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.
RISE with SAP promises the path to an innovative cloud future. How can SAP customers best approach the transformation process?
RISE with Support
August 27, 2025
RISE with SAP is a concept that makes it easier for customers to migrate to a new ERP era—with S/4 Hana as the first step. T-Systems provides the necessary support for a powerful IT architecture and a solid foundation.
Only Those Who Automate Benefit
August 26, 2025
Digitalization presents companies with new challenges—especially when it comes to IT security. SAP systems are increasingly becoming the focus of criminals.
False SAP Prophets
August 25, 2025
SAP is not only a stock market darling and star, but also the source behind much business, technical, and licensing discourse in the IT scene. Who has the power of interpretation?
Clear Roles Instead of High Licensing Expenses
August 22, 2025
SAP access rights are often oversized—and expensive. Those who design roles intelligently not only save money, but also increase security. This article explains why modern access governance is now a must.
SAP Analysis for Excel—the Best of Both Worlds
August 18, 2025
How often do users work in SAP and want the benefits of Excel, or do they work in Excel and want to have information from SAP at their fingertips? A solution that combines both advantages is available with SAP Analysis for Excel. The key solution for companies combines the robustness of SAP with the familiarity of Excel.
Compatible Usage Rights
December 7, 2023
The good news is that SAP will not delete any code related to Compatibility Scope. Everything else is currently under discussion. Only the stars know the details on which compatibility packs are affected and how.
SAP Has Lost its Core Strength
November 30, 2023
The share price is rising and shows no signs of stopping. The ERP group is growing and makes a solid impression, but danger is looming over the horizon from agile, young, innovative cloud-native providers.
What Does SAP Understand About AI?
November 23, 2023
SAP's favorite topic is of course cloud only. However, AI is the top priority for users and the IT industry. Together with Aleph Alpha, SAP could become an AI pioneer. SAP CEO Christian Klein is focusing on the wrong things.
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.
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July 25, 2024
SAP BTP is the Choice
SAP launched the Business Technology Platform, or BTP for short, a good three years ago. Usability and support are now almost flawless - not least thanks to the new system openness. A recap from the field.
July 23, 2024
Enterprise AI Chatbots With Open Source Software
Anyone using ChatGPT is putting their data at risk. But to keep pace with technological change, AI cannot be ignored. So how do you combine internal data security with AI? The answer is open source.
July 18, 2024
Edge Integration Cell
SAP Edge Integration Cell is a flexible hybrid integration runtime that is available as an optional extension to the SAP Integration Suite. This API management executes integration scenarios within a private infrastructure.
SAP News
January 9, 2025
SME analysis: AI in accounting
Medium-sized companies rely on AI-supported solutions to increase efficiency, reduce errors and optimize complex financial processes.
January 8, 2025
More Sustainable Economic Growth With AI
A new paper shows that AI can help increase efficiency and reduce emissions. The key is to use AI responsibly, taking energy needs into consideration.
Almost every company was affected by cyberattacks at least once last year, as a recent survey by Deloitte shows.
January 2, 2025
Forrester's Technology and Security Forecasts 2025
75 percent of technology decision-makers will see their tech debt rise to a medium or high level by 2026, according to a recent Forrester study.
Business Management
November 8, 2022
Supply Chain Security
One study found that three-quarters of all German IT executives believe their partners and customers are making their companies a more attractive ransomware target.
November 4, 2022
The Clever Principle
The pressure to which companies and their employees are exposed is enormous and will continue to increase. Anyone who ignores this situation and assumes that they will just have to work all the harder is wrong.
November 3, 2022
CFOs want more insights - the cloud makes it possible
Automation and modern processes create the necessary flexibility and agility in finance and accounting to support the business with valuable data. This is made possible by scalable cloud technology, which also facilitates hybrid working.
19 October 2022
Digital and media skills
A large majority of the population sees digitization as an opportunity.
IT Management
26 October 2022
Bring Your Own Key
The number of companies that have a consistent, enterprise-wide encryption strategy has increased from 50 to 62 percent in the past year. The desire for greater control of data was cited as the driver for this.
24 October 2022
Automated and Reliable
With the Speedi VMI solution, Vishay carries out consignment processes with Vendor Managed Inventory in an integrated, largely automated and uniform manner in SAP ERP. Internal IT is relieved, as there are hardly any support requests due to reliable processes.
20 October 2022
Efficiency Lever
NTT Data Business Solutions has restructured the management of system copies on the basis of a standard system copy environment. This achieves several benefits.
13 October 2022
Electronic Shelf Labels
Shelf labels are a key element in the purchasing process. However, updating prices regularly and correctly is time-consuming and error-prone. More and more retailers are therefore switching from classic paper labels to digital displays.
Economy
March 6, 2020
OpenText acquires Carbonite
The acquisition of Carbonite will create access to a new consumer segment for OpenText.
March 6, 2020
Gerold Gülker becomes official xSuite partner
Gerold Gülker Systemberatungen will add products from the xSuite Group to its portfolio.
March 5, 2020
BearingPoint celebrates merger
After ten successful years in Austria, BearingPoint ventures the next step towards the future with a merger.
February 25, 2020
SAP plans higher capital distribution in 2020
For 2020, SAP plans to buy back shares and/or pay a special dividend with a total volume of €1.5 billion.
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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