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 are the benefits of open source in the EIC context?
February 10, 2025
SAP Edge Integration Cell (EIC) is currently a much-discussed topic. SAP users should also see it as an opportunity to use open source as a strategic foundation to drive modernization and implement innovations.
New EPOS version shortens SAP Basis automation processes
February 10, 2025
Empirius recently launched a new version of the SAP Basis automation suite Epos. With new features, some of which bring considerable user benefits for SAP Basis teams.
User story: Successful S/4 go-live in the big bang
February 7, 2025
The Blanc & Fischer Group was faced with the task of modernizing its ERP systems. To this end, the company carried out two S/4 transformations in its operational corporate groups E.G.O. and Blanco. The smooth go-live of the E.G.O. Group took place after a project duration of 2.5 years.
Innovation Is Key but Beware of Its Overuse
February 6, 2025
How often have you read about innovations recently? A simple Google search yields an astonishing 1.85 billion results. However, upon closer inspection, a significant number of these results are not truly innovative.
Which Is the Best Cloud for Hana?
February 6, 2025
Which cloud is best for SAP Hana and how do the different providers compare? With how widespread SAP is, the security and performance of these systems are critical.
A Pleasing ERP Legacy
February 6, 2025
Older SAP ERP systems remain popular with customers because these installations have been maintained and modified over many years.
Public Cloud - why?
May 25, 2022
It is obvious that through a massive scaling effect, the public cloud brings significant added value for the providers and above all for the hyperscalers. SAP is also trying its hand at the public cloud - but so far only with very modest success, despite Rise with SAP.
Personnel, Purpose, Prices and Productivity
19 May 2022
The latest CEO survey from research and advisory firm Gartner found that CEOs and executives will think significantly differently about staffing, purpose, pricing and productivity in 2022 than they did before, particularly in relation to sustainability, workforce issues and inflation.
Sapphire Vintage 2022
May 12, 2022
The official title of SAP's annual event is "Sapphire Now," but "Sapphire Vintage" would naturally be much more appropriate. Once again, the technology company Apple was on the Sapphire stage.
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
29 June 2023
An oracle for SAP
SAP CEO Christian Klein has achieved a great feat: the pre-programmed crash was prevented. SAP has turned the corner, has not landed in the ditch and is now in calm waters. But where will the company go from here? No one at SAP knows.
29 June 2023
View into the glass ball
Nowhere does a prediction seem to be as difficult as in IT - especially when it concerns the ERP future. The current example of ChatGPT has shown how quickly supposedly safe parameters have to be re-evaluated.
15 June 2023
Repair service behavior
There are currently many construction sites in the SAP realm. Misguided personnel and product policies have created numerous legacy issues. SAP CEO Christian Klein is working to rectify the situation.
14 June 2023
Sense of Urgency
There is pressure to act, which SAP CEO Christian Klein obviously does not feel. He spends his days doing small-scale repair work. Working with commitment and forgetting the big picture - Klein is left without a strategy.
SAP News
"SAP in the cloud" is not synonymous with "everything in the SAP cloud". Customers who follow SAP into the cloud require new skills to take responsibility for their cloud IT: those of a provider manager.
Award for Esker from the Hackett Group's new Digital World Class Matrix in the area of Customer-to-Cash (C2C) Receivables.
Study shows that safety and ethics as well as a persistent lack of AI knowledge remain a problem in the AI sector.
An E3 interview with Matthias Lemenkühler, CEO of xSuite Group.
Business Management
June 30, 2020
Finding the right twist with DSAG
"Digitization has many sides. It's all about putting the right spin on it" - this is the motto of the Technology Days 2020 of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG).
After the Handelsblatt reported in the middle of last year that three quarters of all companies are very reluctant to switch to SAP S/4 Hana, a recent study by Lünendonk paints an even more drastic picture:
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June 26, 2020
Continuous software testing
Companies need to accelerate the shift to comprehensive continuous testing in agile software development to remain competitive. This is according to a new study published by Capgemini and Sogeti in collaboration with Broadcom.
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June 23, 2020
How SAP S/4 Hana Optimizes Business Strategy
Digital transformation has to be holistic, meaning it needs to encompass the entire value chain, every business department, and internal and external factors. SAP S/4 Hana can help with that.
IT Management
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August 21, 2020
Are AI and SAP a Beneficial Combination?
AI has enormous potential for almost every company. SAP customers are therefore faced with the question of which technologies SAP offers them to upgrade and enhance their existing system landscapes.
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August 18, 2020
Historical ERP data: simplify, automate and save money
The value of a company is measured by the total stock of its information - including historical information. To make it more visible, simplification and automation are needed. Both can save a lot of money, not tomorrow, but today.
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13 July 2020
A cloud for SAP
Microsoft offers a cloud platform with Azure. Its services can be used in combination with the SAP Cloud Platform and as an infrastructure for operating SAP cloud solutions.
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Data is the new currency. But only with correct data can companies plan and evaluate results effectively. That's why Roche Diagnostics International relies on Winshuttle to manage master data automatically.
Economy
April 14, 2018
Common SAP partners
With immediate effect, All4Cloud, the 100 percent cloud company from Viernheim in Hesse, will be making common cause with the Norwegian IT consulting company Ciber.
April 11, 2018
Financial Alliance
Ernst & Young LLP (EY) and BlackLine are deepening their collaboration through a new strategic alliance.
March 20, 2018
SearchConsult becomes Allgeier Experts Select
For SearchConsult, which specializes in headhunting in the field of digitalization & IT, the new year started with a new name and expanded management:
March 20, 2018
Blockchain startup becomes NTT partner
Trizillium and NTT Data cooperation aims to accelerate integration of Smart SLAs into ITSM processes. NTT Data is now working closely with Trizillium Technologies.
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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