June 2, 2021

Ikor and Matrix Technology are bundling solution offerings for system integration, cloud architecture and platform economics under the new umbrella brand X1F. The alliance will...

June 2, 2021

Syntax and UiPath partner to strengthen Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in European industrial SMEs.

June 1, 2021

Anyone who has dealt with the digitization of personnel processes in the last five years has certainly not come across the one...

June 1, 2021

After the SAP Annual General Meeting last week, a discussion began about the remaining term of office of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Professor Hasso Plattner. Naturally, Plattner wants...

June 1, 2021

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

June 1, 2021

The blockade of the Suez Canal by the container ship "Ever Given" is a wake-up call for all those who have not yet heard the...

June 1, 2021

SAP Switzerland fills new management position Sabrina Storck has been appointed COO of SAP Switzerland. In this function, she reports...

31 May 2021

A more cost-effective business model with improved access, security and the ability to respond flexibly to growing or fluctuating business needs was not yet possible....

28 May 2021

As a close SAP companion, SUSE is once again taking part in this year's SAPHIRE NOW. A...

May 27 2021

Many existing SAP customers have a treasure trove of data in the databases of their R/3 and ECC 6.0 and legacy systems. Partly for legal reasons, this data...

May 27 2021

E-3 editor-in-chief Peter M. Färbinger interviewed Thomas Failer, founder and Group CEO of Data Migration International, in Switzerland....

May 27 2021

When moving SAP to the cloud, relational databases with 10, 15 or 20 TB of data volume must also be taken along...

May 27 2021

Nothing works without data structures, right? I am influenced by my studies in computer science and the associated activity of programming in the...

May 26 2021

With the right data in your financial systems, you can not only close your books faster, but you can also get back to business faster.

May 26 2021

According to a report by Trend Micro, the number of cyberattacks rose by 20 percent to over 62.6 billion in...

May 25 2021

The mood is subdued because SAP CFO Luka Mucic is taking the red pencil to Christian Klein to repair the cloud and "integration"...

21 May 2021

SAP conversion places a disproportionate burden on the IT budget because SAP refuses to offer a universal AnyDB conversion for S/4. More and more existing SAP customers are...

May 20, 2021

SAP specialists who change employers are often looking for a long-term perspective. A personnel consultancy and a database ensure that the...

May 20, 2021

The ERP system as the central hub of digitalization is still more of a pipe dream than a reality, according to a study by Teknowlogy...

May 20, 2021

A new ISG study shows that German SMEs are also increasingly turning to intelligent automation based on artificial intelligence.

19 May 2021

A few weeks ago I wrote in a comment: Hana is dead. However, I did not mean the End of Life...

May 18, 2021

There are significant differences between industries in cloud adoption. Overall, however, companies are recognizing the benefits, even if challenges remain.

May 18, 2021

Although data-driven decision-making is one of the key indicators of success, a new study shows that companies are not unlocking the potential of their data.

14 May 2021

The majority of CEOs think the global economy will recover in 2021.

13 May 2021

The second part on the fire disaster in the cloud comes from Marc Kleff. The first part was written by E-3 columnist NoName, page...

May 12, 2021

Global supplier Kirchhoff Automotive uses xSuite's invoice processing solution as a tool to standardize accounts payable processes.

May 12, 2021

Atlas Copco IAS has fully automated document processing in Purchase-to-Pay - from the order confirmation to the delivery bill to the invoice....

May 12, 2021

Dear Mr. Färbinger, with the beauty award for the best modeling and visualization of business processes you put your author...

May 12, 2021

The number of video calls has risen sharply since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Men are less concerned about their appearance in front of the camera...

11 May 2021

SNP enters into an alliance with Microsoft to provide SAP customers with an easy and fast path to SAP on Azure.

11 May 2021

Corona partially leads to delays in S/4-Hana conversions. Nevertheless, the majority of the ERP modernization is to be completed by 2025.

May 10, 2021

Starting with this issue, we are pleased to communicate with our partners via the E-3 magazine and to report regularly on the activities and...

May 7, 2021

Intelligent automation in SAP® with AI-powered solutions

May 7, 2021

Why only process and system optimization after brownfield conversion creates real added value in the company

May 7, 2021

With the Informatik-Monitor, the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) publishes an overview of the state of computer science education in the...

May 7, 2021

Prof. Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer gives recommendations on timing in his autobiographical book.

May 6, 2021

Things are looking bad for SAP's Hana database. The construct itself will continue to accompany S/4 on-prem and in the cloud...

May 6, 2021

Kubernetes has significantly changed the world of virtual machines (VMs) and containers. Cloud Foundry (CF), for example, is also...

