November 8, 2021

The German Digital Economy Association (BVDW) is contributing a statement to the EU Commission's consultation on the proposed regulation for artificial intelligence...

November 5, 2021

Many IT infrastructure tasks are still performed manually or by means of time-consuming scripting. With Epos, there is a new SAP basis solution for...

November 5, 2021

Repeatedly our DSAG has tried to communicate Rise with SAP with verified content to us members. SAP could not deliver....

November 4, 2021

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

November 4, 2021

We remember back to the R/3 era: back then, R/3 modules - now called apps - worked with numerous databases. What...

November 4, 2021

With Rise with SAP, SAP is creating incentives to switch to S/4 Hana in the cloud. In doing so, there are - analog...

November 3, 2021

With the transition to S/4HANA, SAP users need to look at the cloud as a deployment and usage environment. For hosting via...

November 3, 2021

The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...

November 3, 2021

The saying is well known: There's life in the old dog yet. Readers are currently giving print a rebirth, while marketing is still working on...

November 2, 2021

Certified transparency Quality control of advertising is rarely uniform. BVDW and Agof now want to change this. The German Digital Industry Association (BVDW)...

November 2, 2021

Dr. Jana Jentzsch is one of the leading IT licensing experts. She has been dealing with the SAP universe for many years. For the...

November 2, 2021

While SAP struggles to get existing customers into the cloud, the SAP community lacks organization and licensing rights security for...

November 1, 2021

The SAP transformation from R/3 to S/4 Hana has been underway for several years. Completed projects have revealed aspects that were often underestimated,...

29 October 2021

There is a holy book at SAP in Walldorf, with which the claim to omnipotence in the cloud is laid down. Full Use...

28 October 2021

Digital transformation is indispensable for business success. We are observing a paradigm shift in IT in which cloud plays a central role....

28 October 2021

In the new 2021/22 season, cbs will again act as the main sponsor of the 1. FC Mühlhausen 1927 e. V. youth department.

28 October 2021

At the end of the current legislative period, the digital association Bitkom gives a mixed assessment of the digital policy work of the grand coalition.

28 October 2021

Thirty years ago, the Linux operating system was published by Linus Torvalds as a university project, that is well known. But here is a...

28 October 2021

Manual coding during testing is increasingly becoming a thing of the past. By means of higher test automation without classical programming, time...

28 October 2021

When it comes to blockchain technology, companies in Germany rely on collaborations. 74 percent work together with external partners.

27 October 2021

Recently, it was the 40th anniversary of the IBM PC. Now, standard software is not conceivable without standard hardware. Therefore, it makes sense to look at...

26 October 2021

A time of data-driven transformation and modernization has dawned - also for SAP users. This is by no means just about...

26 October 2021

Industry 4.0, IoT, cloud computing, blockchain, and other key technologies associated with them pose numerous opportunities as well as significant financial risks that...

25 October 2021

The Suse technology blueprint consists of seven steps for high availability of S/4 Hana transformation in hybrid cloud environments.

25 October 2021

While the age of industrialization until late in the 20th century was characterized by predictable markets, product standards as well as competition,...

22 October 2021

The labor market has developed very dynamically. Companies are increasingly complaining about a shortage of skilled workers. A concept for hiring (and retaining!)...

22 October 2021

A Workday survey of labor market sentiment and priorities shows that the 18- to 34-year-old group in particular is concerned with the...

21 October 2021

First reaction: There is the SAP SolMan - on to the next topic! Unfortunately, the challenge is not that simple.

21 October 2021

Insurers that rely on an in-memory architecture accelerate their commission calculation processes with SAP FS-ICM on Hana.

21 October 2021

The issue of indirect usage, Digital Access, still affects a large number of existing SAP customers and with the cloud conversion factor FUE, Full...

21 October 2021

Many existing SAP customers have to migrate their system landscape to the S/4 world - technically a complex and time-consuming challenge. What not enough attention...

21 October 2021

In recent months, SAP licenses, maintenance fees, maintenance costs and subscriptions for on-prem and cloud have become the central topic in the community...

