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.
MDM before ERP migration
April 16, 2025
The refrigeration system manufacturer Hauser spent two years optimizing its master data for global S/4 use. With software and services from Simus Systems, the MDM team was able to build a golden client for a secure migration that supports further automation and digitalization.
AI Foundation Services
April 15, 2025
AI foundation for companies: Over 15 LLMs already provided in accordance with EU standards, mainly in Germany.
The challenge of SAP Hybrid Cloud
April 15, 2025
Companies with SAP workloads are increasingly implementing hybrid cloud strategies. Suse Rancher for SAP Applications offers an easy-to-operate, scalable platform for the secure operation of business-critical applications.
Easy Custom Code Adaptation
April 14, 2025
The migration of SAP systems is often complicated by custom code that has grown over time and is insufficiently documented. Fujitsu Easy Custom Code Adaption (ECCA) minimizes risks, reduces costs and accelerates the migration process with an innovative solution.
Future-proof thanks to modularity
April 14, 2025
SAP's clean core strategy reduces maintenance costs and improves system stability. Companies need to check which adaptations are necessary and which can be replaced by standards. SAP BTP enables flexible extensions and future-proof integrations.
The second death of BuByDe
December 15, 2022
Business ByDesign falls victim to end-of-year cleaning in Walldorf. SAP no longer likes the once revolutionary software. All's well that ends well, and Professor Plattner's wish is finally fulfilled.
The CRM King
December 8, 2022
SAP had big plans for CRM and came under a lot of pressure from Salesforce. The liberation with Qualtrics did not succeed. Why? And who is currently in favor? SAP versus Salesforce.
The GRC Monster Build
December 1, 2022
It is unimaginable if millions of SAP users are now starting to customize their own apps. There are probably many gifted programmers and system designers among SAP users, but who is responsible for GRC during this creative phase?
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.
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November 10, 2023
SAP Startup Spotlight Series: Solena
E3 magazine has selected the most exciting companies to feature in our SAP Startup Spotlight series. In today's issue, we present Solena, a biotechnology company that uses information about the soil microbiome to promote efficient and sustainable food production.
November 7, 2023
SAP’s Supervisory Board is a Construction Site
With Professor Hasso Plattner’s departure from the SAP Supervisory Board next year, the company will soon commence an evaluation of the actual function and duties of a Supervisory Board Chairman.
November 6, 2023
Intelligent solution for S/4 license measurement
It is common knowledge that SAP is not satisfied with the success rate of migrating customers to S/4. Many members of the SAP community tend to take a wait-and-see approach when it comes to migrating to S/4 Hana.
23 October 2023
Sybase, Qualtrics, Signavio, LeanIX
SAP's collecting mania knows no bounds. SAP believes that it will automatically understand other companies’ intellectual property just by owning them.
SAP News
August 6, 2024
Bearingpoint as SAP Partner of the Year 2024
Awarded as an SAP partner for the process and life sciences industry. The technology consultancy was also recognized for its S/4 Hana expertise as a focus partner for the first time.
August 2, 2024
Kemira Archives SAP Data in the Cloud With Tia
The international chemical company Kemira has parted with its long-standing archiving solution, and now relies on the KGS platform for archiving in the cloud.
July 31, 2024
Scott Russell and Julia White Will Leave SAP
SAP announced that the SAP Supervisory Board has reached a mutual agreement with Executive Board Members Scott Russell and Julia White to leave the company’s Executive Board, effective August 31.
July 31, 2024
German Companies Barely Use Their Data
Only 6 percent of companies are exploiting the potential of the data available to them. Data protection and legal uncertainty are slowing down the supply of data.
Business Management
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Companies with multiple production sites are more challenged by globalized logistics processes. Inventory planning and uncertainties in supply and demand place high demands on SCM.
June 9, 2021
Safely through the crisis with managed services
For 78 percent of companies, managed services are a great help in the corona pandemic. But how do the services used meet the requirements of IT experts?
June 8, 2021
Collateral Management System
With SAP's 2027/2030 deadline, the need to migrate to CMS has moved into the future. But what are the reasons for migrating to and using SAP CMS today?
June 4, 2021
Designing intelligent business processes
Every company has the potential to improve its processes. New execution management systems build on process mining technology and thus provide users with a whole range of applications, tools and platform functions.
IT Management
22 July 2021
Properly Securing OT And IoT
Cybercriminals have found lucrative targets in IoT and OT. Most companies are not prepared to face this threat. A structured approach helps to minimize risks.
16 July 2021
CRM from the cloud
With SAP Sales Cloud, Swiss machine and tool dealer Walter Meier has found the optimal CRM solution to support the sales force and sales management in particular in the area of sales and customer care.
13 July 2021
Hybrid cloud architectures
Hyperconvergent infrastructures are awakening from their slumber... In a recent study, the consulting firm Techconsult investigated how medium-sized companies are modernizing their IT infrastructures, and not just since the corona pandemic.
July 5, 2021
End-to-end multicloud
Rackspace's approach was developed based on cloud-native thinking and presents a service model designed to help customers build and operate cloud environments.
Economy
February 4, 2019
Auditing company and software house cooperate
Micro Focus and PricewaterhouseCoopers team up to offer joint solutions in the cyber security and privacy area.
January 16, 2019
Select E-Heroes with Hana
SAP has agreed a cooperation with ESL, the world's largest e-sports company.
21 December 2018
Itelligence and Harting - Technology and Development Partnership
Itelligence and Harting have entered into a technology and development cooperation.
December 6, 2018
IT service providers are the key to success
The next few years look extremely promising for IT service providers. This is hardly surprising - new technologies such as blockchain or AI, but also topics such as cloud migration and the automation of business processes are increasing the demand for external support.
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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