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.
For many companies, financial planning is the linchpin of operational accounting. It is a central control mechanism for liquidity and economic growth. This is because companies use financial planning to work out their liquidity requirements, calculate the opportunities and risks of investments and lay the foundations for competitiveness and future viability.
Eleven Billion Euros in Cyber Security
January 10, 2025
In 2024, spending on cyber security in Germany increased from 13.8 percent to 11.2 billion EUR.
SAP appoints Andreas J. Wagner as new Head of Austria
January 9, 2025
Andreas J. Wagner took over as Managing Director of SAP Austria at the beginning of 2025.
The Five Trends That Will Define Cybersecurity in 2025
January 9, 2025
According to the report prepared by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) on the state of cybersecurity in the EU, the number of cybersecurity-related incidents will increase by 24 percent in 2025, with ransomware and DoS/DDoS attacks being the most common.
SME analysis: AI in accounting
January 9, 2025
Medium-sized companies rely on AI-supported solutions to increase efficiency, reduce errors and optimize complex financial processes.
More Sustainable Economic Growth With AI
January 8, 2025
A new paper shows that AI can help increase efficiency and reduce emissions. The key is to use AI responsibly, taking energy needs into consideration.
Beyond APO
March 3, 2022
Many members of the SAP community know the magic term APO, Advanced Planner and Optimizer. In the beginning, there was a bumpy start for APO, but later it developed a sustainable added value in manufacturing and logistics.
Suppy chain management: autonomous, segmented and end-to-end, right?
February 24, 2022
Many companies have heterogeneous system landscapes. This often leads to silo architectures and consequently to fragmented supply chains.
Hana for GitHub
February 17, 2022
Since the beginning of this year, there has been a discussion on the topic: How contemporary is S/4? But the question must be asked in the same way: How innovative and stable is Hana?
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 3, 2023
Have cloud platforms failed?
According to Statista, 84 percent of companies in Germany now use cloud computing. At the same time, voices are being raised questioning the switch to the cloud.
May 1, 2023
R/2 keyboard, R/3 mouse, S/4 language input
SAP has taken a wrong turn: Instead of consolidating menus, screen masks and processes, a ChatGPT-like voice input is to be put over the disastrous UI. Why does SAP always start solving problems from the wrong side?
April 27, 2023
Germany's most popular employers
A recent publication by Manager Magazin lists the favorite employers of young engineers in Germany. SAP comes in a distant 39th place. What's going on there?
April 27, 2023
Disruption and fluctuation
The end of SAP as the community knows it. The supervisory board, the executive board, and the IT community would have the chance to save SAP. But false consideration and convenience are preventing the retread.
SAP News
May 8, 2024
AI-Supported Supply Chain Innovations
SAP announces new AI functionalities in its supply chain solutions
Data inaccuracies and hallucinations cause major problems when using AI data.
May 6, 2024
Items opts for Natuvion
IT service provider for the energy industry Items and transformation expert Natuvion signed a long-term cooperation agreement in Essen to expand their long-standing business relationship.
May 6, 2024
AI Enabler and Automator
Ososoft's goal is to enable SAP customers to focus on their core ERP challenges and to use AI and automation to relieve users of as much routine work as possible—including the creation of multilingual documentation.
Business Management
November 26, 2019
MES as an enabler
Since 1981, SAP user Stihl has been producing the orange glowing lawn mowers and mowing robots on currently 23 assembly lines. To ensure the company's success, it relies, among other things, on digitalization measures in the production area and places its full trust in Cronetwork MES.
November 12, 2019
Accounts Payables 2.0
As part of its digitization strategy, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen has digitized the accounts payables process across the board internationally - right through to invoice posting in SAP and including workflow processing and exception handling.
November 11, 2019
The Possibilities of Deep Retail
Big data, artificial intelligence, facial recognition technology and eye tracking have the power to completely transform retail as we know it. We are currently experiencing a new age of personalization. The time has come for deep retail.
November 6, 2019
Value-oriented and harmonious
The technology company Trumpf, world market leader for machine tools and laser technology, is restructuring its financial control with Controlling Excellence. The introduction of a globally valid chart of accounts represents a milestone in the harmonization of financial control.
IT Management
January 15, 2020
Customer Service with SAP add-on
A few years ago, Yaskawa decided to standardize its heterogeneous ERP landscape across Europe on SAP. In the process, the service processes were also to be modernized and standardized through the introduction of a field service management solution.
January 3, 2020
Automatic monitoring with agentless SAP sensors
IT and SAP managers must ensure that SAP systems and databases run around the clock without problems and failures and that the company's business processes are safeguarded. Monitoring the systems incurs costs and ties up personnel resources.
November 28, 2019
Hana: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Reportage: A short story about the long road - In-memory computing with the Hana database: When the concepts of Hana were first introduced within SAP, I thought that any database with enough memory is an in-memory computing database and correspondingly fast. But at least I wasn't the only one.
November 26, 2019
Infrastructure must be boring!
Simplifying and improving the developer experience - that was the core topic of the Cloud Foundry Summit 2019. Attendees also learned what is happening at Project Eirini and around Kubernetes.
Economy
January 24, 2018
Standard for digital merchandising
With its solution based on IoT and the SAP Cloud Platform, Indigo Media provides an offering for a new generation of Responsive Shops. In the E-3 exclusive interview, CEO Guillaume Waline talks about his visions of digital merchandising and Big Data for retailers.
December 14, 2017
Value driver Big Data
In 2015, four graduates of the Hasso Plattner Institute founded Valsight. Their vision: to improve the controlling of large companies by using state-of-the-art technologies. E-3 spoke with Managing Director Khai Tran about "Performance Management" in a digitalized world.
December 13, 2017
All4cloud with new US partner
All4cloud's latest partner comes from the USA. It is BPBD, a system integrator for Business ByDesign.
December 13, 2017
SAP Qualified Partner Solutions
SAP consultant Itelligence cooperates with Amazon Web Services.
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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