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 May 2024
Power of Three
Here, the whole is more than the sum of its parts: This is the claim that the Public Cloud Group (PCG), NetApp and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are making to the SAP community. The challenge is the successful S/4 conversion and the development of a cloud architecture for Hana, S/4 and SAP BTP.
Vector Engine as a Booster for AI
April 22, 2024
Uncover hidden insights and patterns with SAP’s Knowledge Graph. The Hana DB platform and Datasphere can do vector math! Why is this important? Because vectors in multidimensional space make it easy to represent the distance between data points, often even by calculating mentally. Generative AI requires this knowledge.
SAP balance of innovation and risk management
April 19, 2024
Companies are facing various challenges and key issues in the digital transformation. The integration of AI and machine learning in particular is increasingly becoming an unavoidable trend.
Minsait Receives Recognition From SAP
April 19, 2024
Minsait has managed to generate the highest volume of business in Spain with its solutions and consolidate its position as a competent partner in the SAP universe.
NTT, Nvidia, and Red Hat
April 18, 2024
A jointly developed solution enables real-time analysis of large amounts of data with AI and reduces power consumption and latency.
Niels Northe Is Head of HCM at Natuvion
April 18, 2024
Natuvion has brought SAP and HCM specialist Niels Northe on board as Head of Human Capital Management (HCM).
New Partnership Between Datamation and xSuite
April 17, 2024
The aim is to enter into strategic alliances with technological market leaders in order to offer innovative IT solutions.
The SAP Innovation Disaster
February 15, 2024
SAP has potential. In February, an E3 author philosophized on how SAP could double in size in a few short years if only it had the right strategy and people. However, SAP is not currently investing enough energy into this endeavor.
Room for Improvement in BTP and Abap
February 8, 2024
The theme of the DSAG Technology Days Conference in 2024 was "Bringing vision and reality together". This pious wish also applies to SAP BTP and SAP Cloud because, while everyone is aware the ERP universe could use some improvement, there is a lack of realistic solutions.
SAP Fights for Survival
February 1, 2024
If a company is willing to give a one hundred percent bonus on paid services to retain a customer, then customers should start thinking about the future.
A New Quality of SAP Cloud
January 25, 2024
SAP has been very successful with cloud computing, in moving customers to the private and public cloud, but what has so far been commercially successful can fail in the long run if it is not sustainable.
SAP Man in Davos
January 18, 2024
In mid-January, the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) took place in Davos, Switzerland. This time, it was SAP Chief Development Officer Thomas Saueressig's turn to represent the global ERP leader at the WEF.
Comments
March 29, 2024
SAP Technology Versus Business
What is SAP's value proposition? There are few studies on this, but SAP is most probably not a technology company like Microsoft, Apple, Meta, or Google, or a bookseller like Amazon.
March 15, 2024
Indirect Use of SAP Data and AI
I had lunch with our senior lawyer in the cafeteria the other day and we ended up staying until 5 in the afternoon. It wasn’t the food that made me feel ill, but rather his concerns about the use of generative AI in light of the GDPR.
March 12, 2024
RAP and CAP
Even in the dawning age of AI, programming is still a popular activity. From RAP (RESTful Application Programming), to CAP (Cloud Application Programming), there should be something for every SAP customer out there. But it won't come cheap.
March 8, 2024
SAP Can Do More, Right?
There was a good deal of buzz about AI at the DSAG Technology Days Conference in Hamburg. While DSAG Chief Technology Officer Sebastian Westphal and SAP Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller philosophized animatedly about open construction sites, possible solutions and missing roadmaps, the audience waited for concrete answers. They waited in vain.
Community News
April 19, 2024
Minsait Receives Recognition From SAP
Minsait has managed to generate the highest volume of business in Spain with its solutions and consolidate its position as a competent partner in the SAP universe.
April 18, 2024
NTT, Nvidia, and Red Hat
A jointly developed solution enables real-time analysis of large amounts of data with AI and reduces power consumption and latency.
April 18, 2024
Niels Northe Is Head of HCM at Natuvion
Natuvion has brought SAP and HCM specialist Niels Northe on board as Head of Human Capital Management (HCM).
April 17, 2024
New Partnership Between Datamation and xSuite
The aim is to enter into strategic alliances with technological market leaders in order to offer innovative IT solutions.
Business Management
With a modern and future-proof ERP landscape based on S/4 Hana, Frenzelit is creating the foundation for standardizing, digitizing, and automating its business processes.
January 16, 2024
Data structures with SAP optimization
As digitalization progresses, data is at the heart of almost every business activity. Master data in particular plays a crucial role in efficient, transparent and customer-centric business processes.
January 10, 2024
S/4 Greenfield Conversion
With a modern and future-proof ERP landscape based on S/4, SAP customer Frenzelit is creating the basis for standardizing, digitizing, and automating its business processes.
December 7, 2023
Digital Assistants in the BTP
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT mark a milestone in the use of AI. SAP-based procurement also benefits from LLM bots that communicate highly efficiently with users.
IT Management
March 18, 2024
Automation of System Operation with SAP System Copies
Automation tools have long since become established for creating SAP system copies. SAP Basis teams expect providers to provide them with such software systems based on the latest technologies.
March 18, 2024
Agrana Quality Management Application With SAP BTP
Austrian SAP customer Agrana is one of the world's leading food and industrial goods companies. In Germany, Agrana is probably better known for its strategic partner Südzucker, which is also an SAP user.
March 12, 2024
SAP Invoicing of the Future
Invoicing is often still manual and thus prone to errors. During a labor shortage, it also deprives companies of valuable capacity for more value-adding activities. AI-based invoicing provides a remedy here.
March 8, 2024
Seamless GAEB Integration in SAP
Although the GAEB file format considerably simplifies and accelerates the purchasing of construction services, it is not supported by SAP. This can be particularly problematic for energy suppliers.
Economy
July 11, 2023
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in June 2023
What's Happening in the SAP World? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in June 2023
June 9, 2023
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in May 2023
What's Happening in the SAP World? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in May 2023
May 22 2023
Acceptance and Use
A study by Nexthink shows that only five percent of IT decision makers have an overview of enterprise applications.
What's Happening in the SAP World? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in April 2023
E3 book tip
SAP S/4HANA - Architecture
If you use SAP S/4HANA, you need to know the system inside out. This book will help you master the technical architecture of SAP S/4HANA! Understand the new data and programming models and how they differ from SAP ERP. Learn more about technology components such as embedded analytics, extensibility and enterprise search. The authors guide you through the architecture of the individual application areas such as finance and logistics and show how they are integrated with each other.
- Technical basics and principles of SAP S/4HANA
- Application architecture of central areas such as finance, logistics, procurement and sales
- Special features of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition architecture
- Technical basics and principles of SAP S/4HANA
- Application architecture of central areas such as finance, logistics, procurement and sales
- Special features of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition architecture
