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.
Clear view of the order backlog in SAP
September 29, 2025
At packaging manufacturer Karl Knauer, the standard SAP system lacked adequate mapping of the order backlog - a central KPI for production and sales planning. Thanks to an enhancement, this can now be evaluated in real time and used for well-founded decisions.
The EU Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether SAP may have distorted competition in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services related to an on-premises type of software, licensed by SAP, used for the management of companies' business operations, in the European Economic Area.
Users Are Different
September 26, 2025
The SAP community is increasingly diverging from SAP's plans. There is a wide gap between the global ERP market leader's dreams and reality.
450 billion through AI agents and humans
September 26, 2025
At MainDays 2025, Perlen Papier received the Maintainer Award for excellence in maintenance.
Cybercrime, Workforce Transformation, and AI
September 24, 2025
Digital transformation remains the central task on the executive floors of German companies. Key topics such as cybercrime, automation, and AI are at the top of the corporate agenda in Germany, according to KPMG's study, Future Readiness Monitor 2025.
10 years of S/4: racing car with API handbrake applied
September 24, 2025
Ten years ago, SAP presented S/4 as a new beginning for the digital backbone of the economy. Real-time, simplified data models, cloud focus. Much was achieved. In the meantime, it is less a question of "if" and more a question of "how".
The Leonardo Disaster
23 May 2024
SAP was once the spearhead of IT with its Leonardo program. AI, IoT, blockchain, and analytics were all offered under the collective term Leonardo. Of course, there were no quick wins back then. SAP discontinued the program.
Teenage Hana
16 May 2024
The current Hana 2.0 Revision 77 contains serious bugs without fixes. SAP is ignoring many issues with Hana and is trapped in its own system. Instead of business solution competence, the company exhausts itself with technical repairs.
Toxic Hana
May 8, 2024
Hana is a decent SQL database that can deliver select answers in real time thanks to in-memory technology. However, Hana is already 15 years old, and other database vendors have caught up technically. What can SAP do now to stay ahead of the curve?
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
October 29, 2024
SAP monitoring: it's high time for automation
The cloud promises more security and stability for SAP systems. But unfortunately, this is only half the truth. Existing customers need more and automated monitoring to deliver on the promise, in the cloud as well as on-premises.
October 29, 2024
AI in Focus—Between Hype and Reality
A year ago, every time AI was mentioned in an announcement, the share price automatically skyrocketed. New AI experts were added to professional networks every hour and thousands of AI posts were shared.
October 22, 2024
Quick Transformation From a Single Source
The cloud blurs the differences between applications from different providers. Functions are developed, replicated, and provided more quickly. Switching to the cloud is difficult, but offers enormous opportunities.
October 18, 2024
The Woes of the Young SAP CIO
CIOs, CTOs and, above all, Chief Technology Officers encounter many challenges in their roles at SAP. The turnover is high, and the rewards are few. What is the root cause of this issue?
SAP News
March 14, 2025
SAP Concur's Journey to Net Zero
Concur Travel is the first online booking tool to integrate emissions calculations according to the new ISO 14083 standard. In collaboration with Thrust Carbon, SAP Concur provides its customers with accurate and consistent emissions data at the time of booking.
March 13, 2025
NetWeaver, Data Hub, Datasphere, BDC
SAP reported from New York that, following the introduction of HEC, HCP, SCP, SAC, and BTP, BDC has now been established. The new "Master Data Management" is intended for growth and success, leveraging a dual stack concept, similar to the approach used for Abap and Java in the NetWeaver stack. Doubts are high and skepticism prevails.
March 13, 2025
First Montreal ServiceNow Community Meetup
The ServiceNow community in Montreal came together for their first meetup on February 27th, 2025. It was a casual meet-and-greet networking event designed to reinforce the power of collaboration and knowledge-sharing within the ServiceNow community. The event was led by Saaniya Chugh, who spearheaded the initiative to bring the event to Montreal.
March 12, 2025
Ecological Footprint and Gen AI
A new study by the Capgemini Research Institute examines the issue of sustainability in the use of generative AI (Gen AI).
Business Management
13 June 2023
End-to-end management
Commerz Real hopes to achieve faster decision-making processes through analyses, evaluations and reporting in real time by integrating and networking with business partners and customers on the basis of S/4 Hana.
June 9, 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.
June 6, 2023
High-speed migration approach
The family-owned company Dräxlmaier is one of the largest automotive suppliers in the world. In the course of the Synapsis project, the company is implementing one of the largest S/4 implementations in the automotive industry in cooperation with cbs.
June 2, 2023
Bullwhip effect
Delivery plans are supposed to link customers and suppliers, increase efficiency and delivery reliability, and avoid bottlenecks due to the bullwhip effect. But in many cases, the plans cause more trouble than they benefit.
IT Management
13 June 2023
Who Is Allowed To Do What and Why?
SAP's authorization concept has been a challenge for the SAP Basis team since the beginning, because it has to be done quickly at the beginning of customizing and downstream no one wants to maintain the roles and authorizations.
June 7, 2023
Run Hackers Against the Wall
Production lines are indispensable components of complex supply chains. If these are disrupted, this can jeopardize the existence of the companies affected. What can companies do to prevent hackers from "hitting the wall" at OT?
31 May 2023
Goodbye Isolated Solutions
The potential for making business processes more profitable and efficient by means of new technologies and services seems almost endless today. However, it also requires the right basis to exploit the potential.
May 15, 2023
Legacy Enterprise Software and Open Source
Timely replacement of legacy systems ensures future viability, because many companies still use legacy solutions as enterprise software that were once developed in-house and have been steadily maintained over the years.
Economy
August 24, 2020
Merging know-how - Scheer bundles competencies
Scheer brings together its technology, process, AI and integration expertise in Scheer PAS Germany.
August 14, 2020
Sinch acquires SAP Digital Interconnect
Sinch and SAP announced that Sinch AB has entered into an agreement to acquire SAP Digital Interconnect (SDI).
August 12, 2020
OpenText and Amazon Web Services - New Cloud Agreement
OpenText's portfolio of information management solutions will be available as managed services on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
August 7, 2020
Atos acquires Miner & Kasch
The acquisition will enable Atos to expand Miner & Kasch's Big Data and AI consulting practice and further advance its Data Science as a Service offering.
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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