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.
Sovereign SAP Sapphire Europe
October 21, 2025
SAP wants to get involved in the booming business of „sovereignty“. For the time being, there is cloud functionality for SAP's own data center for existing customers, but this fig leaf will not be enough! SAP itself must become sovereign.
From Open Source Project to Secure Enterprise Solution
October 20, 2025
There is further proof of the open source success story: Confidential Containers are now available on a public cloud. A community project has quickly become an enterprise-grade solution for critical processes.
Direct Sales and Customer Experience
October 20, 2025
The transformation in B2B sales is in full swing. This is shown by the latest "Industry goes Consumer" study conducted by SAP partner Sybit and the analyst firm Techconsult. 200 companies from industry, wholesale, construction, and transportation in the DACH region were surveyed.
From horse to digital racehorse
October 17, 2025
The Westfalen Group, under the distinctive white horse on a red background, is active in the fields of technical gases, cooling and heating, filling stations and mobility as well as respiratory home therapy. As part of the One Finance project and in preparation for the S/4 implementation.
Integrate High Quality, Extensive SAP Data With Other Systems
October 17, 2025
At Boomi World 2025, which took place in Dallas in May, Ann Maya, EMEA CTO at Boomi, spoke with Laura Cepeda, Managing Editor International, E3 Magazine. The conversation focused on Boomi's role in the SAP environment and the interfaces and opportunities in the EMEA region.
Strategic partner selection is crucial
October 16, 2025
The selection of the implementation partner for the introduction of Rise with SAP determines the success of the project. Different requirements, industry-specific challenges and the complexity of modern SAP landscapes require a well-founded and structured partner selection.
Moving SAP Targets
September 12, 2024
The SAP community is familiar with the terms "clean core" and "BTP." SAP has been reluctant to provide detailed information regarding the specifics behind these terms, any relevant roadmaps, or any associated costs. SAP’s visions of a clean core and BTP appear to be only half-finished.
The New SAP Boys’ Club
September 5, 2024
Jürgen Müller, SAP's Chief Technology Officer and BTP (Business Technology Platform) strategist, has to leave the Group. Following the recent departure of Julia White and Scott Russell, there is now a new constellation of power on the SAP Executive Board.
Clean Core = End-of-Life
August 29, 2024
Abap modifications were both a savior and a blocker of innovation. Abap was able to turn R/3 and ECC 6.0 into individual successes and also prevent the next release change. Light and shadow lie close together in the Z namespace.
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 6, 2025
A Pleasing ERP Legacy
Older SAP ERP systems remain popular with customers because these installations have been maintained and modified over many years.
February 3, 2025
Generative Journalism
Writing this is akin to a tautology, i.e., saying the same thing twice. Isn't journalism necessarily always creative? Whether it's court reporting or a discussion on rising SAP share prices, creativity is always needed to produce something.
January 30, 2025
The role of banks in the sustainable transformation
Banks have a significant influence on the degree of economic sustainability through capital allocation. A 5-stage model can be used to evaluate and support their path towards a necessary role model.
January 29, 2025
Embedded AI
At the beginning of the year, I had the opportunity to visit our subsidiaries in the USA and attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The topic of AI has become a focal point for our company, and Nvidia is emerging as a potential partner.
SAP News
May 26, 2025
SAP Cloud Stack on the Test Bed
SAP technologies such as Datasphere, Abap Cloud, Analytics Cloud and S/4 Hana Cloud for Group Reporting sound very promising on paper. However, it is with good reason that companies are hesitant to move to the cloud.
The central platform will support ERP users with managing the entire AI agent pool, regardless of whether the agents are from Workday or third-party providers. This solution aims to provide the tools to manage and optimize the digital workforce.
15 May 2025
Statement: Bitkom on the coalition agreement
The digital association Bitkom welcomes the creation of an independent digital ministry by the future federal government as well as the many digital policy plans of the governing parties, but calls for the plans to be fleshed out quickly and funding to be clarified.
Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work, and at Workday's flagship event, Elevate 2025, Workday is showcasing how companies are embracing this change.
Business Management
19 October 2023
CFO become business partner
The transformation to a business partner has been a goal of CFOs for years, but it is only the effects of the multi-crisis and the topics of digitalization and sustainability that are putting CFOs more at the center of corporate management.
10 October 2023
SAP Global Trade Services for SAP Hana Edition
Global Trade Services supports SAP customers in managing international trade transactions, complying with trade regulations, and controlling the cross-border supply chain. Authorization administration is of particular importance in this context.
2 October 2023
Greenfield Conversion
When hosting S/4 systems in the cloud, the service level of the provider is what counts. With FIS-ASP, the Dehner group of companies reaches a new level. Dehner has opted for Microsoft Azure operation to achieve its goals quickly and efficiently.
September 29, 2023
Cloud Business Transformation
Finnish industrial company establishes digital business process platform based on SAP's Intelligent Enterprise architecture in record time of just 15 months. The transformation project was named Leap.
IT Management
4 October 2023
SAP modernization
What are the benefits of open source? SAP modernizations and migrations are complex; taking a different approach based on open-source principles can help you avoid several problems and stumbling blocks from the start.
4 October 2023
German data centers become more efficient
Whether in industry, transport or administration, whether in the world of work or in everyday life: increasing digitization has led to further growth in data centers in Germany.
October 3, 2023
AI in Software Testing
Not only is artificial intelligence on the rise, it also holds great potential for quality engineering in software development, especially since it is indispensable for companies.
2 October 2023
Test automation in the SAP environment
With increasingly complex applications and shorter release cycles, the topic of automated testing is gaining in importance. What SolMan can do quite well, SAP Cloud ALM still has to learn. E3 spoke with testing expert Markus Helfen from SAP partner Solutive.
Economy
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November 19, 2020
ERP: The Missing Link In Supply Chain Finance
When it comes to supply chain finance, most believe that key to success is the choice of technology or transaction platform. This is not entirely true.
November 19, 2020
Simplify business processes
Bosch and SAP want to simplify digital business processes and have agreed on a strategic cooperation to this end.
November 17, 2020
Greenfield or brownfield? Allfield.
Itelligence announces its partnership with Natuvion to offer a new hybrid migration approach for S/4 Hana in the future.
November 13, 2020
SAP Security in the Public Cloud
Security is paramount for SAP workloads in the public cloud, which is why Syntax and Xiting are partnering.
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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