SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig is co-author of a book on the Business Technology Platform. The graphic below is provided as supplementary material.
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Whether virtualization, outsourcing, hosting or cloud, existing SAP customers need basic IT tools and partners for the efficient operation of their SAP system.
CBS Corporate Business Solutions, a consulting firm from Heidelberg, is expanding and strengthening its portfolio in the area of supply chain management and manufacturing...
The S/4 Cloud strategy is putting CCC managers under pressure to act when it comes to SAP Basis. For decades, SAP Customer Competence Centers (CCCs) have been...
The IT service provider for the energy industry Items and the transformation expert Natuvion signed a long-term cooperation agreement in Essen, Germany.
Many companies create, process and store their most valuable data in SAP. To protect this data effectively, existing SAP customers should assume that...
Precisely, a data integrity company, announced that its Precisely Connect data integration solution now supports Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for...
SAP has a personnel problem on the Supervisory Board and Executive Board. There is a lack of visionary and activist people with passion. The workload is often...
More and more users are opting for complete or suite solutions for SAP Basis automation software. Providers of such software, who offer various apps as part of an overall package,...
When switching from an ECC contract to an SAP Rise contract, the metrics for SAP users change. Existing SAP customers are faced with the challenge of...
Computer science pope and university professor Niklaus Wirth was familiar with the duality of algorithms and data structures. The three IT professionals, AWS, NetApp...
Our services for our SAP customers include SAP Basis and technology consulting, especially in the cloud, as well as comprehensive services for SAP transformations and migrations.
SAP partner SNP appoints Phillip Miltiades as the new President and Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific region to continue the strategic transformation.
Complex structures require consistent orchestration. The Silicon Valley Europe initiative and E3 magazine become promoters of the global SAP partner community. We start...
Minsait has managed to generate the highest volume of business in Spain with its solutions and has strengthened its position as a competent partner for...
SAP CEO Christian Klein gave an interview to the German magazine Computerwoche and promised improvement regarding ERP conversion and maintenance in five years through...
The Technology Days of the German-speaking SAP User Group e. V. (DSAG) at the beginning of February 2024 at the Congress Center in Hamburg were held under the motto:...
SAP expects AI to lead to a huge transformation process and productivity gains, according to SAP Switzerland at the Sybit Expert Talk Switzerland 2024, which was held at the Zurich Airport.
Existing SAP customer Schaeffler Group achieves rapid software provision across the entire value chain with low-code. 30 widely used applications with more than 4000 users...
International competition is intensifying as a result of digitalization. Seven out of ten companies feel that digitalization is making competitors from...
Global technological development and the increasing demands of the market require companies to continuously adapt and develop their organizational structures.
Minimizing attack surfaces, hardening applications - no SAP customer can avoid these cybersecurity basics today. Proactive SAP cybersecurity is needed....
It is becoming increasingly difficult for existing SAP customers to obtain relevant information about the capabilities of the ERP software they are using. The SAP PKL...
Companies that want to create and maintain their material master data in automated digital processes supplement their ERP system with software from simus systems,...
SAP-based purchasing is reaching its limits when it comes to seamless collaboration with construction service providers. EVH, a municipal energy service provider in Halle (Saale),...
The fact that S/4 Hana, as a completely new technology in the SAP universe, will have a fundamental impact on the current state of organizations has been...
Today, companies rely on complex IT systems to ensure cost-effective operation. To achieve this, it is necessary to optimize functions, interfaces and data...
Sustainability reporting is becoming mandatory for more and more companies. The challenge of integrating this reporting into existing processes and systems...
When SAP announced in the fall of 2022 that the IS-H functions for patient management and billing would in future be provided via a hospital information system, HIS, other...
Processing incoming invoices is often a major challenge for many organizations. Scanning, capturing, checking, approving and then processing receipts costs...
The new central star in the SAP universe is to be the Business Technology Platform, BTP. A counter-design to the Composable Enterprise, but analyst Joachim...
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BatchMan Workload Automation led to optimized operational processes in S/4 Hana, time savings, and improved understanding between the IT department and business.
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The existing Austrian SAP customer Agrana is a leading global food and industrial goods group, while in Germany it is probably better known as a strategic partner...