May 6, 2021

Corona has given digitalization an additional boost. One of the drivers is the sharp increase in efficiency pressure - also in the financial and...

May 6, 2021

Time is a rare commodity today. Therefore, the necessary information for successful planning approaches of such difficult IT projects must be available promptly and...

May 6, 2021

A survey by IDC shows that inadequate data quality is still one of the biggest challenges in data management. There is...

May 5, 2021

The automotive industry is characterized by international manufacturers and complex value chains. The industry operates highly efficiently in global markets.

May 5, 2021

The European Workshop on Software Ecosystems enters its eighth round with presentations on research and best practices.

May 4, 2021

Flexible learning at any time, anywhere, that is the OpenSAP motto - and it has been realized with five...

May 3, 2021

The definition and assignment of roles and authorizations is crucial for ERP systems, so that access authorizations can not only be formally assigned, but...

May 3, 2021

Entry requirements are constantly changing. TripIt aims to remedy this situation.

May 1, 2021

Digital transformation is also becoming increasingly important for public authorities. The increasing digitalization of administration is just as indispensable as the provision of...

April 30, 2021

q.beyond is expanding its expertise in the field of cybersecurity with a new partnership with Northwave. The aim of the partnership is to provide medium-sized...

April 30, 2021

According to a new ISG study, the pandemic continues to fuel the fledgling market for SAP in the AWS cloud.

April 29, 2021

2020 was clearly marked by the economic crisis caused by Covid-19. Nevertheless, a very differentiated situation is seen in the IT market.

April 29, 2021

The analysts from PAC/Teknowlogy survey the SAP community in German-speaking countries online via e-3.de and this newsletter as well as via the print magazine...

April 29, 2021

One of Europe's largest cloud data centers caught fire in the first half of March. The French IT provider OVHcloud reported the de facto total loss of its data center in...

April 29, 2021

In February last year, the SAP Help portal officially announced that, from 2020, special attention will be paid to digital access documents in the measurement...

April 29, 2021

The breathtaking boom in working from home has changed many areas of business life. But while the world is eagerly embracing video conferencing and collaborative...

April 29, 2021

SAP has done our DSAG a disservice. The HR department in Walldorf has poached the DSAG board member for technology. Personal congratulations...

April 29, 2021

Not true: Embrace 2.0 became Rise with SAP. To the great surprise of the SAP community (SurpRISE!), the concept remained the same, the...

April 29, 2021

The development of innovations, new business models and operational excellence are the priority topics for IT managers in the next two years.

April 28, 2021

With the establishment of Diva-e Cloud, Diva-e combines its competencies in the field of cloud services.

April 28, 2021

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

April 28, 2021

Valantic and UBH promise turbo on the road to digital transformation.

April 27, 2021

No, of course not - this is not about destroying the SAP community, but about its greatest challenge: the successful...

April 27, 2021

Siemens, IBM and Red Hat announce a new collaboration that will provide an open solution for real-time operational data.

April 27, 2021

What strategies, measures and partnerships will ensure the industry's competitiveness? The Hannover Messe Digital Edition of 12.... offers answers to these questions

April 27, 2021

Red Hat plans to acquire StackRox, a specialist in container and Kubernetes-native security solutions. Thanks to the integration of StackRox into...

April 27, 2021

Generali Switzerland is breaking new ground: instead of the usual marketing approach in the insurance industry, it is working with start-ups...

April 26, 2021

Valantic and LinkIT Consulting join forces to form a new Competence Center for ERP Consulting.

April 26, 2021

All for One Group wants to acquire a majority stake in SNP Poland. The acquisition is planned for the first quarter of 2021.

April 23, 2021

SAP specialist joins HiSolutions Lorenz Müller is the new Principal in the HiSolutions team. Müller will be responsible for the strategic expansion of...

April 23, 2021

Surprise - SurpRISE - with SAP CEO Christian Klein: Instead of going to a well-stocked computer science library and reading the classic...

April 23, 2021

I have been working intensively with SAP for around 25 years. It all started in Vienna with a renowned...

April 23, 2021

Under the agreement, Tech Data will install local AWS sales and technical teams in European countries.

April 22, 2021

The digital transformation demands a lot from IT departments. The necessary flexibility is rarely achieved due to many challenges. However, this can be...

April 22, 2021

In the course of digital transformation, the focus is on issues relating to cloud providers, on-premises migrations and ROI. In view of the increasing number of digital...

April 22, 2021

For many companies, established system architectures have led to digital proliferation. Taking decisive measures now to ensure the implementation of...

April 22, 2021

Digital transformation is a major challenge for many companies and often appears to be both a blessing and a curse.

