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.
Overview Instead of Tunnel Vision
June 4, 2025
SAP users who choose strictly between best-of-breed tools and suite solutions for SAP Basis automation solutions are missing out on optimization potential. It makes sense to use a suite as a "central point of management" with the integration of other tools.
Less Effort, More Security for SAP Compliance
June 2, 2025
How to sustainably reduce compliance and security costs in SAP landscapes without sacrificing cross-system SAP security management.
S/4 potential for disappointment
May 30, 2025
SAP has potential and the current altitude is high. It will require a great deal of skill on the part of the Supervisory Board and Executive Board to maintain this successful course. It lacks a unique selling point.
The company’s AI-powered platform can assist companies with democratizing change intelligence.
SIA Is Now Minsait Cyber
May 28, 2025
SIA, a Spanish company specializing in cybersecurity, has acquired the trade name Minsait Cyber, adopting the Minsait brand.
Boomi, an iPaaS provider, announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), for the 11th consecutive time—the longest in the report’s history.
SAP from below
31 May 2023
Should existing customers now believe SAP that cloud computing is very attractive: Faith belongs in the church and the cloud is a bad cloud cuckoo land. But a good foundation is the guarantee for success.
S/4 coding
May 25, 2023
Cloud computing severely restricts individualization because it is determined by standards. SAP's demand to "Keep the Core Clean" is therefore logical. However, the added value of ERP only comes from modifications and coding.
All are on S/4
May 17, 2023
With the elimination of the 9000 euro S/4 flat rate, SAP is trying to move all existing customers to S/4 this year. The trick: It's not about operational systems, but only about license rights - but SAP has never made a precise distinction here.
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
February 19, 2024
SAP's Lost Innocence
SAP is a shell of its former self. It has everything other IT vendors lack: content and knowledge. However, hyperscalers have the technology.
February 13, 2024
SAP and Punit Renjen Have Mutually Agreed to Part Ways
The SAP Supervisory Board is a construction site
February 9, 2024
SAP Cloud Computing as a Language Barrier
What is cloud computing? A comment I made to the effect that SAP BRIM (Billing and Revenue Management) is a highly complex and successful SAP application, but is only available in its entirety as an on-prem solution, prompted a Microsoft employee to object. Who is right in this case?
February 8, 2024
SAP Startup Spotlight Series: LiveEO
E3 Magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP Startup Spotlight series. In today's article, we present LiveEO, a technology company that offers SAP system-integrated satellite-based monitoring solutions.
SAP News
October 22, 2024
We Have a Security Problem
Cyber criminals use AI to develop targeted attacks. Machine learning enables ransomware programs to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in networks and systems more quickly. Current studies show that the economy is inadequately protected.
October 21, 2024
SAP becomes team partner of VfB Stuttgart
SAP will make a long-term commitment to VfB Stuttgart and support the traditional club and Bundesliga club in its digital transformation.
October 15, 2024
Metaverse between skepticism and hope
German companies are still hesitant when it comes to the metaverse. A fifth see it as an opportunity, but almost as many see it as a risk. Investments are set to increase in the coming years.
September 27, 2024
SAP Quality Awards 2024: Mewa and Sybit
Award for multi-cloud solution in the area of business transformation.
Business Management
21 February 2022
Common ground
Seamless and coherent user experiences are crucial for success in digital business. In practice, a number of functional IT systems must interlock - especially CRM and ERP. With the Connected Journey Suite, PwC is trying to build a bridge.
February 18, 2022
Flexible platform for the sales of the future
Numerous companies are faced with the challenge of adapting their IT processes to changing requirements, such as the increasingly rapid development of customized products.
February 18, 2022
Springboard to the digital
SAP Commerce Cloud is a proven basis for customer and service portals, especially for medium-sized mechanical engineering companies. Digitization is no longer a question of will.
February 18, 2022
Who am I? And if so, how does the cloud fit me?
The approaches to modern infrastructure are diverse. Decision-makers and those responsible should keep an eye on their company and the requirements within the framework of their strategy in order to act in a way that makes sense in terms of business management and process organization when making this decision.
IT Management
April 21, 2022
SAP S/4HANA in the Public Cloud: Added Value and Legal Certainty Thanks to Certified EIM
SAP ERP: a common standard in many companies when it comes to enterprise resource planning. The numerous strengths of the system are just as well known as small gaps in the range of functions, which can be closed by flanking solutions.
March 30, 2022
Advanced DataStore Object
SAP BW/4 is not just another BW release in a long line. Instead, it is an application that has been reprogrammed in large parts and which, with increasing release status, makes the best possible use of the possibilities of the underlying Hana.
March 22, 2022
Trade in transition
An increasingly volatile market, rising customer needs and growing employee demands have been placing massive demands on the ERP system in the retail sector for several years.
21 March 2022
Hana on IBM FlashSystems
How and where is corporate data stored securely? Already in 2019, a medium-sized company had an unimaginable average of 13.53 petabytes of data to organize. That number keeps going up and up and up.
Economy
20 June 2019
Vinci Energies acquires Lynx
Expanded SAP portfolio: Vinci Energies expands its SAP consulting and business process digitalization portfolio with the acquisition of Lynx.
June 17, 2019
Right targets with wrong key figures
After IBM took over Red Hat last year and Suse Linux was sold by Micro Focus for more than two billion dollars to the investor EQT, the Suse marketing can spread snappy slogans: largest independent open source company!
June 16, 2019
Suse strengthens presence in Austria
Collaboration with Tech Data: Customers benefit from broad enterprise open source expertise.
June 10, 2019
Unite and 2bits cooperate
Networking in the B2B sector: The B2B network Unite has expanded its partner portfolio with 2bits. For its customers, 2bits thus opens up flexible solutions based on its innovative purchasing 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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