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 Journey From Idea to Production
September 2, 2025
AI is driving digital transformation, but the step from prototype to production often fails due to a lack of hybrid infrastructure, which is necessary for end-to-end use in multi-cloud, on-prem, and edge environments.
Digital communication for SAP: Retarus Cloud Services
September 1, 2025
In the age of digital transformation, it is no longer enough to just use SAP systems to manage business processes. Today, companies expect fully integrated, seamless communication that is secure, reliable and globally scalable.
Atos, A French IT services provider, has been certified as an SAP Global Operations Partner for the tenth consecutive year and has received the Golden Certificate from SAP.
Direct Communication From SAP
August 28, 2025
In the digital age, it is no longer enough to just use SAP systems to manage business processes. Companies expect fully integrated, seamless communication that is secure, reliable and globally scalable.
The UNC joins the SAP University Alliances program and seeks to strengthen the digital skills of its students at one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Latin America.
DXC and Boomi Forge Strategic Partnership
August 27, 2025
DXC Technology, a global Fortune 500 technology services company, and Boomi, a provider of AI automation, have announced a new strategic partnership.
SAP Man in Davos
January 18, 2024
In mid-January, the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) took place in Davos, Switzerland. This time, it was SAP Chief Development Officer Thomas Saueressig's turn to represent the global ERP leader at the WEF.
SAP Cloud Double Whammy
January 11, 2024
SAP is starting the new year 2024 with a dual cloud leadership. The global ERP market leader is focusing on the technical operating concept of cloud computing. At the same time, SAP CEO Christian Klein is trying to boost his employees' morale.
Losing Control of Data
December 14, 2023
There is often talk of a treasure trove of data in the company. This treasure must not only be found, but also recovered and maintained. One answer from SAP is Datasphere. Well-intentioned by SAP Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, but is it enough?
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 20, 2024
Flying Blind Through the SAP Community
It's frightening how little SAP boss Klein knows about us customers. Since the sales reps now limit themselves to only delivering the latest price list instead of offering more extended consultations with customers, the SAP spirit of old has disappeared.
August 12, 2024
Is SAP History Repeating Itself?
Eagle-eyed readers of E3 Magazine may have noticed that we have been recycling the art of our late cartoonist Robert Platzgummer for some time now. Why did we do this?
August 9, 2024
2001: A Space Odyssey
In 1968, when the year 2001 was still in the distant future, Stanley Kubrick made "A Space Odyssey". The film was a revolution and a sensation in many ways, and SAP learned from it.
August 6, 2024
Residual Risk and Sustainability at SAP
CEO Christian Klein does his best to run SAP, but is that enough? Professor Hasso Plattner is no longer available to provide shock factor. Plattner is the risk and Klein is the sustainability, and risk and sustainability go hand in hand. What will become of SAP without one of the two elements?
SAP News
For many companies, financial planning is the linchpin of operational accounting. It is a central control mechanism for liquidity and economic growth. This is because companies use financial planning to work out their liquidity requirements, calculate the opportunities and risks of investments and lay the foundations for competitiveness and future viability.
January 10, 2025
Eleven Billion Euros in Cyber Security
In 2024, spending on cyber security in Germany increased from 13.8 percent to 11.2 billion EUR.
January 9, 2025
SAP appoints Andreas J. Wagner as new Head of Austria
Andreas J. Wagner took over as Managing Director of SAP Austria at the beginning of 2025.
January 9, 2025
The Five Trends That Will Define Cybersecurity in 2025
According to the report prepared by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) on the state of cybersecurity in the EU, the number of cybersecurity-related incidents will increase by 24 percent in 2025, with ransomware and DoS/DDoS attacks being the most common.
Business Management
November 18, 2022
A babel fish for international customs clearance
Companies are required to comply with national and international legal requirements vis-à-vis the customs authorities of the countries to which they deliver. Despite the complexity, nothing should stand in the way of fast customs clearance.
November 14, 2022
Tour optimization and maintenance
MobileX and FLS operate jointly under the umbrella of the Solvares Group. The companies complement each other in their applications and each have an SAP and Microsoft background. E-3 conducted the following interview with Hannes Heckner, MobileX, and Christoph Hartel, FLS.
November 11, 2022
Cloud Migration
More and more companies are choosing to move their ERP to the cloud. To avoid risks, efficient and careful Quality Assurance (QA) and Business Assurance (BA) is important both before, during and after the migration.
IT Management
December 5, 2022
Framework as a Path
The SAP infrastructure is largely responsible for whether and how SAP application software runs. A number of parameters and data can change influentially practically on a daily basis. The use of a central system management framework helps several times over.
November 21, 2022
Global Encryption Trends 2022
A consistent encryption strategy is becoming increasingly important.
November 10, 2022
Greenwashing Keeps You Dirty
"Tu Gutes und rede darüber“ (Literally translated: "Do good and talk about it") – the title of the work published by Georg-Volkmar Zedtwitz-Arnim – is often associated with the sustainability reports published by companies.
November 2, 2022
Data Warehouse Cloud
For some time now, there has been a clear trend towards cloud-only in SAP's strategy. The SaaS application Data Warehouse Cloud, DWC, plays a central role in this.
Economy
March 16, 2020
The WMD Group becomes the xSuite Group
The globally active software manufacturer is unifying its external presence and will in future operate under the name of its established solution range xSuite.
March 12, 2020
Fellowmind, Orango and eCraft merge
Fellowmind merges with Orango and eCraft to expand its position as a Microsoft business application partner.
March 11, 2020
Winshuttle becomes part of TAP
Winshuttle announces an alliance with one of the leading robotic process automation (RPA) providers, Automation Anywhere.
March 10, 2020
Atos acquires X-Perion
Atos has signed an agreement to acquire X-Perion Consulting in Germany.
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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