SAP on Hyperscaler Clouds provides an overview of the most important tasks involved in operating the cloud infrastructure and your SAP system. Various...
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There was a lot of talk about AI at the DSAG Technology Days in Hamburg. While DSAG Chief Technology Officer Sebastian Westphal and SAP Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller talked animatedly about...
DSAG's Chief Technology Officer Sebastian Westphal and SAP's Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller should focus less on entertaining cuddling and more on results-oriented discourse...
It was a dramatic few hours at SAP headquarters in Walldorf as many supervisory board members, board members and executives fought to keep their jobs....
Everyone is talking about AI. Sybit is already using AI in day-to-day sales, which was made possible by the introduction of the Intelligent Sales Add-on...
Ex-Deloitte manager Punit Renjen will not become Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. The alternative is the worst of all possibilities: In May, the new Hasso Plattner successor for...
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High productivity, sustainable processes and fail-safe supply chains based on a cognitive platform, combinable microservices and a framework from Blue Yonder...
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Every SAP application places its own demands on the IT platform in terms of the consumption of server, storage and network resources. Problems with the...
The Supervisory Board of SAP has nominated Pekka Ala-Pietilä for election as a new member of the Supervisory Board and intends to appoint Ala-Pietilä as the designated successor to...
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In a world characterized by constant change and technological progress, digitalization, increased efficiency and competitiveness play a decisive role...
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The SAP Business Technology Platform, BTP, is developing into the third successful pillar after Hana and S/4, including the Abap development platform Steampunk....
Three reasons why the Asian market is extremely attractive for AI solutions: high digitalization, high willingness to invest and AI as a central topic.
Centric Cloud Solutions announces that SAP's Centric Employee File and Centric Document Builder products have once again achieved Built certification....
The annual World Economic Forum, WEF, took place in Davos in mid-January. This time it was the turn of SAP Chief Development Officer Thomas Saueressig to...
As digitalization progresses, data is at the heart of almost every business activity. Master data in particular plays a decisive role for efficient, effective and...
With a modern and future-proof ERP landscape based on S/4, existing SAP customer Frenzelit is creating the basis for standardizing its business processes,...
ISG compares the competitive and portfolio strength of service and product providers in Germany and Switzerland. High dynamics in the managed security segment.
Under former SAP Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka, the strategy for Hana was Intel only. However, because Intel processors are universal geniuses, they are subject to...
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The certification demonstrates that the Fivetran platform utilizes multiple selected controls to provide a complete security program that comprehensively protects against current threats to...
The good news: SAP will not delete any program code relating to Compatibility Scope. Everything else is currently under discussion. Which Compatibility Packs...
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The November E3 issue contains a surprisingly large number of texts on the subject of SAP licenses. We have been observing this increase in the need for discussion for some...
IT pioneer Thomas Failer and his company have broken new ground in data management for the SAP community. With his data management tool, he has succeeded in...
The IDC Manufacturing Survey examined how manufacturing companies from the EMEA region are dealing with the current economic uncertainties. The manufacturing industry, particularly the...
In the current competition for skilled workers and market share, artificial intelligence can be a great support. In order for the technology to develop its potential...
S/4 transformation without preliminary projects? Many existing SAP customers shy away from the transformation to SAP S/4 Hana because of the supposedly necessary preliminary projects. However, these prove to be...
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Digitalization, IIoT, Industry 4.0 and cloud computing mean that manufacturing companies today are also replacing their SAP on-premises landscape with regard to store floor processes.
Many retail companies are facing challenges in their ERP systems with regards to their IT landscape. SAP's RISE and GROW sales packages could help support companies' move to the cloud.
Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion.
This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.
For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.
Venue
FourSide Hotel Salzburg, Trademark Collection by Wyndham Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria +43-66-24355460
Event date
Wednesday, June 10, and Thursday, June 11, 2026
Early Bird Ticket
Regular ticket
EUR 390 excl. VAT available until 1.10.2025
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Venue
Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg
Event date
Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 23, 2026
Tickets
Regular ticket
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Subscribers to the E3 magazine reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students* reduced with promocode STStud26. Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
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The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.