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.
EU AI Act—German Companies Are Skeptical
October 28, 2024
The EU AI Act is in force, yet almost half of German companies have not yet dealt with its preparation or implementation.
Transformation Program Shows Effect in SAP Quarterly Figures
October 23, 2024
SAP's strong business performance continued in the third quarter. Following the restructuring measures, the workforce is expected to return to the same level as in 2023.
Modern finance and controlling in the SAP community as an S/4 option: Shaping the future with Composable Enterprise
October 23, 2024
SAP R/3 was a black box. Modern ERP systems follow more of a "best of breed" approach. Cloud computing and AI are giving rise to powerful composable enterprise architectures. Finance and HCM specialist Workday shows how it's done.
Quick Transformation From a Single Source
October 22, 2024
The cloud blurs the differences between applications from different providers. Functions are developed, replicated, and provided more quickly. Switching to the cloud is difficult, but offers enormous opportunities.
SAP Trends 2024—Cloud or On-prem?
October 22, 2024
Valantic's new survey shows how customers think about SAP, AI, cloud, and S/4 Hana. Despite the cloud hype, on-prem systems are still the preferred operating systems.
We Have a Security Problem
October 22, 2024
Cyber criminals use AI to develop targeted attacks. Machine learning enables ransomware programs to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in networks and systems more quickly. Current studies show that the economy is inadequately protected.
Dead-End Code
April 6, 2021
A dead end is reached by many users who get carried away by the supposedly easy programming with no-code/low-code tools to excursions into computer science. SAP fuels this desire for doom with loose marketing slogans.
Rise with Hyperscaler
April 6, 2021
If you are serious about digital transformation, don't wait for SAP to revive the Leonardo program and present the fifth no-code/low-code development platform after Mendix, Ruum, Signavio and AppGyver.
Larry Ellison is right
April 6, 2021
About three years ago, I had an exciting conversation with a renowned SAP partner. My question: How are you getting on with the new ERP system S/4?
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
November 22 2022
The humble SAP
This headline is euphemistic - thus a euphemistic and obfuscating statement, because SAP is in fact immoderate and rude.
November 16, 2022
Open Source (soon) rules the world
No company can afford to ignore the advantages of open source software anymore: Independence and flexibility are simply too lucrative. And innovative technologies such as AI and edge computing are also based on OSS.
November 15, 2022
Sustainable investment management
A new risk category is establishing itself. Many companies are increasingly required to report on the sustainability of their operating business and financial assets. What does this mean for your SAP system landscape?
November 9, 2022
Recklessness promotes cyberattacks
Phishing attacks are among the greatest threats to IT security. A targeted reduction of the vulnerabilities that cybercriminals use to gain access to their victim's system is called for.
SAP News
March 8, 2024
NTT Data takes over Sapphire
Expansion into the USA and the United Kingdom as well as on a global level. Strengthening SAP's presence in the midmarket and expanding the ServiceNow partnership.
DSAG's Chief Technology Officer Sebastian Westphal and SAP's Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller should focus less on entertaining and more on result-oriented discourse and problem-solving.
March 6, 2024
RISE in the German Cloud
For the first time, RISE with SAP operates on a German cloud platform and complies with EU data protection laws and regulations
E3 magazine spoke to IT specialist Clare Hickie, CTO EMEA at ERP software provider Workday, about topics such as cloud computing, data security in the cloud, AI and AI advances.
Business Management
November 8, 2018
Digitized maintenance
Many companies are currently digitizing their service and maintenance processes. This gives rise to personnel, organizational and technical issues. Hannes Heckner, CEO of MobileX, knows how companies can best overcome these challenges.
November 2, 2018
SAP’s Digital Transformation Strategy Is Not on Track
The overall opinion of SAP customers and partners alike can be summarized in one sentence: Cloud and Fiori are nice, but nothing more. Most IT departments are happy if their existing SAP landscape works at all.
23 October 2018
Decomissioned Legacy Systems Are the Way to S/4 Hana
In 2025 at the latest, the time will have come: There will be no more maintenance provided for older SAP releases. Until then, SAP customers should already have migrated to S/4Hana. The corresponding announcement from Walldorf was made in 2015. Even in 2018, the number of companies who have already migrated is still in the single-digit percentage area, and the figure of existing SAP customers who successfully migrate to Hana with the provided standard conversion tools may be just as low. That’s because although they work excellently, they only have advantages for customers who have remained in the SAP standard.
October 22, 2018
Detect errors and causes faster
Master data plays an increasingly important role in times of digitalization, S/4 and Industry 4.0. The Swiss manufacturer Franke Kitchen Systems is taking a new approach to continuously improve its data quality in a process-oriented manner.
IT Management
July 18, 2018
SAP in the Oracle Cloud
SAP customers are now able to use far-reaching best-class cloud services from Oracle flexibly, securely, with high performance and cost-effectively in mission-critical environments. In a comparison by Accenture and other analysts, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure achieved the best results.
July 2, 2018
Why SAP on Azure?
Traditional data center and hosting providers are currently facing new competition from hyperscale cloud providers such as Microsoft and Amazon with their Azure and AWS platforms. But can a monetary advantage also be gained from this?
19 June 2018
Unicode and Hana - Mixed Doubles
Make one out of two! This is what Städtische Werke Magdeburg (SWM) said to itself and decided to combine its migration to Hana and the conversion to Unicode into one project.
Traditional warehousing solutions and analysis tools can no longer cope with the current and future challenges in the area of business intelligence and big data. SAP offers modern solutions such as SAP BW/4 Hana and SAP Data Hub.
Economy
April 18, 2017
Alternative integration solution
Jointly developing future-proof integration solutions for IoT, cloud and complex SAP landscapes - that is the goal of cbs Corporate Business Solutions and Lobster.
April 18, 2017
SAP Vehicles Network
SAP joins Concur, Hertz, Nokia and Mojio to unveil new technology for connected cars.
April 12, 2017
Intralogistics cooperation
The SAP consulting and software company Orbis and ProLogistik, an IT system house for intralogistics, are entering into a strategic partnership.
April 5, 2017
Hybris from a single source
Arithnea integrates SAP consulting firm UnitCon and strengthens in SAP Customer Engagement, Business Analytics and Hana.
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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