The global and independent platform for the SAP community.
  • 24 October 2023
    A fully automated solution from Empirius is now available for important SAP Basis tasks of SAP SEC Notes handling and managing.
  • The-Last-Satire

    23 October 2023
    SAP's collecting mania knows no bounds. The ERP group believes that owning companies already means knowing their...
  • 23 October 2023
    SAP is going cloud-only and is causing discussion in the SAP community. The path to the cloud has been emerging for many...
  • 20 October 2023
    Interest in change management has increased significantly in the last 3 years: six out of ten companies (59 percent) use change management...
  • 20 October 2023
    No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...
  • 19 October 2023
    SAP has published its results for the third quarter of 2023 (from July 1 to September 30).
  • 19 October 2023
    If you had the ability to control changes in SAP at will, what would be your greatest need?" asked Basis Technology...
  • 19 October 2023
    The transformation to a business partner has been a goal of CFOs for years, but only the effects of the multi-crisis and the...
  • 19 October 2023
    The investment in the new Berlin location is aimed at promoting future technologies. The decision includes a new office concept with a focus on...
  • 18 October 2023
    LeanIX, the recognized enterprise architecture manager (EAM), is to be acquired by SAP, but SAP is confusing cause with effect. The cause of the...
  • 18 October 2023
    The market offers many international experts and lateral entrants. In order to exploit this potential, some decision-makers still need to...
  • 17 October 2023
    In addition to the inevitable topic of AI, Christian Klein's keynote at the DSAG Congress focused on the Business Technology Platform.
  • 17 October 2023
    I read more and more often - even from former companions - that cloud computing makes a software asset management (SAM) tool unnecessary. But how should...
  • 16 October 2023
    Oona Horx Strathern's new book was published in September. It has the cheerful title Kindness Economy and it...
  • 13 October 2023
    Porsche increases stake in MHP and LeanIX cooperates with Microsoft
  • 13 October 2023
    D.velop introduces new divisions, specialized in private sector, public sector, health, social, banking, and finance.
  • 12 October 2023
    Ambitious existing SAP customers have already achieved Enhancement Package 8 with ECC 6.0 and are evaluating the S/4 compatibility list in order to pass the ERP maturity test soon...
  • 12 October 2023
    Yellow.ai announced that its generative AI-powered ChatBots and VoiceBots are ready for automation in the SAP Store.
  • 11 October 2023
    New research reveals growing challenges are impacting business outcomes, talent retention, and more.
  • 11 October 2023
    In October and looking ahead to 2024, the question arises: Can SAP still be trusted? From an innovator for business management...
  • 10 October 2023
    The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...
  • 10 October 2023
    Global Trade Services supports existing SAP customers in managing international trade transactions, complying with trade regulations and controlling the cross-border supply chain. In doing so...
  • 9 October 2023
    SAP Fiori applications with no-code/low-code in practice still need massive support from external IT tools so that business users as well as developers and...
  • 9 October 2023
    Legislation stipulates that only persons who are authorized to operate human medical instruments, as well as medical instruments and software, are permitted to operate them....
  • 6 October 2023
    AI assistant Joule understands business context and is directly integrated into enterprise business critical process solutions
  • 6 October 2023
    Exclusive interview with Workday Group Vice President DACH Christopher Knörr.
  • The-Last-Satire

