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.
The central platform will support ERP users with managing the entire AI agent pool, regardless of whether the agents are from Workday or third-party providers. This solution aims to provide the tools to manage and optimize the digital workforce.
SAP offers blockchain solutions to integrate operational processes, for example via the BTP or through specialized industry applications.
Statement: Bitkom on the coalition agreement
15 May 2025
The digital association Bitkom welcomes the creation of an independent digital ministry by the future federal government as well as the many digital policy plans of the governing parties, but calls for the plans to be fleshed out quickly and funding to be clarified.
With the introduction of an AI-supported process modeler with text-to-process function for Signavio, SAP is aiming to drive forward its development into an agile, sustainable and resilient company.
2027: The S/4 countdown begins
May 14, 2025
With the deadline for S/4 approaching, a well thought-out migration is essential. An SAPinsider 2024 survey emphasizes the urgency of minimizing risks and choosing the right migration path to make the transition efficient.
Automate the automation process
May 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.
The poles of the community
April 20, 2023
There are currently two currents in the SAP community. At one pole is SAP with many business innovations, at the other end the existing customers and partners with IT tools to harden infrastructure and ERP architecture, a bipolar challenge.
ERP Visionary Officer
April 13, 2023
The SAP Executive Board works diligently and strives. As the executive board of a global corporation, on the other hand, it should act strategically, lead with vision, and act conceptually. Instead of leaving repair service behavior to capable management, SAP board members are content with operational tasks.
T/5 with AI
April 6, 2023
Artificial intelligence could be the key to an evolutionary ERP as a successor to R/3 and S/4. AI language models open semantic and syntactic options for a T/5 Hana to be used beyond 2040.
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
January 22, 2024
Cloud Exit and Data Retention
Life is ever changing, and for whatever reason, the day may come when it is time to leave the cloud. SAP does not have a policy for this. Customers, however, should. They should have a cloud exit strategy plan in place.
January 11, 2024
SAP Startup Spotlight Series: Woocar
E3 magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP Start-up Spotlight series. In today's article, we present Woocar, a SaaS platform that aims to reduce traffic accidents by more than 90 percent and is connected to the SAP Logistics Business Network.
January 8, 2024
All of SAP Is Cloud Only
SAP CEO Christian Klein's motto is "cloud only". With this, he is provoking controversy because the world cannot be divided into black and white.
January 4, 2024
Fighting Knowledge Drain through AI and Automation
Baby boomers are now retiring. Almost 70 percent of them want to retire from working life by the age of 64 at the latest, with the desire for more leisure time playing a major role. Many of them are even prepared to accept a reduction in their pension.
SAP News
September 20, 2024
ServiceNow Dev Meetup in Toronto
As the demand for streamlined workflows and automated processes continues to rise, ServiceNow, a company that offers a platform for digital workflows, has unveiled its newest Xanadu Release to supply said demand.
September 20, 2024
Process Mining and Process Intelligence
Former SAP partner Celonis has risen to 13th place on the Forbes 2024 Cloud 100 list.
September 19, 2024
Workday Illuminate Is the Next Generation of Workday AI
Workday, a provider of solutions to help organizations manage their people and money, has announced Illuminate, the next generation of Workday AI.
September 18, 2024
Workday Signs Agreement to Acquire Evisort
Workday, a provider of solutions that help organizations manage their people and money, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Evisort, an AI-native document intelligence platform. With Evisort, Workday will add AI-powered document intelligence solutions to its finance and HR suite.
Business Management
November 29 2021
Inventory sampling in SAP EWM
Regardless of the ECC deadline, existing SAP customers must have migrated their existing applications to the new Hana and S/4 software platform. This also applies to the SAP logistics modules Materials Management (MM) and Warehouse Management (WM).
November 16, 2021
Not without sugar
Without sugar, life would be half as sweet at best. To ensure that the products arrive at the supermarkets on time, Nordzucker has introduced a cloud-based system together with logistics provider Leogistics.
November 15, 2021
XInvoice not arrived in practice
The technical and legal framework for XInvoice is in place, but the results of a DSAG survey on the topic are mixed.
26 October 2021
Hedging financial risks in the digital transformation
Industry 4.0, IoT, cloud computing, blockchain and other key technologies associated with them harbor not only numerous opportunities but also considerable financial risks that cannot always be managed despite well thought-out project planning.
IT Management
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23 February 2022
Add-on for S/4
The latest release of the field service management suite offers optimizations in the mobile solutions as well as in the deployment planning. With the app, technicians can create new messages directly on site and edit captured images.
23 February 2022
Conversion until 2030
The S/4 migration is one of the big IT shakes of the coming years. The upcoming migration is inevitable; in 2030, manufacturer support for the predecessor solutions will end.
22 February 2022
Key tool for success
With the changeover from ERP/ECC 6.0 to S/4 Hana, the business partner concept, which has long been familiar from the SAP CRM world, becomes mandatory.
22 February 2022
Forecasts Are Difficult
The corona pandemic triggered a digitalization push at many companies. One lesson learned from the pandemic: Predicting business developments was even more difficult than usual during this period.
Economy
Fifteen financial analyst firms have issued their assessments of SAP stock. Buy recommendations predominate and one analyst even sees the SAP share at 122 euros.
May 3, 2019
Dominion v. SAP: Malicious Deception
Using an old licensing trick from the turn of the millennium, SAP Mexico may have tried again in 2012 and 2013 to boost its own bottom line. The stumbling block is OEM contracts, which have sometimes made partners rich, but almost always SAP.
April 17, 2019
Circ IT takes over SAP specialists Manß und Partner
This acquisition is part of the long-term perspective of both companies.
April 15, 2019
SER wins investor for future growth
Through the investments of the Carlyle Group, SER has the opportunity to develop and grow internationally.
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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