21 October 2021

The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...

20 October 2021

With regard to the implementation of innovative Industry 4.0 and IoT scenarios, the factory edge concept in particular is becoming increasingly important. Also an SAP connection...

20 October 2021

Many companies are facing the challenge of replacing their ERP suite with the new S/4 Hana software generation. Cleverly used, the SolMan supports during the...

19 October 2021

Cloud Foundry Summit 2021, which had to be held virtually again this year on July 21 and 22 due to pandemics, held all sorts of...

19 October 2021

In many places, product labeling in retail is done digitally: the use of electronic shelf labels is efficient, flexible and reliable....

18 October 2021

An S/4 transformation is only successful if the project and subsequently also the ongoing operational management can be ensured. For this, the...

18 October 2021

Bitkom gave a mixed assessment of the federal government's digital policy to date. Apart from a few showcase examples, Germany must...

15 October 2021

In the area of Profitability Analysis, the Copa world, SAP has been offering two areas for quite some time: Namely, costing-based profitability analysis and accounting-based profitability analysis,...

15 October 2021

The results of the ASUG-DSAG survey show that things are looking up for Hana and S/4. But there are reservations about cloud computing and...

14 October 2021

On October 13, 2021 SAP published its preliminary figures for the third quarter. From the S/4 Hana Cloud figures, Handelsblatt derived a...

14 October 2021

An acquisition rarely comes alone After the acquisition of Infogix in June 2021, Preciselynun takes on the next company for an...

14 October 2021

Whether S/4 migration or digital transformation, data is indispensable - as long as the quality is right. Transforming and preparing it represents such a...

13 October 2021

We view SAP with goodwill. The Executive Board is well positioned, even if cooperation is not frictionless. In detail, there are...

12 October 2021

Bitkom gave a mixed assessment of the federal government's digital policy to date. Apart from a few showcase examples, Germany must...

11 October 2021

To stay healthy, people need to eat a balanced diet. Many commercial kitchens use the catering management tool (VPM) from SAP for this purpose....

8 October 2021

Digital sovereignty is a buzzword politicians like to use these days to lead to supposed new initiatives both in some...

7 October 2021

In operational use, the SAP Business Technology Platform becomes a cost trap and a deceptive package.

7 October 2021

The coronavirus, digitalization, the shortage of skilled workers and social upheavals are shaping the nature of collaboration in the 21st century... In this context...

6 October 2021

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

6 October 2021

The EU is considering whether tax reporting obligations and electronic invoicing should be standardized uniformly throughout Europe. What impact will this have?

6 October 2021

Change is the new norm - this was Valantic's motto for this year's SAP Customer Focus Days.

6 October 2021

The Digital Edition of the Handelsblatt Summit was all about artificial intelligence.

6 October 2021

From September 28 to 30, the Digital FutureCongress took place virtually.

6 October 2021

There is no such thing as one SAP licensing, everyone has different types and combinations. This quickly becomes confusing - and can...

5 October 2021

We should talk to each other, shouldn't we? Digital transformation is a nice buzzword, but it conceals numerous challenges that can only be...

4 October 2021

No IT company has undergone a transformation as radical as SAP. The transition from Windows to Office to Cloud at...

October 1, 2021

Modern ERP systems such as SAP S/4 Hana not only combine smart software solutions for a wide range of business areas, but are also the...

September 30, 2021

Conversion to Hana and S/4 is a daunting challenge regardless of the color theory, thus the more than legitimate question: Where...

September 27, 2021

This week at the DSAG virtual congress, there was an enlightening discussion about the upcoming supply chain due diligence law.

September 27, 2021

Does the digital transformation change and transform the meaning and function of ERP software? This is not about...

September 27, 2021

Given SAP's numerous and technically quite successful cloud offerings, the question posed, "Can SAP do cloud?" may seem more rhetorical than...

September 27, 2021

Many companies are taking advantage of the opportunities offered by digitization to optimize core processes. SAP increases the speed of change at its customers...

September 24, 2021

Lünendonk has published the results of a market study and the lists of the leading IT service providers in Germany. This year, too, there are...

