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.
Radically Rethinking HR
June 11, 2025
The pressure on European companies is increasing dramatically. Companies that do not meet ESG requirements, do not design processes to be AI-capable and ignore transparency, efficiency, and legal standards are not only losing their innovative strength—but also their competitiveness.
The Data Management Platform of the Future?
June 10, 2025
SAP Datasphere is an open data ecosystem that makes information easily accessible and usable throughout an entire company. But how exactly does Datasphere work, and does it truly meet the expectations of modern data architectures?
From modernizing outdated technology to implementing responsible AI governance, a recent report has examined the key factors for the success of artificial intelligence in companies in 2025.
Horizontal Versus Vertical AI
June 6, 2025
Horizontal AI integrates AI solutions across different applications and business areas. Vertical AI, on the other hand, focuses on specific tasks or industries. What are the advantages of these two approaches?
Strong SAP Foundation
June 5, 2025
ERP programs, apps, and engines come and go. What has made us successful is a competent, agile and knowledgeable SAP Basis team. We have always built our SAP systems on a strong foundation.
ERP Complexity at SAP
June 5, 2025
The SAP cosmos includes many ERP modules, such as ECC, BTP, BDC, Private Edition, Transition Option, Customer Evolution, and New Business Suite. Who can keep track of them all?
BTP at the Crossroads
22 June 2023
The SAP Business Technology Platform can become the platform not only for S/4, but also for its successor. For this to happen, however, the BTP must be functionally convincing and not just a technical fireworks display.
ERP prototypes
15 June 2023
To err is human, and that is why many industries have prototypes with which to test the future. While the automotive industry keeps surprising, SAP is content with a promise of maintenance until 2040.
Hodgepodge and contradictory
June 7, 2023
Since the beginning of this year, Christian Klein has been communicating in a completely confused manner and without any context. Always in the best of moods, he says whatever comes to mind, true to the motto: What do I care about last day's chatter?
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 5, 2024
Rescued rope teams
It was a dramatic time at SAP headquarters in Walldorf as many Supervisory Board members, Executive Board members and executives fought to keep their jobs. SAP Supervisory Board member and former Chairman-designate Punit Renjen was a danger that had to be averted.
February 23, 2024
Cloud Dual Leadership
SAP loves dual leadership. What one can't manage, the other can. Cloud computing, however, is a regional conflict; things are different in the U.S.!
February 22, 2024
Usage-based vs. Authorization-based User License Allocation
Usage-based versus authorization-based user license allocation: since the introduction of the SAP user license types "SAP S/4 Hana Enterprise Management for Professional/Functional/Productivity Use", there has been uncertainty in the SAP community as to the foundation on which user licensing and, accordingly, measuring should be carried out.
The rising number of cyberattacks is significantly increasing the demand for resources. In order to optimize these and expand the talent pool, companies need to find intelligent methods during the current talent shortage.
SAP News
October 28, 2024
EU AI Act—German Companies Are Skeptical
The EU AI Act is in force, yet almost half of German companies have not yet dealt with its preparation or implementation.
October 23, 2024
Transformation Program Shows Effect in SAP Quarterly Figures
SAP's strong business performance continued in the third quarter. Following the restructuring measures, the workforce is expected to return to the same level as in 2023.
October 23, 2024
Modern finance and controlling in the SAP community as an S/4 option: Shaping the future with Composable Enterprise
SAP R/3 was a black box. Modern ERP systems follow more of a "best of breed" approach. Cloud computing and AI are giving rise to powerful composable enterprise architectures. Finance and HCM specialist Workday shows how it's done.
October 22, 2024
SAP Trends 2024—Cloud or On-prem?
Valantic's new survey shows how customers think about SAP, AI, cloud, and S/4 Hana. Despite the cloud hype, on-prem systems are still the preferred operating systems.
Business Management
March 18, 2022
Paperless reporting in R/3
In the past, technicians at Securiton, a Swiss provider of security technology, filled out their service reports on paper at the customer's site. These reports then had to be transferred to SAP PS and CS by the office staff.
March 17, 2022
Digitize expansion
International growth is the goal of almost every ambitious company. Due to globalization, even the smallest companies are hardly limited anymore.
March 17, 2022
Transformation project with pioneering character
In order to remain competitive in the future, KHS switched to S/4 at an early stage via system conversion. The subsidiary KHS Corpoplast has been fully integrated into the KHS Group with retroactive economic effect.
March 16, 2022
Central Procurement
Companies that have SAP Supplier Relationship Management with a multibackend connection in use or are thinking about central procurement management should be curious about the SAP solution Central Procurement in S/4.
IT Management
11 May 2022
E-Invoicing Is Becoming the Norm
Anyone who still e-mails invoices as PDF attachments will soon be saying goodbye to them. The future belongs to e-invoicing, which will render PDFs redundant.
May 9, 2022
My process, my app, my competitive advantage
The reasons for returning to the standard in the course of an S/4 transformation are reasonable. Equally wise are individual process tailoring and enhancements to stand out from the competition. A plea for more differentiation through the individual Fiori apps.
May 9, 2022
An IIoT platform for every purpose
SAP offers a comprehensive solution portfolio for digital manufacturing with the Digital Manufacturing Cloud at its core. To be able to view all production data centrally and control the associated processes accordingly, companies should also use a central IIoT solution such as Synsights.
April 28, 2022
SAP Security: Playing it safe as best you can
Cyber security is a matter of trade-offs. There is no such thing as absolute security - no matter how much budget companies invest.
Economy
The aim of the partnership is to expand the SAP standard and optimize business processes.
July 1, 2019
Accenture announces acquisition of Zielpuls
The acquisition will strengthen Accenture Industry X.0's capabilities to develop intelligent products.
June 27, 2019
Suse is now independent
Suse strengthens its management team for continued success, momentum and growth in the open source community.
New partnership of Servicetrace and iGrafx: The combination of the competencies of both partners offers enterprise customers a comprehensive solution portfolio around process automation.
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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