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.
Snowflake, the company behind the AI Data Cloud platform, has announced the public preview availability of Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark.
SAP Plans to Acquire SmartRecruiters
August 7, 2025
SAP has signed an agreement to acquire SmartRecruiters, a software provider for the recruitment of top employees.
Deloitte: Zora AI in Joule
August 5, 2025
Deloitte has announced an integration of Zora AI with SAP Joule and SAP BTP.
Oracle plans to open a third cloud region to help Spain’s financial sector and other key industries increase resilience and take advantage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s high performance and built-in security, powerful data and AI, and distributed cloud capabilities.
Accenture and Microsoft Corporation are co-investing in the development of advanced generative AI-driven cyber solutions, which can be used to help organizations mitigate threats and consolidate technology tools.
The technology consulting firm Seidor has consolidated its alliance with Adam, a provider specializing in data centers with facilities in Madrid and Barcelona, to strengthen its critical infrastructure architecture in Spain.
SAP Savings Plan
November 16, 2023
SAP is expensive, but with a few tricks up your sleeve, you can save when purchasing from SAP. In addition to the recommendation to wait until December 31 before signing a contract, there are a few more tips you can try out.
Next Gen ERP
November 9, 2023
Can SAP Copilot be used to program an S/4 successor as a composable ERP? Not yet, because Copilot does not support Abap, but that may change. Theoretically, S/5 could be developed by users and partners.
Euclid and Hana
November 2, 2023
Clustering, i.e. finding similarities, can often provide to be very enlightening for large amounts of data. The trick is based on the Euclidean distance formula and can be done without Hana as a simple mental calculation.
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
July 10, 2024
SAP Played it Safe and Sound at the Sapphire 2024
SAP is doing well, judging by its share price: up 40 percent in a year. In contrast, Oracle was up almost 20 percent in mid-June, and Salesforce was up 13 percent after a dip at the end of May.
June 19, 2024
Digitalization and Industry 4.0 Concern Everyone
Turning those affected into co-creators of the digital transformation in Germany's companies: this is the completely new concept developed to cure specialists and managers of their fear of digital change.
June 13, 2024
But SAP used to rock more!
The departure of Professor Hasso Plattner as Chairman of the Supervisory Board marks the end of an era. SAP loses the thorn in its side. Who will now shake SAP awake?
June 10, 2024
The Eternal Chairman
Professor Hasso Plattner will forever be the leading figure at SAP and in the SAP community, whether he is Chairman of the Executive Board, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, or retired. It is hard to imagine the SAP universe without Plattner.
SAP News
December 30, 2024
Partners, Trust, and AI
As a native cloud company, Workday does many things differently to long-established industry giants such as SAP. In partner management, the company focuses on class instead of mass. In an exclusive E3 interview at Workday Rising in Las Vegas, Matthew Brandt, SVP Global Partners, presents his vision.
Longtime SAP veteran, former UiPath CEO and Google Cloud President leads Workday's global business strategy for the company's next phase of growth.
December 11, 2024
Minsait Wins AWS Award as "Rising Star Partner of the Year"
Minsait, a company that offers digital transformation services, has been awarded the Rising Star Partner of the Year 2024 Spain award, a regional recognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The winners were selected according to objective criteria and the results were audited by the external analyst firm Canalys.
December 11, 2024
Inetum Extends Its Partnership Agreement With Dynatrace
Inetum announces the extension of its partnership agreement with Dynatrace in the areas of Iberia, Latam, EMEA and other countries where it has a presence.
Business Management
17 October 2022
Data Mesh Architecture: Making Better Use of Data
PwC conducted a study to examine the status quo of the data and analytics capabilities of companies in Germany. The decentralization of data platforms is gaining momentum and the data mesh is considered a promising architectural paradigm.
14 October 2022
Reintegration
thyssenkrupp was faced with the challenge of transferring the Service area, which was fully integrated in the SAP system, to the three product areas Cement, Mining and Chemical Plant.
7 October 2022
Squeezing prices is not enough
The year 2022 presents purchasing with unprecedented challenges. Sustainability, innovation and the avoidance of procurement risks are replacing the topic of cost optimization. How can these requirements be mapped in an IT landscape?
5 October 2022
Innovation Factory
Over the past two and a half years, the pandemic has been both a driver and a brake on innovation. On the one hand, it has played a significant role in accelerating digitization in the public sector. On the other hand, it was also a matter of stabilizing the core business.
IT Management
11 October 2022
Identity Security for SAP
Today, manufacturers rely more than ever on digital technologies to streamline processes and accelerate production. Protecting access for employees, contractors, suppliers and vendors is critical.
4 October 2022
Business Process Intelligence
The use of RPA and hyperautomation brings benefits such as the reduction of manual activities. Successful use is only guaranteed if business processes are analyzed, optimized and then automated.
September 20, 2022
From the Core to the Edge
Security is a fundamental requirement for all users and enterprises deploying cloud native workloads. Updates in legacy solutions are now designed to guarantee this.
September 20, 2022
Instaclustr Frees Companies From the Pain of Data Management
The management of highly complex IT data infrastructures overwhelms many companies. On the one hand, the costs are enormous, on the other hand, manual management ties up valuable employee resources. Instaclustr's Managed Platform offers a lucrative, simple and open source-based alternative.
Economy
February 19, 2020
Sapphire or Capital Markets Day?
Although SAP's Capital Markets Day was themed "Growth and Operational Excellence," the focus was clearly on customers.
February 11, 2020
QSC strengthens AI competence
QSC acquired shares in AIXBrain, giving it access to innovative AI software and development resources.
January 28, 2020
Expansion of the Logistics business unit
50 employees and specialist software now extend the MHP Group's expertise in leanly structured and efficiently managed warehouses.
January 17, 2020
UsedSoft separates from Asia and South Africa
UsedSoft is divesting its subsidiaries in Asia and South Africa to focus on the European market.
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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