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.
Desire and Reality in IT Transformations
October 10, 2025
The latest IT transformation study reveals major discrepancies between the goals defined in advance and the results achieved.
From Threats to Regulations to Resilience
October 10, 2025
Detect, analyze, correct—SAP security with SmartSecOps. From the first malware to organized cybercrime.
AI Agents—Don't Call Them Boss
October 10, 2025
According to a new Workday study, 75 percent of employees are willing to work with AI agents, but only 30 percent accept them as superiors. Companies need to draw clear boundaries, create transparency and put people at the center in order to build trust.
Next Generation Workforce Management
October 9, 2025
SaaS workforce management frees HR from administrative routines and increasingly establishes the HR department as a strategic partner for value creation and future viability.
Nothing but the Truth About Process Mining
October 9, 2025
The starting point of this article is a current lawsuit filed by Celonis against SAP in the USA¹. The aim of the lawsuit is to remove barriers to competition that prevent Celonis from working with SAP systems.
One of the Biggest Global Transformations
October 8, 2025
With the go-live of the SAP Cloud ERP solution, the consulting and auditing firm PWC is consolidating its global business processes and creating a standardized platform for more than 100,000 employees in 19 countries.
Heads Roll at SAP
August 1, 2024
In no other German supervisory board is the balance of power as opaque and secretive as at SAP. Although he was only elected for two years, Pekka "the Puppet" Ala-Pietilä has now given SAP Executive Board members Julia White and Scott Russell the boot. Who is pulling the strings behind the scenes?
ERP Knowledge Gaps
July 25, 2024
Standardization increases contribution margin. Individualization costs resources. CEO Christian Klein and CFO Dominik Asam are turning SAP into a cash cow, as evidenced by all the money SAP stands to make with mass layoffs and public cloud.
AI, Money, and Community
July 18, 2024
AI development is expensive, which gives most US start-ups with their powerful venture capitalists an advantage. A lack of capital could be replaced by partnership-based innovation and communities—both of which Aleph Alpha lacks.
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.
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December 16, 2024
Ansible - the news doesn't stop
Ansible is an established standard that is here to stay. However, in the SAP world, application possibilities, from accelerated Rise migration to faster implementation of innovations, are still underutilized.
December 5, 2024
Secure on SAP S/4 With Suse and Edge Integration
Regulations such as NIS 2 increase the requirements for data protection and security. The BSI CC EAL 4+ certified Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) fulfills these requirements.
December 5, 2024
Is Digitalization More Than Just a Buzzword?
Digitalization is all everyone is talking about. Everyone wants to be digital, and digitalization has become indispensable. But let's be honest, what does that actually mean?
December 2, 2024
Supply Chains and Order Shortages
When supply chains became fragile and global logistics and production began to stutter, SAP was able to help and win with a comprehensive ERP/SCM. As SAP CEO Klein often emphasized, supply chain planning is one of SAP's strengths.
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
September 11, 2023
Automated SAP document exchange
Retarus' innovative Cloud Services for integration and automation make process communication more agile, secure and reliable.
September 11, 2023
S/4 Hana Finance Core Competence
Finance plays a fundamental role in the transformation to a digital company. It is essential that those responsible for finance are involved in the changeover to SAP S/4 - this is where all the threads come together.
August 18, 2023
Route processes
A sister company of the SAP existing customer Telegärtner handles internal third-party processes with an add-on integrated as well as delivery-related in S/4. This eliminates time-consuming manual steps, which saves several hours of working time per week.
Commerz Real is the first German asset manager to successively convert all key business processes to S/4. And it is doing so in combination with the integration and development platform SAP Business Technology Platform.
IT Management
September 13, 2023
Digital Trust
One report shows that more than 88 percent of respondents have experienced more than one cloud security incident in the past year.
September 7, 2023
Cloud Usage is Growing
According to the digital association Bitkom, cloud computing has established itself in Germany and is now on the verge of significant growth. In five years, 56 percent of all companies want to run more than half of their IT applications from the cloud.
September 6, 2023
Interview: Cloud Computing for SAP
SAP users must convert to S/4 by 2027 or face paying expensive fees. At the same time, IT infrastructures should be converted to cloud computing to ensure companies fully use all the new possibilities.
September 5, 2023
Test Automation as a Service
Testing applications, especially in the SAP environment, is a much greater burden on companies today than it was a few years ago. New approaches to reducing testing efforts help to introduce SAP solutions faster, more cost-effectively and with higher quality.
Economy
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23 October 2020
SAP intends to go public with Qualtrics
Just ahead of the release of its second quarter and first half 2020 results, SAP has announced that it intends to IPO Qualtrics in the US.
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20 October 2020
Data Migration International
Data Migration International, Swiss information management specialist, achieved the best quarterly results in the company's history, benefiting from continued strong demand, a growing partner ecosystem and intensive collaboration with SAP.
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October 15, 2020
Covid-19: European sourcing spending declines
In response to Covid-19, companies are reducing their spending on managed services. However, there is still strong demand for cloud services that enable distributed working.
9 October 2020
Subscription for S/4 Hana conversion
With Conversion/4, the All for One Group and SNP offer SAP user companies a new type of support concept.
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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