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.
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.
Customer Evolution
May 6, 2025
SAP offers numerous services and programs for a successful S/4 migration. The path to the cloud should not be a problem, however, the seed has not been planted. ECC customers hesitate and procrastinate. Why is that?
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?
S/4 transformation without HCM damage
May 5, 2025
Many companies use S/4 transformations to tidy up systems and data - including account assignment objects. If you follow a few tips when clearing out, you can prevent the link between ERP and HCM from being damaged.
Efficient digital end-to-end SAP configuration based on the "Model Once - Configure Anywhere" principle will be indispensable for variant manufacturers in the future if they want to survive on the market. But setting this up is a complex task.
Artificial intelligence is changing the world of work, and at Workday's flagship event, Elevate 2025, Workday is showcasing how companies are embracing this change.
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.
Can you CEO?
23 February 2023
The cover of Harvard Business Manager read: Can you be a CEO? A particularly relevant question in the SAP community. Since CEO Professor Henning Kagermann, many people have taken the CEO chair, sometimes in pairs.
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 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.
December 6, 2023
Confidence in SAP financial figures
In uncertain times, it is important to know who or what you can rely on. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals have increased their confidence in their companies' financial figures in recent years.
December 1, 2023
Concealment Strategy
What’s right is wrong. Sooner or later, SAP CEO Christian Klein will be right with his "cloud-only" postulate.
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 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.
September 3, 2021
Beyond Brownfield
The Beyond Brownfield approach of SAP partner Consilio is not only intended to secure earlier investments, but also aims to create real added value in the company through the appropriate process and system optimization after conversion.
August 26, 2021
The legal money printing machine
Finance, by its very nature, is more than accounting and a tradition at SAP. The tasks of a CFO have grown exponentially. E-3 Magazine spoke with Jasmina Cejan and Alexander Vogt from SAP partner GTW about order-to-cash, billing and revenue.
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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