September 23, 2021

Whether business or IT transformation - they are on the agenda of all companies. Most of the time, these projects are still being...

September 23, 2021

In this E-3 interview, Martin Finkbeiner, Senior Director Technology Consulting at All for One Group, explains how the partnership between...

September 23, 2021

All for One and SNP join forces to take German SMEs to the next level in business and IT transformation....

September 23, 2021

SNP and Microsoft want to simplify and accelerate the journey of existing SAP customers to SAP on Azure. Following the successful implementation of...

September 23, 2021

Together with a global partner network, SNP supports all SAP existing customers in mastering their business and IT transformations transparently, securely and quickly.

September 23, 2021

Rise is a great invention by SAP CEO Christian Klein and a holistic concept for the SAP community. But can the software supplier...

September 23, 2021

Many companies are faced with the dilemma of driving forward the digital transformation in a revolutionary way or preserving and safeguarding what has been achieved. In addition, there are organizational...

September 21, 2021

The future lies in data. The digitization push of recent months bears impressive witness to this. But whoever wants to...

September 20, 2021

Our recent survey on the status quo of S/4 Hana migration in German companies shows that a slight majority of participants prefer an on-premises...

September 20, 2021

The umbrella organization of SAP partners presents itself with a completely renewed external appearance, an extended leitmotif - but above all with a sharpened profile. With...

September 17, 2021

An important aspect of adapting a company to the developments of the market and the progress of technology is to make technological innovations...

September 15, 2021

Sapphire is SAP's annual review of the community. The keynotes analyze and conjure up the future. This time was...

September 14, 2021

Germany is lagging behind in the digitization of public administration. Hermann-Josef Haag, Executive Vice President Human Resources and Public...

September 13, 2021

Integration is a fundamental component of successful digitization, says the Bitkom Association's ERP Trend Check 2021. When processes are mapped holistically, the result is a...

September 13, 2021

Is the cloud real for an existing SAP customer? Yes, sometimes - but in many cases it is out of reach. Cloud computing is not the...

September 10, 2021

After more than a year, the pandemic seems to have triggered an identity crisis among some customers regarding the S/4 Hana transformation. Whether justified...

September 9, 2021

SAP partner Rödl & Partner asked itself this question and, together with analyst Lünendonk, set up a study. Rödl & Partner...

September 9, 2021

After ten years of growth, the 15 largest management consultancies headquartered in Germany are reporting a decline in sales, mainly due to the coronapandemic...

September 8, 2021

With the Corporate Business Solutions success model and the high-performance culture of its customers, cbs is writing an extraordinary success story with strategic competitive advantages on...

September 8, 2021

Increased use of multi- and hybrid-cloud deployments due to market changes creates opportunities for DevOps transformation with low-code platform tools.

September 7, 2021

If you want to prepare your company for the future, it's better to push ahead with digitization today than tomorrow. This applies in particular to...

September 6, 2021

No other SAP topic is associated with as many emotions as license management. This is where CFOs and CIOs come together against SAP...

September 6, 2021

Once again this year, the status of the German cloud computing market was determined as part of the Cloud Computing Market Barometer Germany 2021.

September 3, 2021

The generation change from SAP Business Suite 7 to S/4 Hana is more than just an IT project. But whether...

September 3, 2021

The Beyond Brownfield approach from SAP partner Consilio is not only intended to secure earlier investments, but also aims to ensure that the right process and system optimization...

September 3, 2021

If a global DAX company wants to maintain an overview of 50 productive SAP systems with 30,000 users worldwide, the only way to...

September 2, 2021

The European Union recently presented proposals for more legal certainty in global data transfers. An assessment by the digital association Bitkom.

September 1, 2021

Digital transformation is more than just the cloud migration of IT systems: Changing business processes sustainably requires foresight and vision. SAP Germany Managing Director...

August 31, 2021

Enabling more digitalization in the company with less effort? IT managers in companies and their SAP landscape are currently facing numerous challenges: The...

