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.
S/4 in One Year?
February 25, 2026
The Elmer Group modernized its entire ERP landscape with S/4 and FIS/wws. Without downtime, with measurable added value—for simpler, modern and automated merchandise management.
SAP's Disinformation
February 24, 2026
Disproving an incident after it occurs is laborious and often counterproductive. Once the damage is done, effective containment is difficult. SAP should, in any case, proactively address false rumors and communication voids.
SAP in Wonderland
February 23, 2026
The global ERP company hardly plays a role on the international IT stage anymore. SAP was absent from Viva Tech 2025 in Paris and CES 2026 in Las Vegas. What about Davos?
AI Study—Pragmatism Gives Way to Euphoria
February 20, 2026
After a period of euphoria, managers are increasingly pursuing pragmatic AI strategies. This is shown by two new studies.
The End of SAP as We Know It
February 19, 2026
Mercedes-Benz has been around for over 100 years, and Lufthansa is celebrating its centenary. SAP could live on for another 100 years—if it reforms itself!
AI as an Opportunity Instead of a Threat
February 18, 2026
In an interview with Laura Cepeda, Managing Editor of E3 magazine, Workday CCO Rob Enslin explains how the provider is positioning itself in competition with ERP giants. The focus is on AI, talent, trust, and the profound transformation of the world of work.
Mind the Gap With SAP
October 31, 2025
SAP customers want and need cloud, AI, and IT platforms. SAP has good offerings with Joule, Cloud ERP, BTP, and BDC. However, the licenses and IT conditions do not align with users' ERP reality. SAP does not understand its customers, and vice versa.
Deadline Extension for ECC 6.0 Until 2033
October 23, 2025
SAP had originally planned to end mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 (ERP/ECC 6.0) at the end of 2025. This deadline caused significant concern within the SAP community because it was considered unrealistic and potentially disastrous, especially given the severe shortage of qualified experts and consultants for the S/4 migration.
EU Audit of SAP Maintenance
October 16, 2025
The maintenance of an SAP ERP system by a third-party provider, mixed maintenance by SAP and a third-party company, and partial decommissioning of SAP licenses have been controversial topics in the SAP community for years. A lot of money is at stake!
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
December 5, 2025
Long live the operating system?
With Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16, SUSE aims to set new standards for stability in business-critical IT environments—with a zero-trust platform for the era of S/4 transformation and long-term investment security.
November 28, 2025
EU Competition Proceedings Against SAP
The European Commission initiated formal antitrust proceedings against SAP on September 25. The allegation is that SAP may have exploited its dominant position in the ERP software market by imposing abusive contract terms.
November 26, 2025
Simplifying SAP infrastructure operations with an AI companion
You can now use any LLM to automate the complex, manual analysis of your SAP infrastructure. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) securely connects data from tools such as Trento to AI, without any model training.
November 24, 2025
AI—From Start to Finish
It's common knowledge that AI feeds off the vastness of the World Wide Web. For AI, texts, photos, videos, and graphics are the source of "knowledge." ChatGPT and similar programs provide the answers. But what if the sources dry up?
SAP News
January 5, 2026
Business Data Fabric From SAP and Snowflake
A new partnership between SAP and Snowflake aims to give companies access to comprehensive data and AI applications to accelerate their business processes.
December 19, 2025
Printing in the Age of the Paperless Office
Despite digital processes, document printing in SAP systems remains an issue. In an interview with E3 Magazine, Waldemar Suchy, founder of Suchy MIPS, explains why the paperless office is not yet a reality, what challenges exist, and how modern output management can help.
December 16, 2025
NIS 2 Implementation Is Overdue
In a recent statement, the digital association Bitkom welcomed the German Bundestag's adoption of the law implementing the EU NIS 2 Directive.
December 15, 2025
SAP Introduces EU AI Cloud
With the new EU AI Cloud, SAP has introduced a central building block for digital sovereignty in Europe and at the same time deepened its cooperation with leading European AI providers.
Business Management
October 7, 2025
Towards the Future With LeanIX
Over a long period of time, the mechanical engineering specialist Trumpf from Ditzingen developed IT structures that the in-house IT department could only manage through a great deal of effort. Among other things, heterogeneous subsystems and decentralized IT solutions at various locations made work more difficult and resulted in avoidable IT costs—for example in the form of multiple licenses and rising maintenance costs.
October 6, 2025
A big step towards data-driven maintenance
Maintenance staff are rarely at their desks - but SAP processes often demand just that. Schöck Bauteile was therefore looking for a mobile solution to record maintenance and fault messages directly in the factory. This step was realized in 2024 with the Argvis Maintenance Portal.
September 30, 2025
Into the cloud with SAP Utilities Core
Berlin-based energy service provider Gasag is one of the first energy companies to convert its SAP billing system for grid operations to a cloud-based solution in the Rise model. This is the first part of the largest IT project in the company's history to date.
RISE with SAP promises the path to an innovative cloud future. How can SAP customers best approach the transformation process?
IT Management
For years, SAP PI and PO were the central integration solutions in many companies. Their era is coming to an end, however, with the shift towards the cloud, APIs, and agile IT: SAP is discontinuing further development and support is coming to an end. It is time to realign the integration strategy.
June 17, 2025
Equal Rights for AI Agents
While the current diversity policy of the Trump administration is being discussed in the USA, and SAP has scrapped its diversity targets, there is suddenly a new class of employee in the ERP environment: AI agents are here to stay!
June 10, 2025
The Data Management Platform of the Future?
SAP Datasphere is an open data ecosystem that makes information easily accessible and usable throughout an entire company. But how exactly does Datasphere work, and does it truly meet the expectations of modern data architectures?
May 28, 2025
Protecting systems from the worst-case scenario
Complex SAP landscapes, the pressure to migrate to the cloud or the rise and acute shortage of skilled workers in SAP Basis characterize the situation of many companies. At the same time, risks such as cyber attacks are increasing. How can companies effectively protect their critical SAP systems?
Economy
13 October 2023
Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships in October 2023
Porsche increases stake in MHP and LeanIX cooperates with Microsoft
D.velop introduces new divisions, specialized in private sector, public sector, health, social, banking, and finance.
August 23, 2023
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships in July/August 2023
What's happening in the SAP world? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in July/August 2023
July 24, 2023
BlackLine study: 99 percent of companies confirm difficulties in intercompany accounting
New research reveals growing challenges are impacting business outcomes, talent retention, and more.
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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