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.
Quantum technology made in Germany
October 31, 2024
Bitkom study: Germany is a global pioneer in research into quantum technologies.
DSAG Annual Congress 2024
October 30, 2024
What does digital transformation require of individuals? What is the role of cloud, on-prem, and AI? The DSAG addressed these questions at its annual conference.
Expertise, data quality and personnel?
October 30, 2024
In a global study by Natuvion and NTT Data Business, 1259 transformation managers were asked what the practice looks like when moving data and processes from existing IT systems to more modern, innovative and powerful systems.
Stabilo International—Writing the Future With S/4 Hana
October 30, 2024
Stabilo International, a family business since 1855, combines tradition with innovative strength. The migration from ECC 6.0 to S/4 with NTT Data Business Solutions marks a strategic shift towards more standardization, flexibility, and future-oriented business processes.
SAP monitoring: it's high time for automation
October 29, 2024
The cloud promises more security and stability for SAP systems. But unfortunately, this is only half the truth. Existing customers need more and automated monitoring to deliver on the promise, in the cloud as well as on-premises.
AI in Focus—Between Hype and Reality
October 29, 2024
A year ago, every time AI was mentioned in an announcement, the share price automatically skyrocketed. New AI experts were added to professional networks every hour and thousands of AI posts were shared.
Atomization of the SAP community
April 27, 2021
No, of course not - this is not about destroying the SAP community, but about its biggest challenge: SAP's successful growth has brought almost countless topics to IT departments - from blockchain to process mining. The variety of topics requires ever greater specialization, yet everything must be based on the Hana platform so that the...
Algorithms, Data Structures and Rise
April 23, 2021
Surprise - SurpRISE - with SAP CEO Christian Klein: Instead of going to a well-stocked computer science library and checking out Niklaus Wirth's classic "Algorithms and Data Structures," Klein is trying to force the Intelligent Enterprise with process mining from the acquired startup Signavio. I want to shout out to Christian Klein: "My friend, the art is old and new. It...
The Change Dilemma: Knowing What's Happening
April 23, 2021
I have been intensively involved with SAP for about 25 years. It all started in Vienna with a renowned family business that was successfully managed by the third generation. Over the years, numerous divisions had accumulated. There was a medical technology, steel trade, construction machinery leasing, a cable production and others. When the company, programmed in Vienna and based on...
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 2, 2022
Digitized processes to go
For many years, companies have known that there is no way around digitization. The world of work is turning faster and faster. In companies, the requirements and the complexity of business processes are increasing.
December 2, 2022
Credible communication work
The value of a message can be measured by the relevance and credibility of the source. If S/4 is not an option, then Hana is also of little relevance. If cloud computing is set, then statements from hardware manufacturers are less credible.
December 1, 2022
The deconstruction of the SAP ecosystem
What if, what if, bicycle chain. If SAP had recognized earlier that the community is hybrid and heterogeneous, Christian Klein wouldn't have to talk about hybrid, first and only. His career is based on SAP only.
December 1, 2022
Paperless, turbulent, hybrid, but successful
The year 2023 will be successful, but only for those who make an effort, remain agile and hybrid. Radical concepts have had their day. "Only" and "First" belong to the past. The future remains hybrid because we will still experience a generational and paradigm shift until 2030.
SAP News
Enrico Palumbo is Head of Human Resources at SAP Switzerland and Austria. He previously held this role at SAP Switzerland from 2016 to 2019.
March 11, 2024
AI and Education With Workday
Workday invited several members of the press, among them E3 magazine, to take a look behind the scenes of some of the inner workings of their EMEA headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Workday spoke about AI, AI policy, educational outreach, and diversity.
March 11, 2024
New Location, New Market
Onventis continues its expansion in Europe and establishes a national subsidiary in France.
March 8, 2024
Standardized SAP Individuality
Interview with Thomas Failer, founder and CEO of Data Migration International (DMI).
Business Management
November 25, 2018
Extended Use of Intelligent Archives
The KGS WebService makes the archive solution ContentServer4Storage available for non-SAP systems.
November 20, 2018
C/4 outward, S/4 inward
It was a sensation at Sapphire in June: the presentation of the Customer Experience Suite C/4. With this holistic approach, SAP wants to enable companies to realize the philosophy of a complete orientation of all processes to the customer.
November 12, 2018
Barc study: Great expectations for better forecasts
Predictive technologies are currently driving the market for BI and analytics and thus also for planning tools. A Barc study examines the significance of predictive planning and forecasting for corporate planning.
November 8, 2018
Lots of legacy? How to keep the S/4 stress curve flat
If you are cleaning up your old world, you have to think about S/4. Tool-supported readiness analyses provide a fact-based view and help to master the changeover with suitable load distribution.
IT Management
September 25, 2018
Cobol meets SaaS - Unleashed by the hardware
At its Sapphire Now customer conference, SAP announced the availability of SAP Cloud Platform to major cloud infrastructure providers. In an exclusive E-3 interview, Hinrich Mielke, Director SAP at Alegri, reveals the new opportunities Azure opens up for SAP users.
September 24, 2018
Best of Breed - Cloud Orchestration
Digital transformation is becoming the driver for the joint orchestration of SAP solutions and third-party software. In the E-3 exclusive interview, Patrick Theobald, Stefan Reuss and Peter Wohlfarth from Theobald Software show how solo concerts can be ended securely and stably.
August 10, 2018
Most powerful Hana infrastructure
Huawei has introduced an SAP Hana tailored data center integration (TDI) solution. This elastic solution is designed to meet both data center and enterprise consolidation requirements for large enterprises.
August 8, 2018
Six steps to the S/4 future
Many companies are still hesitant about switching to S/4 Hana. As a result, they are leaving the benefits of the new SAP environment untapped. Arvato Systems has developed a detailed step-by-step plan for secure conversion.
Economy
April 21, 2017
Germany is losing touch with international standards
The EU Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) published on March 3, 2017, puts Germany in only eleventh place in the EU - and has even dropped two places since the previous year.
April 21, 2017
SAP increases dividend
The SAP Executive Board and Supervisory Board propose to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders a dividend of €1.25 per share for 2016.
April 21, 2017
Expansion to Germany
TeamWork acquires the majority shareholding in the SAP consulting company HCM Experts, based in Walldorf.
April 21, 2017
IT2 Solutions becomes Sumarum
A separate office building will be constructed in Leipzig by September 2017 for around 80 of the total of 190 employees.
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.
DE 
EN 
ES 
FR 
