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.
The next AI-driven industrial revolution is leading to a massive need for action in terms of digital IT logistics solutions, especially in the SAP environment. This is also an opportunity to generate real added value.
AI gorilla tracker
November 11, 2024
How can AI be used to promote the conservation of gorillas? Professor Gerard de Melo and his students at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam have tested just that.
Initial Public Offering in SAP S/4 Hana
November 8, 2024
During the hypercare phase of the S/4 transformation, specialty glass manufacturer Schott carried out a carve-out that included the separation and migration of the pharmaceutical division into a new legal structure.
Solved: SoD problems during S/4 migration
November 8, 2024
As part of an S/4 migration, the agricultural company U.S. Sugar was looking for a solution to check segregation of duties conflicts for its approximately 2,500 employees. It chose Pathlock, a global market leader in access governance and application security.
MHP Opens Location in Mexico
November 8, 2024
The management and IT consultancy MHP is continuing its international growth course by founding a subsidiary in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Miami Energy at LeverEdge 2024
November 7, 2024
LeverX, an SAP partner with solutions in every area SAP provides software for, held LeverEdge 2024 from October 1-3 in Miami, Florida. We at E3 Magazine were present at the event to assess whether it delivered valuable insight to the SAP community.
Reddit: I don't like SAP
17 June 2021
On the well-known social media portal Reddit, you can read "I don't like SAP". For many, the emotional saying may not be surprising or unfamiliar, but it's still worth taking a closer look. First, the facts: For years, there was no dedicated, responsible person for marketing and communications on the SAP Executive Board. At the beginning of this year, the SAP Supervisory Board appointed Microsoft Manager...
Structural and process organization
10 June 2021
In recent months, many companies have had to recognize that their organizational structure and the associated processes work well under constant framework conditions, but sometimes fail in a disruptive world. As Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer at SAP, concluded in a Q&A session at this week's Sapphire: "Transformation and digital improvements are more necessary than ever. This is evident in all...
Future is secured
June 1, 2021
After the SAP Annual General Meeting last week, a discussion began about the remaining term of office of Supervisory Board Chairman Professor Hasso Plattner. Naturally, Plattner does not want to lay all his cards on the table yet, but for insiders and connoisseurs of Walldorf circumstances it is clear - everything is in the green! The die is cast: It is highly likely that Gerd Oswald will become the...
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 22, 2024
Cooperation Between Project44 and Celonis
Global transparency in real time and process mining promote forward-looking measures.
March 20, 2024
BlueCopy for Veeam
Empirius integrates Veeam Data Platform into its BlueCopy solution offering.
March 19, 2024
MHP Is an Official Qualtrics Partner
MHP expands its consulting portfolio with Qualtrics. Companies can now benefit from the Qualtrics experts at MHP.
March 19, 2024
Puma Automates SAP Landscape With Honico BatchMan
BatchMan Workload Automation led to optimized operational processes in S/4 Hana, time savings, and improved understanding between the IT department and business.
Business Management
19 February 2019
E-Invoicing—Compatibility and Digitalization
The trend of e-invoicing has been growing fast over the past couple of years. Companies can see this development in an increasing number of invoice formats and country-specific transmission regulations.
February 15, 2019
S/4 Hana Architecture And Migration
A successful, cost-efficient and mostly effortless migration to S/4 Hana does not start with the migration per se. It starts with the architecture of the application landscape.
February 12, 2019
HPC brings predictive maintenance to the midmarket
Large companies have long since discovered it for themselves: Predictive maintenance of industrial plants and machines is the trend of the moment in the field of Industrial IoT.
February 7, 2019
S/4 Hana migration as a tailor-made suit
An S/4 switchover at the push of a button? Not to be had! The change has too many dimensions. Intelligent, customer-specific solutions are needed that create something new, preserve the tried and true, and renew processes and data without restrictions.
IT Management
January 18, 2019
Cloud Computing with SAP, AWS, MS Azure and Google
The leading cloud providers are still helping each other. A multicloud concept is supposed to bring SAP's existing customers more transparency and more flexibility. But SAP's proof of this is still lacking, yet the multicloud seems to be becoming a reality.
November 29, 2018
Beautiful, colorful S/4 migration
More and more companies are migrating their SAP ECC systems to S/4 Hana. SAP has provided customers and partners with a selection of scenarios. A pure greenfield or brownfield approach often does not fit the company's own requirements. However, there are also individual "colorful" approaches.
November 14, 2018
SAP Cloud ALM - ALM made to measure
With SAP Cloud ALM, SAP announces a cloud-based application lifecycle management offering to manage customers' cloud solution requirements.
October 5, 2018
SolMan Interface - Towards a Unified Data Model
Since SAP launched Solution Manager 7.2 in 2017, one of its technological sides has become particularly attractive: process management.
Economy
June 6, 2017
Allgeier Switzerland becomes SAP partner
Allgeier now also offers SAP products and services in Switzerland.
May 26, 2017
Cooperation - License Management
Cooperation should enable optimized management for all SAP license types and license metrics.
May 26, 2017
StartUp Focus: Tablets on the construction site?
One of the most complex industries in the world, the construction industry, is lagging far behind in terms of digitalization. The vision of Sablono's founders was and is to revolutionize the way people live and work in the construction industry.
May 23, 2017
Gründerzeit
Since 2012, the SAP Startup Focus program has supported young companies in their go-to-market process. From now on, E-3 Magazine will present one of these promising startups every month.
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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