    6 October 2023
    SAP's strategy is cloud computing. Almost all IT providers are fleeing to the cloud. Why not SAP too? But SAP...
  • 5 October 2023
    SAP's achievements in creating a consistent and stringent ERP system cannot be praised and admired enough. Why does...
  • 5 October 2023
    Salesforce is migrating more than 200,000 systems from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, an enterprise Linux platform, to optimize IT operations and...
  • 5 October 2023
    Open source and GitHub/GitLab are closely linked. With the sponsoring button, GitHub introduced a monetization option for open source developers three years ago....
  • 4 October 2023
    What are the benefits of open source methods? SAP modernizations and migrations are complex. A different approach based on open source principles can avoid many problems and stumbling blocks.
  • 4 October 2023
    Skepticism about the S/4 Cloud? An annual survey to determine the status of S/4 migration and business opportunities this year has revealed fundamental...
  • 4 October 2023
    Whether in industry, transport and administration, in the world of work or in everyday life, increasing digitalization has led to a further...
  • October 3, 2023
    Artificial intelligence is on the rise. AI also holds great potential for quality engineering in software development, as it...
  • 2 October 2023
    With ever more complex applications and shorter release cycles, automated testing is becoming increasingly important. What SolMan can do quite well...
  • 2 October 2023
    When hosting S/4 systems in the cloud, the service level of the provider is crucial. With FIS-ASP, the Dehner group of companies achieves...
  • September 29, 2023
    Finnish industrial company establishes digital business process platform based on SAP's Intelligent Enterprise Architecture in a record time of just 15 months. The transformation project carried the...
  • September 29, 2023
    The connection of heterogeneous machines and the semantic processing of data are essential prerequisites for the successful operation of both ERP and...
  • September 28, 2023
    The aim of the documentation is to provide insights into the relevance of data science in e-sports. SAP software tools are intended to help trainers, coaches and...
  • September 28, 2023
    How do the ECC Abap modifications make it into the new ERP world S/4 Hana? SAP has created a development environment for this at the Business Technology...
  • September 28, 2023
    Mayer & Cie.'s claim to innovation heralded a comprehensive digitalization journey that will secure and expand its market lead in the future....
  • September 27, 2023
    The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...
  • September 27, 2023
    E3 Magazine brings new information about the potential of the cloud and process mining.
  • September 26 2023
    Linux, as an open source operating system, has been present in the SAP community for around 20 years. But open source is much more. In the...
  • September 26 2023
    The challenges for SAP users are far-reaching. Not only do they have to push ahead with the migration, they also have to address innovation issues with regard to...
  • September 26 2023
    A holistic SAP modernization should address migration and innovation issues in parallel and accelerate both. Open source principles form the basis for this disruptive approach...
  • September 26 2023
    Existing SAP customers are caught between the conflicting priorities of migration and innovation. The necessary changes are associated with a variety of strategic, technical and functional challenges.
  • September 25, 2023
    With the switch to S/4 Hana, Swiss Post has integrated the mass billing solution SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) into its...
  • September 25, 2023
    Seven years of S/4 Hana - actually a reason to celebrate. But not for customers who have taken the lengthy and expensive step...
  • September 22, 2023
    My annual house message from the Salzburg Festival is inspired this time by the outstanding violinist and recording artist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and her...
  • September 22, 2023
    Christian Klein has not only caused SAP's AI development to go down the drain, but is also currently being criticized by his own existing customers for...
  • September 21, 2023
    The 2023 DSAG Annual Congress in Bremen is the latest proof of this: SAP boss Christian Klein wants cloud only, but he has no...
  • September 21, 2023
    The current shifts in the German SAP hosting market are changing the situation for customers and providers. For the 4 most burning questions, Johannes...
  • September 21, 2023
    The end of maintenance for SAP Solution Manager is approaching and the non-successor SAP Cloud ALM does not meet your requirements? The ESM Suite...
  • September 20, 2023
    There are many challenges that SAP Basis and Infrastructure teams face. An SAP Basis system management suite with great automation functionality creates many benefits.
  • September 20, 2023
    Software is omnipresent: it controls modern pacemakers, enables apps on cell phones to support everyday life and ensures efficient processes in companies....
  • September 19, 2023
    With the new invoice workflow for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition on SAP BTP, the xSuite Group is opening up new areas of application...
  • September 19, 2023
    Two fundamental changes will occupy SAP users over the next few years: a) By 2027 at the latest, existing applications will be migrated to S/4HANA and...
  • September 18, 2023
    Digitization is taking hold in all areas of business and is being driven forward massively in most sectors. There is a need to catch up in this respect in the...
  • September 18, 2023
    Along the purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash process chains, companies use numerous SAP transactions and additional add-ons to work efficiently. When it comes to a...
  • The-Last-Satire

