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.
Between Shell Script and Self-Deception
October 24, 2025
Automation is omnipresent in IT. But despite the hype surrounding hyperautomation, it should be clear that it is not an end in itself, and certainly not a panacea. It is worth taking a critical look.
How digitizing the supply chain makes companies more resilient
October 23, 2025
Global supply chains are under pressure—geopolitics, natural disasters, and volatile markets are making planning difficult. The shortage of skilled workers is putting a strain on operational logistics. Digitalization is the key to efficiency and resilience—with the modular SAP SCM Suite as a flexible building block for the future.
Clean-core strategy with hybrid integration and AI
October 22, 2025
Rise with SAP, BTP, AI and integration will challenge companies until 2027. Between cloud roadmaps and proven on-prem systems, it is important to choose the right path at your own pace.
No Successful S/4 Migration Without Master Data Maintenance
October 22, 2025
The changeover from SAP R/3 to S/4 casts a harsh light on the data quality of master data, EDI connection, and decades of customizing. We take a look at the most common issues.
SAP and Non-SAP?
October 21, 2025
Almost all SAP customers also use non-SAP systems, which also need to be managed. Empirius wants to take greater account of such tasks in future. CEO Hans Haselbeck talks about his views on SAP and non-SAP in an interview with E3 Magazine.
Three out of Four Companies Use Open Source
October 21, 2025
The vast majority of companies in Germany use open source software, and also see this as an opportunity for greater digital sovereignty.
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
February 14, 2025
The drive of the future for SAP workloads
SAP workloads require maximum availability and security. SLES for SAP Applications 16 solves this challenge with high availability, security and optimized management for a stable and efficient SAP environment.
February 10, 2025
What are the benefits of open source in the EIC context?
SAP Edge Integration Cell (EIC) is currently a much-discussed topic. SAP users should also see it as an opportunity to use open source as a strategic foundation to drive modernization and implement innovations.
February 6, 2025
Innovation Is Key but Beware of Its Overuse
How often have you read about innovations recently? A simple Google search yields an astonishing 1.85 billion results. However, upon closer inspection, a significant number of these results are not truly innovative.
February 6, 2025
Which Is the Best Cloud for Hana?
Which cloud is best for SAP Hana and how do the different providers compare? With how widespread SAP is, the security and performance of these systems are critical.
SAP News
June 6, 2025
Horizontal Versus Vertical AI
Horizontal AI integrates AI solutions across different applications and business areas. Vertical AI, on the other hand, focuses on specific tasks or industries. What are the advantages of these two approaches?
The company’s AI-powered platform can assist companies with democratizing change intelligence.
May 28, 2025
SIA Is Now Minsait Cyber
SIA, a Spanish company specializing in cybersecurity, has acquired the trade name Minsait Cyber, adopting the Minsait brand.
Boomi, an iPaaS provider, announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), for the 11th consecutive time—the longest in the report’s history.
Business Management
November 13, 2023
Pre-projects Bye Bye!
Many SAP customers shy away from the SAP S/4 Hana transformation because of the supposedly necessary preliminary projects. However, with the right approach to app lifecycle, data, and system management, these preliminary projects can prove to be redundant.
November 10, 2023
Plant Maintenance in the Course of Digitalization
There is still a lot of potential for digital process support. The company Deutz in Cologne, Germany, uses a mobile and lean application to drastically simplify and speed up processes.
November 7, 2023
End-to-end Warehouse Automation With SAP EWM
Deutsche Amphibolin Werke built a state-of-the-art logistics center with a high-bay warehouse and AutoStore and benefits from the holistic and direct integration in EWM. Only through the direct EWM integration of automated systems can automation solutions develop their full potential.
November 6, 2023
Application Management Services
Freudenberg Home and Cleaning Solutions has been using service providers for its IT landscape for many years. External IT consultants manage not only the project business, but also IT service.
IT Management
23 October 2023
SAP without Cloud? That's over!
SAP is going cloud-only and is inciting discussion in the SAP community. The move to the cloud has been on the horizon for many years, and now every company must ask itself what this means for its own future.
20 October 2023
Advertorial: Agile Support for Project Success: Practical Insights and Guidelines From an Expert in Change Management
Interest in change management has increased significantly in the last 3 years: six out of ten companies (59 percent) use corresponding methods - these are the results of a latest trend study conducted by TCS among 950 German companies in 2022.
12 October 2023
Voice/Chat Bots: AI-supported bots in the SAP Store
Yellow.ai announced that its generative AI-powered ChatBots and VoiceBots are ready for automation in the SAP Store.
9 October 2023
SAP Fiori Receives Support
SAP Fiori applications with no-code/low-code in practice still need massive support from external IT tools so that business users as well as IT developers can quickly achieve real results in business.
Economy
December 18, 2020
Partnership for SAP clinic solution
GITG and Plusserver have teamed up to support clinics in the cloud and on-prem with an SAP clinical solution.
December 11, 2020
Allisa signs OEM agreement with SAP
Allisa and SAP enter into a partnership. The OEM agreement covers the integration of SAP Cloud Platform Services into Allisa.
December 9, 2020
Combined forces in logistics
Ortec and Transporeon have entered into a cooperation agreement. Customers benefit from the joint portfolio.
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December 6, 2020
Crypto regulation - EU takes on a pioneering role worldwide
Bitkom welcomes proposals for legal certainty for crypto assets.
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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