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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 December 2025

The CCoE Experiment

The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.

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Legacy ERP data available after S/4 changeover

April 9, 2020
Prof. Dr. Detlev Steinbinder, PBS
During a migration to S/4, availability or access to old but important data must be ensured for various reasons. PBS Software has developed the Nearline Analytical Archive solution especially for medium-sized and small SAP customers.
Internal Communications

I want a pizza with kebab meat

April 9, 2020
E-3 Magazine
Answer: No, you don't. Demand and answer in the form of an imaginary tweet can be found on the cover of the business magazine "brand eins" from February of this year. There could be no better way to express the SAP disaster "We have to listen to our customers.
CFO Column

Planning security with the S/4 Hana Readiness Check 2.0

April 9, 2020
Gerald Peuser, Innobis
For banks that work with SAP systems and plan to do so in the future, the question inevitably arises as to when and how the conversion to SAP S/4 Hana should take place. When is the bank ready for this and what homework needs to be done?
Linux Column
SAP Data Intelligence is a valuable addition to SAP Data Hub. Kubernetes is essential—and so is Linux.
NoName

Who is going to pay for it?

April 9, 2020
E-3 Magazine
There were rumors. But a conversation with Andreas Oczko last fall brought certainty: no matter what the cost, SAP has had to postpone the 2025 end date. The domino effect is neither controllable nor calculable.
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Digital conversion

April 9, 2020
E-3 Magazine
EagleBurgmann has overcome one of the most important hurdles in the digital transformation of ERP systems.

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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SAP News

Dare to look beyond the horizon together
Mobile working, virtual teams, robot recruiting - the topic of digital transformation has long since arrived in HR management. However, this does not mean that companies are already fully exploiting the associated potential.
SAP ERP for Hidden Champion
Itelligence has set the course for a successful future at automotive supplier Bleistahl with an SAP ERP implementation. The automotive supplier also received the SAP Quality Award in Gold in the 'Fast Delivery' category for the successful project.
What are the benefits of demand-driven MRP?
The changeover to S/4 affects processes and data. Holistic solutions are in demand. Rainer Wittwen, Consulting Director at cbs Corporate Business Solutions, explains what the standard software cbs Enterprise Transformer for SAP S/4 Hana can do.
Shortfacts
No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to minor news as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked. Recommendations to: office@b4bmedia.net

Business Management

IT Management

People Management

E3 Book Tip

The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI

Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.

• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.

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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
+43-66-24355460

Event date

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

Early Bird Ticket

Regular ticket

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 390 excl. VAT
available until December 20, 2025
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

Early Bird Ticket
Regular ticket
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Available until December 20, 2025
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.