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 April 2026
Trends and investment 2026
The year 2026 is a critical turning point for the SAP community: SAP's visions meet the reality of existing customers. As the end of maintenance for the old ERP system approaches in 2027, the pressure for S/4 migrations will increase massively and shape the market for service providers.
Securing cash flow, managing risks: AI gives CFOs a head start
February 9, 2026
Financial management under pressure: more responsibility, higher expectations, more complex risks. Fragmented systems and manual processes slow down agility. How AI and automation contribute to greater resilience and speed.
Mediocrity is not an option
February 6, 2026
I have spent decades designing and supporting major digital and data-driven transformations. I have experienced: projects with measurable success and examples of how not to do it better.
20 Years of Working With Workday
February 4, 2026
The Rising EMEA event began with the announcement of new Workday locations across the EMEA region: in Warsaw, Poland; Milan, Italy; and Dubai, UAE. This includes new customer innovation labs in Paris, Amsterdam, and Zurich. Angelique De Vries, President at Workday, is featured in the article image.
SAP User Associations—The Moment of Reckoning
February 4, 2026
A survey of SAP user groups from the DACH region, the USA, the UK and Japan was conducted in mid-2025. The SAP cloud strategy was driven to the wall by CEO Christian Klein. Hardly any customers know about BDC and the new SAP Business Suite.
Artificial Intelligence and SAP ECC—No Need to Wait
February 3, 2026
SAP legacy systems can already benefit from AI today without the need for a complete migration to S/4 Hana or BTP.
Turning Point for S/4 Migrations
February 3, 2026
In 2026, the S/4 migration will reach a milestone: over half of companies will have completed the changeover. AI-supported tools and public cloud models will accelerate this process and transform the role of IT service providers.
Customer Evolution with Legacy Issues
September 18, 2025
For ten years, SAP has struggled to motivate its customers to switch to S/4 and the cloud, whether private or public. SAP Executive Board Member Thomas Saueressig presented a successful customer evolution that obviously only works on a Greenfield site.
SAP S/4 Private Edition 2033
September 11, 2025
Now the release change from ECC/ERP 6.0 to S/4 Hana may last until 2033. The repeated extension of the current ERP conversion process indicates a lack of planning. SAP no longer understands the ERP market, inventing new transformation scenarios every few years.
SAP FUE for AI Agents
September 4, 2025
FUE (Full Use Equivalent) is a licensing metric from SAP. This raises the question: how much FUE is attributable to an AI agent? The German AI company DeepL presented an agent-based AI that can also access SAP S/4 Hana via standard interfaces such as a browser, keyboard, and mouse.
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
November 7, 2025
The Deconstruction of an AI Agent
SAP is also entering the field of AI agents. Apart from the imminent surplus of AI agents compared to ERP users, the paradigm persists due to a lack of expertise on the part of the users.
November 6, 2025
Sovereignty With a Price Premium
Geopolitical turbulence is having an impact on the future direction of companies' IT strategies. Sovereignty is the order of the day. What can business application providers contribute?
October 28, 2025
DSAG theme day „Licenses“
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.
October 24, 2025
Between Shell Script and Self-Deception
Automation is omnipresent in IT. But despite the hype surrounding hyperautomation, it should be clear that it is not an end in itself, and certainly not a panacea. It is worth taking a critical look.
SAP News
December 4, 2025
Inetum and Correduría Seguros Nogal Implement Generative AI in Operational Process Analysis
Inetum, a company specializing in digital services, has announced a strategic alliance with Correduría Seguros Nogal to implement an innovative solution based on generative artificial intelligence. This cutting-edge tool will transform the analysis of Correduría Seguros Nogal's internal operational processes, which were traditionally carried out manually.
Boomi, a provider of AI-driven automation, announced that it has been named a leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management.
November 27, 2025
Red Hat Introduces Red Hat AI 3
Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced Red Hat AI 3, an evolution of its enterprise AI platform.
November 26, 2025
Multi-vendor composable ERP for SAP customers
Companies that use modular architectures with third-party support achieve above-average performance in 83 percent of cases, compared to 27 percent for traditional approaches.
Business Management
July 1, 2025
Process Optimization Runs Better With a Plan
What about process optimization? This question becomes relevant for S/4 projects at the latest. This is where Signavio comes into play: it allows users to delve deep into their processes, uncover weak points, and optimize their business processes. A practical recap shows how this works.
June 20, 2025
Seamless Instead of Clueless—SAP Interface Migration
The Finnish chemical company Kemira has implemented one of the world's largest interface migrations to the SAP Integration Suite with "Leap". The success was based on a precise assessment, a clear roadmap, and efficient implementation.
June 12, 2025
Core Strengths
The switch to S/4 Hana is about strategic future viability. How can the Clean Core approach be used to create a modern, maintainable system architecture, providing the foundation for agility, innovation, and compliance?
June 4, 2025
Overview Instead of Tunnel Vision
SAP users who choose strictly between best-of-breed tools and suite solutions for SAP Basis automation solutions are missing out on optimization potential. It makes sense to use a suite as a "central point of management" with the integration of other tools.
IT Management
April 14, 2025
Future-proof thanks to modularity
SAP's clean core strategy reduces maintenance costs and improves system stability. Companies need to check which adaptations are necessary and which can be replaced by standards. SAP BTP enables flexible extensions and future-proof integrations.
Sustainable growth in corporate IT requires more than just cost reductions - it requires strategic ERP management. SAP Gold Partner LeverX is convinced that modern companies must continuously question their ERP strategies in order to remain agile.
The digital transformation is challenging companies. Rise with SAP is intended to facilitate the path to the cloud and optimize processes. But questions remain about costs, data management and scalability. With the right strategy, efficiency can be increased and long-term benefits secured.
Customers in more than 180 countries and around 5000 responsible service technicians rely on being able to obtain spare parts for their Roche Diagnostics laboratory equipment quickly and reliably when needed. The S/4 transformation harmonizes and optimizes these processes.
Economy
May 17, 2023
Where You Come From
The new supply chain due diligence law has been in force in Germany since January 1. For companies, this means even more documentation and complex compliance.
April 3, 2023
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in March 2023
What's Happening in the SAP World? Current Mergers, Partnerships, and Acquisitions in March 2023
March 22, 2023
Stormy Economic Times
Two-thirds of respondents surveyed by market research firm Censuswide agree that knowing real-time cash flow will be critical - but only two percent have full confidence in the visibility they currently have.
March 8, 2023
Mergers, Acquisitions, Partnerships in February 2023
Regulatory services for banking clients Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire SAP S/4 consulting firm SKS. The acquisition will strengthen Accenture's capabilities in technology, consulting and regulatory services while expanding its offering for specialty banks. Headquartered in Hochheim, Germany, the approximately 500-strong team will strengthen the Accenture Technology business unit in the future. Together, it supports...
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Getting started with SAP S/4HANA
Get to know SAP S/4HANA using practical examples! In this book, Christian Drumm, Bernd Scheuermann and Stefan Weidner introduce you to the most important modules and business processes of SAP S/4HANA. You will get an overview of the applications for sales, purchasing, production, warehouse management, accounting and controlling. Many exercises, case studies and practical cases enable you to implement what you have learned directly in the system. Currently for the example company Global Bike 4.3.
The prerequisite for using the exercises, case studies and practical cases is access to an SAP system with Global Bike Client version 4.3. SAP UCC Magdeburg.
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