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.
AI in the Supervisory Board
July 30, 2025
Although German supervisory boards are better than the global average in many aspects of AI, they are still self-critical.
S/4 Challenges
July 30, 2025
Many companies struggle with resources, conflicting goals, and quality compromises. S/4 projects lose strategic clarity and stakeholder support as they progress.
API Management With Boomi
July 30, 2025
Boomi wants to rethink API management—and this includes SAP customers. In an interview with E3 International Managing Editor Laura Cepeda, Markus Müller (Global CTO of API Management) talks about integration, cloud strategies, governance and why user-friendliness can be the decisive factor.
Excellent WMS
July 30, 2025
For the twelfth time in a row, SAP has been recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in the Magic Quadrant 2025 for Warehouse Management.
AI Agents—Battle of the Giants
July 21, 2025
It was with great astonishment that I read the text "AI agents are turning Salesforce and SAP into rivals. Artificial intelligence is blurring the distinction between front office and back office" in The Economist on June 5 of this year.
SAP partner: Stretching exercises included
July 18, 2025
Snap has been developing SAP software for 25 years. Under the SnapWare label, we offer around 40 SAP best-practice solutions - from tools for payment terminals to industry solutions for healthcare logistics (GHT).
The Next Big Thing: BTP
25 October 2023
The SAP Business Technology Platform is becoming the third successful pillar of the future after Hana and S/4. SAP executive Martin Heinig explores the question of what BTP will look like in ten years. There is still hope for SAP ERP users!
S/4 Prelude
19 October 2023
If you had the ability to control changes in SAP at will, what would be the first thing you’d ask for? This is what Basis Technologies asked about 200 SAP users. The answer: better understanding of the impact changes have before they are introduced.
S/4 Conversion Tools for Success
12 October 2023
Ambitious SAP customers have already chosen to complement their ECC 6.0 system with SAP’s Enhancement Package 8 and are now evaluating the S/4 compatibility list to begin their conversion.
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
Cybercrime reports have been ringing alarm bells.Tthreast to ERP systems have also been intensifying. According to a study, the number of cyberattacks on SAP landscapes will reach an all-time high by 2023.
June 6, 2024
Forward, Always Forward
A successful SAP Business Technology Platform partner summit took place in Heidelberg, Germany. The efforts to establish an open system alongside the frozen core are commendable. My proposal is that the BTP become public domain.
A challenge for any organization, especially those moving SAP workloads to the cloud, is to protect data at every stage: at rest, in transit and, perhaps most importantly, during processing.
May 29, 2024
Successful use of AI requires new software
AI promises to radically simplify and improve processes. However, in complex processes such as detailed planning, integrating AI into existing software is not enough. New types of software and workflows are required.
SAP News
December 11, 2024
Valantic Appoints Guido Schlief as CCO
With immediate effect, Guido Schlief joins the management of the digital consulting, solutions and software company Valantic as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Partner.
December 9, 2024
Complexity Meets Skill Shortage in Brazil
NTT Data has signed an agreement to acquire Aoop, a ServiceNow implementation company in Brazil. In the E3 interview, Aoop CEO Luiz Cesar Baptistella talks about the background to the partnership and the current challenges of the Brazilian IT market.
December 4, 2024
How Transformations Fail
Transformations with little planning fail, says Natuvion CMO Philipp von der Brüggen. In an exclusive E3 interview, he reflects on the results of the 2024 transformation study.
December 3, 2024
The Hidden Pitfalls of SAP Cloud Contracts
The devil is in the details—why transparency and control matter in SAP license management, especially today.
Business Management
4 October 2022
Multicloud
Cost management for multicloud environments is an art in itself. Cloud costs are like real life: you already know roughly how things could be done better. But first, you have to do it, and second, you have to understand exactly how.
September 19, 2022
E-commerce: How to achieve the perfect symbiosis in SAP ERP integration
For an e-commerce platform to be successful, it must fit seamlessly into the existing IT infrastructure. If a company relies on an SAP system, for example, this brings with it a number of advantages and opportunities for integration. What are these and what do you need to bear in mind when integrating SAP?
September 5, 2022
Everything from a single source
Digital transformation has been a concern for companies not just since the start of the pandemic. Only with the right technologies and an understanding of business processes can digitization offer real added value.
September 5, 2022
It all comes down to the right tools
Artificial intelligence is supposed to support people in their professional environment and relieve them of work. However, employees often fear that computers and robots will make certain activities irrelevant.
IT Management
September 13, 2022
At the Turning Point of Digital Transformation
New digital business models are emerging through the convergence of innovative automation technologies. This requires new standards in consulting, implementation and operation of RPA and hyperautomation solutions.
September 9, 2022
Experience Management
Optimization in terms of factors such as cost, efficiency and agility is now only a solid basis for complete end-to-end process optimization.
September 5, 2022
The Dirty Dozen
More data does not automatically mean more overview. On the contrary. Nevertheless, companies all too rarely question their data collection frenzy and the validity of the information they gather.
September 2, 2022
Optimize Process Communication
Companies are faced with the challenge of processing ever greater volumes of documents. But what to do when suppliers or customers have no way to digitize their business data? This is where Intelligent Capture Services offer valuable support.
Economy
January 10, 2020
Vizuu relies on SAP
Vizuu, a subsidiary of the global Schaefer Werke Group, relies on SAP systems for its IoT-based platform solution.
20 December 2019
Orbis and SNP bundle competencies
The companies want to enable SAP user companies to quickly switch to S/4 Hana with SNP Bluefield.
December 5, 2019
Salt Solutions and M2MGO join forces
Salt Solutions acquires a stake in the Berlin-based start-up M2MGO, a specialist for services and products related to the Internet of Things (IoT).
November 29, 2019
HCL Technologies acquires IBM products
HCL Technologies (HCL) has completed the acquisition of selected IBM products for security, marketing, commerce and digital solutions.
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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