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.
WHAT With SAP?
May 9, 2025
We all know and love them: SAP acronyms. Most of them are three letters long. Prominent examples? BDC (Batch Data Communication or new: Business Data Cloud), BTP (Business Technology Platform), or BOM (Bill of Material).
What happened to blockchain?
May 9, 2025
Recently, AI has replaced blockchain as the buzzword of the tech scene as the centerpiece of innovation. Each technology can bring about significant progress on its own. But what opportunities lie in combining the two?
Hana Can Do More
May 8, 2025
It is amazing how many services and functions can be found on the Hana database platform. Unfortunately, there is no scientific study on the degree of usage.
Leonhard Kurz, the global market leader in thin-film technology, is implementing updates to SAP Hana, SAP Kernel and Linux OS as part of an update triple based on an SAP Basis automation suite.
Cawa Younosi went from being a child of Afghan refugees to Head of HR at SAP. Today, he is the Executive Director of the Charta der Vielfalt (Diversity Charter) association and a bestselling author. In an interview with E3 editor Robert Korec, he talks about the challenge of inclusion in the workplace.
Document management systems (DMS) have been tried and tested on a large scale for years. However, the integration of e-invoices brings a new dimension of speed and security. What advantages does e-invoicing offer over conventional digital workflows?
Competence Center Summit
March 16, 2023
The SAP base will determine the success of the S/4 conversion in the coming years, because it is at the base that challenges relating to SAP licenses, staff shortages and digital transformation can be solved.
SAP Data Hub V2
March 9, 2023
There is a new version of the legendary Data Hub at SAP. Because the former project failed miserably, it was quietly disposed of and is now to be replaced by Datasphere together with partners beyond the SAP community.
SAP Re-engineering
March 2, 2023
A change of era at SAP as well: Luka Mucic, a veteran, is leaving the ERP world market leader and, similar to ex-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe and his CFO predecessor Werner Brand, he will not be returning to SAP. Gerd Oswald remains an exception.
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
December 14, 2023
Going Beyond Chat with AI, Hybrid Cloud, and SAP
AI and ML are all the rage in the SAP world. However, developing, deploying, and managing AI and ML models poses a number of challenges and requires specific frameworks.
December 11, 2023
The Best of S/4 Conversion With License Optimization
Since SAP presented S/4 in New York in 2015, around 20 percent of SAP customers have completed the conversion to the new ERP generation. Most of them have made an investment within the seven- or eight-figure range.
December 6, 2023
Cloud Readiness is Not a "Cloud" Term
Christian Klein's keynote speech at the 2023 DSAG Annual Congress in Bremen, Germany, had it all. The SAP CEO announced that key innovations will only be available in the SAP cloud in future.
December 6, 2023
SAP in Wonderland
Rarely before has the community been so surprised by SAP: the share price is reaching all-time highs, innovation is at rock bottom, and customers are angry and unsettled.
SAP News
Existing SAP customers who are forced to enter into a contract conversion must act this year to avoid drastic price increases. Users aiming to move to the SAP cloud with Rise need to draw up a complex plan.
August 29, 2024
Technology Trends and Convergence
The study by management and technology consultancy BearingPoint highlights technology trends such as technology convergence, AI, and infrastructure innovation, which are all changing demand patterns and creating new opportunities for software vendors.
August 29, 2024
Metamorphosis of SAP Application Management
Increasing complexity of the IT landscape makes seamless integration and communication between SAP and non-SAP applications a key concern. Over 70 percent of respondents opt for S/4, preferably in the cloud.
August 23, 2024
Knowledge deficits with far-reaching consequences
New study by Hornetsecurity shows that 26 percent of companies do not use IT security training for end users.
Business Management
September 9, 2021
SAP S/4 Hana Transformation
SAP partner Rödl & Partner asked itself this question and, together with analyst Lünendonk, set up a study. Rödl & Partner reports on the challenges that existing customers face during the S/4 Hana transformation and how they are overcome.
September 8, 2021
Advisor to the world market leaders
With the Corporate Business Solutions success model and the high-performance culture of its customers, cbs is writing an extraordinary success story with strategic competitive advantages on its way to becoming a global market leader.
September 7, 2021
Doing is better than wanting
If you want to equip your company for the future, it's better to push ahead with digitization today than tomorrow. This applies in particular to accounting - traditionally a rather conservative area of the company that likes to stick to tried and tested processes.
September 6, 2021
Measuring the ERP world
No other SAP topic is associated with as many emotions as license management. Here, the CFO and CIO are pitted against SAP together, because the aim is to protect their own company from damage in the long term.
IT Management
December 14, 2021
Do existing SAP customers who don't want to switch to one of the big hyperscalers have to forego the benefits of the cloud?
Cloud computing has become firmly established in recent years as a solution for a wide range of IT tasks and for providing a wide range of IT services. Customers appreciate the high degree of flexibility, the short provisioning times of the services and the fact that they only have to pay for what they actually use.
November 22 2021
Spare Expenses at Your Own Risk
Many SAP customers still manually or semi-automatically transfer their data to other systems for further use. Implementing automation is an investment, to be sure, but one that will pay off.
November 19 2021
How Test Automation Accelerates S/4 Hana Migration
SAP S/4 brings more agility, speed and innovation. But many companies are still putting off the migration because they are afraid of the risks. Test automation helps to master the changeover safely and efficiently.
November 18, 2021
Against the current
Although the majority of DSAG members in a recent survey spoke out in favor of on-prem, Microsoft is working with partners to try to convince the SAP community to take a different path.
Economy
April 3, 2019
Bertelsmann and Saham - global partnership
Bertelsmann and Saham have entered into a global partnership around their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) businesses. This is intended to open up new markets and accelerate the digital transformation.
March 28, 2019
Digitization and budgets 2019
You can't get more challenging than this: digital transformation is putting all previous certainties to the test. Nothing concerns IT users more than the question of what digitization has in store for them.
March 26, 2019
Syntax takes over Freudenberg IT
The company is thus tapping into new SAP and ERP user markets.
March 21, 2019
Abbyy and Synpulse become partners
As part of this partnership, Synpulse is adding Abbyy's intelligent data automation solutions to its portfolio of offerings.
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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