April 22, 2021

The topic of a technical release change dominated the discourse in the SAP community for a long time. The established SAP partners were the recurring...

April 21, 2021

Even in times of pandemic, the race for qualified employees is not standing still. In order to attract applicants, companies now need more than ever...

April 21, 2021

If you want to successfully drive forward the digital transformation of your own company, you should above all have a high level of digitalization expertise in your...

April 20, 2021

Diversity in companies is on the rise, and internationalization has now reached even the last village forge. Should this give managers pause for thought?

April 19, 2021

Logistics, with its complex delivery structures, is predestined for the use of artificial intelligence. What tasks are possible? E-3 spoke to...

April 19, 2021

Simus, a specialist in handling mass data in the industry, presented innovations and enhancements for data cleansing: from material master data creation processes to...

April 19, 2021

Datavard has handed over donations totaling 3480 euros to the charitable Black Jaguar Foundation. The donation proceeds came from a...

April 16, 2021

At the end of 2020, TeamWork started building up the new Data & Analytics business unit.

April 15, 2021

The workload in purchasing and accounting departments has been steadily increasing for years. It is often not possible to fill vacant positions, the existing...

April 15, 2021

S/4 is the focus of many companies today. The search for the right way to make the switch remains the exciting...

April 14, 2021

In 1978, Wolfgang Dörr founded his first IT company with fellow students from the University of Karlsruhe. The industrial engineer specializing in IT developed...

April 13, 2021

The corona pandemic has changed the world, and the measures imposed have severely restricted all our lives. In turn, the need...

April 13, 2021

Companies with production sites in different countries are increasingly challenged by globalized logistics processes. International inventory planning and the uncertainties...

April 12, 2021

The topics of supply chain, e-commerce and digital workplace in particular are more important than they were in pre-Corona times.

April 9, 2021

The life cycle of SAP APO is expected to end in five years. For supply chain planning, users can rely on the...

April 8, 2021

People like to put off things that are annoying, complex, time-consuming and unpleasant from the outset. But beware:...

April 8, 2021

Completely unnecessarily and surprisingly, SAP CEO Christian Klein presented another tool for taking the step towards S/4. A...

April 8, 2021

Suse now offers an endorsed app for SAP software: Suse Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. What this...

April 8, 2021

In the SAP community, there is a long history of short-lived buzzwords, SAP product names that seem to change every month, and new technology trends.

April 8, 2021

Cyber criminals are finding new ways to gain access to their victims' sensitive data - undetected using fileless malware. CERT-Bund and numerous...

April 7, 2021

Digitization is considered so hip that you can shape it without specialist knowledge. Many people think that IT people are...

April 7, 2021

What good is process management? Isn't the migration to S/4 Hana complicated enough? Then why bother with...

April 6, 2021

Many users reach a dead end when the supposedly simple programming with no-code/low-code tools leads to excursions into computer science.

April 6, 2021

If you are seriously interested in digital transformation, don't wait for SAP to revive the Leonardo program and launch the fifth no-code/low-code development platform...

April 6, 2021

About three years ago, I had an exciting conversation with a renowned SAP partner. My question: How do you...

April 6, 2021

According to a recent survey, eight out of ten companies see their SAP landscape as complex.

April 6, 2021

There are many recipes for digital transformation. According to McKinsey, there are three key principles: Focus on the most important value drivers, empowerment...

April 1, 2021

Combined competencies for the digitalization of retail - this is the motto of the partnership between q.beyond and CAS.

April 1, 2021

Many SAP customers ask themselves when is the right time to implement SAP S/4. The answer lies in the company's IT strategy...

April 1, 2021

SAP boss Christian Klein fails to turn things around. Behind Léo Apotheker, Jim Snabe and Bill McDermott, he has tidied up, sorted and...

April 1, 2021

The migration to S/4 Hana in the area of operational logistics presents companies with major challenges - both practical and...

April 1, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic offers many unexpected opportunities for service management. What IT decision-makers will need to...

April 1, 2021

A legitimate question in times of digital transformation and S/4 Conversion. But how disappointed would you be as an existing SAP customer if...

April 1, 2021

It is more than a lockdown. In Walldorf, they are trying to square the circle and SAP will fail. The transition...

April 1, 2021

Industry 4.0 is an absolutely strategic topic that hardly any company can ignore. Nevertheless, or precisely because of this, there is uncertainty about...

31 March 2021

Tim Lessel is strengthening the SAP consulting business of the Mannheim-based management consultancy PTA. The aim of the new Head of SAP is to...

31 March 2021

According to Orange Cyberdefense, the number of cyberattacks remains at a high level, accompanied by a sharp increase in ransomware attacks.