August 31, 2021

While acquisition pressures continue to mount in the enterprise service management tools space, the consultant offers

August 30, 2021

Many customers usually prefer hybrid cloud operation when using SAP S/4HANA. This requires software support that covers a comprehensive technology stack as well as a comprehensive...

August 30, 2021

Growth is the be-all and end-all in the market economy. To achieve this goal, some companies are focusing on expanding...

August 30, 2021

Many of our customers are currently faced with the question of how to adapt their SAP landscape, which has grown over many years, to the new...

August 30, 2021

Moving to the cloud is particularly difficult for complex systems such as SAP ERP. How can the concept of managed...

August 30, 2021

In this interview, Jörg Niopek, Business Development Manager SAP Infrastructure at Fujitsu, and Lawrence Wilcox, Director Strategic Alliances at Nutanix,...

August 30, 2021

At the same time as switching from Microsoft Navision to SAP S/4HANA, the ophthalmology specialist has replaced its paper-based, manual invoice processing with...

August 30, 2021

Of course, the majority of SAP user companies are not doing badly. However, it can be stated that the last one and a half years have had a negative impact on many...

August 30, 2021

The digital transformation also affects ERP systems, in the DACH region of course primarily the SAP world. Modernization is absolutely essential. And...

August 30, 2021

On September 14 and 15, SAP EAM attendees will learn how to use SAP technologies to respond to the increasing demands on maintenance processes.

August 27, 2021

To help executives drive the ROI of AI, ESI ThoughtLab conducted a global benchmarking study of 1,200 organizations in...

August 26, 2021

By its very nature, finance is more than just accounting and is a tradition at SAP. The tasks of a CFO have grown exponentially. From order-to-cash,...

August 26, 2021

The data that every company has to deal with includes master data, i.e. the static basic data or reference data for...

August 26, 2021

Once the steps from the actual evaluation of potentials to the development of the MDE operating model have been completed, implementation follows. For the implementation...

August 26, 2021

Company data can be the new gold. In any case, poor data management causes high costs - regardless of whether an S/4 release change...

August 26, 2021

It's not the first cover story about the value and importance of data, but it is the most comprehensive and...

August 26, 2021

The term artificial intelligence (AI) is a popular topic in the media, as it polarizes both laypeople and experts....

August 26, 2021

The potential for new services based on artificial intelligence is enormous in the insurance industry. However, the majority of insurance companies are...

August 25, 2021

The "Software Made in Germany" seal of quality stands for solutions that have proven themselves in practice. All the greater is the joy at SEP.

August 24, 2021

With the trend towards hybrid working, companies are required to establish new collaboration processes. But who is supposed to...

August 23, 2021

SAP migration in retail grocery Coop Norge and Nagarro ES have signed a five-year contract. Specifically, this involves the delivery and...

August 20, 2021

In the latest E-3 short interview, xSuite CEO Matthias Lemenkühler comments on the tasks of digitalization during the pandemic, the questions...

August 20, 2021

In order to provide the best possible patient care, it is the goal of Asklepios clinics to use their IT applications in organizational and operational...

August 20, 2021

The challenge for sustainable success - i.e. continuous improvement - is a completely different task than an ERP release change, database upgrade or...

August 20, 2021

Occasions such as a merger or takeover, a system change or system renewals such as the conversion to S/4 require a scrutinizing look...

August 19, 2021

Automation is also one of the central topics in the SAP area. It is no longer just about initial deployment or migration scenarios,...

August 19, 2021

It seems that with the expansion of the cloud, the misconception is spreading that archiving one's data...

August 19, 2021

The Fraunhofer Institute and IBM have inaugurated Europe's currently most powerful quantum computer with the participation of politicians and scientists. Will quantum computers really become the...

August 19, 2021

People often talk about digitization. There are many definitions of this term. But what is digitalization? And how does...

August 19, 2021

As already announced in 2017, the Libor rates, the most important global money market rates for most currencies, will no longer be available from 2022...

August 19, 2021

A question of existence: Rise or Fall with SAP? The brave new SAP world can only be entered with the latest release, which...

August 19, 2021

If there's one thing SAP is good at besides software development, it's creating memorable marketing language. Only at the beginning of this year...

