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 December 2025
The CCoE Experiment
The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.
Improvements Through AI Automation
July 24, 2024
Global strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation with RISE.
The cooperation enables organizations to activate their data through low-code application development.
Enterprise AI Chatbots With Open Source Software
July 23, 2024
Anyone using ChatGPT is putting their data at risk. But to keep pace with technological change, AI cannot be ignored. So how do you combine internal data security with AI? The answer is open source.
xSuite presents new invoicing platform eDNA
July 22, 2024
xSuite eDNA (Electronic Document Network Adapter)
Partnership between two IT and process services companies for the energy industry.
Edge Integration Cell
July 18, 2024
SAP Edge Integration Cell is a flexible hybrid integration runtime that is available as an optional extension to the SAP Integration Suite. This API management executes integration scenarios within a private infrastructure.
SAP proliferation
August 13, 2020
Everything used to be better! The DP/Org department (data processing and organization) ordered a few SAP licenses, a central database server, a few app servers and enough client PCs.
The Fiori trick
August 6, 2020
SAP finally wants to deliver on the promise of the one-domain model. But the goal is not sound IT performance, but trickery on the user interface.
Making a virtue out of necessity!
30 July 2020
SAP has announced that it plans to take Qualtrics public in the United States. Qualtrics is expected to be among the leaders in the Experience Management (XM) category.
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
The history of SAP’s order management systems is long. There were early attempts with SAP Retail. Later, Hybris advanced to the go-to solution. After came SAP CAR (Customer Active Repository). Now, S/4 is supposed to fix it.
14 July 2022
How SAP Customization Is Suffering
Most SAP customers have relied on countless customizations to optimize their business. With S/4 transformation looming on the horizon, they are facing a complex challenge.
13 July 2022
From source code to torment code
Really, SAP is trying, but the ERP is becoming more and more of a pain for existing customers. Naturally, a specialist can be found for every task in the global SAP community.
July 11, 2022
License risks with SAP from the cloud
Cloud first - this is now the strategy in many companies. There is certainly a lot to be said for it. From a licensing perspective, however, many risks arise, especially with SAP software, and these must be evaluated.
SAP News
December 21, 2023
Daniella Campbell Becomes CEO of the PAC Group
Under Daniella Campbell's leadership, PAC will expand its research topics to cover areas such as AI and sustainability.
December 20, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watsonx
Red Hat announces the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watsonx Code Assistant.
December 19, 2023
Demand Creates Growth Opportunities in the Cyber Security Market
ISG compares the competitive and portfolio strength of service and product providers in Germany and Switzerland. High dynamics in the managed security segment.
December 18, 2023
IBM Power for Hana
Under former SAP Chief Technology Officer Vishal Sikka, the strategy for Hana was Intel only. However, because Intel processors are universal geniuses, they are subject to IBM's specialized processors in the database area.
Business Management
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March 8, 2018
Media break-free through maintenance and service
Many companies use forms in service and maintenance - often still in paper form. However, processes are often already mapped digitally. The resulting media disruptions increase the potential for errors and damage competitiveness. Yet these could be avoided.
March 5, 2018
Anonymous is safer
Personal data rightly deserves a high level of protection. The situation becomes difficult in multi-level application environments (such as SAP). There, this data may only be stored on the production system. But how can realistic tests be carried out in test environments without real data?
23 February 2018
Global service processes go digital
With the global introduction of Field Service Management solutions, machine manufacturer Arburg was able to standardize its service processes and optimize customer service.
23 February 2018
Banking IT: Tips for test management
How can financial service providers pragmatically deal with the stricter regulatory requirements for banking IT?
IT Management
November 23 2017
A plea for the greenfield approach
For SAP users, there is no way around the real-time ERP suite S/4 Hana. The only question is how to introduce the new system. From the perspective of the management and IT consultancy MHP, the greenfield approach is the better way in most cases. This is because it offers the opportunity to do a thorough clean-up.
November 17, 2017
Hana from the cloud
Introducing Hana into the enterprise is no easy task, because the platform, which is as innovative as it is highly complex, is resource-hungry and requires a great deal of know-how to operate.
November 14, 2017
Beyond green fields and brown fallows
With a central platform for data migration, historization and evaluation, legacy systems can be shut down and operating costs reduced. Only then is the switch to the new generation of SAP software worthwhile.
November 1, 2017
SAP Cloud Platform Integration in Practice Test
SAP is launching a new cloud-based option on the market with its Cloud Platform and its integration module. Its practical suitability still has to be proven. We provided this in a pilot and coaching project at our customer Dentsu Aegis Network.
Economy
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November 25, 2016
Esker complementary solutions
Esker has announced the acquisition of German EDI service provider E-Integration. Through the acquisition, the French company aims to strengthen its position in Germany.
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November 25, 2016
Cloud from a single source for SMEs
All for One Steeb wants to attract more SMEs to cloud software solutions. To this end, the SAP IT company is acquiring a majority stake in cloud specialist B4B Solutions.
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November 25, 2016
Industry 4.0 in the SAP environment
Orbis and Heitec are pooling their expertise to offer SAP customers integrated, end-to-end automated processes in "real time" between the store floor and SAP ERP.
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November 25, 2016
Will Suse become HPE's preferred Linux partner?
Micro Focus intends to merge with the software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
E3 Book Tip
The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI
Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.
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