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.
Turning point in SAP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
September 17, 2025
With the end of maintenance for SAP Solution Manager, new options in SAP Cloud ALM, the S/4HANA transformation and the potential of cloud and AI, companies must now realign their ALM strategy - or risk being left behind.
Pragmatic advice for measurable success
September 16, 2025
Companies invest in SAP solutions to optimize core processes, become more efficient and remain fit for the future. But how do you turn this investment into measurable business success?
S/4 Finance for Group Reporting
September 16, 2025
S/4 Finance for Group Reporting enables the real-time consolidation of financial data, automates processes and supports well-founded decisions. It is particularly suitable for complex structures and offers scalability and compliance.
A Strategic Opportunity for S/4 With Bluefield
September 15, 2025
The digital transformation has long been a reality for top managers. For many companies, the SAP S/4 Hana transformation, which involves moving an SAP system into the cloud, is at the heart of this far-reaching change.
How the SAP Build Work Zone Is Rethinking HR Processes
September 12, 2025
HR services have long since arrived in the cloud, but accessing them is often confusing. Different systems, inconsistent interfaces, and multiple portals make day-to-day work unnecessarily complicated for employees.
Systems, Strategies, and Stumbling Blocks: New SAP Implementation
September 12, 2025
As the industry leader, SAP remains the first choice for ERP systems, as implementation is more than just a technical changeover—it is a strategic decision that has long-term effects on the respective company structure.
How Relevant Is SAP?
March 21, 2024
The new central star in the SAP universe is supposed to be the BTP (Business Technology Platform). However, analyst Joachim Hackmann of PAC has found that only 24 percent of SAP customers are consciously using the BTP.
SAP AI Dystopia
March 14, 2024
SAP is not taking AI seriously and is not investing enough resources in it. The company is additionally not making exceptions for indirect use licenses for AI applications. SAP is paving the way for an AI dystopia for ERP users.
SAP Can't Build Platforms
March 7, 2024
SAP has tried and failed to build platforms for its successful ERP. NetWeaver failed as a middleware platform because of the Java stack; the Hana DB platform remained a SQL machine; and now we have the BTP disaster.
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
September 16, 2024
SAP Is at an All-Time High and Is Expanding Into the Cloud
SAP is continuing its massive restructuring: the successor to SAP Business Suite, S/4 Hana, has long since arrived. The end of mainstream support is also fast approaching, making a migration an inevitable next step. Furthermore, SAP is repositioning itself in the market with a focus on cloud solutions.
September 11, 2024
SAP house tiger Hana
Professor Hasso Plattner is regarded as the inventor of the SAP Hana database, which can accelerate an ERP system if all the prerequisites are met.
September 10, 2024
Respect Is an Act of Courtesy
E3 Magazine maintains close and productive relationships with press and copywriting agencies. We verify the accuracy of the texts, create a layout, and arrange for editing and proofreading. Our objective is to provide our readers with the highest quality content.
September 9, 2024
Concentration of Power at SAP
How can users differentiate themselves with standard business software? This raises the question of the cluster risk of the SAP S/4 Hana IT stack.
SAP News
February 11, 2025
Trends in archiving 2025
KGS, a specialist in digital archiving, knows the data and document archiving trends of 2025.
February 10, 2025
New EPOS version shortens SAP Basis automation processes
Empirius recently launched a new version of the SAP Basis automation suite Epos. With new features, some of which bring considerable user benefits for SAP Basis teams.
February 5, 2025
Boomi takes over Rivery
Boomi, a company for intelligent integration and automation, has acquired Rivery.
February 3, 2025
Epi-Use Labs and Revelation Software Concepts Forge Alliance
The new alliance combines Rev-Trac's SAP change automation solution with Epi-Use Labs' test data management suite to optimize DevOps.
Business Management
March 2, 2023
Practical help for digitization
The digitization of business models involves adapting existing products, services and value propositions and developing them from scratch in the digital environment. This often leads to disruptive innovations.
February 14, 2023
Cloud Native Users
Once again, EuroCloud Native and ISG surveyed German IT decision-makers about their cloud strategies.
31 January 2023
Business process and IT processes
Tomorrow's SAP legacy customers must have more IT professionals with business skills and more business people with IT skills to achieve the business goal. IT leaders should know that they play a supporting role in business decisions.
January 30, 2023
S/4 Big Bang
Bürkert Fluid Control Systems from Ingelfingen near Heilbronn with 544 million euros in annual sales, more than 3,000 employees, world market leader for measurement, control and regulation systems for liquids and gases, has realized the smooth transition to S/4.
IT Management
13 March 2023
Hybrid Cloud and Data Fabric
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced application, analytics and developer services for its GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. They support data-centric modernization in hybrid cloud environments.
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March 3, 2023
S/4 Engineering
The digital transformation of many SAP customers focuses on the migration to S/4. In view of scarce resources, there is a need for efficient implementation of the migration and subsequent upgrades.
16 February 2023
Composite Provider in the Virtualization Layer
Anyone who sees BW/4 at first glance as just another SAP BW release should definitely risk a second look. In doing so, it becomes clear that this is actually an application in which many parts have been reprogrammed.
February 3, 2023
Missing Data Link
The data from the ERP system is crucial for companies that want to improve their efficiency and optimize their operations. However, in a digital world, it is not enough to get the data at some point.
Economy
May 27, 2020
Orbis acquires all shares in Data One
As an SAP and Microsoft Gold Partner, Data One specializes in advising companies on the development and realization of their individual digitization strategy.
May 27, 2020
Support digital transformation
Google Cloud and T-Systems have announced a partnership. Together they will support companies with cloud-based solutions and managed services.
May 18, 2020
Salt Solutions establishes subsidiary
Salt Solutions has established a subsidiary: Salt Software. The development and marketing of the software products are bundled there.
ACloudster announces that nine SAP Gold Partners have formed an alliance to deliver global projects and reduce project risk for companies implementing SAP Business ByDesign globally. The nine local partners serve and support small and midsize SAP users locally and globally with the same quality standards, local languages and, of course,...
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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