August 18, 2021

After the flood disaster in Germany and Europe, the willingness of many people and companies to help is immense. They are not only helping in...

August 16, 2021

Ten German companies - including SAP - jointly founded the Quantum Technology and Application Consortium (QUTAC).

August 16, 2021

The announcement of Advanced Shipping and Receiving is, in our view, the biggest and most exciting news. Behind the name ASR...

August 13, 2021

IT and engineering candidates with vocational training or academic degrees often have completely different ideas about appropriate compensation than companies do.

August 12, 2021

Everyone is entitled to a work-life balance and to work from home anyway. However, there are situations where hiding behind answering machines, webcams and...

August 12, 2021

If the SAP community could consolidate the license portfolio, SAP would receive several million euros less in fees. CFO Luka Mucic would have to...

August 12, 2021

A few years ago, RPA revolutionized the automation industry, and since then new functions and tools have been constantly being added to make...

August 12, 2021

Many SAP customers are transforming their licenses to an S/4 contract basis. Through the back door, Digital Access is often also used for the indirect use of...

August 11, 2021

Low-code/no-code has been on everyone's lips in the SAP community, and not just since SAP's various acquisitions. Through LCNC,...

August 9, 2021

TeamWork's DocBuilder is used by existing SAP customer Gilgen Door Systems in Switzerland to generate complex quotation documents....

August 5, 2021

A precisely worded comment on Reddit shows SAP's cloud dilemma: Failure is already hard-coded into SAP's core because...

August 5, 2021

The IT industry is in a constant state of flux, and with it, company executives. Every month, we introduce you here to people...

August 5, 2021

In order to remain internationally competitive in the future, SAP user KHS addressed the question at an early stage as to the quickest way to...

August 5, 2021

SAP is ambitious and hard-working. The global ERP market leader is constantly presenting innovations and transformations, which makes life easier for many existing SAP customers....

August 5, 2021

The topic of SAP licenses has many construction sites: Interpretation of PKL, indirect use, application of measurement tools, Cloud Full User Equivalent, history of...

August 5, 2021

With the right know-how, Billing and Revenue Innovation Management can be used to implement a wide range of innovative use cases - and that...

August 3, 2021

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

29 July 2021

Rarely before has the SAP community been as divided as it currently is on the S/4 Cloud transformation. While SAP CFO Luka Mucic talks about the alleged...

29 July 2021

The following is a thought experiment and not animal cruelty. How existing SAP customers who have to provide two database licenses for an ERP feel remains to be seen.

29 July 2021

The German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas has - it seems - read a commentary in Der Spiegel, thought about it, and...

28 July 2021

The pandemic has significantly changed the way companies view digitalization. Just over a year after the first lockdown, doubts...

28 July 2021

Dr. Rafael Arto-Haumacher, Branch Manager Esker Germany, explains the SAP certification of the solutions for automating invoice and order entry.

22 July 2021

Does this title remind you of last week's newsletter? Rise and Fall with SAP. What happened? Yesterday, Wednesday,...

22 July 2021

There is no doubt that users' SAP landscapes are (once again) undergoing radical change. S/4 Hana, Business Transformation Platform, cloud computing, IoT, automation...

22 July 2021

54 percent of recoverable VAT is not reclaimed worldwide. But why are companies missing out on much-needed cash flow right now?

22 July 2021

Cyber criminals have discovered OT and IoT as lucrative targets. Many companies are ill-prepared for the threat. A structured...

20 July 2021

A survey of 260 IT decision-makers shows: Lack of risk awareness and unclear accountability for IoT security still prevail.

19 July 2021

According to Bitkom, more than half of the companies expect quantum computers to play a major role in international competitiveness.

19 July 2021

Sustainable management begins with purchasing. If you want to remain competitive in the future, you have to consider ecological and environmental aspects when...

16 July 2021

The pandemic-related blanket assurance of home office workplaces has increased pressure on IT decision-makers and heightened interest in cloud-based solutions.

16 July 2021

With the SAP Sales Cloud, the Swiss machine and tool dealer Walter Meier has found the optimal CRM solution to support its sales force in particular...

