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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.

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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.

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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
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
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
Philipp Latini, Pointsharp
Digitalization presents companies with new challenges—especially when it comes to IT security. SAP systems are increasingly becoming the focus of criminals.
No-name column

False SAP Prophets

August 25, 2025
no-name
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
Dudley Cartwright, Soterion
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
Moisés Collazo, Aptar
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.
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.
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.

Comments

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.
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.
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.
July 11, 2024

AI Wave

A new AI study shows that 98 percent of business leaders believe AI will transform their industry within the next three years. According to the survey results, 24 percent have already deployed AI tools.

SAP News

Medium-sized companies rely on AI-supported solutions to increase efficiency, reduce errors and optimize complex financial processes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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

OpenText acquires Carbonite
The acquisition of Carbonite will create access to a new consumer segment for OpenText.
Gerold Gülker becomes official xSuite partner
Gerold Gülker Systemberatungen will add products from the xSuite Group to its portfolio.
BearingPoint celebrates merger
After ten successful years in Austria, BearingPoint ventures the next step towards the future with a merger.
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.

People Management

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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Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the fourth time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-662-4355460

Event date

Wednesday, June 10, and
Thursday, June 11, 2026

AI experience workshop only on June 11, 2026 (limited places)
Bonus: Access to all lectures on June 11, 2026

Regular ticket

Lectures, evening event and, depending on availability, the AI workshop on June 11, 2026
Places at the AI experience workshop are limited and registration is required.

Subscribers to the E3 Magazine Ticket

reduced with promocode CCAbo26

Students*

reduced with promocode CCStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
EUR 305 excl. VAT.
EUR 590 excl. VAT
EUR 390 excl. VAT
EUR 290 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

AI onlyExperience workshop on April 23, 2026 
Bonus: Access to all lectures on April 23, 2026
Regular ticket
April 22, 2026: Lectures and evening event
April 23, 2026: Lectures and AI workshop
EUR 305 excl. VAT
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Subscribers to the E3 magazine
reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students*
reduced with promocode STStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
EUR 290 excl. VAT
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.