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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.

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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.

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Global Template for Sales and Service

December 16, 2024
Henning Krug, cbs
International business is of central importance for the mechanical engineering company Windmöller & Hölscher. To enable international reselling directly via the subsidiaries, W&H is introducing a global template for all sales and service entities with the support of cbs.
Longtime SAP veteran, former UiPath CEO and Google Cloud President leads Workday's global business strategy for the company's next phase of growth.
NTT Data has introduced the "SAP Integration with SiGreen" solution as part of the Siemens Xcelerator Business Platform. Siemens SiGreen is a solution for data communication in the supply chain.
Minsait, a company that offers digital transformation services, has been awarded the Rising Star Partner of the Year 2024 Spain award, a regional recognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The winners were selected according to objective criteria and the results were audited by the external analyst firm Canalys.
Inetum announces the extension of its partnership agreement with Dynatrace in the areas of Iberia, Latam, EMEA and other countries where it has a presence.

Valantic Appoints Guido Schlief as CCO

December 11, 2024
E3 Magazine
With immediate effect, Guido Schlief joins the management of the digital consulting, solutions and software company Valantic as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Partner.
In computer science, the technical term Realtime is precisely defined and we are all intelligent, aren't we? Thus, the term "Realtime Enterprise" coined by Professor Hasso Plattner is a clearly assignable state, while SAP's current Intelligent Enterprise actually says nothing.
Last week, I sat on stage with an SAP representative at an event in Switzerland hosted by an international SAP partner based there. It was what felt like the 999th discussion round on the topic of digital transformation.

Metamorphosis

August 20, 2022
IT is a thankless business. As Apple and other tech companies show, a lot of money can be made in this market - but the pressure to innovate is high.

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

E3 magazine has selected the most exciting companies to showcase in our SAP Startup Spotlight Series. In today's installment, we'll be looking at Soley, a product mining solution provider available on the SAP store.
The-Last-Satire
July 24, 2023

Gipfelstürmer

If the SAP images from the Sapphire in Orlando are to be believed, Christian Klein has decided to be the greatest rather than the fastest.
Cloud Computing
For a long time, SAP user companies were reluctant to migrate to SAP S/4 Hana. Now there is movement on the issue.
SAP users are caught between the conflicting priorities of migration and innovation. Migration projects with lift-and-shift procedures often dominate at first, and innovation falls by the wayside. But there is a better way.

SAP News

The aim of the collaboration is to digitalize HR processes.
The Celonis Material Allocation App uses inventory, supply and demand data from across the organization.
The importance of automation software for SAP system or SAP Basis operation is currently increasing for two main reasons: To achieve time and cost savings and to ensure the highest possible level of security.
Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, announces the general availability of the new version of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15.

Business Management

Interview: Inconsistent data simply costs money
11 February 2021

Together always better

The topic of SAP ERP and Microsoft Excel is not without controversy and emotion. If the strengths and weaknesses are combined correctly, ERP and Excel will result in a successful and sustainable platform. In an interview, Eckard Moos from SAP partner Kern explains the roadmap.
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Tricentis introduces AI-based test design and test automation.
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A digital transformation such as the switch to a new ERP solution is always a challenge for companies. These projects thus form the hub of the many IT systems and applications that communicate with each other.
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Jens Schulte, CFO at Schott, and Oliver Böhm, S/4 Finance Project Manager, report on the glass technology specialist's move from the old SAP environment to the new S/4 Hana world. Forward-looking analyses become possible - in all countries and companies worldwide.

IT Management

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In the SAP community, there is a long history of short-lived buzzwords, SAP product names that seem to change every month, and new technology trends.
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April 6, 2021

Key requirement 4.0

There are many recipes for digital transformation. According to McKinsey, three key principles apply: Focusing on the key value drivers, empowering people, and renewing the infrastructure to create an integrated technology platform.
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The next level in SAP logistics presents both challenges and opportunities. What needs to be considered when integrating Voice?
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March 10, 2021

HSM relies on MobileX

Due to growing demands and rapidly changing circumstances, HSM had to replace its previous mobile service software. The goal is to improve processes in field service management.

Economy

Acquisition: SAP automotive expertise for NTT
NTT Data acquires automotive sales and aftersales specialist Genius DMS.
Orbis engages in the Netherlands
The software and business consulting company Orbis has acquired 51 percent of the Dutch SAP partner Quinso.
Interview: Inconsistent data simply costs money
Sivis will be 20 years old in 2019: Not only have the requirements for SAP authorization management changed significantly since then - the software house from Karlsruhe is also planning to enter international markets. Managing Directors Kai Bounin and Bernd Israel explain the strategy for this.
2.5 billion US dollars - Micro Focus divests itself of Suse
Swedish investment group EQT VIII acquires Suse, a leading global provider of open source software.

People Management

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Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the fourth time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-66-24355460

Event date

Wednesday, June 10, and
Thursday, June 11, 2026

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Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
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D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

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The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.