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 September 2025
License behavior
SAP license management, once characterized by complex rules and opaque metrics, has developed into an even denser jungle over the past three years. This has been driven by SAP's cloud strategy and the introduction of the Full Use Equivalent (FUE) license model, which many existing customers can barely keep track of.
DXC and Boomi Forge Strategic Partnership
August 27, 2025
DXC Technology, a global Fortune 500 technology services company, and Boomi, a provider of AI automation, have announced a new strategic partnership.
RISE with SAP promises the path to an innovative cloud future. How can SAP customers best approach the transformation process?
RISE with Support
August 27, 2025
RISE with SAP is a concept that makes it easier for customers to migrate to a new ERP era—with S/4 Hana as the first step. T-Systems provides the necessary support for a powerful IT architecture and a solid foundation.
Only Those Who Automate Benefit
August 26, 2025
Digitalization presents companies with new challenges—especially when it comes to IT security. SAP systems are increasingly becoming the focus of criminals.
False SAP Prophets
August 25, 2025
SAP is not only a stock market darling and star, but also the source behind much business, technical, and licensing discourse in the IT scene. Who has the power of interpretation?
Clear Roles Instead of High Licensing Expenses
August 22, 2025
SAP access rights are often oversized—and expensive. Those who design roles intelligently not only save money, but also increase security. This article explains why modern access governance is now a must.
The Discontinuation of SAP S/4
15 May 2025
At the virtual SAP Annual General Meeting in mid-May, CEO Christian Klein explained the entire ERP offering and the BTP and BDC platforms. It was a consistent picture, but S/4 was missing and the flagship product was not mentioned. What now?
SAP Semantic Layer
May 8, 2025
The SAP Business Data Cloud, BDC, will be the catalyst for a future ERP digital twin. Computer science has known about the simulation of dynamic systems for many decades, and now SAP has discovered it.
SAP Transition Option
April 30, 2025
This SAP option is an admission of years of failure. SAP has many customers, but SAP also has a good overview of the ERP system portfolio. With a little foresight—not just in terms of stock price—the disaster should be obvious.
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, 2025
S/4 potential for disappointment
SAP has potential and the current altitude is high. It will require a great deal of skill on the part of the Supervisory Board and Executive Board to maintain this successful course. It lacks a unique selling point.
27 May 2025
Is This a Strategy or Can It Be Discarded?
I've often noticed recently that our business vocabulary is relatively martial: "I'm planning to assassinate you", "We have to fight on all fronts now" or "The tasks are not decisive for the war".
May 14, 2025
2027: The S/4 countdown begins
With the deadline for S/4 approaching, a well thought-out migration is essential. An SAPinsider 2024 survey emphasizes the urgency of minimizing risks and choosing the right migration path to make the transition efficient.
May 13, 2025
Automate the automation process
Many SAP users stop halfway through automation. The potential of tools such as Ansible and end-to-end automation remains untapped—and with it the opportunity to combine migration with modern future-proofing.
SAP News
July 30, 2025
S/4 Challenges
Many companies struggle with resources, conflicting goals, and quality compromises. S/4 projects lose strategic clarity and stakeholder support as they progress.
July 30, 2025
API Management With Boomi
Boomi wants to rethink API management—and this includes SAP customers. In an interview with E3 International Managing Editor Laura Cepeda, Markus Müller (Global CTO of API Management) talks about integration, cloud strategies, governance and why user-friendliness can be the decisive factor.
July 17, 2025
The AI Engine Is Stuttering
Although companies around the world have invested billions in their data infrastructure, the successful implementation of AI remains challenging.
July 15, 2025
AI Revolutionizes Financial Accounting
Invoice processing is already highly digitized today. Artificial intelligence is now providing an additional boost: rule-based workflows are increasingly being supplemented by self-learning systems. The aim is to achieve a higher degree of automation—without completely replacing tried-and-tested processes.
Business Management
February 7, 2025
User story: Successful S/4 go-live in the big bang
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.
February 4, 2025
Guided SAP Structure Synchronization
The crane and lifting platform manufacturer Tadano increased efficiency and quality in design and production by optimizing parts list management and introducing SAP GSS.
February 3, 2025
Integration of S/4 and SiGreen: Emission data from value chains
NTT Data has introduced the "SAP Integration with SiGreen" solution as part of the Siemens Xcelerator Business Platform. Siemens SiGreen is a solution for data communication in the supply chain.
December 19, 2024
Away with paper and Z programs: Digitized production with SAP DM
Paper-based processes can still be found in production - to the detriment of the environment and efficiency. Modern MES solutions such as SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM) provide a remedy here by helping companies to digitize their production processes more easily.
IT Management
November 14, 2024
The Oracle Advantage for SAP NetWeaver Customers
Operating large, business-critical ERP systems is a complex challenge. Running SAP NetWeaver
on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and technology is a good way to efficiently manage this task.
November 8, 2024
Solved: SoD problems during S/4 migration
As part of an S/4 migration, the agricultural company U.S. Sugar was looking for a solution to check segregation of duties conflicts for its approximately 2,500 employees. It chose Pathlock, a global market leader in access governance and application security.
October 22, 2024
Quick Transformation From a Single Source
The cloud blurs the differences between applications from different providers. Functions are developed, replicated, and provided more quickly. Switching to the cloud is difficult, but offers enormous opportunities.
October 16, 2024
Consistent GRC for SAP cloud applications
Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) are closely linked, essential areas of a company. A mix of on-premises and cloud is now increasingly being used for business applications. This increases the number of networked applications, but also the security risks.
Economy
19 December 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in November 2022
Alliance for networked SCM The Myleo/dsc platform is now connected to Logistics Cloud and opens up partner networking. Leogistics and Logistics Cloud, software providers in the field of data integration and connectivity, have agreed on a partnership. The aim of the collaboration is to map collaborative logistics processes as simply as possible and to optimally integrate upstream and downstream systems. In this...
November 14, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in October 2022
Leap into digitization Focusing on customer benefits: Pit-Cup and Ceyoniq announce the expansion of their long-standing partnership. In the future, Ceyoniq's digital information management solution, nscale, and pitFM, the system for computer-aided facility management (CAFM), will be linked even more closely. Pit-Cup has been relying on the nscale information and document management system for several years. Now...
November 9, 2022
European Market Remains Robust
Total annual contract value increased in the second quarter and year-on-year, up 18 percent, but down slightly from the first quarter. The shortage of skilled workers is having a surprising impact.
September 29, 2022
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships in September 2022
First reseller for Central Europe The partnership with Digitall expands Zuora's service portfolio in Central Europe. The goal: to support customers locally. The focus of the offer is turnkey end-to-end solutions for monetizing customer relationships through digital services, which Digitall will sell mainly in Austria. "Through our partnership with Digitall, we plan to bring the benefits of the Subscription Economy to an even broader...
E3 Book Tip
SAP S/4HANA Finance - Customizing
This book will help you navigate safely through the configuration of FI/CO in SAP S/4HANA. A continuous example shows you how to make all the important settings. You will learn how to create master data and set up organizational structures. You will also learn how to set up the central processes in Financial Accounting and Controlling. The authors also explain which methods have proven successful for migration. The completely revised 4th edition includes all the functions of Release 2023 - for example Advanced Valuation. Many screenshots and practical tips will help you to successfully implement SAP S/4HANA Finance.
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- With a practical example throughout and lots of tips and tricks
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
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