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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 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.

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Generative Journalism

February 3, 2025
Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine
Writing this is akin to a tautology, i.e., saying the same thing twice. Isn't journalism necessarily always creative? Whether it's court reporting or a discussion on rising SAP share prices, creativity is always needed to produce something.

SAP data integration without ODP

January 31, 2025
Michael Baessler, Theobald Software
The integration of SAP data is a challenge, especially with incremental data updates and large volumes of transaction data. SAP Note 3255746 prohibits the use of ODP Data Replication APIs for access via the RFC interface.

Workday HR and SAP ERP

January 30, 2025
E3 Magazine
SAP software is often the foundation for comprehensive business management and organization in the midmarket. For selected areas such as workforce planning and HR, there is an alternative from Workday.

The role of banks in the sustainable transformation

January 30, 2025
Jan Kilian, Innobis
Banks have a significant influence on the degree of economic sustainability through capital allocation. A 5-stage model can be used to evaluate and support their path towards a necessary role model.
No-name column

Embedded AI

January 29, 2025
no-name
At the beginning of the year, I had the opportunity to visit our subsidiaries in the USA and attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The topic of AI has become a focal point for our company, and Nvidia is emerging as a potential partner.

Changes to the SAP Executive Board

January 28, 2025
E3 Magazine
SAP has announced a new addition to its executive board and the extension of the contract of SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig.
The saying is well known: Many cooks spoil the broth. At SAP, it's not many cooks, but many product names and product ideas. To start with, none of the names or ideas is fundamentally wrong. But SAP invents new services on a seasonal basis. This behavior would be logical for a B2C provider.

Rise and Fall

April 7, 2022
The E-3 cover story last March discussed the question of the core of "Rise with SAP". Currently, the SAP community lacks the concrete building blocks for a roadmap according to Rise specifications. The Rise initiative has thus turned into a pipe burst because downstream products and instructions for action are missing.

SAP Copy Clone

31 March 2022
System copies are a regular task in the SAP data center and there are numerous tools for this. But here the question arises: Can a complete SAP system be copied and then reused on a new domain for new tasks?

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

B2B2C
Above all, B2B2C means serving different target groups according to their needs. One-size-fits-all customer portals are not very helpful for a good customer experience. SAP Composable Storefront opens new doors for SAP customers.
Internal Communications
For SAP, customer satisfaction is a very important part of the business model. After all, the very first SAP system was developed on the customer's hardware. Since then, many ideas from users have found their way into SAP's ERP.
Editorial
Officially, Christian Klein still believes in "cloud first" and hopes for "cloud only". Thousands of SAP's existing customers and his own experts know better: Cloud computing remains out of reach for ERP in the medium term.
DevOps Column
Shifting up a gear: If you run your own software development within your organization, you can no longer avoid DevOps. The advantages are manifold. Especially when it comes to accelerating processes.

SAP News

15 May 2024

SAP and Nvidia

Cooperation makes it possible to use large language models implemented with Nvidia in SAP cloud solutions.
Rise One, the integrated solution for SAP ERP in the cloud, combines the proven Rise with SAP with All for One's integration, innovation and support services.
Whether virtualization, outsourcing, hosting or cloud, existing SAP customers need basic IT tools and partners for the efficient operation of their SAP system.
With the SAP Outlook integration from inPuncto, SAP users can easily and simply store emails and their content centrally in SAP.

Business Management

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The automotive industry has made better progress than expected on its smart factory initiatives over the past two years and now plans to pick up the pace even further.
CONSILIO Assembly
In times of globalization, not only the economy takes giant leaps. Companies have to face new challenges on a constant basis. In order to keep up with the competition, they must keep an eye on technological innovation yet also provide profound expertise.
Higher customer satisfaction through digitalization of the supply chain
Individual and fast - these are the standards customers set today. They no longer want to wait long before they can hold their purchased product in their hands or use it. And that applies to both the B2C and B2B sectors.
Landscape Transformation merges company codes
Schenck Process is a globally operating technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany. In North America, Schenck Process has five plants, to which three company codes and three purchasing and sales organizations are assigned. The goal was to optimize the organizational structure.

IT Management

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During a migration to S/4, availability or access to old but important data must be ensured for various reasons. PBS Software has developed the Nearline Analytical Archive solution especially for medium-sized and small SAP customers.
Assembly DGS B12 Eurasburg 1501 Cmyk
April 9, 2020

Digital conversion

EagleBurgmann has overcome one of the most important hurdles in the digital transformation of ERP systems.
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Technologies such as IoT, big data analytics and AI produce vast amounts of data that require cloud storage. Manufacturers like SAP are pursuing a cloud-first strategy. Enterprise applications are transforming to the cloud, creating complex distributed infrastructures.
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ERP security is one of the most important success factors in companies - whether SAP, Oracle or other business software is in use. To protect critical systems from attacks, customers should use comprehensive security platforms.

Economy

Time Management and SAP SuccessFactors
Atoss Software and Gavdi Group announce their strategic partnership.
Companies do not become more innovative
Half of executives believe their organization is unable to keep pace with market changes.
Digital financial processes
Arvato Financial Solutions and LatentView Analytics sign cooperation in the field of analytics.
OneERP initiative
21 February 2018

OneERP initiative

Fujitsu and SAP enter into new global partnership. Under the agreement, Fujitsu will implement SAP to transform all back-office systems and processes in the EMEIA region.

People Management

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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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
+43-662-4355460

Event date

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

AI experience workshop only on June 11, 2026 (limited places)
Bonus: Access to all lectures on June 11, 2026

Regular ticket

Lectures, evening event and, depending on availability, the AI workshop on June 11, 2026
Places at the AI experience workshop are limited and registration is required.

Subscribers to the E3 Magazine Ticket

reduced with promocode CCAbo26

Students*

reduced with promocode CCStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
EUR 305 excl. VAT.
EUR 590 excl. VAT
EUR 390 excl. VAT
EUR 290 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

AI onlyExperience workshop on April 23, 2026 
Bonus: Access to all lectures on April 23, 2026
Regular ticket
April 22, 2026: Lectures and evening event
April 23, 2026: Lectures and AI workshop
EUR 305 excl. VAT
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Subscribers to the E3 magazine
reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students*
reduced with promocode STStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
EUR 290 excl. VAT
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
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.