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.
Almost every company was affected by cyberattacks at least once last year, as a recent survey by Deloitte shows.
Forrester's Technology and Security Forecasts 2025
January 2, 2025
75 percent of technology decision-makers will see their tech debt rise to a medium or high level by 2026, according to a recent Forrester study.
Partners, Trust, and AI
December 30, 2024
As a native cloud company, Workday does many things differently to long-established industry giants such as SAP. In partner management, the company focuses on class instead of mass. In an exclusive E3 interview at Workday Rising in Las Vegas, Matthew Brandt, SVP Global Partners, presents his vision.
Pragmatism Vs. Plans in BTP
December 24, 2024
There is another way! We have worked intensively with SAP BTP and evaluated that BTP is far more autonomous than SAP officially presents it as with the S/4 roadmap. From a pragmatic perspective, BTP is also a robust platform for ECC 6.0.
Q3-2024 release: SAP Business AI for IT and platforms
December 23, 2024
Three months earlier than planned in our roadmap, SAP presented 100 functions for generative AI that can be used immediately in all SAP cloud applications.
Dual SAP Rise license
December 20, 2024
A Rise-with-SAP license is a multidimensional contract. SAP collects at least twice with a Rise contract without any claim to success.
All licenses, or what?
February 10, 2022
This text is about several million euros: We present an exclusive roundtable discussion on the topic of SAP licenses on February 24 at 11 a.m. on the E-3 YouTube channel.
Containers and Microservices
February 3, 2022
SAP CEO Christian Klein is very eager and keeps emphasizing his success in consolidating the numerous cloud systems that his predecessor, Bill McDermott, acquired.
Cloud computing versus cloud functionality
January 27, 2022
How many existing SAP customers really opt for the cloud of their own free will when access to on-prem solutions becomes almost impossible?
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
April 19, 2023
Why is automated, dual maintenance essential for SAP?
That I implement innovations in the company is not a question. It's more a question of the timing of the implementation. The pressure on SAP teams to implement the requirements of the business units as quickly as possible is enormous.
April 17, 2023
ISO 20022: Banks must and companies should
The transition to the ISO 20022 global standard is a daunting challenge for financial institutions and businesses alike. ISO 20022 is a global standard for the transmission of data that is currently being established by banks and financial institutions around the world.
April 12, 2023
Something missing here
SAP CEO Christian Klein said he wants to consolidate SAP. The ERP world market leader should concentrate on the essentials - someone has tried that before him.
April 10, 2023
In the future, all sales will be hybrid
Serving both business and private customers is the core of any B2B2C strategy. This means that channels must be used, business models developed, and markets tapped. A hybrid sales model is indispensable here.
SAP News
The acquisition provides ITAM and FinOps teams with data and technology intelligence to manage and reduce spending and risk in hybrid IT environments.
Precisely, a data integrity company, announced that its Precisely Connect data integration solution now supports Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2.
May 3, 2024
How to Protect SAP Systems Effectively
Many companies create, process, and store their most valuable data in SAP. To effectively protect their data, SAP customers should assume that attackers have already successfully penetrated their system, either internally or externally.
May 2, 2024
Users Prefer Suite Solutions
More and more users are opting for complete or suite solutions for SAP Basis automation software. Vendors of such software, which provide various applications as part of a complete package, are turning the wheel of development.
Business Management
October 25, 2019
S/4 Stock Room Management
SAP has announced that the switch to EWM is no longer the only option for continuing SAP-based warehouse management by 2025. Under the name S/4 Stock Room Management, there is the option of continuing to use the warehouse core processes in LE-WM.
October 15, 2019
Educational work: the best of the best
Everything that takes place around the annual DSAG Congress is the best possible educational work. It is knowledge transfer with the SAP partners represented here as the source of knowledge and the existing customers as the sink. The E-3 Magazine is an online and print platform for know-how!
Even in the area of classic supply chains, data has become an important commodity, almost as important as the actual goods themselves.
Digital transformation is opening up new opportunities in enterprise resource planning (ERP). In turn, digital ERP solutions such as SAP S/4HANA are driving the Digital Transformation Economy. Today's internationally successful companies have recognized this continuum early on. They are embracing digital innovation and working smarter in the process.
IT Management
October 14, 2019
Analysis and reporting systems in the cloud: ...and action!
Often, analysis of complex enterprise data impacts operational systems through lockdown or additional workload. In addition, running processes can falsify results. One possibility here is the use of an "analysis cloud".
October 14, 2019
When the bill no longer adds up
The digital world is becoming increasingly networked. Global networks are already shaping our future. Amazon, Google, Uber & Co. have shown the way, and the age of traditional on-premise solutions has long since passed its zenith, including in accounting.
October 14, 2019
Many roads lead to SAP C/4HANA
But which one is the right one for your own business model and meets the framework conditions? The new SAP product suite is complex and every company is different. Therefore, a clear and comprehensible evaluation of the different variants is needed.
October 14, 2019
Containerization as a Powerful Value Generator
For SAP customers, container technologies like Kubernetes are growing increasingly important. One example of this development is the innovative SAP solution SAP Data Hub which leverages the SUSE Container as a Service (CaaS) Platform as well as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Micro OS as open source solution. The increasing containerization generates business value.
Economy
December 13, 2017
Tradebyte cooperates with Honico
To simplify data transfer between companies with SAP systems and the Tradebyte ecosystem, e-commerce provider Tradebyte has entered into a strategic partnership with Honico eBusiness.
December 13, 2017
Man, machine and processes
The combined use of process mining and robotic process automation is intended to make digital business processes more efficient.
November 23 2017
SAP archiving in the cloud
Thanks to the new partnership, archived SAP data as well as documents can be moved to the Virtustream public cloud in the future with the PBS ContentLink - fail-safe and cost-effective.
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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