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.
The Majority Plan Savings in IT
October 8, 2025
The tense economic and geopolitical situation is forcing 82 percent of the companies surveyed in the DACH region to cut costs, with 53 percent of IT departments affected by cost-cutting measures. The IT budget is being reduced in one in four companies.
Welcome, Digitalized Delivery and Goodbye to Paperwork
October 7, 2025
Unloading pallets, delivering building materials, and documenting everything digitally—Stark Germany was impressed by the SAP-based FIS/LastMile app during the pilot phase. Now the roll-out is underway: paperless processes, faster workflows, and full transparency on the "last mile".
Towards the Future With LeanIX
October 7, 2025
Over a long period of time, the mechanical engineering specialist Trumpf from Ditzingen developed IT structures that the in-house IT department could only manage through a great deal of effort. Among other things, heterogeneous subsystems and decentralized IT solutions at various locations made work more difficult and resulted in avoidable IT costs—for example in the form of multiple licenses and rising maintenance costs.
A big step towards data-driven maintenance
October 6, 2025
Maintenance staff are rarely at their desks - but SAP processes often demand just that. Schöck Bauteile was therefore looking for a mobile solution to record maintenance and fault messages directly in the factory. This step was realized in 2024 with the Argvis Maintenance Portal.
Clean Core and BTP in Day-to-Day Business
October 6, 2025
Companies in the energy and process industry are under pressure to implement innovations, meet legal requirements, and optimize their operational processes at the same time. Outdated ERP landscapes are making this increasingly difficult.
Digital Sovereignty Is A Necessity, Not a Luxury
October 2, 2025
Digital sovereignty is rapidly gaining in importance in Europe. This is creating new requirements—and opportunities—for SAP customers. Open source plays a key role in this and helps companies to become more sovereign.
SAP's Free Add-ons?
July 11, 2024
SAP is trying to make S/4 Hana a sufficiently good ERP product with attractive product combinations and license prices. In the meantime, S/4 has really grown up, but has not yet arrived in the cloud.
RISE or GROW
July 3, 2024
Everyone was perfectly surprised when SAP CEO Christian Klein announced the RISE program three years ago in a virtual living room with an artificial fireplace. No one understood what it means. RISE meanders between marketing and general business.
SAP Issue Selection and Strategy
June 26, 2024
SAP CEO Christian Klein uses his knowledge and flair to pick the right topics for a strong stock market story. SAP's share price is at an all-time high, but there is little left for SAP customers.
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
December 2, 2024
New SAP technologies: Causing rage or solving problems?
When George Stephenson applied for the first railroad line in England in 1825, the Paris Academy of Sciences wrote in a report for the British House of Commons that "the rapid movement of travelers could cause the so-called 'delirium furiosum'".
November 25, 2024
RISE With SAP License Chaos
There is no RISE license agreement with SAP. If you opt for the all-in-ERP package, you will be required to sign at least two contracts and follow a dozen web links.
November 13, 2024
Rushing to the Cloud
From the outset, SAP has encouraged its customers to adopt new technologies and products. Despite the current immaturity of many technologies and products, the pressure to act is increasing.
November 12, 2024
Responsible Scaling Policy
While this edition of E3 was being sent to the printers, SAP CEO Christian Klein and CFO Dominik Asam presented the latest quarterly figures. As a result, the SAP share price in Frankfurt am Main rose to an all-time high of 222 euros.
SAP News
April 15, 2025
AI Foundation Services
AI foundation for companies: Over 15 LLMs already provided in accordance with EU standards, mainly in Germany.
April 11, 2025
Room for Improvement With AI Expertise
A recent study by the Stifterverband (a German non-profit organization with a focus on science) and McKinsey shows that many companies recognize the potential of artificial intelligence, but are not yet exploiting it.
April 10, 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Human Responsibility
The rapid growth of AI is overwhelming governance. Leaders are seeking a balance between innovation and ethics. This is creating red lines for the future use of AI.
April 9, 2025
Ready for onboarding: Agentic AI, your AI agents
This new AI class is becoming a game changer: role-based AI agents. They raise the cooperation between humans and AI to a rapidly productive level. Workday predicts thousands of these agents. How do you orchestrate AI and humans? What should CHROs, CEOs and CIOs bear in mind?
Business Management
August 15, 2023
MES and MII support
The SAP user group DSAG has achieved that SAP extends the maintenance for the manufacturing solutions Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII) until the end of 2030.
August 9, 2023
Clean master data for S/4
With the conversion from ECC 6.0 to S/4, the long-known business partner concept becomes mandatory. It is therefore not possible to convert an ECC system in the brownfield approach without prior conversion.
July 24, 2023
AI helps ERP
SAP and IBM have announced that IBM Watson AI will be integrated into SAP solutions.
July 18, 2023
Audit proof page
Have you already simulated and successfully passed an audit of your POS data by the tax authorities? If you want to avoid a disaster, you should act now.
IT Management
September 1, 2023
Keep SAP in your own data center and still go to the cloud: The best of both worlds
What do SAP customers do if they don't want to move to the public cloud, but still want the benefits of using cloud technology? The answer is simple: they use the cloud in their own data center with HPE and Intel technology.
August 25, 2023
Freedom for data and analysis
Datasphere is designed to provide a unified solution for managing business-critical enterprise data. Whether and how companies benefit from this also depends on the interaction with Analytics Cloud and Data Intelligence Cloud.
August 11, 2023
The general AMS
Application Management Services are an essential part of digital transformation. They help companies to operate and manage software and IT services more efficiently in order to achieve their goals.
20 July 2023
The virtual SAP role consultant
SAP implementations, migrations to S/4, or preparation for audits and compliance certifications: SAP experts are well utilized, often overworked. The topic of authorization concepts is also on many to-do lists - unloved, but indispensable.
Economy
October 7, 2020
Proc-IT becomes Valantic People
SAP human capital management specialist Proc-IT changes its name to Valantic People.
October 2, 2020
Simplified S/4 Hana migration
Orbis and Data Migration International (DMI) have agreed on a partnership around S/4 Hana.
September 28, 2020
New name for Flexera
The software vendor division, Flexera Software, is now called Revenera to push for a clearer separation from the Flexera brand.
September 18, 2020
KPS and Celonis enter into partnership
KPS is now a Certified Partner of Celonis. This means that KPS customers also benefit from Celonis' process mining technology.
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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