined with the Snowflake platform.
April 22, 2025
Investment planning mixed
In terms of IT and SAP investment budgets, many companies continue to show a high willingness to invest. The overall IT budget is increasing at 40% of the companies surveyed in the DACH region, compared to 43% a year ago.
April 21, 2025
MSG founder honored for lifetime achievement
This year's Lünendonk Business-to-Business Service Award in the "Lifetime achievement" category goes to Hans Zehetmaier, founder of IT consultancy MSG.
April 18, 2025
Hasso Plattner AI endowed professorship
SAP donation funds new endowed professorship for artificial intelligence at the University of California, Irvine.
Business Management
January 16, 2024
Data structures with SAP optimization
As digitalization progresses, data is at the heart of almost every business activity. Master data in particular plays a crucial role in efficient, transparent and customer-centric business processes.
January 10, 2024
S/4 Greenfield Conversion
With a modern and future-proof ERP landscape based on S/4, SAP customer Frenzelit is creating the basis for standardizing, digitizing, and automating its business processes.
December 7, 2023
Digital Assistants in the BTP
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT mark a milestone in the use of AI. SAP-based procurement also benefits from LLM bots that communicate highly efficiently with users.
December 6, 2023
Digital Transformation in Retail
A culture of convenience or of experience? Online shopping is putting pressure on brick-and-mortar retailers. Consumers order from the comfort of their sofas and have products delivered to their doorstep.
IT Management
November 20, 2023
Software Asset Management: Do It Again, SAM!
The movie quote comes from Casablanca. To this day, no other film is quoted more often than Michael Curtiz's masterpiece. Everyone knows at least one quote from Casablanca, even if they have never seen the movie in its entirety.
November 16, 2023
ERP Workload Automation With Redwood
With every industry reeling from the labor shortage, there is no better time to explore alternative options. One of those options is automation, which can help alleviate the strain on understaffed businesses and overworked employees. In an interview with E3 magazine, Redwood’s Devin Gharibian-Saki explains how Workload Automation can do exactly that.
November 15, 2023
Implementing Company-wide IT Automation
Is automating IT processes a technical challenge? Yes, but not only a challenge. The key to success and seamless implementation is a well-structured plan that involves all employees—not just those in IT.
November 15, 2023
Artificial Intelligence at Work - with the support of automation
In the current competition for skilled workers and market share, artificial intelligence can be a great support. In order for the technology to unfold its potential, it should be used in conjunction with automation.
Economy
22 February 2021
AI-powered accounts receivable automation
Blackline acquires Rimilia, expanding its modern accounting platform and target markets.
16 February 2021
Online automation platform strengthens Celonis
Celonis announces the acquisition of Integromat, an online automation platform.
15 February 2021
Via CrystalBridge to the new ERP software generation
SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner and Scheer GmbH have signed a strategic partnership agreement.
12 February 2021
New S/4 Hana data migration solution
Capgemini enters into a global partnership with cbs Corporate Business Solutions.
E3 Book Tip
The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI
Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.
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