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.
RISE With SAP License Chaos
November 25, 2024
There is no RISE license agreement with SAP. If you opt for the all-in-ERP package, you will be required to sign at least two contracts and follow a dozen web links.
The demand for IT integration has never been greater, and cloud iPaaS is the largest integration platform market trying to meet this demand. There is a lot on offer and, for SAP customers, BTP is a priority, however, there are alternatives such as Boomi.
When the hacker pretends to be a colleague: Preparing for cyber attacks through social engineering
November 21, 2024
A caller from the IT department who needs the password for a PC update, an email from the boardroom with a link to a website or a desperate text message from a colleague who can't access her computer - cyber criminals could be behind it all.
Data interoperability with Graph Engine
November 20, 2024
Common data foundation enables interoperability using a Data Integrity Suite to accelerate the delivery of trusted data for analytics and AI initiatives
Automation as a Catalyst
November 19, 2024
The cloud promises more security and stability for SAP systems, but that is only half the truth. Customers need more and automated monitoring to deliver on the promise, both in the cloud and on-premises.
Tuning for the AI Assistant Joule
November 19, 2024
SAP presented innovations for its AI assistant Joule at TechEd 2024.
Supply Chain Sourcing Obligations Act
September 27, 2021
This week at the DSAG virtual congress, there was an enlightening discussion about the upcoming supply chain due diligence law.
ERP Metamorphosis
September 27, 2021
Does the digital transformation change and transform the meaning and function of ERP software? This is not a question of whether on-prem, cloud or hybrid.
Can SAP also do cloud?
September 27, 2021
Given SAP's numerous and technically quite successful cloud offerings, the question posed, "Can SAP do cloud?" may sound more rhetorical than serious. However, there is one area that is essential for cloud computing, but is handled at SAP as in the old on-prem times.
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
January 25, 2023
Storyteller and number cruncher
A Chief Financial Officer today wears a variety of hats - and not all of them have to do with pure numbers. Companies still have to plan and weigh the benefits against the risks for all transactions.
January 24, 2023
Needed more than ever
SAP organized a partner event in Hamburg in the fall of 2022 with the slogan: We. Needed more than ever. What does the company want to tell us with this?
January 18, 2023
SCM, CRM and SAP core competence
Instead of focusing on its core competence, SAP wants to forcefully become a cloud applications company. Everyone in the community knows that this plan will fail, because SAP's strengths lie elsewhere.
January 16, 2023
Expectations with S/4 Hana
An S/4 project at the customer's is only successful if the expectations of management and users are met. Therefore, the numerous SAP facts should be critically scrutinized right at the beginning of a project.
SAP News
The shortage of IT professionals continues to worsen. There are currently 149,000 vacancies for IT professionals in German companies. That is 12,000 more than in 2022.
April 11, 2024
The Latest SAP Innovations in Data and Analytics
SAP Datasphere Knowledge Graph for better data visualization and SAP partnership with Collibra for AI governance.
April 10, 2024
Elke Anderl Is Head of Sales at T-Systems
As Senior Vice President Sales Germany of the Telekom subsidiary, she reports to Urs M. Krämer, Managing Director Commercial at T-Systems.
April 9, 2024
Natuvion Supports Volkswagen With Transformation
As the end of maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 approaches, Volkswagen has decided to transform its systems to S/4 Hana as quickly as possible.
Business Management
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.
Switch to SAP S/4 Hana and simply continue working with the integrated invoice verification? SER customers can do that with Doxis4 InvoiceMaster Control for SAP.
IT Management
April 5, 2019
Lean management and automation
SAP legacy customers struggle more than others with the introduction of the DevOps concept. A culture change and the right DevOps tools can help - Part 2: How SAP legacy customers are turning Dev and Ops into DevOps through automation.
March 27, 2019
SAP in the New Oracle Cloud
Oracle now offers a new generation of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, sometimes referred to as Gen 2 Cloud, which benefits SAP customers, too. The focus here is on the benefits of these IaaS services.
S/4, the new ERP generation from SAP, has passed the practical test in numerous companies since its market launch in 2015. At the same time, however, many companies that use SAP are clearly holding back on converting to S/4 and Hana. But what are their reasons for this?
March 19, 2019
If the culture works, so does the technology
SAP legacy customers struggle more than others with adopting the DevOps concept. A culture change and the right DevOps tools can help - Part 1: Forerunners and role models of the DevOps culture.
Economy
September 26, 2017
Esker partnership with SlimPay
Esker, a provider of automated document process solutions and a pioneer in cloud computing, is expanding its accounts receivable solution to include an online payment function for Sepa direct debit and credit card settlement.
July 21, 2017
Growth market BI
Goldman Sachs' private capital investing group takes a stake in Information Builders.
July 21, 2017
Cortility acquires DMS specialist
With the acquisition of Command's "Document Management Systems" business, Cortility combines its energy business know-how with expertise in all aspects of digital documents.
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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