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.
The drive of the future for SAP workloads
February 14, 2025
SAP workloads require maximum availability and security. SLES for SAP Applications 16 solves this challenge with high availability, security and optimized management for a stable and efficient SAP environment.
SuccessConnect: Integrated AI for HCM Suite
February 13, 2025
SAP has announced new AI capabilities across the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite for improved workforce planning, training and operational development.
CFO trends 2025
February 12, 2025
For some time now, finance departments have been experiencing a phase of transformation. From cash flow and processes to automation and AI, innovations are being introduced that are leading to far-reaching changes. Reason enough to take a closer look at the developments for 2025.
In 2024, the management and IT consultancy MHP completed one of its largest transformation projects to date: the changeover in the finance and procurement area at Porsche.
AI in the War of SAP Talent
February 11, 2025
With the move to S/4 and the cloud, the need for experts in cloud migration and cyber security is also increasing. Carl Weaver, founder and CEO of Core Tech Recruitment, reveals his strategies for finding the best SAP consultants in an exclusive E3 interview.
Trends in archiving 2025
February 11, 2025
KGS, a specialist in digital archiving, knows the data and document archiving trends of 2025.
Data Chaos, Legacy IT and Rise
15 June 2022
Many roads lead to Rome, they say. For many years, the challenge for SAP legacy customers has been to harmonize, synchronize and orchestrate their data inventory. Now there are numerous paths to success for this task, but not all of them can be taken at the same time.
Eternally greets the groundhog
June 9, 2022
About twenty years ago, we had a cartoon in E-3 magazine that showed the ancient hero Sisyphus standing at the foot of the mountain with his stone to roll up forever, only to have it rumble back down from the top.
Give and take
June 2, 2022
In the SAP R/3 era, the Customer Competence Center, CCC, was a great success. Certified existing SAP customers were able to save parts of the annual maintenance fee and thus cross-subsidize the CCC operation.
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
July 11, 2023
The way is called S/4
Are you about to decide which path to use to migrate to S/4 Hana? Contract Conversion, Product Conversion or Rise with SAP? Take a look at the PKL Q2/2023.
July 6, 2023
Composable ERP
A new ERP architecture is emerging, driven by SAP technology but less to SAP's own liking. CEO Christian Klein has already taken note of the first setbacks and lowered the revenue expectation for cloud computing.
July 4, 2023
(In)security in the SAP landscape
The good news: The productive SAP systems survived all the auditors' checks and drove the penetration testers to despair. And then: An attacker hijacked the highly secure system.
July 3, 2023
SAP TechEd: More than (k)one conference
Anyone looking for dates for TechEd in Europe or the USA this year can search for a long time. One only finds the dates for the realization in Bangalore, India, on November 2 and 3, 2023. The dates in Europe and America have been cancelled without replacement.
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.
27 May 2024
Effective lever SAP Basis automation
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
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SAP has announced enhanced capabilities for the App Center, which allows customers to learn about, test and purchase partner applications based on SAP.
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The demand for innovative solutions to tackle ever-evolving challenges and support smart processes and new business models in the era of digitalization is rising. To become more resilient and adaptive, 11,500 customers worldwide are leveraging SAP S/4 Hana.
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The strategic goal of Munich-based company Osram to become market leader in the lighting industry means high standards for the deployed technology. APIs are a fundamental part of the new business model.
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Tender preparation for products with many variants is time-consuming and prone to errors. CPQ applications accelerate the process and ensure high levels of security.
IT Management
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September 24, 2020
Digital Omnipresence
Through markets and sales channels everywhere, tire dealer Pneuhage manages the multi-layered sale of tires and rims with highly digitalized processes. A central business integration data hub acts as a swinging wheel.
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September 23, 2020
A Guide to SAP Data Integration
Software development takes time, so you have to plan the solution before the first customers even ask for it. When I invented Hana Smart Data Integration (SDI), no one had such a solution on their radar - ETL tools were good enough.
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September 17, 2020
Eco study: Data centers guarantee sustainable digitization in Europe
Data centers are part of the digital infrastructure ecosystem and at the same time a guarantor of ecologically sustainable digitization in Europe. They can make their contribution to achieving the climate targets in Germany and Europe.
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September 16, 2020
Software Development At SAP: The Various Cloud Flavors
Building software for the (SAP) cloud is very different from on-premises software. This obvious and trivial fact has consequences for software development rules.
Economy
May 17, 2018
Logistics IoT in real time
Deutsche Telekom is developing comprehensive packages to complement Accelerator packages for IoT from SAP Leonardo.a
May 16, 2018
SAP License Management
Collaboration expands Matrix42 Workspace Management Suite to include SAP license management from Voquz.
April 25, 2018
2018 - the year of the blockchain?
Blockchain is one of the most important trend topics for the digital industry in Germany in 2018. One in four companies (26 percent) say that this technology is one of the key technology and market trends of the year.
April 14, 2018
Car sharing solution - Smart City Portfolio
Global IT services provider NTT Data and SAP gold partner Gisa will cooperate in the smart city sector.
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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