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.
Many existing SAP customers are at a crossroads as to whether SAP's ERP should continue to play a leading role in the future or whether there are a variety of alternatives with a composable ERP. SAP is countering this with a new Business Suite.
SAP often fails in sustainability reporting
May 1, 2025
Because the underlying database in SAP is not correct, the reporting on REACH (chemical safety), RoHS (hazardous substances) and Pfas ("perpetual chemicals") is incorrect in many industrial companies.
Study on AI in Practice
April 30, 2025
A recent study shows that AI is particularly important in quality control and automated data and document management.
Ariba Snap implementation—When the Chemistry is Right
April 30, 2025
The globally active specialty chemicals manufacturer Archroma has switched its procurement centrally to Ariba.
Homo Ludens
April 29, 2025
Homo Ludens is an established term that was also popularized by Hermann Hesse's novel "The Glass Bead Game". In education, and later in business, you will find the term "serious game", and then we are not too far off from the concept of Digital Twin.
Minsait Implements an AI Assistant at Helvetia
April 28, 2025
The assistant analyzes each query to provide relevant and useful content, adjusts the depth of responses according to the complexity of the question, and offers clear, comprehensive solutions tailored to the context, avoiding excessive use of technical jargon.
Availability and Recovery
16 February 2023
A relevant IT system should not have a single point of failure. What was obviously a standard in a past on-prem age does not seem to apply now in the networked cloud age, see DB and Lufthansa.
Autonomous S/5 Hana
February 9, 2023
Of course, AI will never learn to drive sensibly. How could it? There are no practical instructions and real roads on the web. But everything about business management and organization can be found on the web.
Industry Solution Healthcare
February 2, 2023
A few years ago, ex-SAP CEO Bill McDermott promised greater involvement in healthcare, and there is a Digital Health department at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). What does Christian Klein make of IS-H?
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
November 29, 2023
Migrating S/4 licenses: A Case for SAM?
Are you in the process of converting to S/4 Hana? Then you are probably familiar with the licensing difficulties that accompany such a change. Software Asset Management (SAM) can help lead the project to success.
November 28, 2023
SAP License Management
E3mag.com has received a surprisingly large number of articles about SAP licenses this past month. We have been observing this growing need for discussion for several months. Licenses are becoming a key factor for S/4 conversion.
November 24, 2023
SAP BTP as a Cloud Axiom
Only about a third of the DSAG (German-speaking SAP User Group) members trust SAP's strategy. SAP CEO Christian Klein's visions are correct, but the way they are presented and communicated misses the mark with the SAP community.
November 23, 2023
SAP Startup Spotlight Series: Velou
E3 magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP start-up spotlight series. In today's episode, we present Velou, an SAP.iO Rising Stars startup that improves the shopping experience in online retail.
SAP News
August 21, 2024
IBM and SAP bring generative AI
New functions for generative AI are to be developed as part of the cooperation between IBM and SAP.
August 20, 2024
Itesys Expands Its Market Presence With NexQuent Consulting
Itesys, specialist for SAP Basis project and operational services, enters into a strategic alliance with NexQuent Consulting in Germany.
August 19, 2024
How companies really use AR and VR
Training and further education as well as design and planning dominate the applications.
August 19, 2024
ChargeX new partner of SAP
ChargeX, Munich-based provider of e-charging infrastructure solutions, is a new partner of SAP Germany and relies on SAP E-Mobility as a standardized cloud solution for e-mobility.
Business Management
August 20, 2021
So legacy data does not become a burden
Occasions such as a merger or acquisition, a system change, or system renewals such as the conversion to S/4 require a scrutinizing look at customer and business partner data and almost always a corresponding revision.
August 16, 2021
SAP TM And EWM Improve Logistics Processes
Since February 24, 2021, the new FPS01 of SAP S/4 Hana 2020 has been available. Thanks to the intensive exchange of our Leogistics-internal S/4 community, we evaluated the new possibilities of the solution from all perspectives and now present the most interesting features.
August 5, 2021
Brownfield and conversion
In order to remain internationally competitive in the future, SAP user KHS addressed the question of how to switch to S/4 most quickly and efficiently and without major frictional losses at an early stage.
August 5, 2021
Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
With the right know-how, Billing and Revenue Innovation Management can be used to implement diverse and innovative use cases - across all industries. Or is SAP BRIM just a scalable solution for billing a wide range of services?
IT Management
November 17, 2021
New milestone in digitization offensive
Innovation has many faces: Caramba, the Duisburg-based chemicals specialist and SAP user, has reached another important milestone in its consistently pursued modernization course.
November 9, 2021
Easy paths to mobility with SAP
According to SAP, the new Business Technology Platform or the Fiori Launchpad are needed to implement mobile scenarios in the ERP context. Is that really the case?
21 October 2021
Core Data Services
Insurers that rely on an in-memory architecture accelerate their commission calculation processes with SAP FS-ICM on Hana.
October 1, 2021
SAP life is colorful!
Modern ERP systems such as SAP S/4 Hana not only combine smart software solutions for a wide range of business areas, but are also the technological basis for a successful transformation to an intelligent company.
Economy
March 19, 2019
All for One Steeb acquires TalentChamp
With strengthened cloud DNA, the two companies want to fully exploit value creation potentials of HR departments.
March 13, 2019
SEP takes new shareholder on board
BayBG acquires ten percent of the shares in backup provider SEP and thus promotes the worldwide distribution of SEP products.
March 11, 2019
GIB establishes subsidiary in Brazil
GIB, a software manufacturer for optimized supply chain processes in SAP, has been doing business in the DACH region for over 20 years.
March 5, 2019
Esker and Rimilia cooperate
The global partnership of Esker and Rimilia provides an automation solution for the allocation of incoming payments.
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.
DE 
EN 
ES 
FR 