30 March 2021

In times of Corona, companies are increasingly investing in their digitization. However, they are encountering a number of challenges in the process.

30 March 2021

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

30 March 2021

Increasing employee productivity can boost a company's profitability. Modern ERP systems are a must here.

29 March 2021

The digital user forum "Use of mobile solutions and new technologies in maintenance and service" on April 20 and 21, 2021 will focus...

26 March 2021

Master Data Governance defines the handling of master data in a company from a strategic, organizational, methodological and technological perspective. simus systems...

26 March 2021

The Digital FutureCongress Virtual powered by Hessen Week deals with topics on digital data transformation and process optimization.

26 March 2021

Manufacturing and production companies know: When it comes to digitizing processes and applications, the journey is the destination....

March 25, 2021

The more elegant Mercedes is an AMG, the faster BMW is an M model and the better SAP goes hand in hand with...

March 25, 2021

Not all that glitters is gold. It's good when there are experts who can make something valuable even more valuable. Tobias Moosherr...

March 24, 2021

When it comes to supply chain finance, many believe that the choice of technology or transaction platform is the deciding factor in...

March 24, 2021

The new study results from Valantic and Lünendonk identify trends that companies should have on their radar in 2021.

23 March 2021

After a long dry spell for live events, We.Conect Global Leaders will be holding its first on-site conferences again this spring.

March 22, 2021

The agile transformation of companies is advancing in the wake of digitization and innovation pressures, and executives are building agile methodology competencies.

19 March 2021

German SMEs are becoming more digital, with coronavirus acting as a driver. Flexible IT helps counter the consequences of the pandemic. This is the conclusion...

19 March 2021

According to the new ISG study, the major hyperscale providers such as AWS, Microsoft and Google are the main beneficiaries of the Covid 19 crisis.

18 March 2021

Itelligence acquires the SAP consulting company Pasafin Oy in Finland, thus expanding its presence in Scandinavia.

18 March 2021

Or: Old wood burns too. Mr. Färbinger recently gave me this title in an editorial. There he presented...

17 March 2021

After declining sales, the signs in the Bitkom industry are pointing to growth again in 2021: The German market for IT, telecommunications and...

16 March 2021

Everyone loves Hana, but no one wants to marry it. Little remains of the initial enthusiasm for in-memory computing technology. Instead of...

16 March 2021

The shortage of IT specialists has eased under the impact of the Corona crisis, but remains at a high level.

16 March 2021

Children and families in refugee homes are almost unprotected against the pandemic. Allgeier Experts donated again last year to help with...

March 15, 2021

Especially in personnel time management and payroll accounting there are often necessary adjustments. Sometimes the legal basis changes, sometimes there are new...

March 15, 2021

According to this year's DSAG Investment Report, IT investment budgets continue to rise even in pandemic times, but S/4 projects are impacted by Covid-19.

14 March 2021

In response to this traditional project management, I quote - as I have in the past - from the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt...

12 March 2021

SAP does not seem to want to learn from the mistakes of the past.

12 March 2021

Esker announced a technology partnership with Imaweb. The partnership will enable Imaweb to further expand its offering in the area of digital process automation....

11 March 2021

You can look at the clouds, but you eat at home. The own data center still seems to be the favorite place of SAP's...

11 March 2021

The acquisition of Kubernetes container management specialist Rancher Labs creates new opportunities for Suse customers to digitize based on Kubernetes,...

11 March 2021

The Berlin Regional Court has ruled that the screenwriter of "Keinohrhasen", Anika Decker, was right in her copyright suit against Til Schweiger's production company....

11 March 2021

The next level in SAP logistics presents both challenges and opportunities. What should be considered when integrating Voice to...

11 March 2021

Especially in times of pandemic, the advantages of digitalization become apparent. Anyone who still wanted to produce today the way it was...

11 March 2021

Customers' and employees' experiences with a company are proven to be of great importance for its success. Many companies do...

March 10, 2021

Two weeks ago, I wrote a commentary on SAP's acquisition of Berlin-based startup Signavio (https://e3zine.com/sap-and-signavio-not-everything-that-glitters-is-gold/). I called the text...

March 10, 2021

Circle Unlimited specializes in fully integrated software solutions for the paperless office. The special feature: The solutions are cross-industry and department-specific....

March 10, 2021

Due to growing demands and rapidly changing circumstances, HSM had to replace its previous mobile service software. The goal is to improve processes in the field...

March 9, 2021

SAP's Supervisory Board has appointed Julia White and Scott Russell to the Executive Board, with whose support the company will continue its...

March 9, 2021

Machine learning (ML) is one of the most promising approaches to using artificial intelligence in the enterprise. But so far, nearly nine...