    September 15, 2023
    SAP CEO Christian Klein has achieved a great feat: the pre-programmed crash has been prevented. But where should we go now? That's what...
  • September 15, 2023
    The data center industry will see an increase in market value due to overall trends and a simultaneous review of the rationality of continuing to operate older...
  • September 14, 2023
    Snowflake, the data cloud company, has announced the appointment of Enrique Sabater as Head of Partners and Alliances for the...
  • September 14, 2023
    Many companies handle their business processes with SAP software. With an automation platform including robotic process automation (RPA) and AI, manual processes can be...
  • September 14, 2023
    Where there is no certification, there is no support. SAP has discontinued the certification service for Hosting Operations and Cloud and...
  • September 14, 2023
    The SAP deadline of 2027 has been set for most applications and existing customers. They are actively pushing ahead with the necessary migrations. During the transformation...
  • September 13, 2023
    The needs-based use of SAP depends largely on a well-oiled SAP infrastructure. The focus here is on the SAP basis and...
  • September 13, 2023
    A report shows that more than 88 percent of respondents have experienced more than one security incident in the cloud environment in the past year...
  • September 12, 2023
    Staying on top of the storm of rising prices, volatile labor markets and the resulting sluggish revenues and shrinking profit margins is...
  • September 12, 2023
    ERP systems that have evolved over decades form the backbone of many companies. Transforming them is a huge undertaking. Enterprise architects are the specialists...
  • September 11, 2023
    Retarus' innovative Cloud Services for integration and automation make process communication more agile, secure and reliable.
  • September 11, 2023
    Finance has a fundamental role to play in the transformation to a digital company. It is essential that those responsible for finance in...
  • September 8, 2023
    SAP has entered into an agreement to acquire LeanIX, an enterprise architecture management (EAM) company
  • September 7, 2023
    It's an adolescent reflex to have to own everything. It is also possible to work together on an equal footing. SAP is getting ready to...
  • September 7, 2023
    According to digital association Bitkom, cloud computing has established itself in Germany and is now set for significant growth. In five years...
  • September 6, 2023
    E3 Magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP Startup Spotlight series. In today's episode...
  • Large public cloud providers win

    September 6, 2023
    SAP users should have switched to S/4 by 2027, otherwise it can be very expensive. At the same time, IT should move to the cloud...
  • September 5, 2023
    Application testing, especially in the SAP environment, is a much greater burden on companies today than it was a few years ago. New approaches to...
  • September 1, 2023
    What do SAP customers do who don't want to move to the public cloud, but still don't want to do without the benefits of the cloud?...
  • August 31, 2023
    The future of artificial intelligence is bright for SAP's existing customers because they are making a long-term commitment. The SAP Executive Board members Christian Klein, Thomas Saueressig...
  • August 31, 2023
    An agile and resilient supply chain represents a competitive advantage. Those who remain capable of acting in any situation strengthen customer loyalty. A...
  • NoName

    August 30, 2023
    There is pressure to act, which SAP boss Christian Klein obviously does not feel. He spends his days with small-scale repair service behavior. He works with commitment...
  • August 30, 2023
    At the SAP Competence Center Summit 2023, Jana Jentzsch had the rare opportunity to give a keynote speech. She is a...
  • August 29, 2023
    Turnkey Consulting promotes Cavan Arrowsmith to managing director for the UK, Freddie Fleetham to CFO and Tom Venables to director of US solutions.
  • US Cloud Act and EU-DSGVO

