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.
Innovations at the SAP Connect Event in Las Vegas
October 15, 2025
At the first SAP Connect in Las Vegas, SAP Executive Board member Muhammad Alam presented a series of innovations in the field of business AI. The highlights included role-specific Joule assistants.
The AI that understands your business
October 15, 2025
SAP wants to integrate AI into all processes and products. CEO Christian Klein promises an increase in productivity of up to 30 percent through automated routines, faster processes and smart analyses to support decision-making. A status check.
SAP EWM on S/4 Hana in Focus
October 14, 2025
Anyone implementing SAP EWM on S/4 Hana today is often entering uncharted territory: tried and tested patterns no longer work. Companies now need to know what is important, what mistakes they should avoid, and how SAP BTP and cloud models can contribute to success.
How Wholesalers Are Adapting to SAP Cloud ERP
October 14, 2025
Wholesalers face the challenge of seamlessly integrating their stores into SAP Cloud ERP. In the E3 interview, Christopher Warnow from FIS explains how processes can be automated and future-proofed.
EU Public Cloud Market Defies US Tariffs
October 13, 2025
IDC forecasts: European spending on public cloud services will rise to 229 billion USD in 2025 and to 452 billion USD by 2029. Despite geopolitical uncertainties, the cloud remains the engine of digitalization—driven by AI, regulation, and the healthcare boom.
Service Market—What Comes After the S/4 Boom?
October 13, 2025
The SAP service market is booming thanks to S/4 migrations - but the end of this wave is in sight. What comes next? New opportunities, new challenges and a change of strategy in the SAP partner ecosystem.
Classic S/4 Release Change
August 22, 2024
SAP is stuck in the past. The world leader in ERP still believes in the paradigm of applications and data, which means it believes in the classic release change. But AI will produce applications for every occasion and around the clock. Data is the true added value.
Thinking in Algorithms
August 14, 2024
Siemens has shown that it is possible to do good business with software, which means there is a future in implementing innovations in algorithms. SAP should ask itself whether AI and the cloud or business software will be what drives digitalization.
The Lost ERP Path
August 8, 2024
SAP has definitely lost its way. It started with its foray into databases. Hana is only a satisfactory success because of SAP's market dominance—a monopoly. Will cloud and AI suffer a similar fate at SAP?
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
Many existing SAP customers are at a crossroads as to whether SAP's ERP should continue to play a leading role in the future or whether there are a variety of alternatives with a composable ERP. SAP is countering this with a new Business Suite.
April 30, 2025
Study on AI in Practice
A recent study shows that AI is particularly important in quality control and automated data and document management.
April 28, 2025
Minsait Implements an AI Assistant at Helvetia
The assistant analyzes each query to provide relevant and useful content, adjusts the depth of responses according to the complexity of the question, and offers clear, comprehensive solutions tailored to the context, avoiding excessive use of technical jargon.
April 28, 2025
All for One Receives 2025 SAP Pinnacle Award
The IT company is honored by SAP in the Sales Success Midmarket category.
Business Management
September 28, 2023
Advanced Process Management with SAP
Mayer & Cie.'s claim to innovation heralded a comprehensive digitization journey that is intended to secure and extend its market lead in the future. The motto is: increasing efficiency along the entire value chain.
September 25, 2023
SAP Billing and Revenue Management
With the move to S/4 Hana, Swiss Post has implemented the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) bulk billing solution in areas with high billing volumes to prepare for the future.
September 12, 2023
SAP Process Automation with AI and ChatGPT
Staying in control in the storm of rising prices, volatile labor markets and the resulting sluggish revenues and shrinking profit margins is the central task of corporate executives.
September 12, 2023
SAP Enterprise Architects as Game Changers
ERP systems that have grown for decades form the backbone of many companies. Transforming them is a huge undertaking. Those who involve specialists for IT landscapes with enterprise architects reach their goal better and faster.
IT Management
September 15, 2023
The Future of the Data Center Industry
The data center industry will see an increase in market value and a simultaneous review of the rationality of continuing to operate older data centers without certification due to overall trends.
September 14, 2023
SAP automation with AI and ML
Many companies handle their business processes with SAP software. An automation platform including Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI, which eliminates manual work steps, can leverage optimization potential.
September 14, 2023
SAP Migration and Innovation
The SAP deadline of 2027 applies to most applications and existing customers. They are actively driving the necessary migrations. However, innovation is often neglected during the transformation. But this does not have to be the case.
September 13, 2023
Focus on SAP infrastructure
Demand-driven SAP deployment depends to a large extent on a well-oiled SAP infrastructure. The focus here is on the SAP basis and the tasks to be performed.
Economy
November 9, 2020
Qlik acquires Knarr Analytics
The addition of Knarr Analytics to the Qlik platform primarily supports its Active Intelligence capabilities.
November 5, 2020
Data protection for small and medium-sized enterprises
To make GDPR compliance less bureaucratic, Deutsche Telekom and Dataguard have entered into a cooperation.
November 2, 2020
NetApp completes acquisition of Spot
NetApp announced that it has completed the acquisition of Spot, a public cloud compute management and cost optimization company.
26 October 2020
Open source innovators merge
Suse has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs and its Kubernetes management platform.
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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