March 8, 2021

Dennis Torchetti is now responsible for the SAP Concur solutions business in Switzerland and the CEE region, consisting of Austria, the Czech...

March 8, 2021

The traffic of the future is supposed to be quiet and clean. But despite the particulate matter alarm and the diesel scandal, the mobility revolution has...

March 5, 2021

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

March 5, 2021

An order of magnitude of 2 terabytes of ERP data and 6 terabytes of PLM data had to be managed and archived - in the first...

March 4, 2021

Many companies are about to switch from SAP ERP to S/4 Hana. At the same time, it is also worth taking the opportunity to...

March 4, 2021

It's not often that an app, which is also free of charge for users, is the subject of such public discussion. It goes...

March 4, 2021

The question at the beginning of the year: Can the three SAP musketeers save the company? The paradox of the integration discourse: All the paths that SAP offers...

March 4, 2021

The similarities between an S/4 project and the Covid pandemic: on the one hand, they coincide in time, and on the other hand, new approaches must be found to...

March 4, 2021

In May 2019, SAP launched the Embrace partner project. This is an initiative to enable SAP's existing customers to more quickly...

March 4, 2021

To be or not to be is not the question here. It's whether you should use a proper name, a company name, or a product name that...

March 3, 2021

The migration to S/4 and the development of a global template pose a challenge for the renowned technology company ZF Friedrichshafen with its heterogeneous ERP...

March 1, 2021

The first editorial in the new year is intended to be enlightening. Whoever thinks of Plato's allegory of the cave...

25 February 2021

SAP has once again given a surprising idea of how the digital transformation to Hana and S/4 will ultimately succeed. The...

25 February 2021

Christian Klein has announced SAP's new "Rise with SAP" offering. It advertises to combine everything you need to transform...

February 24, 2021

IDC has released its global IT industry forecasts for 2021 and beyond, explaining how companies are responding to...

22 February 2021

Blackline acquires Rimilia, expanding its modern accounting platform and target markets.

19 February 2021

Data protection is an area that accompanies most entrepreneurs on a daily basis. Thus, this profession represents an interesting opportunity for more and more...

18 February 2021

The Alexander Otto Sports Foundation presented the new name sponsor of its foundation-owned ice and ball sports arena in the Altona Volkspark: q.beyond is the new name sponsor.

18 February 2021

A survey conducted by SD Worx in eleven European countries shows limited progress in digitization in many...

18 February 2021

End-to-end processes are often written about. This is no wonder, after all, end-to-end digitization and thus media-break-free data exchange are the...

18 February 2021

Anyone who deals with systems engineering automatically becomes a border crosser. Systems Engineering requires a certain degree of "inner resistance to...

16 February 2021

A connector brings together the Cherwell ESM platform and SAP SolMan. With change management across the SAP and non-SAP world...

16 February 2021

Celonis announces the acquisition of Integromat, an online automation platform.

15 February 2021

SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner and Scheer GmbH have signed a strategic partnership agreement.

12 February 2021

Capgemini enters into a global partnership with cbs Corporate Business Solutions.

11 February 2021

Koenig.Solutions has moved. Since the beginning of October 2020, the 18 employees have been working in modern offices in Walldorf.

11 February 2021

A question of perspective. In the past, the balance sheet figures and the share price knew only one target: growth. Today, SAP CEO Christian Klein sees...

11 February 2021

How free OS ticketing systems help organizations in crisis make their processes secure, efficient and traceable, and teams in...

11 February 2021

With SAP's recent announcement to move its entire solution portfolio even more towards the cloud, further S/4 Hana deployment in...

11 February 2021

The topic of SAP ERP and Microsoft Excel is not without controversy and emotion. Are the strengths and weaknesses properly...

11 February 2021

The optimization potential on the store floor can be best exploited when machine data is analyzed and visualized in real time. The prerequisite for this is...

10 February 2021

Tricentis introduces AI-based test design and test automation.

February 9, 2021

Valantic cooperates with SAP and Apsolut. Customers now have the option of integrating SAP's Ariba solution into planning processes.

8 February 2021

Mexico City Superior Court upholds first judgment against SAP to compensate Dominion Group's Mexican subsidiaries in the amount of...

8 February 2021

A digital transformation such as switching to a new ERP solution is always a challenge for companies. These projects form...

February 5, 2021

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

February 5, 2021

Last week, SAP CEO Christian Klein presented the "Rise" framework.

February 5, 2021

Jens Schulte, CFO at Schott, and Oliver Böhm, S/4 Finance Project Manager, report on the glass technology specialist's switch from the old SAP environment to...

February 4, 2021

Repetitive tasks can be time consuming and are often prone to errors. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help.