    August 29, 2023
    Cancellation of SAP on-prem licenses converts them into cloud subscriptions, but this means that the existing SAP customer loses all autonomy over its own ERP system.
  • August 29, 2023
    According to a study by PwC, there will be around 1.8 million vacancies in the German healthcare sector in 2035. This will be exacerbated...
  • August 28, 2023
    All for one and one for all could be Workday's unofficial cloud motto. The cloud provider is gaining more and more customers...
  • August 28, 2023
    The increasing networking of the digital world is already shaping our future today. Companies such as Amazon, Google, Uber and others have shown how...
  • August 25, 2023
    Datasphere is intended to provide a standardized solution for the management of business-critical company data. Whether and how companies benefit from this also depends on...
  • August 24, 2023
    Many people want to turn straw into gold. Some start-ups have succeeded via the stock market, but this is...
  • August 24, 2023
    Welcome to the digital world: where software solutions automatically capture incoming business documents such as order confirmations or shipping notifications while we focus on other tasks.
  • August 24, 2023
    From zero to digital: Why low is high for companies today? The constantly growing requirements and the increasing number of...
  • August 24, 2023
    Agile and customized applications play a crucial role in business success. But with conventional development approaches, companies often come up against...
  • August 24, 2023
    As the backbone of every company, IT reaches its limits with the demands of digital transformation. To urgently...
  • August 24, 2023
    Only 47 percent of SAP employees in Germany have full confidence in their Executive Board. But without Christian Klein, there will be no...
  • August 24, 2023
    With his own low-code development platform, Tangro founder Andreas Schumann has proven that the successful development of ERP systems can continue even after SAP Business by...
  • August 23, 2023
    What's happening in the SAP world? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in July/August 2023
  • August 22, 2023
    E3 Magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP Startup Spotlight series. In today's episode...
  • Cloud Computing

    August 22, 2023
    SAP HCM Payroll, quo vadis? Many HCM user companies are faced with the challenge: What to do with SAP Payroll? How can transacted...
  • August 21, 2023
    Programmer, IT specialist or IT systems electronics technician - female job titles are still the exception in the tech industry. This is because among IT specialists in IT...
  • SAP Tax Tech Forum: Digitization in Corporate Practice

    August 18, 2023
    A sister company of the existing SAP customer Telegärtner handles internal third-party processes with an add-on integrated and delivery-related in S/4. Time-consuming manual work steps...
  • August 17, 2023
    For many years, experts believed that there could be no alternative to SAP because no other software provider could offer the same level of business complexity and...
  • Cloud first, cloud only?

    August 17, 2023
    Commerz Real is the first German asset manager to successively convert all key business processes to S/4. And in combination with the...
  • August 16, 2023
    The silo security of a traditional SAP environment is reaching its limits at a time when SAP and non-SAP systems are becoming increasingly interconnected. Leads...
  • August 15, 2023
    The SAP user group DSAG has succeeded in getting SAP to discontinue maintenance for the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Integration and...
  • August 14, 2023
    Red Hat Consulting helps rail company move mission-critical applications to new cloud environment with Red Hat AMQ Streams
  • August 11, 2023
    Application management services are an essential component of digital transformation. They help companies to operate software and IT services more efficiently and...
  • August 10, 2023
    SAP's cryptic programming language Abap is not a protective wall against cyber attacks. The Abap code is well documented and other entry points are...
  • The-Last-Satire

    August 8, 2023
    SAP's in-house trade fair Sapphire repeatedly prompts SAP CEOs to verbal feats and bold statements. Anyone who suspects anything untrue here is a Pinocchio.
  • August 7, 2023
    The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...
  • August 4, 2023
    ERP systems offer hardly any effective means of data maintenance. This is particularly noticeable when a migration is due. With established standards, proven...
  • Shortfacts

    August 4, 2023
    No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...
  • August 3, 2023
    For a successful S/4 conversion, existing SAP customers need large budgets as well as a lot of knowledge and experience. SAP has not included these success criteria in...
  • August 3, 2023
    Still up to date? When the CCC forum of the German-speaking user group was canceled last year, there was great uncertainty. Is there no...
  • Use S/4 cleverly to access legacy data

