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 September 2025
License behavior
SAP license management, once characterized by complex rules and opaque metrics, has developed into an even denser jungle over the past three years. This has been driven by SAP's cloud strategy and the introduction of the Full Use Equivalent (FUE) license model, which many existing customers can barely keep track of.
SAP Analysis for Excel—the Best of Both Worlds
August 18, 2025
How often do users work in SAP and want the benefits of Excel, or do they work in Excel and want to have information from SAP at their fingertips? A solution that combines both advantages is available with SAP Analysis for Excel. The key solution for companies combines the robustness of SAP with the familiarity of Excel.
Snowflake, the company behind the AI Data Cloud platform, has announced the public preview availability of Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark.
SAP Plans to Acquire SmartRecruiters
August 7, 2025
SAP has signed an agreement to acquire SmartRecruiters, a software provider for the recruitment of top employees.
Deloitte: Zora AI in Joule
August 5, 2025
Deloitte has announced an integration of Zora AI with SAP Joule and SAP BTP.
Oracle plans to open a third cloud region to help Spain’s financial sector and other key industries increase resilience and take advantage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s high performance and built-in security, powerful data and AI, and distributed cloud capabilities.
Accenture and Microsoft Corporation are co-investing in the development of advanced generative AI-driven cyber solutions, which can be used to help organizations mitigate threats and consolidate technology tools.
SAP Cloud ERP Suite
April 24, 2025
SAP has been using the term "Cloud ERP Suite" for several months and SAP customers have been puzzling over what it means. Now, SAP CEO Christian Klein has shed some light on the matter: the transition from private to public cloud should occur, and it should be successful!
SAP Knowledge Graph and Vector Engine
April 17, 2025
For data management, SAP not only has an SQL database in Hana, but also a platform for graph theory and data vectors. Both methods are often better suited to displaying information than SQL tables. In the past, SAP made little fuss about these IT innovations.
SAP for Me with Rise and Grow
April 10, 2025
A dashboard for the CCoE manager, Customer Center of Expertise, is a perfect answer to the Composable ERP. Hana, S/4, BTP and BDC create an almost unmanageable ERP architecture. LeanIX can help out to some extent, but SAP for Me is the better answer.
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
May 12, 2025
Designing, not managing, right?
There is a veritable discussion going on at the SAP regulars' table as to whether SAP is actively and dynamically shaping its future or just conscientiously managing the legacy of Professor Hasso Plattner. I am of the opinion that SAP is at peace with itself.
May 9, 2025
WHAT With SAP?
We all know and love them: SAP acronyms. Most of them are three letters long. Prominent examples? BDC (Batch Data Communication or new: Business Data Cloud), BTP (Business Technology Platform), or BOM (Bill of Material).
May 8, 2025
Hana Can Do More
It is amazing how many services and functions can be found on the Hana database platform. Unfortunately, there is no scientific study on the degree of usage.
May 6, 2025
Customer Evolution
SAP offers numerous services and programs for a successful S/4 migration. The path to the cloud should not be a problem, however, the seed has not been planted. ECC customers hesitate and procrastinate. Why is that?
SAP News
July 15, 2025
Crossfield for Global Finance—SAP S/4 Hana in One Go
The automotive specialist Voss is strengthening its competitiveness with a global finance system. To this end, the company relied on Consilio when switching to S/4. The result is a global transformation with a downtime of just four days.
July 8, 2025
Robots and AI Agents at Boomi World 2025
A look back at all the new developments presented at Boomi World 2025 in Dallas, Texas. Developments such as AI agents, expansion in EMEA, better API management and many more.
June 30, 2025
German Federal Employment Agency Relies on RISE
The German Federal Employment Agency is relying on RISE with SAP to operate its central payment systems for social benefits on a cloud basis in future. By licensing RISE, the organization is using SAP's private cloud offering in a German SAP data center.
Knowmad Mood, a technology consultancy specializing in digital transformation solutions, has announced the acquisition of Vanture ESS, a Barcelona-based IT consultancy with over 15 years of experience in enterprise management solutions.
Business Management
December 18, 2024
SAP security: Automated virtual patching
The new SecurityBridge feature provides real-time protection for unpatched SAP systems and increases efficiency and security.
December 17, 2024
Personnel deployment halved: nice SAP maintenance weekend
TÜV Süd with its 25,000 SAP users has recently started using the SAP Basis automation suite EPOS. The main benefits: a reduction in weekend staff deployment with the option of automating recurring downtimes and scheduled restarts outside regular working hours.
December 16, 2024
Global Template for Sales and Service
International business is of central importance for the mechanical engineering company Windmöller & Hölscher. To enable international reselling directly via the subsidiaries, W&H is introducing a global template for all sales and service entities with the support of cbs.
December 13, 2024
Integration Between S/4 and Siemens SiGreen
NTT Data has introduced the "SAP Integration with SiGreen" solution as part of the Siemens Xcelerator Business Platform. Siemens SiGreen is a solution for data communication in the supply chain.
IT Management
October 6, 2024
Data Integrity Trends
A study on data integrity—carried out out by Precisely and Drexel University's LeBow College of Business—reveals widespread issues with trust in data and the impact on data and AI initiatives that trust or lack thereof has.
September 20, 2024
Oracle Java Usage
84 percent of respondents who have already migrated from Oracle Java report that the process was easier than expected or went as planned.
September 18, 2024
IT2media Protects Its Systems With SAP Partner SecurityBridge
What a typical medium-sized company does to counter growing SAP cybercrime: implement monitoring with SolMan and round-the-clock support for the SAP landscape.
September 18, 2024
Optimization is possible: SAP licensing according to authorizations
SAP is increasingly pushing customers towards licensing according to authorizations. Most existing SAP customers are therefore threatened with additional payments and a time-consuming inventory of the roles and authorizations previously assigned.
Economy
August 4, 2022
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships in July/August 2022
Meeting customer demand Sivis has acquired Danish identity and access management software company 2ndC. 2ndC is a cloud software provider with a strong foothold in identity and access management. For more than 25 years, 2ndC has supported its customers regarding the user lifecycle and control of identity and access management with the 2ndC Compliance Suite, which is built on a standardized Microsoft platform. Also...
August 1, 2022
M&A Booster: Modern Accounting
Why merging IT systems is so important in mergers and how a digital accounting process can help.
12 July 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in June 2022
New addition to cbs An innovation partner with a manufacturing and IoT focus becomes a subsidiary of cbs Corporate Business Solutions. Trebing + Himstedt has trusted renowned manufacturing companies with their digital transformation for 30 years. The focus is particularly on innovation and implementation consulting in the areas of manufacturing and the development of digital, IoT-based services. The strengths of cbs in global...
June 9, 2022
Enterprise Architecture Management
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) from LeanIX is available as an SAP Endorsed App in the SAP Store. The solution is designed to help companies relate their business processes to their enterprise architecture and their SaaS and non-SAP microservices landscape, giving them improved visibility and control over their processes.
E3 Book Tip
SAP S/4HANA Finance - Customizing
This book will help you navigate safely through the configuration of FI/CO in SAP S/4HANA. A continuous example shows you how to make all the important settings. You will learn how to create master data and set up organizational structures. You will also learn how to set up the central processes in Financial Accounting and Controlling. The authors also explain which methods have proven successful for migration. The completely revised 4th edition includes all the functions of Release 2023 - for example Advanced Valuation. Many screenshots and practical tips will help you to successfully implement SAP S/4HANA Finance.
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- Successful customizing of financial accounting and controlling
- Upgrade and new implementation explained in detail
- With a practical example throughout and lots of tips and tricks
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
- Incl. the new features of Release 2023
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