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.
Integration Between S/4 and Siemens SiGreen
December 13, 2024
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.
Minsait Wins AWS Award as "Rising Star Partner of the Year"
December 11, 2024
Minsait, a company that offers digital transformation services, has been awarded the Rising Star Partner of the Year 2024 Spain award, a regional recognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The winners were selected according to objective criteria and the results were audited by the external analyst firm Canalys.
Inetum Extends Its Partnership Agreement With Dynatrace
December 11, 2024
Inetum announces the extension of its partnership agreement with Dynatrace in the areas of Iberia, Latam, EMEA and other countries where it has a presence.
Valantic Appoints Guido Schlief as CCO
December 11, 2024
With immediate effect, Guido Schlief joins the management of the digital consulting, solutions and software company Valantic as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Partner.
SAP Group Reporting in Practice
December 10, 2024
SAP Group Reporting promises to compile all relevant data from all sources for financial reports. The introduction of the consolidation tool in the engineering division of Linde, a global industrial gases and engineering company, shows how it can be implemented during ongoing operations.
Complexity Meets Skill Shortage in Brazil
December 9, 2024
NTT Data has signed an agreement to acquire Aoop, a ServiceNow implementation company in Brazil. In the E3 interview, Aoop CEO Luiz Cesar Baptistella talks about the background to the partnership and the current challenges of the Brazilian IT market.
Open Source Booster
13 December 2021
In the beginning, Linux was just another platform for SAP R/3 and later ERP/ECC 6.0. In the meantime, Linux is not only the only platform for Hana and S/4, but open source is part of the SAP architecture with a broad offering.
Primacy: ERP versus CRM
December 2, 2021
There was a Sapphire, on the occasion of which SAP both put the primacy of CRM in the room and at the same time announced the coming claim to leadership in the CRM market with C/4.
Source code and intellectual property
November 18, 2021
In the spectacular text "The dark side of SAP" on page 62 of issue 2021/46, the Spiegel authors believe they have convicted the ERP global corporation of intellectual property theft.
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
23 March 2023
Mahabharata
Professor Hasso Plattner has appointed a successor as SAP Supervisory Board chairman. Punit Renjen was CEO of Deloitte until the end of last year and is to be elected to the SAP Supervisory Board this year.
March 15, 2023
The CFO becomes a data steward
Using innovative technologies, insights are derived from data in real time. To fulfill his new role, the CFO needs better data understanding and data access.
March 15, 2023
Cloud first - Compliance second?
More and more public authorities and companies are taking the plunge into the cloud. However, successful and sustainable digitization with the help of cloud computing cannot work without a cloud strategy including GRC management.
March 10, 2023
The future lies in marketing
CRM applications make contact with customers transparent throughout, while marketing is a complementary tool for sales. Yet the fact is that both disciplines must form the CRM world together.
SAP News
April 24, 2024
SNP appoints Phillip Miltiades for Asia-Pacific
SAP partner SNP appoints Phillip Miltiades as the new President and Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific region to continue the strategic transformation.
Complex structures require consistent orchestration. The Silicon Valley Europe initiative and E3 magazine are sponsoring the global SAP partner community. We start with a German-language online event on May 14 from 3 pm.
The aim of the collaboration is to develop and provide solutions and services to strengthen companies' digital security.
April 22, 2024
New Partnership With Spryker Systems
Customers benefit from a holistic solution for new business models in the B2B and B2C environment.
Business Management
October 14, 2019
Pharmaceutical specialist Engelhard relies on software for efficient, company-wide contract management
The desire for digital contract management that offers clarity, transparency, and auditability prompted the internationally successful pharmaceutical company to implement modern software in its corporate organization. Today, Circle Unlimited AG's contract management, which is integrated into the SAP environment, has completely replaced the paper-based contract file management.
October 14, 2019
Partner for Hybrid Cloud Management of SAP Environments
The digital transformation is characterized not only by its disruptive potential, but also by the enormous complexity that IT managers in companies have to deal with. Automation, data overload, artificial intelligence, cloud - the shaping of change demands a lot from those involved.
October 14, 2019
Number of corporate cyberattacks increases dramatically
Protect SAP infrastructure and respond in real time with intelligent tools and managed GRC services.
October 14, 2019
Hybrid cloud scenarios in the SAP context
Software from the cloud or installed locally - this need not be a contradiction. Billing and ordering processes, for example, are ideal for implementing 2-tier strategies.
IT Management
In 2016, SAP introduced BW/4 Hana, a new data warehouse. This not only replaces BW 7.5 on Hana, but also marks a turning point. At least that's what SAP says. And in fact, BW/4 is much more than simply the new release.
June 28, 2019
Automation succeeds with the right middleware
To enable automation in the sense of Industry 4.0, a large number of systems in the company must be able to communicate with each other, including PLC systems, the ERP system, the manufacturing execution system, printers and databases.
June 28, 2019
Industry 4.0 for every machine
Implementing Industry 4.0 does not always require the big scenario. Often, clever use of IT in the machines is enough. At HF Mixing Group, IT is in every machine. These produce rubber and plastic compounds.
June 13, 2019
Abap on the SAP Cloud Platform - a good thing?
Less than a year after former SAP CTO Björn Goerke announced in his 2017 TechEd keynote that SAP was working on bringing an Abap runtime environment to the SCP, it has also been available since early September 2018.
Economy
November 10, 2017
Taking the pulse of our planet
Semantic Visions collects and analyzes over a million online news article contents daily and uses them to develop early warning systems for effective risk detection using Hana. E-3 spoke with CEO Frantisek Vrabel about the risks and opportunities he faced as a young company.
16 October 2017
Digital Experience and Hybris Expertise
Digital agency Communicode expands its portfolio for crosschannel e-commerce and digital marketing solutions.
16 October 2017
Digital Telco Transformation
NTT and Sigma Systems, a provider of catalog-based software solutions, form a strategic partnership.
16 October 2017
CSR in SAP
Abat acquires a stake in software start-up ID-Impuls to complement its sustainability offering.
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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