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.
Archiving: more than just filing and disposal
September 19, 2025
Rise with SAP, cloud integration and S/4 Hana create complex, fragmented data landscapes. Strategic archiving helps to simplify these, reduces the data load, ensures compliance and optimally prepares for migrations.
AI Is Becoming an Integral Part of Everyday Life
September 18, 2025
The discourse surrounding artificial intelligence is often characterized by myths, ranging from fears of job loss to visions of a dehumanized working world. Current studies address the extent to which these concerns are justified.
Sustainable Solutions Instead of Pipe Dreams
September 18, 2025
At the DSAG Annual Congress, experts will discuss current challenges facing the SAP community—from BTP to AI. The aim is to prevent SAP's visions from bursting like balloons in the face of harsh user reality.
Against Your Better Judgment, Right?
September 18, 2025
With customs barriers, trade barriers, and wars, the world is being atomized and defragmented by autocrats. Fortunately, we have a global SAP community with a website in German, English, Spanish, and now, French.
SAP Change Competence Is Now Critical
September 17, 2025
86 percent of enterprises believe SAP change management is now critical to competitive advantage, with the ability to continuously adapt recognized as a defining factor for success.
AI Is Not a Luxury
September 17, 2025
For around three years, we have been experimenting with various combinations of artificial intelligence with our interns. Although a discussion has been initiated, no decision has yet been made regarding the direction to take.
SAP Cloud Rental Model
April 11, 2024
In a week's time, the E3 editorial team will be publishing a report on SAP licenses in our German May 2024 issue, with the recommendation that companies should perhaps select a larger cloud license package than is currently necessary in certain situations. Why is that?
The Hana Database Alternative
April 4, 2024
S/4 is only the successor to ECC 6.0, but the SAP Business Technology Platform brings new perspectives, expanding horizons. SAP, however, is losing its unique selling point, and customers are gaining new freedoms.
The SAP Engine Is Sputtering
March 28, 2024
On the trading floor, SAP CEO Christian Klein is taking off at breakneck speed. His reputation in the SAP community, however, is in tatters. Even the well-intentioned call for a reset by the German magazine Manager Magazin has not moved him to improve the situation.
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 1, 2024
Triad of the community
The SAP community of existing customers, partners and IT providers is emancipating itself and is getting better and better at achieving its goals without SAP. The question of the relevance of SAP itself resonates in the triad of the DSAG Annual Congress 2024 in Leipzig.
September 30, 2024
O'zapft is: Fully integrated SAP cash register for Austria's largest brewery group
Summer. Sun. Barbecue season. A successful party usually includes beer, preferably fresh from the barrel. Austria's largest brewery company, Brau Union Österreich, offers its customers the opportunity to pick up the hoppy refreshment directly from more than forty locations.
September 23, 2024
10,000 SAP Positions
The Chinese Cultural Revolution resulted in both significant achievements and the irreparable loss of numerous resources. SAP’s work culture is now undergoing a similar period of reform.
September 17, 2024
AI in Retail
Artificial intelligence will be at the heart of future transformations in the retail sector. The necessary optimization of master data quality still poses challenges for established ERP systems such as SAP for Retail.
SAP News
February 17, 2025
Looking back: BTC SAP Summit 2024
What moves IT decision-makers. The SAP Summit organized by IT consulting company BTC will take place in June 2025. Trends such as Grow vs. Rise, BTP and AI will be highlighted for the third time. A look back shows how a lively exchange of experiences with added value for the participants was already created in 2024.
February 13, 2025
SuccessConnect: Integrated AI for HCM Suite
SAP has announced new AI capabilities across the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite for improved workforce planning, training and operational development.
In 2024, the management and IT consultancy MHP completed one of its largest transformation projects to date: the changeover in the finance and procurement area at Porsche.
February 12, 2025
CFO trends 2025
For some time now, finance departments have been experiencing a phase of transformation. From cash flow and processes to automation and AI, innovations are being introduced that are leading to far-reaching changes. Reason enough to take a closer look at the developments for 2025.
Business Management
April 13, 2023
BRIM and logistics
When Swiss Post started its digital transformation in 2018 and the decision was made to switch to S/4, this also had an impact on logistics. This area combines all logistics services, including the industry solutions EOS and LOGOS.
April 5, 2023
APS autopilot and resilience
The constantly changing and increasingly complex production tasks of today can hardly be solved in planning terms with the software solutions of the past.
March 20, 2023
Meaningful use of data
On the occasion of the German government's Digital Summit at the end of last year, which focused on "Data - Creating Digital Value Together," DSAG board members Sebastian Westphal and Karin Gräslund comment.
March 14, 2023
Environment - Social - Governance (ESG)
Sustainability is evolving from a "nice to have" to a "must have. This is expressed in changing customer expectations, numerous voluntary commitments, regulation, and new frameworks.
IT Management
April 4, 2023
Social Entrepreneurship
Modern ERP systems are a central element for companies' digitization projects. They help to optimize existing processes, secure competitiveness and open up new business areas.
30 March 2023
Rationalization and Automation
A proven roadmap for successful digital transformation combines accelerated software development with a process that emphasizes people, portfolio assessment, and enterprise-wide strategic alignment.
21 March 2023
BigQuery Machine Learning
The end of ECC 6.0 and R/3 is clearly on the horizon. However, the exact date seems to be a challenge for SAP. What is clear, however, is that support for the previous SAP core systems will be discontinued in a few years.
March 16, 2023
Hybrid Wins
The development of the data center landscape in Germany in 2023 will be shaped by five key trends: Sustainability, symbiosis concepts, hybrid models, decentralization and further growth of hyperscalers.
Economy
June 25, 2020
Plusserver Group establishes Plusserver Basis
With the newly founded Plusserver Basis, the Plusserver Group is expanding its business to include offerings in the area of enterprise IT.
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June 24, 2020
Automation in SAP environments
Winshuttle announced a technology alliance with Celonis. As part of the Celonis Technology Alliance Program (TAP), Winshuttle will provide Celonis customers with flexible and secure SAP automation capabilities.
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June 8, 2020
Marketing automation for medium-sized businesses
Founded in January 2020, itmX has gained an important partner in SC-Networks.
May 28, 2020
Insight Partners acquires Veeam
Key objectives of the Veeam acquisition are faster growth and expansion of the company's leadership position in the US market.
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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