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.
Transparency and Communication
March 5, 2025
SAP cannot be accused of lacking composure, but of lacking transparency and comprehensible communication. The presentation of the new SAP Business Suite and Business Data Cloud leaves only one question unanswered: what is SAP attempting to communicate to the community?
Is 2025 the Age of Reason for the Tech Ecosystem?
March 5, 2025
After a year of economic, political, and geopolitical uncertainty, global dynamics will continue to impact businesses in 2025. For many, 2024 was about breaking new ground.
Bravo, SAP CFO Dominik Asam
March 4, 2025
SAP's share price is soaring. Deutsche Bank analysts put it at 300 EUR. The CEO and CFO are doing a great job. But how are they managing this?
Inspiration instead of German Angst
March 4, 2025
At an exclusive Weißwurst breakfast, SMEs discussed the transformation of the world of work through artificial intelligence.
Preventing Chaos in SAP Systems With Trento
March 3, 2025
In the fast-moving world of SAP, even a brief outage can cause considerable costs. This is where Trento comes in—your reliable companion that protects your SAP systems from costly service interruptions.
SAP Has Found the Golden Record
February 28, 2025
The latest message from SAP headquarters from CEO Christian Klein is in: data is important and valuable. The year is 2025 and SAP has invented the golden record. Another loss of reality in the SAP universe.
Data structures
August 4, 2022
Most information technology transformations can only succeed if business processes (algorithms) and the business information of the organizational and operational structure (data structures) are consolidated, harmonized, orchestrated and ultimately transformed.
Expensive cloud losses
28 July 2022
By now, almost every SAP existing customer knows: Cloud computing can also work for SAP Business Suite 7 and S/4 Hana, but it does not have to be cheaper than on-prem from your own data center.
The new, digital twins: Siemens and Nvidia
14 July 2022
It's another case of deja vu. Instead of turning Leonardo into a digital platform of the future for Industry 4.0, SAP CEO Christian Klein is trying to lift his own existing customers into the cloud with his "Rise with SAP" idea.
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
June 11, 2024
Inetum and Microsoft: Introduction of AI solutions
The introduction of AI solutions should accelerate two key sectors: Healthcare and Information Management.
Three awards and eight focus partnerships for outstanding performance and expertise.
June 7, 2024
Closing the gap between store floor and top floor: Valantic and Forcam Enisco agree on strategic partnership
Closing the gap between store floor and top floor. Cooperation should support digital transformations in systems such as SAP DM.
June 4, 2024
Apsolut is an SAP Pinnacle Awards 2024 finalist
For the first time in its history, Apsolut is a finalist for an SAP Pinnacle Award.
Business Management
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December 17, 2020
SAP GTS - which operator model is the right one?
SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) ensures legal certainty in customs and foreign trade. The software can be operated in different models, with different strengths depending on the requirements profile.
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December 4, 2020
IBM Power9 and SAP S/4 Hana
Hoffmann Neopac is using Hana in a private cloud with IBM Power Systems and IBM FlashSystem to modernize its IT landscape and make even better use of existing data to optimize business processes.
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November 26, 2020
Check-in to check-out
Truck drivers are on the road every day to load and unload on the factory premises of different plants and are particularly challenged during times characterized by Covid-19.
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November 24, 2020
Health is (also) an IT issue
The medical care situation is currently the focus of public attention. The performance of German healthcare facilities is impressive - even apart from the very good provision of emergency beds.
IT Management
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November 23, 2020
Understanding Systems
In this case, the word 'systems' doesn't mean technology and hardware - it means the organizational structure of a company.
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November 20, 2020
The CTO transformation
Joining the SAP Executive Board may have come as a surprise to Jürgen Müller, but times are challenging. The SAP community is undergoing a digital transformation and old construction sites need to be cleaned up.
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November 6, 2020
Transformation engine
One way to create application programming interfaces (APIs) that requires no programming and supports both on-premises and cloud deployment, that's API-as-a-Service.
Companies looking for a new ERP today or looking to modernize their existing digital core are quickly landing on SAP S/4HANA. The software suite has clear advantages, such as tremendous speed and a modern user interface. Companies also benefit from best practices in terms of functions and processes, which are provided as standardized solutions. But what is...
Economy
July 10, 2018
SAP sponsors e-sports
The sponsorship of Team Liquid is SAP's first cooperation with a professional e-sports organization.
July 4, 2018
Joint Venture - Digital Business Transformation
SAP partner Datavard and management consultancy +Rasmussen have formed a joint venture.
July 4, 2018
WMD - Viva España
SAP partner WMD is continuing its international expansion course and founded the new subsidiary WMD Iberia on December 12, 2017.
19 June 2018
Partnership in HR: Internal talent scouts
Stuttgart-based systems house MHM HR integrates employee recommendation program from Vienna-based start-up Firstbird.
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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