    August 3, 2023
    Flexibility, speed of response and cost efficiency are becoming increasingly important in logistics due to rising process costs, the ongoing shortage of skilled workers, the...
  • Connecting Digital Health

    August 2, 2023
    With the "Digital University Hospital Frankfurt" project, management is speeding up work processes and making information more easily available throughout the hospital.
  • it security header

    August 2, 2023
    Cyberattacks on SAP systems and operational technology (OT) can have devastating consequences for companies: from delays in business operations to...
  • NoName

    August 1, 2023
    End-to-end business processes remind me of my early days with SAP R/3. Back then, many things didn't work, but when they did, it was...
  • One Planet Awards - Company of the Year

    August 1, 2023
    e-commerce project in the area of business transformation convinced the jury. The SAP team reviewed more than 100 go-lives for award-worthy customer projects.
  • 31 July 2023
    The topics of security, access and defense are becoming increasingly important in a heterogeneous, mobile and agile IT landscape. For a long time...
  • 31 July 2023
    Every year, the DSAG Vulnerability Management working group renews its request to SAP for a security dashboard. In view of the threat situation, the new...
  • 31 July 2023
    "Rock-solid technology. Bold creativity." This is how SAP Fioneer advertises on its own homepage, but do customers now have to accept the expensive deal between...
  • Challenges for the financial organization

    28 July 2023
    It is not uncommon for controllers to be more concerned with filling Excel fields with numbers and sending files around than thinking about the content of...
  • A question of money

    27 July 2023
    The dependence of public administration on Microsoft's software has reached worrying proportions.
  • 27 July 2023
    Migration to S/4 remains a strategic issue for existing SAP customers in the DACH region. Overall, a good fifth have completed the migration process...
  • 27 July 2023
    What is SAP's core competence? First and foremost, the legacy of Professor Hans-Georg Plaut, Professor August-Wilhelm Scheer and many...
  • 26 July 2023
    Using outside firms increases the likelihood of success for companies.
  • 26 July 2023
    The data mesh concept is on everyone's lips and promises to help companies unlock the value of their data. But what about...
  • July 25, 2023
    E3 Magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP Startup Spotlight series. In today's episode...
  • July 25, 2023
    Management consultancy for software and digitization opens international offices in Munich and Brussels.
  • July 25, 2023
    CEO Reto Bartmann from ACN AG, Cologne, and Rudolf Poppenberger, Managing Director of ACN in Austria, give an insight into their...
  • July 24, 2023
    Snowflake, the data cloud company, has appointed James Petter as Vice President of Sales for the Europe, Middle East and Africa...
  • New PAC Study Published: SAP S/4HANA in Germany

    July 24, 2023
    New research reveals growing challenges are impacting business outcomes, talent retention, and more.
  • July 24, 2023
    SAP and IBM have announced that IBM Watson AI will be integrated into SAP solutions.
  • The-Last-Satire

    July 24, 2023
    If the SAP images from the Sapphire in Orlando are to be believed, then Christian Klein has decided to no longer be the fastest, but...
  • 21 July 2023
    Data availability is not only a question of architecture, but also of time. If the delivery is late, the added value is the same...
  • 21 July 2023
    Labor issues dominate in the supply chain, with respondents citing the time it takes to train workers (52 percent) and the high...
  • Shortfacts

    21 July 2023
    No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...
  • Chief editorFin.jpg

    20 July 2023
    SAP CEO Christian Klein wants to focus on ERP, the core competence of the ERP world market leader. This focus is honorable, but for existing SAP customers...
  • 20 July 2023
    SRM leaders should focus on three key areas.
  • 20 July 2023
    SAP implementations, migrations to S/4 or preparation for audits and compliance certifications: SAP experts are working to capacity, often overloaded. The topic of...
  • 19 July 2023
    Cloud drives digital business transformation through emerging technologies, including generative AI.
  • Cloud Computing

