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.
The SAP world is currently undergoing profound change - moving away from monolithic ERP towards flexible, AI-centric architectures. Existing customers must therefore find a path into the future that suits their reality between ambitious cloud roadmaps and proven on-premises systems.
SAP deployment more than applications: Automation in infrastructure and system operation
September 8, 2025
SAP investments are usually a matter for the boss and decisions are made in conjunction with the IT management. Automation potential in the SAP infrastructure or in system operation is often not considered until it is too late. This leads to missed opportunities.
Advising Wisely Thanks to Hybrid Archiving
September 5, 2025
When introducing a new distribution system, Munich's public transportation company (MVG) had to rethink its archiving concept. Instead of migrating five million documents, it opted for a hybrid archiving architecture.
SAP Clean Core 2016
September 4, 2025
E3 Magazine already addressed the topic of "cleaning out" ERP systems in 2016. To that end, the SAP system has been heavily modified in recent years. What now?
AI Doomsayers
September 3, 2025
AI doomsday preachers are gaining momentum, but the IT industry is not prepared to disrupt itself. Clayton M. Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" is relevant once again.
Intelligent agents for SAP-integrated invoice processing
September 3, 2025
Many repetitive tasks in invoice processing can be automated - using artificial intelligence to help control work steps in invoice verification and provide decision support. Generative AI (GenAI) and intelligent agents are now driving further progress.
Room for Improvement in BTP and Abap
February 8, 2024
The theme of the DSAG Technology Days Conference in 2024 was "Bringing vision and reality together". This pious wish also applies to SAP BTP and SAP Cloud because, while everyone is aware the ERP universe could use some improvement, there is a lack of realistic solutions.
SAP Fights for Survival
February 1, 2024
If a company is willing to give a one hundred percent bonus on paid services to retain a customer, then customers should start thinking about the future.
A New Quality of SAP Cloud
January 25, 2024
SAP has been very successful with cloud computing, in moving customers to the private and public cloud, but what has so far been commercially successful can fail in the long run if it is not sustainable.
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
August 29, 2024
No more historically grown authorization concepts!
Risk regulations help to manage complex authorizations and maintain compliance. How you can also prevent cyberattacks and save costs with the right strategy.
August 27, 2024
SAP's Shadow Developers
The Salzburg Festival is over, and Don Giovanni was an overwhelming success. While Don Giovanni dated 1,003 women in Spain, Christian Klein has around 10,000 developers worldwide.
August 26, 2024
Interface Management: The open barn door in SAP
An open secret to which many management teams have so far paid little attention: the lack of control of interfaces in IT system landscapes. It was hardly surprising that interface management was neglected when SAP landscapes were still self-contained IT systems. However, this situation has changed fundamentally.
August 23, 2024
IT security: strategic intelligence instead of flying blind
Defensive IT security with monitoring of the entire risk situation often fails due to a lack of expertise in taking a holistic approach. In the face of rapidly increasing complexity, a flood of buzzwords and supposedly universal solutions, this often turns into flying blind, with companies neglecting the most basic security measures.
SAP News
January 27, 2025
Minsait Receives Appian Europe's Growth Award
The digital company Minsait has been awarded this 2024 with multiple global recognitions in the technological sphere.
January 21, 2025
E-world Energy & Water
Essen will be the meeting place for the energy industry from February 11 to 13, 2025. Exhibitors at E-World will showcase solutions for a climate-neutral future.
January 15, 2025
Small impact? AI Affects Others More
Austrian finance and insurance experts estimate that artificial intelligence will have a greater impact on others than on themselves.
January 13, 2025
Study on AI integration in DAX 40 companies
HTW Berlin has analyzed the integration of AI technologies in the DAX 40 companies.
Business Management
13 December 2022
Out of the invoice chaos
In the age of digital transformation, processing incoming invoices manually means driving with the handbrake on. Companies can shift up a gear in the SAP incoming invoice process.
December 9, 2022
Who is more dangerous? Hostile hackers or the USA
Local data centers in the EU are under attack, as never before. It is therefore out of time to reject the major cloud providers with the best protection mechanisms due to mistrust of US authorities.
December 6, 2022
Gamechanger
Top industrial groups that want to go global and are constantly growing need a stable corporate platform that continuously grows with them and enables global governance.
November 23 2022
Outsourcing
SAP's Business Technology Platform is not likely to be very popular.
IT Management
26 December 2022
End-to-end Transparency
VMware Northstar is set to transform the way organizations use networking and security solutions in a multi-cloud world. The rise of lateral threats requires security teams to pay more attention to network traffic.
26 December 2022
From Crises to Core Technology
An IT study shows that most companies expect to use low-code more frequently than traditional coding by 2024. Gartner analysts confirm a share of around 70 percent using low-code or no-code technologies by 2025.
22 December 2022
Headless
As an e-commerce platform, SAP Commerce is a central component of the digitization of many manufacturing companies. Configurator Complex Products and SAP Spartacus offer an executable configuration interface that integrates seamlessly with existing SAP configurators.
13 December 2022
Emarsys or Marketing Cloud
Anyone looking for marketing automation and customer loyalty platforms in the SAP environment is increasingly coming across the name Emarsys, which was acquired by SAP in 2020. This provides users with another option in addition to the SAP Marketing Cloud.
Economy
April 3, 2020
Hybrid IT rethought
As part of its cooperation with Microsoft, Fujitsu is promoting the modernization of local infrastructures.
March 27, 2020
Becoming fit for the future with Valantic
Netz98 joins Valantic as the next step on the way to becoming a future-proof service provider for digitization.
March 24, 2020
IT market - USA and China outpace Europe
The USA continues to have by far the largest share of the global IT market. Business with IT is also growing particularly dynamically in China, albeit still at a low level.
March 17, 2020
Open Source has arrived in German companies
The use of OSS offers many advantages for the German economy. Nevertheless, many companies do not yet approach the topic strategically.
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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