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 December 2025
The CCoE Experiment
The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.
Q3-2024 release: SAP Business AI for IT and platforms
December 23, 2024
Three months earlier than planned in our roadmap, SAP presented 100 functions for generative AI that can be used immediately in all SAP cloud applications.
Dual SAP Rise license
December 20, 2024
A Rise-with-SAP license is a multidimensional contract. SAP collects at least twice with a Rise contract without any claim to success.
Away with paper and Z programs: Digitized production with SAP DM
December 19, 2024
Paper-based processes can still be found in production - to the detriment of the environment and efficiency. Modern MES solutions such as SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM) provide a remedy here by helping companies to digitize their production processes more easily.
SAP security: Automated virtual patching
December 18, 2024
The new SecurityBridge feature provides real-time protection for unpatched SAP systems and increases efficiency and security.
Personnel deployment halved: nice SAP maintenance weekend
December 17, 2024
TÜV Süd with its 25,000 SAP users has recently started using the SAP Basis automation suite EPOS. The main benefits: a reduction in weekend staff deployment with the option of automating recurring downtimes and scheduled restarts outside regular working hours.
Ansible - the news doesn't stop
December 16, 2024
Ansible is an established standard that is here to stay. However, in the SAP world, application possibilities, from accelerated Rise migration to faster implementation of innovations, are still underutilized.
Cost explosion for existing customers
September 15, 2022
SAP has failed to live up to its own claims: With the increase in cloud subscription and currently with the 3.3 percent increase in the annual maintenance fee, SAP is giving the lie to its own statements.
SAP tilts
September 8, 2022
In a few weeks, the DSAG Annual Congress 2022 will take place in Leipzig with a premiere: The keynote on the opening day will not be held by SAP CEO Christian Klein, but by board member Thomas Saueressig.
Agile, hybrid and diverse
September 1, 2022
SAP is missing out on a paradigm: The economy is becoming diverse and hybrid. Processes and communication are becoming agile and transparent. IT is digitizing not only accounting, warehousing and payroll, but the entire value creation of an organizational and operational structure.
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
August 8, 2023
Sapphire once and now
SAP's in-house trade fair Sapphire repeatedly prompts SAP CEOs to verbal feats and bold statements. Anyone who suspects anything untrue here is a Pinocchio.
August 2, 2023
SAP and OT Security: Hacker Defense Tricks
Cyberattacks on SAP systems and operational technology (OT) can have devastating consequences for companies: from delays in operations to the shutdown of all processes. The following tricks help to ward off hackers.
August 1, 2023
A Dead End With E2E
End-to-end business processes remind me of my early days with SAP R/3. A lot of things didn't work then, but when they did, they were consistent, evaluated, and definitely E2E. SAP CEO Klein talks a lot about integration.
31 July 2023
SAP Fioneer: Bold Creativity
"Rock-solid engineering. Bold creativity." That's how SAP advertises Fioneer on its own homepage, but will customers now have to pay for Fioneer's expensive deal between SAP and third parties? There's a lot of anger.
SAP News
AI boom causes demand for GDPR-compliant hyperscaler services to rise sharply. ISG studies show who can benefit.
Camelot ITLab was once again recognized by the SAP team in Germany as a focus partner in the area of Digital Supply Chain.
May 29, 2024
Industry Study in Digital Business Models
According to a recent study, the industry is increasingly expanding its traditional product portfolio to include digital business models.
The deal is part of an investment of almost USD 839 million in acquisitions since the fourth quarter of 2023.
Business Management
April 9, 2021
End of APO—What Now?
The lifecycle of SAP APO is expected to end in five years. Users can turn to its successor, SAP IBP, to plan their supply chains. However, there are other alternatives as well.
March 8, 2021
Comfort Charge
The traffic of the future is supposed to be quiet and clean. But despite the particulate matter alarm and the diesel scandal, the mobility revolution has so far only gained modest momentum.
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March 5, 2021
Two men - 8 terabytes
An order of magnitude of 2 terabytes of ERP data and 6 terabytes of PLM data had to be managed and archived - primarily SAP documents and product-related documents and files.
March 3, 2021
S/4 Playground
The changeover to S/4 and the development of a global template pose major challenges for the well-known technology company ZF Friedrichshafen with its heterogeneous ERP landscape.
IT Management
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13 May 2021
Pomerania burned down
The second part on the fire disaster in the cloud comes from Marc Kleff. The first part was written by E-3 columnist NoName, page 16: a fire in the data center and the lesson learned - focus on business continuity!
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May 5, 2021
Conversion
The automotive industry is characterized by international manufacturers and complex value chains. The industry operates highly efficiently in global markets.
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May 3, 2021
How to Optimize SAP Authorization Management
The definition and assignment of roles and authorizations is crucial for ERP systems, as they allow companies to define and implement user access rights in processes and workflows.
April 27, 2021
Learning from data
Generali Switzerland is breaking new ground: Instead of the marketing that is common in the insurance industry, it is relying on cooperation with start-ups and innovative technical solutions. An always-on strategy guarantees a targeted customer approach.
Economy
November 23, 2018
BNC and Nutanix - Strategic Partnership
Swiss IT infrastructure service provider BNC Business Network Communications has partnered with Nutanix to offer customers new options for running their IT.
November 21, 2018
Expansion of the strategic alliance - Digital twins
Siemens and Bentley Systems strengthen strategic alliance and joint investment initiatives.
November 19, 2018
Payment and E-Commerce - Extension for SAP Commerce
The long-standing partnership with SAP was extended. The expansion of the partnership between SAP and Wirecard was triggered by the launch of the Wirecard Extension for SAP Commerce.
November 10, 2018
Alegri goes Devoteam
And SAP and Microsoft partner Alegri has belonged 100 percent to the Devoteam Group since the end of August.
E3 Book Tip
The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI
Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.
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