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.
Knowmad Mood, a technology consultancy specializing in digital transformation solutions, has announced the acquisition of Vanture ESS, a Barcelona-based IT consultancy with over 15 years of experience in enterprise management solutions.
CAF Migrates to S/4 Hana Cloud Private Edition
June 25, 2025
SAP announced that CAF, a company specializing in in urban rail and bus systems, has successfully migrated to S/4 Hana Cloud Private Edition.
Alibaba Collaborates With SAP
June 25, 2025
SAP has entered into a strategic partnership with Alibaba to accelerate cloud transformation.
The Spanish ECM specialist Brait Consulting will offer its customers SAP-certified solutions from xSuite, a provider of automation solutions for accounts payable accounting.
Seamless Instead of Clueless—SAP Interface Migration
June 20, 2025
The Finnish chemical company Kemira has implemented one of the world's largest interface migrations to the SAP Integration Suite with "Leap". The success was based on a precise assessment, a clear roadmap, and efficient implementation.
Companies Rely on SAP From the Cloud
June 19, 2025
The continued rise in cloud usage is changing the SAP ecosystem in Germany, as user companies are switching to the Walldorf-based software provider's cloud solutions despite ongoing concerns.
Money and ERP Knowledge
August 3, 2023
For a successful S/4 conversion, SAP's customers need large budgets as well as a great deal of knowledge and experience. SAP did not communicate these success criteria with the necessary clarity. Now SAP CEO Christian Klein has to pay the bill for this.
Core Strengths
27 July 2023
What is SAP's core strength? Mostly subjects within the broad field of organizational theory and business administration. But now suddenly technology has been thrown into the mix.
SAP disaster—AI and CRM
20 July 2023
SAP CEO Christian Klein wants to focus on ERP, the core strength of the ERP world market leader. This focus is honorable, but of little help to SAP's customers. The B2B world is more than just ERP.
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
April 4, 2024
SAP Basis Without SAP
It is becoming increasingly difficult for SAP customers to obtain relevant information about the capabilities of the ERP software they are using. The SAP list of prices and conditions seems to be the only remaining source of information.
April 2, 2024
Using the Elephant in the SAP Room Constructively
The fact that S/4 Hana, as a completely new technology in the SAP universe, will have a fundamental impact on the current state of organizations has been known since its introduction in 2015. Since then, the topic has been an invisible elephant in the room for many companies.
March 29, 2024
SAP Technology Versus Business
What is SAP's value proposition? There are few studies on this, but SAP is most probably not a technology company like Microsoft, Apple, Meta, or Google, or a bookseller like Amazon.
March 15, 2024
Indirect Use of SAP Data and AI
I had lunch with our senior lawyer in the cafeteria the other day and we ended up staying until 5 in the afternoon. It wasn’t the food that made me feel ill, but rather his concerns about the use of generative AI in light of the GDPR.
SAP News
November 8, 2024
MHP Opens Location in Mexico
The management and IT consultancy MHP is continuing its international growth course by founding a subsidiary in Guadalajara, Mexico.
November 7, 2024
Miami Energy at LeverEdge 2024
LeverX, an SAP partner with solutions in every area SAP provides software for, held LeverEdge 2024 from October 1-3 in Miami, Florida. We at E3 Magazine were present at the event to assess whether it delivered valuable insight to the SAP community.
November 6, 2024
Digital transformation partner: Arsenal digitizes with NTT Data
NTT Data and Arsenal FC have announced a multi-year partnership. The aim is to offer fans personalized and seamless experiences.
November 6, 2024
Low-hanging fruit for the use of AI?
Specialist departments and IT departments have it on the table: artificial intelligence is to be used, provide new insights and increase efficiency. But where to start, where to find the right use case to test the new technologies? Where can you get quick, demonstrable results?
Business Management
May 30, 2022
Six Misconceptions About Process Mining
A central question of entrepreneurial action which decides about success or failure is to find the best way to reach the value creation goals, if they are clearly defined.
May 16, 2022
TMS Monitoring and Reporting
Transportation management is usually divided into transportation planning and decision making, but monitoring and downstream reporting are equally critical. Ad hoc changes and influences from external factors can often only be managed manually.
May 4, 2022
A new understanding of security
One realization these days is that security is a vulnerable commodity. Critical infrastructures such as nuclear power plants and hospitals are becoming targets of warlike aggression, and at the same time cyberattacks are increasing on an unprecedented scale.
April 29, 2022
Supply chain of the future
It's an old debate in the SAP community: Can applications be added in such a way that one plus one should ultimately add up to three - or should homogeneous integration be given precedence? Together with Blue Yonder, we have answered the question.
IT Management
June 8, 2022
The hype around hyperscalers
Hyperscaler! The term sounds like a digital awakening, promises unlimited growth - and has thus finally helped the cloud to achieve a breakthrough.
June 1, 2022
Keep the Core Clean: Intelligent Automation
Why automation is not only the right answer to the skills shortage in the context of S/4 transformations, but at the same time also significantly reduces project costs, technical legacy and the risks of the transformation.
23 May 2022
The journey to S/4 Hana is the goal
Karin Gräslund, DSAG board member responsible for Financials and Sustainability, knows how the new law can be implemented on the IT side, what infrastructure is already in place and what is still lacking, and where software manufacturers such as SAP still have to deliver.
Modernization of the application architecture as an instrument of holistic transformation.
Economy
August 26, 2019
QSC sells Plusnet
QSC has signed an agreement with EnBW for the complete sale of its Plusnet subsidiary.
August 20, 2019
Enowa acquires Bühler Software Consulting
Enowa has acquired Bühler Software Consulting. With the acquisition, Enowa continues its long-term digital strategy.
August 6, 2019
Qlik integrates Attunity
Qlik has successfully completed the acquisition of Attunity. The aim of the acquisition is to further accelerate the analysis of raw data.
July 26, 2019
Uniorg subsidiary in Slovakia
Uniorg expands its portfolio with the establishment of Uniorg Slovakia in Kosice.
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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