    19 July 2023
    For a long time, SAP user companies were reluctant to migrate to SAP S/4 Hana. Now there is movement...
  • July 18, 2023
    Have you already simulated and successfully passed an audit of your cash register data by the tax authorities? If you want to avoid a disaster, you should...
  • July 18, 2023
    After the presentation of SAP Datasphere comes the next data structure topic. SAP and Google have expanded their partnership and developed a comprehensive...
  • July 17, 2023
    A more comprehensive DevSecOps approach could be the solution to address issues in cloudnative development.
  • July 17, 2023
    SAP users are caught between the conflicting priorities of migration and innovation. Migration projects with lift-and-shift procedures often dominate initially, and innovation remains on the back burner.
  • 14 July 2023
    The Advisory Board will influence the direction of the Linux Foundation Europe and its more than 100 members.
  • 14 July 2023
    The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...
  • 13 July 2023
    An ERP system is a delicate structure that requires a stable platform and excellent IT to provide users with the desired service.
  • 13 July 2023
    The standard S/4 Brownfield approach provides for the current ECC 6.0 system to be technically upgraded to the new S/4 Hana software either as a whole or in two...
  • 13 July 2023
    Seven years of S/4 Hana, actually a reason to celebrate. But while existing SAP customers were initially able to use the S/4 data model free of charge, 9000 customers were later...
  • July 12, 2023
    For one-fifth, industrial companies from Germany are lagging behind in a global comparison, according to the Bitkom survey.
  • July 12, 2023
    The data center industry will see an increase in market value due to overall trends and a simultaneous review of the rationality of continuing to operate older...
  • July 11, 2023
    What's Happening in the SAP World? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in June 2023
  • Licenses

    July 11, 2023
    Are you about to decide which way to migrate to S/4 Hana? Contract Conversion, Product Conversion...
  • July 10, 2023
    Agile, secure and reliable process communication with the innovative Retarus Cloud Services for integration and automation.
  • July 10, 2023
    Who knows all the options for familiarizing themselves with new SAP topics? Anyone who still thinks of traditional SAP courses when it comes to further training should read on!...
  • July 10, 2023
    Until now, it was primarily a security concern when companies simply migrated their existing roles to S/4 without checking them. With the new license model...
  • July 7, 2023
    Skills shortages are one of the most common challenges to cloud adoption.
  • July 7, 2023
    If you take a look at job portals, you will discover many vacancies in personnel management. They are looking for people to draw up contracts, manage payroll accounting...
  • July 6, 2023
    SAP is struggling with the topic of AI, as a recent interview by CEO Christian Klein in the Handelsblatt...
  • July 6, 2023
    In the future, SAP transactions can be easily controlled and automated - without using the SAP user interface SAP-GUI.
  • NoName

    July 6, 2023
    A new ERP architecture is emerging, driven by SAP technology, but SAP itself will like it less. CEO Christian Klein has...
  • July 5, 2023
    CFOs look skeptically at cloud projects for cost savings, according to new study from NetApp.
  • July 5, 2023
    The labor market is currently changing from an employer's market to an employee's market. If organizations want to attract young professionals, they need to offer an attractive working environment with...
  • July 4, 2023
    According to digital association Bitkom, cloud computing has established itself in Germany and is now set for significant growth. In five years...
  • it security header

    July 4, 2023
    The good news: the productive SAP systems survived all the auditors' checks and drove the penetration testers to despair. And then...
  • Editorial

    July 3, 2023
    SAP's CCC/CCoE will be decisive for the success of the S/4 conversion in the coming years, because only at the SAP basis can...
  • The-current-keyword

    July 3, 2023
    If you are looking for dates for TechEd in Europe or the USA this year, you can search for a long time. You will find...
  • July 1, 2023
    With a perfect IT tool, a comprehensive market and opinion survey will take place at the Summit in Salzburg. Please take part,...
  • Blackline Advertorial

    June 30, 2023
    Processes such as supply chains, warehousing, operations, trading, reporting, manufacturing, human resources and, above all, finance run like nerve cords in the central ERP...
  • Chief editorFin.jpg

