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.
SAP to Hire Disproportionally in India
November 13, 2024
During SAP's TechEd in India, SAP CEO Christian Klein confirmed the company will hire "over proportionally" in India, which will soon house its biggest workforce, overtaking the headcount in its German headquarters.
Aleran’s B2B Commerce Platform Is Now Available in the SAP Store
November 13, 2024
Aleran’s subscription-based platform integrates fully into BTP and can extend SAP S/4 Hana capabilities.
Rushing to the Cloud
November 13, 2024
From the outset, SAP has encouraged its customers to adopt new technologies and products. Despite the current immaturity of many technologies and products, the pressure to act is increasing.
How AI accelerates S/4 projects
November 13, 2024
An international pharmaceutical company accelerated its S/4 transformation thanks to AI-supported test management with ProcessBridge. With 70 percent time savings and autonomous testing, it optimized efficiency and quality.
Responsible Scaling Policy
November 12, 2024
While this edition of E3 was being sent to the printers, SAP CEO Christian Klein and CFO Dominik Asam presented the latest quarterly figures. As a result, the SAP share price in Frankfurt am Main rose to an all-time high of 222 euros.
Lonely to the beat of digitalization
November 12, 2024
Shortly before the editorial deadline, I rewrote my monthly column: An employee sent me a photo from Leipzig. At the SAP DSAG stand, it should of course say "Together", but "Gem" was covered by another sign.
But please with on-prem licenses
15 July 2021
Shortly after the Sapphire, a briefing for financial analysts took place and a stronger increase in S/4 transformation projects was attested. After a decline in 2020, more existing SAP customers now seem to be willing to continue or start the release change - there is not much time left until 2027/2030. What was also noted in the circle of financial analysts: The...
Native and Only
1 July 2021
What struck me while writing this cover story was that a cloud-native provider like Workday approaches the topic of transformation much more calmly and confidently than ERP world market leader SAP. The Walldorf-based company has been under pressure to justify its first steps into the cloud. Based on a mature cloud-only approach, Workday wants to offer SAP's existing customers a well-thought-out evolution: naturally agile and...
Construction site and hope: licenses
24 June 2021
It is obvious that SAP wants to achieve growth through higher license fees and not through better performance and more functions. The fear in the SAP community is an increase in the basis for calculating fees by 20 to 50 percent after a move to the cloud. With CPEA credits (Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement) and FUE (Full Usage...
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 4, 2023
Added value at the touch of a button
Whether in production, logistics or administration. Artificial intelligence can increase efficiency everywhere. Many companies are still missing out on these opportunities. Yet SAP users have numerous AI applications ready to go.
January 2, 2023
From Efficiency to Exactitude with Tax Technology
To deal with digital business models, tax authorities around the world are calling for greater transparency through disclosure and seamless sharing of taxpayer information between tax authorities.
22 December 2022
Journey to Jerusalem
SAP doesn't hear the voices - the music - from the community and all the seats for the journey into the future are taken. SAP is left behind.
21 December 2022
Why we need a NextGen of SAP Security
Defending against cyberattacks on SAP systems means more than just protecting the ERP system alone. The threat potential of networked companies and hybrid SAP landscapes requires a holistic approach.
SAP News
April 3, 2024
Honeywell uses augmented reality technology
Honeywell has announced the addition of augmented reality to its Immersive Field Simulator (IFS).
When SAP announced in the fall of 2022 that the IS-H functions for patient management and billing would have to be mapped via a hospital information system (HIS) from another software manufacturer, there was great dismay.
March 25, 2024
Natuvion and Adesso Orange intensify their cooperation
Natuvion Data Conversion Server. The SAP architects at Adesso Orange and the digital relocation specialist Natuvion have expanded their partnership.
Business Management
March 15, 2019
Holistic Digital Document Processing
While many companies already leverage automated invoicing or are preparing to do so, the digitalization of other document processes is still nowhere to be seen.
March 13, 2019
Data protection and compliance synchronized
Data protection and compliance - these two topics are currently dominating one of the many debates about SAP applications. They are not only a major topic within the company, but also a central yardstick in the annual audit.
March 12, 2019
What agility has to do with SAP legacy systems
Buy, sell, dissolve, rebuild - SAP legacy customers pursue agile business strategies. But IT cannot always keep up, neither in terms of time nor financially. Agile business scenarios require new solutions for SAP landscapes.
Data and management disciplines that deal with digitization are receiving increasing attention. Enterprise information management and also master data management (MDM) are consequently becoming increasingly relevant for business success.
IT Management
13 February 2019
Data Management On-Premise and in the Public Cloud
NetApp as one of the leading providers of data management solutions in the SAP environment offers basically the same solutions for on-premise systems and public cloud instances, for example Microsoft Azure.
Viewed as a whole, it is a simple task - in detail, it becomes complex: Classic machine learning can only be successful with large amounts of data for learning and testing. And this data should be available quickly.
January 25 2019
With Open Source and AI to the Customer Experience
SAP is launching Upscale Commerce, a new SaaS offering for SMEs. The SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory is also new. Customers can develop applications in this development environment and make them available via all cloud solutions in the C/4 portfolio.
January 23 2019
SAP Build and Web IDE - Two Paths to Fiori
In 2013, SAP presented 25 applications at Sapphire Now that were intended to usher in a new user experience: Fiori. This is a departure from the tried and true transactions. SAP customers face the challenge of how to use the Fiori UX for their own applications.
Economy
June 6, 2017
SNP takes over BCC
With the acquisition, SNP aims to strengthen its activities in the Eastern and Central European SAP and IT market.
June 6, 2017
Collaboration on the Internet of Things
Sensor specialist IFM has developed a sensor cloud based on the SAP Cloud Platform and the AP Leonardo portfolio.
June 6, 2017
IoT services for manufacturing
SAP participates in Mitsubishi Electric's E-Factory Alliance Partner Program.
June 6, 2017
Industrial Internet of Things
In the future, SAP and Kuka will work together as strategic partners in the field of Industry 4.0.
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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