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.
Data as Strategic Capital
October 2, 2025
In the data-driven economy, data quality is becoming a success factor: precision, consistency, and reliability are no longer a nice-to-have, but a clear competitive advantage.
Open Source Cannot Be Switched Off
October 1, 2025
The volatile macroeconomic and geopolitical environment requires IT landscapes to be operated with confidence. Security and independence are becoming increasingly important. Open source and hybrid cloud offer the necessary flexibility and resilience.
Roadmap for AI implementation in SAP
October 1, 2025
AI has long since ceased to be a trend. It is an unavoidable necessity. The integration of AI into SAP systems offers companies the opportunity to increase their efficiency, make informed decisions in real time and remain competitive in the long term.
Into the cloud with SAP Utilities Core
September 30, 2025
Berlin-based energy service provider Gasag is one of the first energy companies to convert its SAP billing system for grid operations to a cloud-based solution in the Rise model. This is the first part of the largest IT project in the company's history to date.
Generation Z—Money Before Work-Life Balance
September 30, 2025
What really counts at work? A new study of 500 professionals from Germany sheds light on what motivates employees today—and why some trends are developing differently than expected.
Reach Your Destination Quickly and Safely
September 29, 2025
Everything must become more efficient, including processes. SAP knows this too—and thus offers stable, tried-and-tested processes for complex subject areas that benefit companies. They are the best at it.
ECC Deadline Disaster
June 19, 2024
The SAP community is heading for a disaster in the making because hardly any experts know the true status of their S/4 implementation. SAP's numbers only reflect sales. How many S/4 systems are actually productive?
Solution Versus Tool
June 13, 2024
Most IT users are looking for business, organizational and technical solutions, with their aim being to optimize end-to-end processes. Digital transformation is based on strategy and concepts, not tools.
BTP Credit Points
June 6, 2024
One of SAP's ideas is to pay for BTP subscriptions using credit points. The project could succeed if the credit points did not lose their validity at the end of the year. This SAP procedure is reminiscent of old cell phone contracts.
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
November 12, 2024
Lonely to the beat of digitalization
Shortly before the editorial deadline, I rewrote my monthly column: An employee sent me a photo from Leipzig. At the SAP DSAG stand, it should of course say "Together", but "Gem" was covered by another sign.
The next AI-driven industrial revolution is leading to a massive need for action in terms of digital IT logistics solutions, especially in the SAP environment. This is also an opportunity to generate real added value.
November 5, 2024
Not Without My CCoE
SAP customers from the R/3 era suspect an end-of-life for their beloved CCC. However, anyone who has signed a RISE contract is now aware that a CCoE is of greater significance than ever. What is the next step?
November 4, 2024
Self-Contained Silos
In process control, new SAP SaaS products act as self-contained silos. Integration is available both for data and for the execution of processes as a web interface—but that is where it ends.
SAP News
April 7, 2025
E3 exclusive interview: Quo vadis, SAP Basis?
Something essential for SAP customers is sovereignty and control over SAP systems, all with a reliable basis. Thankfully, a good deal has been achieved with SAP Basis automation over the past 20 years. What influence do SAP's cloud strategy and Rise have? Empirius Head of Technology Marcus Bogenstätter explains.
March 31, 2025
Extended AI functions: New S/4 release
SAP has introduced a new S/4 Cloud Private Edition. Enhanced AI and automation functions are intended to improve user-friendliness and the transformation of business processes.
March 21, 2025
SAP Sports One: Soccer in 3D
A new prototype from SAP Sports One uses Apple Vision Pro to offer a 3D view from the player's perspective to provide a deeper insight into game situations in soccer.
March 20, 2025
HPI study: Path to Power
Hasso Plattner Institute examined democracy in the age of disruption in a study.
Business Management
July 10, 2023
The new SAP licensing model can be expensive!
Until now, it was primarily a security issue when companies simply migrated their existing roles to S/4 without checking them. With the new licensing model, however, overly generous authorizations lead to a real explosion in costs.
July 5, 2023
Healthcare
The labor market is currently changing from an employer market to an employee market. If organizations want to attract young professionals, they must create an attractive working environment with flexible working hours and work-life balance.
19 June 2023
S/4 Conversion
Last year, the productive system at SAP's existing customer Nordzucker was transformed to S/4. With a mix of greenfield and brownfield approaches as well as various in-house developments, this was a complex matter.
16 June 2023
SAP data in full access
The most common SAP integration scenarios are aimed at the efficient replication of data across different cloud platforms in near real-time, as well as the integration and automation of SAP processes.
IT Management
13 July 2023
S/4 Midmarket Booster
The standard S/4 brownfield approach provides for the current ECC 6.0 system to be technically converted to the new S/4 Hana software as a whole or in two steps. This means that data and in-house developments as well as customizing in S/4 are retained.
July 12, 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.
20 June 2023
Data Center Exodus
The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection has published a draft for an energy efficiency law that would significantly tighten the requirements for data centers.
16 June 2023
Intelligent Service Cloud
The quality of services not only increases customer satisfaction and loyalty, but can also generate lasting enthusiasm, minimize costs, and increase the company's success. Which software supports this?
Economy
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September 11, 2020
IT service providers remain on course
Although the first signs of an economic slowdown were already evident in some sectors in 2019, the top 25 IT consultancies in Germany in terms of revenue were able to continue on their growth course.
September 10, 2020
Capgemini and Blackline combine competencies
The combined use of process mining and robotic process automation is intended to make digital business processes more efficient.
September 4, 2020
Mphasis and SNP Group collaborate
Mphasis, an IT solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, announced its partnership with SNP Group to help customers with their digitization process.
August 28, 2020
Master Data Alliance - International meets local
Under the umbrella of the Master Data Alliance, the IT consulting companies msg, Sigma IT, YellowGround and Micropole are jointly launching a pan-European collaboration.
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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