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.
Is Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Overrated?
June 17, 2025
In mid-May, SAP gave in to pressure from the U.S. government and abolished the women's quota and other key elements of the company's diversity policy. A few weeks prior, the DSAG had conducted a survey in its women's network on topics relating to equal opportunities.
Equal Rights for AI Agents
June 17, 2025
While the current diversity policy of the Trump administration is being discussed in the USA, and SAP has scrapped its diversity targets, there is suddenly a new class of employee in the ERP environment: AI agents are here to stay!
Nip It in the Bud
June 17, 2025
Currently, there is an extensive debate about SAP's diversity targets. The goal of having 40 percent of women in leadership positions within the group has been rejected. Apparently, SAP CEO Christian Klein is bowing to the US administration's requirements.
SAP relies on open source infrastructure for ERP and Hana—this brings opportunities and new challenges. Find out how you can make SAP systems robust, flexible, and future-proof with best practices in planning, security, and operation.
Image Mode as a Game Changer for Linux
June 13, 2025
Many SAP users stop halfway through automation. The potential of tools such as Ansible and end-to-end automation remains untapped—and with it the opportunity to combine migration with modern future-proofing.
Core Strengths
June 12, 2025
The switch to S/4 Hana is about strategic future viability. How can the Clean Core approach be used to create a modern, maintainable system architecture, providing the foundation for agility, innovation, and compliance?
The True ERP Life
13 July 2023
An ERP system is a fragile entity that needs a stable platform and excellent informatics to deliver the value users are looking for. SAP S/4 can be a huge boost to innovation if everyone knows what to do.
AI Tutoring
July 6, 2023
SAP is having a hard time with AI, as a recent interview with CEO Christian Klein in Handelsblatt shows. AI-assisted capture of incoming invoices is a standard process. ERP innovation should deliver more.
ERP ideals 2025
29 June 2023
The window of opportunity for SAP to correct its course is closing. The next two years will determine whether SAP will become a cloud company or remain the ERP leader for standard business software.
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
March 12, 2024
RAP and CAP
Even in the dawning age of AI, programming is still a popular activity. From RAP (RESTful Application Programming), to CAP (Cloud Application Programming), there should be something for every SAP customer out there. But it won't come cheap.
March 8, 2024
SAP Can Do More, Right?
There was a good deal of buzz about AI at the DSAG Technology Days Conference in Hamburg. While DSAG Chief Technology Officer Sebastian Westphal and SAP Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller philosophized animatedly about open construction sites, possible solutions and missing roadmaps, the audience waited for concrete answers. They waited in vain.
March 6, 2024
What influence does AI have on customer management
Customers act in more complex ways than before, as there are far more communication channels available. As a result, there are many interactions in which customers disclose their data to companies.
March 6, 2024
Full SAP BTP power instead of old paths
SAP is an innovative company. It is constantly researching new technologies and the next generation of business software. Sometimes, however, the innovations are almost too far ahead of the reality of everyday customer life.
SAP News
November 4, 2024
SAP's New AI Ethics Policy
The advent of generative AI has broadened the scope of the guideline and the number of stakeholders affected. In light of these developments, SAP has revised its AI Ethics Policy.
October 31, 2024
Quantum technology made in Germany
Bitkom study: Germany is a global pioneer in research into quantum technologies.
October 30, 2024
DSAG Annual Congress 2024
What does digital transformation require of individuals? What is the role of cloud, on-prem, and AI? The DSAG addressed these questions at its annual conference.
October 30, 2024
Expertise, data quality and personnel?
In a global study by Natuvion and NTT Data Business, 1259 transformation managers were asked what the practice looks like when moving data and processes from existing IT systems to more modern, innovative and powerful systems.
Business Management
April 18, 2022
B2B2B workflows with the help of process mining
Many companies feel overwhelmed by the high complexity of countless IT systems and processes and do not see themselves in a position to fully understand their own processes.
April 6, 2022
ERP risk versus S/4 innovation
S/4 is the all-dominant topic in the SAP Industry Community, but for many companies the new technology is initially out of reach. This is also the case for the Bauer Group from Upper Bavaria, which is active worldwide with 110 subsidiaries.
31 March 2022
Invoice too big - what now?
For many platform operators, the pandemic has provided an enormous boost. At Delivery Hero, order volumes in the Asian market rose exorbitantly. One problem here is the exploding volumes of data.
March 18, 2022
Processes, opportunities and risks
What is the best way to communicate the topic of processes and process management and bring it to employees? The presentation and target group-oriented communication is only one side. It is much more important to involve the managers and employees involved.
IT Management
May 17, 2022
Data quality and master data management as a prerequisite for digitization and process optimization
"Digitization and process optimization are necessary for steady growth," says the event announcement for the "No SurpRISE with SAP" conference. If companies want to grow, they have to get to grips with digitization and optimize their processes.
May 17, 2022
Added value with classification
SAP inventory customer HAWE lays the foundations for future digitization projects with a classification project for material master data. After a few months, 46,000 complete and uniform material master data records were successfully transferred to the ERP.
The age of digital acceleration is upon us, and the role of corporate finance in this pivotal transformation is becoming increasingly important. In the last five years, the number of finance executives responsible for their companies' digital missions has more than tripled. 1 However, the adoption of digitalization alone is not a...
May 12, 2022
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
You don't have to look up a study to know that the number of networked sensors and the demand for IoT solutions will increase sharply in 2022. But which technologies will be particularly important this year?
Economy
The SAP dividend has reached an all-time high of €1.50. This makes any criticism of the Supervisory Board and Executive Board superfluous - even if there are currently more questions than answers at SAP.
July 15, 2019
Itelligence acquires majority stake
Itelligence announced that it has acquired a majority stake in Weaveability.
July 12, 2019
Noris Network takes over Netplace
Noris Network, which already operates two data centers in the Munich region, is further expanding its presence through this acquisition.
July 11, 2019
Process Engineering, RPA, Process Mining
Document processes, uncover inefficiencies in workflows, automate. These three measures are part of many digitization initiatives, but too often they take place separately.
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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