February 4, 2021

Master data management is not usually considered particularly sexy. Yet the management of static basic data or reference data is one of the...

February 4, 2021

The title is borrowed from the new trend of low-code/no-code platforms. The topic has a double meaning for us existing SAP customers - even if...

February 4, 2021

Current developments are changing society, the economy and legislation. The protection of employees is increasingly taking center stage - also in the...

February 4, 2021

What to do with the new ERP generation S/4? Even the user association DSAG warns against a quick fix, because the change is a...

February 4, 2021

Life punishes those who are late. But what happens if the delay is at the expense of others? SAP CEO Christian Klein makes...

February 3, 2021

At the virtual general meeting held as part of DSAGLIVE, the alternative offering of the German-speaking SAP User Group e. V. (DSAG) for the 21st DSAG Annual Congress...

February 3, 2021

With a new product lifecycle management landscape based on S/4, the Beumer Group is strengthening its global collaboration in engineering. The PLM processes...

February 3, 2021

The virtual Cloud Foundry Summit Europe took place on October 21 and 22, 2020, bringing community engagement and new project announcements to...

February 2, 2021

Acquisitions and mergers or, conversely, spin-offs, spin-offs and sales of parts of companies are supposed to make agile. However, they lead to complex IT projects...

1 February 2021

The Mannheim-based management consultancy PTA and Celonis have recently entered into a strategic partnership.

1 February 2021

A uniform IT infrastructure and the switch to S/4 form the basis for ensuring that the companies of Blanc und Fischer Familienholding...

1 February 2021

Having the right information in the right process available in real time is a sustainable parameter for success. Stefan Zeitzen, Managing Director of SER...

28 January 2021

SCM is facing major upheavals in view of new technical possibilities and social change. Global trends such as automation, digitalization, and environmental issues...

28 January 2021

A change to IBP is not urgently required at the moment, right? Patrick Boucek, SAP: SAP still offers...

28 January 2021

Customized production up to batch size one, short-term fluctuations in demand, machine or personnel downtime, missing parts: Manufacturing companies need to manage their production processes in detail....

28 January 2021

Hymer has decided to replace its ERP system with SAP S/4 Hana. The company already had ERP/ECC 6.0 FI/CO...

28 January 2021

The exchange of knowledge, goods and values is one of the cornerstones of our society. Successful supply chains are the basis for economic activity....

26 January 2021

Shippeo and SAP are working in partnership to make European supply chains more transparent.

January 25, 2021

Our experience shows that companies with few SAP users are reluctant to outsource their infrastructures to the cloud. Day-to-day business prevents strategic...

January 22, 2021

Although companies around the world are reporting lower revenues, 90 percent are investing in digital transformation as before.

21 January 2021

Version 10.1 of Empirius' widely used software for creating SAP system copies, called BlueCopy, comes with...

January 20, 2021

The business situation of IT companies continues to improve: The Bitkom-ifo Digital Index rose to 12.4 points in August 2020.

19 January 2021

Interview: SAP and Azure is not only worthwhile for large companies The decision to migrate SAP systems to the...

January 18, 2021

SAP S/4 Hana keeps the world in suspense - at least the SAP world. For a few years now, almost everything has been circling...

15 January 2021

There are S/4 pre-studies on every corner. The crux: Do IT's ideas even match management's goals? Who...

January 14, 2021

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire German technology consultancy Salt Solutions.

13 January 2021

Read in this article exemplarily how networker, solutions (SAP Add-on CUNO-CLM) - for a part of the financial processes at DEKRA...

13 January 2021

The question of the appropriate SAP S/4HANA transformation strategy is burning under the nails of many SAP users. An analysis procedure with a scoring model in advance helps...

13 January 2021

For many companies, the migration to the fourth generation of the SAP ERP Suite S/4HANA is the most important and at the same time most critical...

13 January 2021

Actually, there is still time until 2027, but many companies are already dealing with the SAP S/4 HANA conversion. Although...

13 January 2021

Only a minority of companies still use SAP S/4HANA. The reason: high effort and high investments, combined...

13 January 2021

The inability of many companies to implement innovations on a large scale prevents them from realizing the potential of future technologies - even though...

January 12, 2021

Blockchain technology is considered a key technology of digitalization and is therefore also an issue in public administration.

January 11, 2021

Sharp declines in sales and shrinking IT investment budgets are acute consequences of the Corona crisis. This was the result of a survey conducted by the German-speaking SAP User Group e. V. (DSAG)...

January 8, 2021

The development of innovative Enterprise Assistants (EA) provides SAP-based purchasing with central access points to retrieve information from various applications and...

