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 October 2025
AI with ERP, BTP and BDC
Mathematician Ada Lovelace is also considered the first female programmer. It may be a romantic view from a computer science perspective, but it is worth questioning what has fundamentally changed in recent years: Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) have taken over. AI for and with ERP, SAP BTP and BDC is therefore under scrutiny.
The technology consulting firm Seidor has consolidated its alliance with Adam, a provider specializing in data centers with facilities in Madrid and Barcelona, to strengthen its critical infrastructure architecture in Spain.
AI in the Supervisory Board
July 30, 2025
Although German supervisory boards are better than the global average in many aspects of AI, they are still self-critical.
S/4 Challenges
July 30, 2025
Many companies struggle with resources, conflicting goals, and quality compromises. S/4 projects lose strategic clarity and stakeholder support as they progress.
API Management With Boomi
July 30, 2025
Boomi wants to rethink API management—and this includes SAP customers. In an interview with E3 International Managing Editor Laura Cepeda, Markus Müller (Global CTO of API Management) talks about integration, cloud strategies, governance and why user-friendliness can be the decisive factor.
Excellent WMS
July 30, 2025
For the twelfth time in a row, SAP has been recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in the Magic Quadrant 2025 for Warehouse Management.
AI Agents—Battle of the Giants
July 21, 2025
It was with great astonishment that I read the text "AI agents are turning Salesforce and SAP into rivals. Artificial intelligence is blurring the distinction between front office and back office" in The Economist on June 5 of this year.
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.
SAP can do everything
April 3, 2025
It makes a big difference whether an existing SAP customer is presented with extensive and diverse IT tools for their challenges, or whether SAP and partners offer clear answers to defined problems. SAP can do everything, but at the expense of its existing customers.
Exit strategy: SAP BTP
March 27, 2025
Existing SAP ECC and S/4 customers who want to participate in the latest IT innovations such as AI, LLMs, databases, cloud and edge computing should customize the Business Technology Platform. SAP BTP offers all the degrees of freedom that S/4 denies.
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 5, 2025
S/4 transformation without HCM damage
Many companies use S/4 transformations to tidy up systems and data - including account assignment objects. If you follow a few tips when clearing out, you can prevent the link between ERP and HCM from being damaged.
May 1, 2025
SAP often fails in sustainability reporting
Because the underlying database in SAP is not correct, the reporting on REACH (chemical safety), RoHS (hazardous substances) and Pfas ("perpetual chemicals") is incorrect in many industrial companies.
April 29, 2025
Homo Ludens
Homo Ludens is an established term that was also popularized by Hermann Hesse's novel "The Glass Bead Game". In education, and later in business, you will find the term "serious game", and then we are not too far off from the concept of Digital Twin.
April 15, 2025
The challenge of SAP Hybrid Cloud
Companies with SAP workloads are increasingly implementing hybrid cloud strategies. Suse Rancher for SAP Applications offers an easy-to-operate, scalable platform for the secure operation of business-critical applications.
SAP News
June 25, 2025
CAF Migrates to S/4 Hana Cloud Private Edition
SAP announced that CAF, a company specializing in in urban rail and bus systems, has successfully migrated to S/4 Hana Cloud Private Edition.
June 25, 2025
Alibaba Collaborates With SAP
SAP has entered into a strategic partnership with Alibaba to accelerate cloud transformation.
The Spanish ECM specialist Brait Consulting will offer its customers SAP-certified solutions from xSuite, a provider of automation solutions for accounts payable accounting.
June 17, 2025
Is Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Overrated?
In mid-May, SAP gave in to pressure from the U.S. government and abolished the women's quota and other key elements of the company's diversity policy. A few weeks prior, the DSAG had conducted a survey in its women's network on topics relating to equal opportunities.
Business Management
December 10, 2024
SAP Group Reporting in Practice
SAP Group Reporting promises to compile all relevant data from all sources for financial reports. The introduction of the consolidation tool in the engineering division of Linde, a global industrial gases and engineering company, shows how it can be implemented during ongoing operations.
November 19, 2024
Automation as a Catalyst
The cloud promises more security and stability for SAP systems, but that is only half the truth. Customers need more and automated monitoring to deliver on the promise, both in the cloud and on-premises.
November 19, 2024
Tuning for the AI Assistant Joule
SAP presented innovations for its AI assistant Joule at TechEd 2024.
November 18, 2024
EuroCloud Pulse Check 2024: Between Cloud and Edge
German companies are now recognizing the benefits of the cloud in terms of agility, flexibility and scalability and are continuing to invest consistently in this model. This is according to the "EuroCloud Pulse Check 2024", which was compiled by the Kassel-based analyst firm Techconsult.
IT Management
September 11, 2024
Rise with SAP: Mastering challenges through proactive license management
SAP describes itself as The Cloud Company and has greatly expanded its range of cloud-based solutions in just a few years. The introduction of the S/4 Cloud Public Edition and Rise in particular underpins the cloud-first approach.
September 6, 2024
Integrated Cloud MES and Analytics
At the behest of the DSAG (German-speaking SAP User Group), SAP has postponed the end of maintenance for the ME and MII solutions from 2027 to 2030. Companies now have time to switch to SAP DM, but should nevertheless consider migrating at an early stage.
August 28, 2024
Machine Learning and AI Revolutionize ERP Testing
Businesses need a functioning IT landscape. To ensure this, regular system environments testing is required, but despite automation, this is often still a time-consuming task.
August 8, 2024
Real-time in Datasphere
Companies cannot wait until data is up to date. In an ever-changing business environment, companies must be able to respond immediately to market developments.
Economy
June 3, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in May
Logistical planning The owner-managed SAP consultancy ITeanova has been part of the msg group since February 2022. The Heidelberg-based company has been working closely with SAP since its foundation in 2005 and enjoys an excellent reputation as a specialist for solutions in the field of complex and multi-level logistics planning scenarios. ITeanova brings a wealth of experience in the context of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), in particular...
May 10, 2022
Pandemic Leads to Rethinking
Due to the turbulence of the past few years, companies not only had to ensure an efficient IT infrastructure, but also increasingly had to consider the economic aspects.
April 28, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships - April 2022
Effective protection against cybercrime SecurityBridge and Trusted Cyber Security Solutions (TCSS) are combining their expertise in a strategic partnership to offer Austrian companies effective monitoring and protection of their SAP systems. The agreed collaboration brings together the technology of SecurityBridge with the cybersecurity consulting expertise of TCSS. SAP platforms are at the heart of many companies and store strategic and sensitive data.
29 March 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships - March 2022
New record high 2021 was a record year for mergers and acquisitions in the IT services industry. Last year, 47 percent more transactions were carried out than in 2020, 190 in total. The value of these transactions even increased by 63 percent. Available capital saved up during the pandemic, low interest rates and strong demand for digital transformation services...
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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