15 July 2021

Shortly after Sapphire, a briefing for financial analysts was held and a renewed increase in S/4 transformation projects was confirmed....

15 July 2021

It is well known that cloud computing is the driving force behind the ongoing digital transformation. An important component of this - cloud-native technology...

15 July 2021

Regularly occurring tasks are perceived by most employees as tedious chores. As a "colleague", RPA can step in here and increase...

15 July 2021

E-commerce is transforming more and more B2B companies into B2B2C companies. But what does this mean for the customer experience? Who owns the customer data, who...

15 July 2021

It is no secret that master data is crucial to the success of Industry 4.0 scenarios, as it forms the basis for the networked...

15 July 2021

When IT and specialist departments are asked about IT projects that have been started or are planned, the topic of AI is at the top of the list. Let...

15 July 2021

SAP applications on the one hand and other IT systems on the other have often been separate worlds from a developer's perspective. Open source-based...

14 July 2021

Today, IG SAP Switzerland is the only independent association in the SAP community with a focus on legal and commercial issues....

14 July 2021

SAP's new financial services joint venture raises questions. There are also demands from SAP user companies in the finance and insurance industries.

13 July 2021

The experience of employees and candidates, i.e. the employee experience, is increasingly becoming the focus of companies and solution providers.

13 July 2021

Hyperconverged infrastructures are awakening from their slumber... In a recent study, the consulting firm Techconsult investigated how medium-sized companies, not...

12 July 2021

cbs Corporate Business Solutions invites you to the fourth edition of its customer congress Digital One.Con 2021 for the SAP Industry Community.

12 July 2021

High scalability, holistic control and complete traceability are prerequisites for Otto Fuchs, a company in the non-ferrous metals industry. Thus, it was necessary to digitalize.

July 9, 2021

Digitalized personnel processes are now a must. BSH Hausgeräte, Fressnapf and Mewa, among others, also see it that way.

July 8, 2021

With Rise with SAP, the S/4 transformation projects to the cloud under SAP management should become more cost-effective, but customers are still...

July 8, 2021

Hasso Plattner, Gerd Oswald and Christian Klein are good at defending themselves, but because I am critical of editor-in-chief Färbinger...

July 8, 2021

The days when SAP simply accepted audit results seem to be over. The software company is increasingly scrutinizing the transmitted...

July 8, 2021

At the beginning of the year, Microsoft and SAP announced the expansion of their cooperation, the technical details and implementation schedule of which will be...

July 8, 2021

SAP can't stop playing tricks. Christian Klein believes he knows 100 Rise customers. This hubris could yet turn out to be...

July 7, 2021

The German-speaking SAP User Group e. V. (DSAG) conducted a survey on the topic "Corona pandemic and women: Career killer or catalyst?".

July 7, 2021

Growing data volumes, enormous computing power and powerful analysis tools provide companies with an excellent framework for using analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

July 6, 2021

Process mining brings benefits and challenges. Answers to some of the most pressing questions are here.

July 5, 2021

A survey shows the maturity level of organizations in Germany.

July 5, 2021

Rackspace's approach was developed on the basis of the cloud-native idea and presents a service model that helps customers to build and...

July 5, 2021

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

July 2, 2021

Automation is clearly shaping the service market for application development and maintenance. In addition, the submarket for DevSecOps is recording particularly high growth rates.

July 2, 2021

The business climate for IT and telecommunications companies is on a strong upswing. SAP also recorded good figures in the first quarter,...

1 July 2021

What struck me when writing this cover story is that a cloud-native provider like Workday is approaching the topic of transformation much more calmly and...

1 July 2021

Workday is fundamentally different from other large cloud platforms. When we designed the original architecture of Workday, we looked at...

1 July 2021

A key criterion when deciding for or against a software provider is whether the implementation and provision can be completed on time, within the agreed...

1 July 2021

What strikes me is that a cloud-native provider like Workday approaches the topic of transformation much more calmly and confidently than ERP world market leader SAP....