    29 June 2023
    The window of opportunity for an SAP course correction is closing. The next two years will decide whether SAP will become a technical cloud company...
  • 29 June 2023
    It didn't used to be better, but it was easier: individual ERP customizations were made with Abap modifications in the Z namespace of SAP R/3 and later ECC....
  • 29 June 2023
    With the low-code platform Build as an integral part of BTP, SAP has created a platform that is intended to support companies in developing user-centered...
  • Editorial

    29 June 2023
    SAP CEO Christian Klein has achieved a great feat: the pre-programmed crash has been prevented. SAP has turned the corner and is not in the ditch...
  • Internal Communications

    29 June 2023
    Nowhere does forecasting seem to be as difficult as in IT - especially when it comes to the future of ERP. The...
  • 28 June 2023
    IT spending will increase globally in all regions despite global economic turmoil.
  • 27 June 2023
    A Nexthink analysis of six million endpoints highlights the huge cost implications of redundant software licenses.
  • 26 June 2023
    Results for Germany show that German companies lag behind in terms of their level of resilience in a global comparison.
  • 23 June 2023
    According to the Digital Index from Bitkom and the Ifo Institute, the business climate continues to be better than in the economy as a whole.
  • Chief editorFin.jpg

    22 June 2023
    The SAP Business Technology Platform can become the platform not only for S/4, but also for its successor and successors....
  • 22 June 2023
    New trio focuses on digitization as a lever in sustainability transformation.
  • 21 June 2023
    Optimize the speed of the oil press, check the condition of the bearings or simulate the installation of the new machine - and all this...
  • 20 June 2023
    Forsa surveyed 1015 people: one in seven of the respondents had already tried ChatGPT.
  • 20 June 2023
    The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection has published the draft for an Energy Efficiency Act, with which the requirements for data centers...
  • 19 June 2023
    Excellent in Intelligent Spend and Business Network and also in Innovation and Expertise.
  • Nordzucker exterior view

    19 June 2023
    Last year, the productive system at existing SAP customer Nordzucker was transformed to S/4. With a mix of greenfield and brownfield approaches as well as...
  • 16 June 2023
    The quality of service not only increases customer satisfaction and loyalty, but can also provide lasting enthusiasm, minimize costs...
  • 16 June 2023
    The most common SAP integration scenarios are aimed at the efficient replication of data in various cloud platforms in near real time and the integration...
  • Chief editorFin.jpg

    15 June 2023
    To err is human, which is why many industries have prototypes that are used to test the future. While the automotive industry...
  • 15 June 2023
    The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...
  • The-Last-Satire

    15 June 2023
    There are currently many construction sites in the SAP empire. Misguided personnel and product policies have given rise to numerous legacy issues. SAP boss Christian Klein is...
  • 14 June 2023
    NTT Data has shown that two thirds of companies in Germany do not derive any added value from the data they collect...
  • NoName

    14 June 2023
    There is pressure to act, which SAP boss Christian Klein obviously does not feel. He spends his days doing small-scale repair work. Works with commitment and...
  • 13 June 2023
    The SAP authorization concept has been a challenge for the SAP Basis team since the beginning, because it has to be done quickly at the start of customizing...
  • 13 June 2023
    Commerz Real is hoping for faster decision-making processes through analyses, evaluations and reporting in real time through integration and networking with business partners...
  • 12 June 2023
    Half of the companies do not have sufficient implementation capabilities to achieve their revenue targets.
  • 12 June 2023
    The DSAG Technology Days have shown it again: The uncertainty on the user side with regard to the necessary modernization is still present....
  • June 9, 2023
    What's Happening in the SAP World? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in May 2023
  • June 9, 2023
    The most common SAP integration scenarios are aimed at the efficient replication of data in various cloud platforms in near real time and the integration...
  • June 8, 2023
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    May 16, 2023
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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 second 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

EUR 390 excl. VAT
available until 1.10.2025
EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

Regular ticket
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.