January 5, 2021

Rooted firmly in a cost-accounting world, Deloitte's concept of the 'Adaptable Organization' seems disingenuous and superficial.

January 5, 2021

To effectively exploit the full potential of data, companies need not only the right technologies and processes, but also skilled...

January 4, 2021

The jungle of specific reimbursement rates, taxes and regulations to which travel expense systems must be continuously adapted makes travel management more complex and...

21 December 2020

In 2018, SAP reported the acquisition of software company Qualtrics for eight billion dollars. Qualtrics is an experience management (XM) solution with Customer, Employee,...

December 18, 2020

GITG and Plusserver have teamed up to support clinics in the cloud and on-prem with an SAP clinical solution.

December 17, 2020

SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) ensures legal certainty in customs and foreign trade. The software can be operated in different models,...

December 16, 2020

The Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Gesellschaft für Informatik have awarded Austrian computer science pioneer Christiane Floyd the Klaus Tschira Medal.

December 15, 2020

The digital transformation is leading to an enormous upheaval in the labor market: While more and more routine tasks in particular are being taken over by IT...

December 14, 2020

For the first time, Lünendonk publishes a ranking of the leading providers of digital experience services (DXS) in Germany.

December 11, 2020

Allisa and SAP enter into a partnership. The OEM agreement covers the integration of SAP Cloud Platform Services into Allisa.

December 10, 2020

The use of Hana continues to progress briskly. And with it, for many SAP user companies, the use of Linux as an operating system platform. With a central...

December 10, 2020

Store operators need reliable and secure IT solutions. The combination of SAP Commerce and Open Source Business Hosting meets this requirement and...

December 10, 2020

Some SAP HCM customers are skeptical about SuccessFactors. Combined with SAP Cloud Platform, however, the cloud solution becomes a fully comprehensive...

December 10, 2020

Companies suddenly in remote mode and the defense line on short time: Is this the land of milk and honey for cybercriminals? In fact, the...

December 10, 2020

In many banks, SAP Loans Management for Banking is used to process structured financing. The processes are thereby...

December 10, 2020

At the same time as this year's DSAG annual congress, a new chairman was also appointed for the association. Reason enough for me to thank the outgoing...

December 10, 2020

Missing the market is also missing the point: We no longer invest in print media? It is a well-known fact that for many...

December 10, 2020

"Consolidated market leaders write their own business software," postulates Stefan Ried, Principal Analyst and Consultant at Cloudflight, for 2021.

December 10, 2020

The digitization of the economy is fundamentally changing work processes and is not bypassing any industry or area of responsibility. In the process, it is...

December 9, 2020

Ortec and Transporeon have entered into a cooperation agreement. Customers benefit from the joint portfolio.

December 8, 2020

In the past ten years, management consulting firms often experienced double-digit growth. One reason was the significant increase in demand from clients in the wake of...

December 7, 2020

Awareness of ethical issues in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has increased in companies and administrations. This year's action report...

December 6, 2020

Bitkom welcomes proposals for legal certainty for crypto assets.

December 4, 2020

The supply chain has emerged as a competitive success factor. Companies would do well to add new features to enhance...

December 4, 2020

At Hoffmann Neopac, Hana is used in a private cloud with IBM Power Systems and IBM FlashSystem to support...

December 4, 2020

The market for IT security is also at an all-time high in the pandemic year 2020: In Germany, for example, 5.2 billion...

December 3, 2020

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

December 3, 2020

With Eva Schönleitner, Crate.io brings an experienced expert into the team, who has already worked internationally for more than 20 years in...

December 3, 2020

After "Run Simple" comes the "Intelligent Enterprise. It is to be feared that SAP will continue the roadmap of buzzwords. But there were...

December 3, 2020

Only a freely expandable IT architecture can help manufacturing companies find their way back to profitability. It's about getting...

December 3, 2020

Embrace celebrated its one-year anniversary in October 2020. Around the world, well-known customers have chosen SAP and Microsoft with Embrace,...

December 3, 2020

In my penultimate column, I described how the medium-sized company Pakic is driving its digital transformation. What are the factors that...

December 3, 2020

Predictive analytics is an important Big Data trend. But the possibilities of AI go far beyond that. Digital assistants open up new...

December 3, 2020

Consulting and project work in the SAP logistics industry has seen tremendous growth due to the continuous change and adaptation of processes on the customer side....

December 3, 2020

I asked SAP CEO Christian Klein if Suite 7 wasn't too perfect to make way for S/4. He said.

December 2, 2020

SAP announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Emarsys, a provider of omnichannel customer engagement platforms in the cloud.

December 1, 2020

Your path to Azure with solutions, services and support from cloud specialist Tech Data.

