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.
Agentic AI in the Starting Blocks
November 3, 2025
Only a few companies have managed to scale successful AI PoCs to date. Agentic AI is raising high expectations, but uncertainties regarding liability, resilience and integration dominate. These are the key findings of the latest Lünendonk study.
Millions for SAP Ice Hockey Center
October 31, 2025
Sharks Sports and Entertainment and the City of San Jose have announced a lease extension that guarantees the San Jose Sharks will remain at SAP Center through 2050-51.
From camera manufacturer to SAP solution provider
October 29, 2025
To improve collaboration between Sales and Service, Mobotix replaced its fragmented system landscape with an integrated SAP environment. With the help of a digital partner portal, the company can now develop tailor-made solutions.
Pole position with SAP Cloud ERP?
October 29, 2025
The Mercedes-AMG-Petronas F1 team will rely on SAP solutions in future. The focus: the 2026 season.
DSAG theme day „Licenses“
October 28, 2025
A prankster who thinks evil! The DSAG Annual Congress 2025 in Bremen is over. The biggest scandal in Bremen? Quite simply: there was no scandal - everything was soft-washed and critical issues were sorted out in good time. The DSAG members were left out in the cold.
Snowflake Study on the AI Labor Market in Spain
October 28, 2025
Lack of trust and talent shortages are the main obstacles to the adoption of AI in companies in Spain, according to a new study on the Artificial Intelligence Job Market in Spain, published by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company.
Joule, the SAP Agent Thriller
June 26, 2025
SAP is rightfully proud of its ERP automation with the AI agent, Joule. However, in its excitement about this successful product, SAP overlooked holding a briefing with customers to discuss where and how far the AI agent can go.
SAP Optimizes, but AI Revolutionizes
June 18, 2025
Savoir-vivre—the art of enjoying life! The French seem to have achieved this even with information technology. Viva Technology, an annual IT and AI festival in Paris, attracts 180,000 visitors. AI is revolutionizing information technology. SAP is working on evolutionary optimization.
SAP Joule Compliance
June 12, 2025
Although AI agents like SAP Joule show great potential, their ability to adhere to all compliance rules has yet to be proven. Might SAP and other AI providers suffer the same fate as the sorcerer's apprentice in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's eponymous ballad?
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
July 17, 2025
The AI Engine Is Stuttering
Although companies around the world have invested billions in their data infrastructure, the successful implementation of AI remains challenging.
July 16, 2025
Loss of Innovation at SAP
Innovation at SAP has shifted from IT to cooperation. An increasing number of partnerships are intended to mask the company's own lack of imagination.
July 14, 2025
Use Your Own Data Securely
Digital transformation requires secure, scalable IT solutions. SAP's EIC, combined with Suse Rancher for SAP Applications, enables modern, data protection-compliant integration - local, flexible and ready for real-time processes.
July 11, 2025
The Gutenberg Moment
The combination of AI algorithms and powerful hardware, such as Nvidia's graphics processors, has sparked a revolution. The most visible result is ChatGPT, though SAP is also working on the subject.
SAP News
September 23, 2025
Agents Conquer Corporate AI
We are currently experiencing an explosion of interest in AI agents. However, companies should be aware of the growing risk of inaccuracies and bias.
September 22, 2025
100,000 IT specialists missing
There are currently around 109,000 unfilled IT positions in the German economy. Despite a decrease compared to 2023 (149,000), 85% of companies still see a significant shortage.
September 22, 2025
IBM Study on Mandatory Use of AI Agents
AI is increasingly becoming the central driver of corporate processes. This is the result of the current study "AI Projects to Profits" by IBM.
September 19, 2025
Archiving: more than just filing and disposal
Rise with SAP, cloud integration and S/4 Hana create complex, fragmented data landscapes. Strategic archiving helps to simplify these, reduces the data load, ensures compliance and optimally prepares for migrations.
Business Management
April 16, 2025
MDM before ERP migration
The refrigeration system manufacturer Hauser spent two years optimizing its master data for global S/4 use. With software and services from Simus Systems, the MDM team was able to build a golden client for a secure migration that supports further automation and digitalization.
April 14, 2025
Easy Custom Code Adaptation
The migration of SAP systems is often complicated by custom code that has grown over time and is insufficiently documented. Fujitsu Easy Custom Code Adaption (ECCA) minimizes risks, reduces costs and accelerates the migration process with an innovative solution.
April 11, 2025
SAP-integrated tolerance line check
In order to remain competitive, automotive supplier Harman relies on digital solutions and efficient processes. An SAP-based tolerance line check enables precise demand planning, automated checks of delivery call-offs and fast reactions to tolerance violations.
April 4, 2025
Artificial intelligence: Digital 2030 trend study
More than two thirds of companies are seeing measurable added value from AI applications.
IT Management
November 21, 2024
When the hacker pretends to be a colleague: Preparing for cyber attacks through social engineering
A caller from the IT department who needs the password for a PC update, an email from the boardroom with a link to a website or a desperate text message from a colleague who can't access her computer - cyber criminals could be behind it all.
November 20, 2024
Data interoperability with Graph Engine
Common data foundation enables interoperability using a Data Integrity Suite to accelerate the delivery of trusted data for analytics and AI initiatives
Having customer data available at all times via a mobile device not only makes work much easier for the sales force, but also increases company productivity.
November 14, 2024
The Oracle Advantage for SAP NetWeaver Customers
Operating large, business-critical ERP systems is a complex challenge. Running SAP NetWeaver
on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and technology is a good way to efficiently manage this task.
Economy
November 14, 2022
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in October 2022
Leap into digitization Focusing on customer benefits: Pit-Cup and Ceyoniq announce the expansion of their long-standing partnership. In the future, Ceyoniq's digital information management solution, nscale, and pitFM, the system for computer-aided facility management (CAFM), will be linked even more closely. Pit-Cup has been relying on the nscale information and document management system for several years. Now...
November 9, 2022
European Market Remains Robust
Total annual contract value increased in the second quarter and year-on-year, up 18 percent, but down slightly from the first quarter. The shortage of skilled workers is having a surprising impact.
September 29, 2022
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships in September 2022
First reseller for Central Europe The partnership with Digitall expands Zuora's service portfolio in Central Europe. The goal: to support customers locally. The focus of the offer is turnkey end-to-end solutions for monetizing customer relationships through digital services, which Digitall will sell mainly in Austria. "Through our partnership with Digitall, we plan to bring the benefits of the Subscription Economy to an even broader...
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...
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The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI
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