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 December 2025
The CCoE Experiment
The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.
Triad of the community
October 1, 2024
The SAP community of existing customers, partners and IT providers is emancipating itself and is getting better and better at achieving its goals without SAP. The question of the relevance of SAP itself resonates in the triad of the DSAG Annual Congress 2024 in Leipzig.
O'zapft is: Fully integrated SAP cash register for Austria's largest brewery group
September 30, 2024
Summer. Sun. Barbecue season. A successful party usually includes beer, preferably fresh from the barrel. Austria's largest brewery company, Brau Union Österreich, offers its customers the opportunity to pick up the hoppy refreshment directly from more than forty locations.
SAP Quality Awards 2024: Mewa and Sybit
September 27, 2024
Award for multi-cloud solution in the area of business transformation.
Partnership for SAP Analytics: Bluetelligence and Valantic
September 26, 2024
The aim of the collaboration is to provide customers with new solutions in the area of SAP Analytics.
Team Spirit Beats Algorithms
September 25, 2024
To ensure readiness for unanticipated developments, retail managers are examining an ever-increasing volume of data. Real-time data provides maximum transparency, enabling swift and effective reactions to forthcoming developments.
Maturity of supply chains is a competitive advantage
September 25, 2024
An analysis by Accenture shows that the maturity level of supply chains is worryingly low. As a result, they can only benefit from generative AI to a limited extent.
It's Déjà vu all over again
August 5, 2021
A precisely worded comment on Reddit shows SAP's cloud dilemma: Failure is already hard-coded into SAP's core because S/4 was not designed for the cloud.
One step forward, two steps back
29 July 2021
Rarely before has the SAP community been as divided as it currently is on the S/4 cloud transformation. While SAP CFO Luka Mucic was jubilant about the supposed successes in the cloud when he presented the Q2 numbers - "We can look back on another strong quarter with accelerated growth for SAP's cloud portfolio. Customer demand was exceptionally good. We are therefore lifting...
Cheering with joy, saddened to death
22 July 2021
Does this title remind you of last week's newsletter? Rise and Fall with SAP. What happened? Yesterday, Wednesday, July 21, SAP published its figures for the second quarter.
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 20, 2022
The processes are the focus of S/4
In all ERP transformation projects, the focus is on the business processes, whether there are changes or not. With S/4, this is necessary at least because of the new SAP technologies or the possibility of simplifications.
December 20, 2022
Competition of Ideas
When the best ideas win, losing becomes impossible. Open source has become the standard in many companies. This triumphant advance not only represents a technological change, but is also associated with cultural change.
19 December 2022
Why using the SolMan test suite makes sense
Software must be put through its paces before it is put into operation. The quality of the tests is crucial, because those who carry out good tests find errors early on, thus reducing development costs and improving software performance.
December 14, 2022
Process automation helps retain employees
There is enough work to go around, but employees don't like to deal with repetitive tasks. Intelligent process automation can take over this work and prevent employees from leaving the company due to boredom.
SAP News
March 19, 2024
SaaS: Cloud Business Solutions
Location- and device-independent work has proven to be reliable and productive in recent years. More and more companies are therefore recognizing the added value of a flexibly scalable SaaS application.
March 18, 2024
ROI Factors of SAP-integrated Tax Technology
SAP S/4 Hana also calls the tax department into action: the calculation of VAT, part of every business transaction, is up for debate. Existing in-house solutions, configurations, and adjustments cannot be transferred from existing systems.
March 15, 2024
Raymond Kok is Mendix CEO
Siemens subsidiary Mendix announced the appointment of Raymond Kok as CEO effective February 12, 2024.
March 13, 2024
Swan is future-proof in 2024
Swan sets course for the future and underlines success in Central America. With a clear view to the future, the project house for SAP logistics is planning to expand its service portfolio and enter the field of SAP DM (Distributed Manufacturing) in 2024.
Business Management
The EU GDPR has been in force for almost a year. But according to a recent survey by the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG), not all companies still comply with the regulation.
July 16, 2019
Marketing systems from AI to growth hacking
What can digital marketing systems do for companies? The participants of the Digital Marketing Forum took away many new ideas and tips for immediate use in their work processes.
July 9, 2019
Invoice processing 4.0
IT not as a vicarious agent, but as a process driver - with this mindset and SAP S/4 as a basis, the Weig Group has set out to master the digital transformation. One important goal: greater efficiency and transparency for business processes.
24 June 2019
Customer journey becomes customer experience
A satisfied customer is a good customer, as the old adage goes, and nothing has changed today. Those who offer the increasingly demanding customer a positive buying experience will turn him into a loyal customer who will return.
IT Management
May 10 2019
Fitness cure "Industry 4.0
When it comes to digitization, Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 projects are very popular among companies. Networking and integration pose challenges. Business integration platforms are the key to success.
April 19, 2019
The Future of IT - Boundaries Blur
A bolder, immersive version of IT will drive a new set of innovations and inventions in the future, Forrester predicts.
April 16, 2019
Digital Infrastructure Innovation 2020
With the Internet of Things, virtual reality and machine learning, companies are facing many new workloads that increasingly overwhelm standard storage architectures. New storage strategies for data centers must therefore be developed.
April 12, 2019
S/4 and Hana Migration - What to do with Legacy Systems?
A changeover to S/4 is a challenge, but also brings great opportunities. In this context at the latest, many companies are also concerned with the question of what will happen to their legacy systems.
Economy
September 26, 2017
SAP output made to measure
Cideon and Seal Systems enter into cooperation for data conversion and information and document delivery.
September 26, 2017
Start-ups: repeat offenders
95 percent of start-up founders would take this step again and more than three quarters would advise young people to found a start-up. These are the central statements of the "Start-up Report 2017" recently published by the digital association Bitkom.
September 26, 2017
EY cooperates with Celonis
The partnership will enable EY to integrate Celonis' process mining solution into its offering as an enabling technology.
September 26, 2017
Cenit takes over Keonys
With this acquisition, the Stuttgart-based IT and consulting company aims to expand its market strength as a 3D experience and PLM IT specialist.
E3 Book Tip
The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI
Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.
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