1 July 2021

From June 7 to 11, 2021, DMEA will be all about the digitization of healthcare.

1 July 2021

Kevin Thompson appointed new CEO of Tricentis Kevin Thompson has been appointed Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Tricentis. The...

1 July 2021

Many S/4 on-premises customers are increasingly turning to public cloud services. Although infrastructure services for an SAP environment can be booked quickly, setting it up and maintaining...

1 July 2021

Companies are struggling with the natural generational shift from baby boomers to millennials or from R/3 to S/4 Hana. How can...

1 July 2021

The upcoming migrations to Hana and S/4 present companies with considerable challenges. At the same time, however, they are an opportunity for optimization,...

1 July 2021

Over the next few years, more than 50,000 S/4 Hana conversion projects are expected in Germany alone due to the upcoming end of support. There are...

June 30, 2021

Software is being developed in ever shorter release cycles, especially at SAP. Thorough testing forms the stable foundation - provided that fresh...

29 June 2021

cbs collected 34,824 euros for the German Child Protection Association as part of its annual Kids.ONE collection campaign.

28 June 2021

The digital association Bitkom takes a look at how eleven technology trends will change the possibilities of ERP systems in the future.

25 June 2021

Digitalization has become more important in 95 percent of companies, with six out of ten companies already using Industry 4.0 applications. Investments often increase despite...

24 June 2021

It is obvious that SAP is achieving growth through higher license fees and not through better performance and more functions...

24 June 2021

SAP users are facing the migration and modernization of their infrastructure: Above all, the conversion to Hana and S/4 represents a...

24 June 2021

The continuing boom in data centers and their now high relevance for the global economy are making the search for a location more difficult. Lünendonk has published the...

24 June 2021

Companies with multiple production sites are more challenged by globalized logistics processes. Inventory planning and the uncertainties of supply and demand...

24 June 2021

In order to remain competitive in the long term, Mann und Hummel decided to change its corporate management and introduce a globally standardized management model along...

23 June 2021

The majority of consumer goods companies and retailers want to make their supply chain strategy more future-oriented and agile in order to be better prepared for future crises.

22 June 2021

The mood among IT and telecommunications companies is as good as it was before the coronavirus crisis. The Bitkom-ifo digital index rose in...

18 June 2021

CIOs plan to hire more full-time IT staff.

18 June 2021

According to a new study, the switch to cloud-based platforms for human resources during the pandemic has significantly...

17 June 2021

You can read "I don't like SAP" on the well-known social media portal Reddit. For many, the emotional slogan may not come as a surprise...

17 June 2021

SAP S/4HANA Transformation: An Innovative Approach Tailored for the Midmarket.

17 June 2021

SAP Business Suite 7 with AnyDB, i.e. ERP/ECC 6.0, should no longer play a significant role due to SAP's plans. The...

17 June 2021

The time had come in summer 2020: SAP and Tricentis announced their partnership, expanding the circle of...

17 June 2021

... control is better. You know the saying. In today's complex world, transparency and counterfeit protection are becoming increasingly important. Then...

17 June 2021

SAP supports management in the technology changeover to S/4 Hana with a huge machinery of information, events and tools. In the process...

17 June 2021

At the turn of the millennium, the SAP community was worried. The mySAP.com products were supposed to disguise everything with their colorful appearance, but they were...

17 June 2021

But anyone who thinks that new technologies will bring a digital way of working to the entire corporate landscape is mistaken. A...

17 June 2021

"Overcoming media discontinuities" is a magic word for better linking process steps. But it doesn't go far enough: do we want to...

16 June 2021

SAP subsidiary Qualtrics published a new study on how the priorities of IT executives in Europe have changed since the Corona virus outbreak.

16 June 2021

A new study forecasts an increase in global IT spending of 8.4 percent compared to 2020, which corresponds to a total value of...

16 June 2021

ZetVisions and KPMG have agreed on a partnership for SAP master data management.

15 June 2021

According to a new ISG study, the construction and operation of software-based service platforms require greater networking of services and solutions for smart manufacturing.

15 June 2021

According to a new study, service providers are training many of their own employees in data science to alleviate the skills shortage.