December 1, 2020

The 5 & 5 by '25 initiative, led by SAP board member Adaire Fox-Martin, supports social enterprises.

November 30, 2020

The majority of companies see reduced CO2 emissions as a result of Industry 4.0, according to a study by the digital association Bitkom.

November 27, 2020

Tools for assembly planning and maintenance with SAP are important components for efficiency and ultimately for an optimal supply...

November 26, 2020

Organizations must be able to operate reliably, but at the same time be flexible enough to adapt to new innovations and changing market...

November 26, 2020

Cloud computing has arrived holistically and is establishing itself in all areas of information technology. Just a few years ago, cloud computing was...

November 26, 2020

Truck drivers are on the road every day loading and unloading at the plant sites of various operations, and during Covid-19-driven times, they are especially...

November 25, 2020

Digital transformation is unavoidable - a fact that most manufacturing companies still have a hard time grappling with.

November 24, 2020

The medical care situation is currently the focus of public attention. The services provided by German healthcare institutions are also in the spotlight -...

November 23, 2020

In this case, the word 'systems' doesn't mean technology and hardware - it means the organizational structure of a company.

November 23, 2020

The changeover to S/4 is picking up speed: Most companies in Germany are in the concrete planning phase or in the...

November 20, 2020

Joining the SAP Executive Board may have come as a surprise to Jürgen Müller, but times are challenging. The SAP community is in...

November 19, 2020

SAP's S/4 Hana ERP version was launched on the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 3, 2015, by then-CEO Bill McDermott, the...

November 19, 2020

When it comes to supply chain finance, most believe that key to success is the choice of technology or transaction...

November 19, 2020

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to the smaller news as well as the seemingly more...

November 19, 2020

Bosch and SAP want to simplify digital business processes and have agreed on a strategic cooperation to this end.

November 18, 2020

The most important tool of mankind has already been invented: the SAP ERP system. XInvoice is now knocking at the gates of our eternal...

November 17, 2020

As nice as it is to be listened to, SAP shouldn't rely on customers to point out weak spots.

November 17, 2020

Itelligence announces its partnership with Natuvion to offer a new hybrid migration approach for S/4 Hana in the future.

November 13, 2020

Planning to optimize your digital customer journey? EasySend can help.

November 13, 2020

Security is paramount for SAP workloads in the public cloud, which is why Syntax and Xiting are partnering.

November 12, 2020

An intelligent user interface has become one of the most important components of a good user experience. But how do you improve the...

November 10, 2020

Alexander Steiner, Chief Solution Architect at Meta Proc, enlightens about software automation.

November 10, 2020

Making digital access transparent and reliable was the slogan SAP used to describe its 2018 indirect use licensing...

November 9, 2020

Digital transformation is the order of the day. But how do you make digitization projects a success?

November 9, 2020

The global crisis triggered by COVID-19 is highlighting a knowledge gap in leaders and managers that leaves them unprepared to...

November 9, 2020

With SAP S/4 Hana as the foundation in combination with customer-centric applications from the cloud, retailers can leverage all potential online as well as...

November 9, 2020

The addition of Knarr Analytics to the Qlik platform primarily supports its Active Intelligence capabilities.

November 6, 2020

A way to create application programming interfaces (APIs) that requires no programming and allows for deployment on-premises as well as in...

November 5, 2020

To make GDPR compliance less bureaucratic, Deutsche Telekom and Dataguard have entered into a cooperation.

November 5, 2020

Many companies shy away from a complete move to the cloud - not because they don't want to, but because they...

November 5, 2020

Society perceives itself and the world through history and stories - from mythology to fact-based storytelling....

November 5, 2020

Friends ask me why SAP is obviously doing very well, but I have more negative than positive things to say in my...

November 5, 2020

November 27, 2020, is approaching: the deadline when all invoices for public contracts in Germany will be issued electronically and...

November 5, 2020

Despite the pressure to digitize, many companies are delaying the move toward Industry 4.0. Now, of all things, the current crisis could provide new...

November 5, 2020

At first glance, the proprietary world of SAP ERP systems seems incompatible with open source solutions. That this is not the case is proven by...

November 5, 2020

The transformation from ERP/ECC to S/4 Hana is still the focus of the SAP community. It is worth...

November 5, 2020

Nevertheless, many smartphone, PC and notebook users decide against Apple: They don't want to be trapped in a golden cage.

November 4, 2020

The year 2020 has shown that (business) travel must change. Now is the time for innovation, demand the keynote speakers of the...

November 3, 2020

Companies looking for a new ERP today or looking to modernize their existing digital core are quickly landing on SAP S/4HANA. The...

November 3, 2020

IW and BVDW have jointly published the "AI Monitor" for the first time.