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.
Generative Journalism
February 3, 2025
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
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
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
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.
Embedded AI
January 29, 2025
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
SAP has announced a new addition to its executive board and the extension of the contract of SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig.
SAP has many cloud ideas
April 14, 2022
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
May 30, 2023
Composable Storefront
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.
May 26 2023
Customer satisfaction
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.
May 25, 2023
Internal dispute over direction
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.
May 17, 2023
SAP BI meets DevOps
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.
May 14, 2024
All for One announces Rise One
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.
May 13, 2024
The IT world of application lifecycle management
Whether virtualization, outsourcing, hosting or cloud, existing SAP customers need basic IT tools and partners for the efficient operation of their SAP system.
May 13, 2024
Simply move MS Outlook files to SAP
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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April 22, 2020
Automotive industry in the fast lane
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.
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.
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.
February 26, 2020
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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April 9, 2020
Legacy ERP data available after S/4 changeover
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.
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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April 7, 2020
Added value of distributed data environments
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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March 20, 2020
Central protection against cyberattacks
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
21 February 2018
Time Management and SAP SuccessFactors
Atoss Software and Gavdi Group announce their strategic partnership.
21 February 2018
Companies do not become more innovative
Half of executives believe their organization is unable to keep pace with market changes.
21 February 2018
Digital financial processes
Arvato Financial Solutions and LatentView Analytics sign cooperation in the field of analytics.
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.
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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