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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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Embrace

Social Distancing and Options

May 13, 2020
Marcus Sommer, Microsoft
Within Embrace, customers and partners are transforming: becoming bolder, taking on new roles, and focusing on agility and innovation. This is essential, especially in these times.
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Companies that trade globally need a digital system to support them. Recently, they can choose between SAP Global Trade Services and SAP S/4 Hana for International Trade. But are the two systems really equivalent? And which software is worthwhile for whom?
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Migration to S/4 Hana

May 11, 2020
E-3 Magazine
Updates and releases, maturity checks, new business models: There is a lot to consider when migrating to SAP S/4 Hana.
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Platform ecosystems in practice

May 11, 2020
E-3 Magazine
The European Workshop on Software Ecosystems brings together practitioners and academics for the eighth time to discuss innovations in platform business models and ecosystems.
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Document and contract management

May 11, 2020
E-3 Magazine
An exciting keynote, interesting user reports of cuSolutions and a design thinking workshop are just some of the highlights of the cuAcademy in Hamburg on April 22 and 23, 2020.
Internal Communications

Livestreaming is better

May 7, 2020
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
Sometimes it takes brutal food for thought to not only question, but completely eliminate, established patterns of behavior. After the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2020, the Geneva Motor Show was also canceled, followed by many other events: Leipzig Book Fair, Hanover Industrial Fair, etc.

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

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
The Future is Colorful - Database Roundtable with IBM and Oracle
There can be no monoculture in the SAP community. SAP's success is based on a unique partner ecosystem, including database providers IBM and Oracle. SAP's existing customers have always preferred the choice.

Business Management

IT Management

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.