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.
What Was That?
February 27, 2025
For this article’s title, I‘ve borrowed a phrase from Friedrich Merz, a member of the German Bundestag, who used it in the last German Bundestag debate before the election in response to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's speech. This article has been inspired by German politics.
Inetum Has Been Recognized by SAP in Two Areas
February 25, 2025
Inetum, a European company that offers digital services, has been recognized with two prestigious awards at the SAP EMEA Partner Excellence Awards 2025. Specifically, the company has been awarded in two categories: Cloud Delivery Excellence and Best Human Capital Management Partner 2024.
SAP master data with sustainability
February 18, 2025
NTT Data has introduced Sustainability Data Simplified, a new product for the precise calculation and analysis of CO2e values.
One Data Transformation Approach?
February 18, 2025
Transformation projects are very extensive and complex. This is why consultants are often called in. However, hardly any consultant has experience with all manufacturers, offers all services along the transformation or supports all migration processes.
Looking back: BTC SAP Summit 2024
February 17, 2025
What moves IT decision-makers. The SAP Summit organized by IT consulting company BTC will take place in June 2025. Trends such as Grow vs. Rise, BTP and AI will be highlighted for the third time. A look back shows how a lively exchange of experiences with added value for the participants was already created in 2024.
Code security for SAP BTP
February 17, 2025
New offering provides industry-leading application security testing for SAP BTP development.
Innovation backlog at SAP
July 7, 2022
SAP is no longer innovative. SAP is solid and predictable. SAP is working its way up the cloud computing ladder. SAP is looking for answers to the most important customer questions. With SAP, the existing customer can tackle the release upgrade to Hana and S/4 - and then?
The technical release change
June 30, 2022
The classic SAP existing customer knows the challenges of a relaunch and the SAP community knows the discussion about the added value of a release upgrade. Many projects are merely technical in nature so that the existing version does not fall out of maintenance.
IT meta-level
23 June 2022
What many computer users would like to see, a metaverse with limitless data and information exchange: A game piece or a purchased tool would be able to be used without limits in a metaverse. You must not tell an existing SAP customer this vision - he would probably have tears in his eyes.
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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July 25, 2023
SAP Startup Spotlight Series: Soley
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.
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.
19 July 2023
From ECC 6.0 directly to the cloud
For a long time, SAP user companies were reluctant to migrate to SAP S/4 Hana. Now there is movement on the issue.
July 17, 2023
Migration or innovation
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
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
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November 10, 2020
Transparency and reliability not yet achieved!
Making digital access transparent and reliable was the slogan SAP used to promote indirect use licensing in 2018. A year later, SAP launched the Digital Access Adoption Program, an offering to accelerate adoption.
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October 8, 2020
The Problem With (Inaccurate) Historical Data
The success of big data and digitalization projects hinges on master data quality. If data quality is inadequate, the benefit of using said data to optimize business processes and models becomes questionable.
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September 15, 2020
E-commerce: Cloud solution connects online platforms with SAP
Already today, more customers use online marketplaces for their product search than search engines. The potential is huge and the increasing success presents retail companies with the major challenge of a fast, efficient and centrally operating sales process.
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September 7, 2020
Design to Operate and Holistic Manufacturing Processes
Design to Operate is SAP’s strategy for the holistic presentation of software solutions for manufacturing processes. Design to Operate offers great opportunities in manufacturing.
IT Management
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19 October 2020
Oracle: The Enterprise Cloud
Oracle Cloud Generation 2 differs significantly in many ways from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google GCP. The bottom line is that the offering has several advantages for customers, which also include monetary benefits. The special features of Oracle Cloud Gen2 at a glance.
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16 October 2020
The cloud evolution continues
There has never been more cloud than today. Almost any workload can be moved to or sourced from the cloud. This diversity offers opportunities as companies have proven that the cloud and digitized processes are the foundation for success.
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October 1, 2020
Imposed maintenance, unclear roadmaps.
The underlying technology of an SAP system has not changed over the years. It consists of an operating system, a bunch of executable files and a database. Is that still up to date?
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September 25, 2020
Even Support Teams Need Support Sometimes
Someone has forgotten their password. Or a new hire needs an account. In general, SAP support teams concern themselves with tickets about access management, rights and accounts.
Economy
June 11, 2018
E-commerce: Customer Experience in Hybris
BloomReach, a digital experience provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with Hybris.
Dashboard provider Peakboard and consulting firm Kantiko will be joining forces in production controlling in the future.
The Munich-based software manufacturer Membrain and SAP are entering into a partnership in the area of SAP Cloud Platform. The MembrainRTC server is now integrated into the SAP Cloud Platform.
June 1, 2018
SAP Full Service for the North
SAP partner Itelligence has acquired Eins Consulting from Sweden.
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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