14 June 2021

Data and documents are often stored in different systems, whether SAP or non-SAP. This makes access to information and intelligent, networked processes more difficult...

14 June 2021

The online event SAPdigital21 provides comprehensive answers to the business, organizational, technical and licensing issues in the context of the digital S/4 transformation.

14 June 2021

The Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e.V. published the results of the smart building study.

11 June 2021

German SMEs still seem to be cautious about AI technologies - this is shown by the current study "Artificial Intelligence in SMEs".

10 June 2021

In recent months, many companies have had to realize that their organizational structure and the associated processes work well under the same framework conditions,...

10 June 2021

The conversion of SAP contracts to S/4HANA is a major change in SAP's relationships with its customers. Who now...

10 June 2021

Digitalization is not the same as digital transformation, it is part of it. What can be digitized will be digitized, and...

10 June 2021

Roozbeh Noori-Amoli and Alina Demuth from SAST SOLUTIONS explain why authorization concepts can determine the success and dynamics of the S/4HANA transformation on...

10 June 2021

BlackLine and SAP S/4HANA is more than just the sum of two solutions

10 June 2021

The migration of data from a legacy system to a new IT environment is considered a critical hurdle before a system change. Simus systems...

10 June 2021

The analysts from PAC/Teknowlogy together with E-3 Magazine survey the SAP community, the topics: Cloud Computing, Integration, Hyperscaler, Intelligent Enterprise,...

June 9, 2021

For 78 percent of companies, managed services are a great help during the coronavirus pandemic. But how do the deployed...

June 9, 2021

In E-3 Magazine, freelance writers and I have often written about SAP's lack of a cloud exit strategy, so it's safe to assume that...

June 8, 2021

Regulatory requirements, a shortage of skilled workers, and short innovation cycles are strategic challenges facing banks and insurance companies.

June 8, 2021

With SAP's 2027/2030 deadline, the need to switch to CMS has moved into the future. But what are the reasons...

June 7, 2021

SAP partner GIB from Siegen selected the Supply Chain Heroes 2021 as part of its GIB SCM Awards.

June 7, 2021

Leogistics and Veroo tie more than 200 telematics systems into Myleo/DSC.

June 7, 2021

With the acquisition of ESG Mobility, Cognizant is expanding its expertise in development for intelligent mobility.

June 4, 2021

There are many unanswered questions about the implementation of SAP's new software generation. Users will find answers at a digital practical forum.

June 4, 2021

Every company has the potential to improve its processes. New execution management systems are based on process mining technology and therefore represent an entire...

June 4, 2021

The merger of the two companies expands the range of services in the insurance industry.

June 3, 2021

Tricentis acquires Neotys to address the need for integrated end-to-end approaches to test automation.

June 3, 2021

Suse and Ingram Micro offer partners a new way to integrate Suse solutions.

June 3, 2021

With the cooperation, SNP and Rackspace want to enable the move to the cloud and optimize SAP landscapes.

June 2, 2021

The conversion of SAP contracts to S/4HANA is a major change in SAP's relationships with its customers. Who now...

June 2, 2021

The process landscape in companies is constantly changing - be it through the strategic switch from 'on-premises' system landscapes to the cloud, additional...

June 2, 2021

After Embrace and RISE: How SAP customers and technology partners are faring with the SAP S/4HANA strategy and what can be learned from...

June 2, 2021

What integration issues arise in everyday project work with SAP S/4HANA implementations and migrations? What possible difficulties arise in projects? What specialist knowledge...

June 2, 2021

The number of S/4HANA migration projects launched is rising continuously. The integration of S/4 with other SAP solutions, third-party systems and external partners is...

June 2, 2021

According to a DSAG trend survey, around 39 percent of SAP customers plan to switch to SAP S/4HANA between 2022 and 2024.

June 2, 2021

SAP once said "Run simple", but nothing came of it. The S/4 transformation is a big piece of work if...

June 2, 2021

SAP's latest balance sheet figures for the first quarter of this year are better than feared, which has helped the share price from...

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...