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.
The Gutenberg Moment
July 11, 2025
The combination of AI algorithms and powerful hardware, such as Nvidia's graphics processors, has sparked a revolution. The most visible result is ChatGPT, though SAP is also working on the subject.
Switching to S/4 Hana offers opportunities for digitalization and automation. However, the new license model increases the pressure to act. In order to reduce licensing costs and avoid compliance risks, strategically aligned authorization management is essential.
SMEs Must Catch Up With SAP Ariba
July 9, 2025
Digitizalition in purchasing? Still a non-issue for many SMEs. Yet SAP Ariba provides a modular platform for procurement and supplier management that enables SMEs to gradually come to grips with the topic.
Robots and AI Agents at Boomi World 2025
July 8, 2025
A look back at all the new developments presented at Boomi World 2025 in Dallas, Texas. Developments such as AI agents, expansion in EMEA, better API management and many more.
In times of global trade conflicts and protectionist measures, open source—as software and as a principle—is becoming central for companies and regions. It has a lasting impact on workflows, processes, and communication.
SAP Can Do More
July 4, 2025
The broad—and unfortunately often poorly orchestrated—SAP offering is surprising. There are real software gems, but there is little to no communication. Can SAP itself no longer see the forest for the trees?
SAP Stops Support for S/4
September 14, 2023
Where there is no certification, there is no support. SAP has ended their certification service for "Hosting Operations" and "Cloud and Infrastructure Operations". SAP partners do not yet have answers for customers.
SAP Buys LeanIX Instead of Cooperating
September 7, 2023
It is an adolescent reflex to want to own everything. SAP is preparing to acquire its partner LeanIX for around one billion EUR. Signavio's misfortune seems to be repeating itself.
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
May 2, 2024
Reset for SAP CEO Christian Klein
Christian Klein was the subject of a cover story in Manager Magazin, a German business magazine, which portrayed an innovative CEO who would rather look at the stock price and chase IT megatrends than look after his own customers.
May 2, 2024
Users Prefer Suite Solutions
More and more users are opting for complete or suite solutions for SAP Basis automation software. Vendors of such software, which provide various applications as part of a complete package, are turning the wheel of development.
April 30, 2024
We need SAP S/5 Hana
S/4, the successor to SAP Business Suite 7, is and will remain an on-prem system. SAP CEO Christian Klein is unlikely to achieve his cloud goals this way, which says nothing about the quality of S/4 Hana itself.
April 29, 2024
FUE: Estimate for new Rise-with-SAP contracts
When switching from an ECC contract to an SAP Rise contract, the metric for SAP users changes. Existing SAP customers face the challenge of estimating the number of Full Use Equivalent, FUE, before signing the new Rise contract.
SAP News
November 26, 2024
Minsait Acquires Colombian Company MQA
Minsait, an Indra company, has acquired 100 percent of MQA, an SAP business management solutions company in Colombia and Central America (Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Caribbean). MQA has a large portfolio of top-tier customers with a high degree of maturity, as well as numerous recognitions as Best SAP Partner in Latam.
The demand for IT integration has never been greater, and cloud iPaaS is the largest integration platform market trying to meet this demand. There is a lot on offer and, for SAP customers, BTP is a priority, however, there are alternatives such as Boomi.
November 18, 2024
The KPMG CEO Outlook 2024 Shows Growth Disruptions and Hope in AI
German CEOs are increasingly lowerering their own company's growth expectations. Generative AI is seen as the most important growth driver with hurdles to implementation.
November 14, 2024
Workday Rising 2024: Bigger, more colorful, GenAI
Cloud technology, an intuitive user experience and generative AI are the success factors of Workday, which presented its visions in the HR and finance sector in Las Vegas in September.
Business Management
August 17, 2022
SAP Marketing Cloud
Today's customers use many different channels to gather information before making decisions. The biggest challenge in the digital age is therefore to address each customer with the right content at the right moment in the customer journey.
August 9, 2022
Customer Centric
For the transformation to a Customer Centric Company, all processes must be taken into account. One example shows how an integrative view of core and support processes can contribute to greater customer centricity and an optimized lead-to-cash process.
Digitization is an important means for areas such as accounting and controlling to cope with the growing volume of data. Sonepar thought so, too.
13 July 2022
Orchestrate subscriptions efficiently
The subscription economy with its agile business models will shape the future of almost all industries. However, the shift to agile subscriptions also requires new strategies, business processes and back-office systems.
IT Management
August 8, 2022
Quantity and Quality
Although the change to S/4 is inevitable, many companies are still hesitant. One reason for avoiding the transformation could be the high number of master data with poor data quality in the various data silos.
25 July 2022
Digital Twin
More and more companies are turning to the support of a digital twin when planning new production facilities and supply chains or when expanding or improving old logistics concepts.
21 July 2022
Dormant Potential
The SAP community remains skeptical: Even the first survey of the SAP community in 2021 indicated that the big "move" from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4 Hana in the cloud via the "Rise with SAP" initiative would not be so easily communicated.
14 July 2022
Project Management Cockpit
A project dashboard provides a detailed view of projects. Here, financial details with a representation of all cash flows, a Gantt project plan, which among other things enables a simulation of target/actual deviations, are available.
Economy
29 October 2019
New era ushered in with NTT Ltd.
The new London-based NTT company, with operations in more than 70 countries, combines expertise and global reach.
October 24, 2019
Future vision for e-procurement
Main Capital has acquired a strategic majority stake in Onventis, a cloud-based platform provider.
October 17, 2019
Building block for future growth
Orbis has acquired a majority stake in Dialog Gesellschaft für Projekt- und Prozessberatung from Bielefeld.
October 15, 2019
VMware acquires Avi Networks
The acquisition enables VMware to deliver the public cloud experience to the entire data center - automated, highly scalable and secure.
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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