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.
Protecting systems from the worst-case scenario
May 28, 2025
Complex SAP landscapes, the pressure to migrate to the cloud or the rise and acute shortage of skilled workers in SAP Basis characterize the situation of many companies. At the same time, risks such as cyber attacks are increasing. How can companies effectively protect their critical SAP systems?
Is This a Strategy or Can It Be Discarded?
27 May 2025
I've often noticed recently that our business vocabulary is relatively martial: "I'm planning to assassinate you", "We have to fight on all fronts now" or "The tasks are not decisive for the war".
SAP Cloud Stack on the Test Bed
May 26, 2025
SAP technologies such as Datasphere, Abap Cloud, Analytics Cloud and S/4 Hana Cloud for Group Reporting sound very promising on paper. However, it is with good reason that companies are hesitant to move to the cloud.
Middleman Between the Worlds of SAP and Workday
May 23, 2025
The Workday partner ecosystem in the DACH region is growing steadily. HCM Advisory Service is a boutique partner that acts as both an advisory and service partner and offers attractive solutions for SMEs in particular.
New hosting model: shifting up a gear
May 21, 2025
MTS, a medium-sized provider in the automotive and bicycle parts trade, generates a large part of its turnover online - stable SAP operations are therefore critical to its business. Since mid-2024, a new hosting model has ensured improvements in availability and performance.
Why transformation projects fail
May 20, 2025
The expectations of today's SAP transformations could hardly be greater. Companies expect leaner processes, state-of-the-art technologies and massive efficiency gains. However, there is often a considerable gap between these ambitious goals and reality.
ERP architecture models
11 May 2023
The S/4 conversion is a paradigm shift and not a technical release change. SAP talks about digital transformation and the intelligent enterprise, but conceals the fact that this requires not only Hana and S/4, but also a suitable ERP architecture.
Shortage and automation
May 4, 2023
Often, a lack of resources is the impetus for change. Many existing SAP customers are confronted with the well-known shortage of IT specialists. One successful solution is automation at SAP Basis in the CCC/CCoE.
ERP modifications
April 27, 2023
A double challenge for SAP's existing customers: How to bring Abap modifications from the Z namespace to S/4 and how to realize future customization on the SAP Business Technology Platform?
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 6, 2024
CFOs Look Ahead With Assured (Self-)confidence
Trust is a great asset that is more easily gambled away than won. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals' confidence in their companies' financial figures has increased in recent years.
February 6, 2024
Back Office 2.0: The Synergy of Cloud, AI and SAP
Are managers truly familiar with the topic of business process digital transformation? This trend has been an important topic in many companies for several years, but development is not quite over yet.
February 5, 2024
No Fear of SAP Transformation Projects
Introduce new SAP technologies quickly and successfully with the help of intelligent change management. AI, big data, and automation have enormously enriched the functions of SAP solutions such as BTP and will continue to do so.
January 31, 2024
Lift and Shift and SAP
For SAP, there are very good reasons why the public cloud should be the future operating model. Users and the SAP community should have more autonomy to pursue their own interests.
SAP News
September 26, 2024
Partnership for SAP Analytics: Bluetelligence and Valantic
The aim of the collaboration is to provide customers with new solutions in the area of SAP Analytics.
September 25, 2024
Maturity of supply chains is a competitive advantage
An analysis by Accenture shows that the maturity level of supply chains is worryingly low. As a result, they can only benefit from generative AI to a limited extent.
September 24, 2024
Valantic Study on BTP and AI
Valantic user survey shows that the AI trend is spurring interest in BTP and Joule.
September 23, 2024
S&P Global and Accenture: The potential of Gen AI
The two companies will launch a generative AI learning program for S&P Global's workforce and enhance AI development in financial services.
Business Management
February 18, 2022
Low trust in corporate sustainability promises
The word sustainable has degenerated into a fashion and filler word, hardly anyone knows the original meaning, and a lack of labeling and high repair costs are a barrier to "sustainable" purchasing. Suppliers and consumers are unsettled.
13 January 2022
Modern IT landscape for international locations
Dussmann's strategy for more innovation is being consistently pursued. Crucial to success are various growth initiatives in the areas of digitalization and sustainability with S/4, Signavio and Business Technology Platform.
January 11, 2022
Invoice in the digital age
Flexible, agile and scalable billing options are required that support the innovative business models of start-ups to old-economy companies in their digital transformation.
January 10, 2022
Evaluate Contracts, Secure Resources!
Supply bottlenecks coupled with sharply rising material prices are affecting production in many companies. With the right strategy, SAP-based purchasing can cushion this negative trend and secure the required resources at an early stage.
IT Management
14 March 2022
Business Technology Platform
The move to S/4 is a good opportunity to maintain the benefits of existing modifications with developments on the SAP Business Technology Platform, while making future upgrades and release changes easier and faster to complete.
11 March 2022
Individual S/4 story
A transformation narrative provides stakeholders with orientation in complex ERP projects such as the S/4 implementation. Management should take great care in developing and communicating the strategic messages.
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February 24, 2022
Test automation
To deliver new applications and releases faster, Continuous Testing will be integrated into DevOps processes.
23 February 2022
Production support
The use cases are very versatile in the IoT area. For the IoT service, it is irrelevant whether a single tool, a temperature sensor or a complex CNC milling machine is to provide data.
Economy
June 5, 2019
Informatica acquires AllSight
Innovative customer insight solutions startup expands Informatica Intelligent Data Platform.
The partnership between Qlik and DataRobot extends the development of augmented intelligence and machine learning across both companies.
Through the cooperation of Uniserv and MSG, companies now have a common point of contact for technology, consulting and service.
May 9, 2019
Akamai Technologies acquires Janrain
The integration of Janrain solutions into the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform provides high security, compliance and scalability.
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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