Cover story April 2024
SAP Basis with Cloud ALM,
on-prem
and licenses.
Salzburg 2024: Hana and S/4 also need a robust SAP basis. The Customer Competence Center of SAP R/3 and Business Suite 7 is transforming itself with ALM, process mining and enterprise architects. The SAP Competence Center Summit in Salzburg is dedicated to this transformation process.
Cover Story December 2025
The CCoE Experiment
The „SAP for Me“ portal is about as reliable as Deutsche Bahn. Without IT tools, the CCoE (Customer Center of Expertise) is flying blind. With Rise, automated testing, Cloud ALM, Signavio, LeanIX, and WalkMe, the CCoE has more tasks than ever before, and SAP is letting its users down. The old CCC partnership has broken down.
Pekka Ala-Pietilä was elected Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board with 95 percent of the votes.
Without words
16 May 2024
SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig is co-author of a book on the Business Technology Platform. The graphic below is offered as supplementary material.
According to a Capterra study, companies are using AI to combat AI-based cyberattacks.
SAP and Nvidia
15 May 2024
Cooperation makes it possible to use large language models implemented with Nvidia in SAP cloud solutions.
All for One announces Rise One
May 14, 2024
Rise One, the integrated solution for SAP ERP in the cloud, combines the proven Rise with SAP with All for One's integration, innovation and support services.
Swiss technology company SFS Group implements digital future platform for 2025 and beyond
May 14, 2024
The challenge for the selective transformation approach was to reduce the complexity created over the past twenty years by in-house developments and to standardize processes worldwide.
AnyDB 2030, NetWevaer and SoH
February 5, 2020
SAP postponed the maintenance end date for Buisness Suite 7 by two years from 2025 to 2027 with extended maintenance until 2030. SAP did not provide any information on the status of NetWeaver 7.2 and AnyDB. Does the offer only apply to Suite on Hana?
How dead is Embrace?
January 31, 2020
A year ago, SAP unveiled its big hug with hyperscalers Google, Amazon and Microsoft at the 2019 Field Kick-off Meeting in Barcelona and Las Vegas.
DSAG Investment Report 2020: plenty of revenue for SAP
January 24, 2020
On January 23, the German-speaking SAP user group, DSAG e.V., published its annual investment report. The good news: As is the case almost every year, not only are general IT budgets increasing for a majority of DSAG members, but so is the budget for SAP-specific spending.
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
April 1, 2022
Risky bet or Hana on GitHub?
SAP has made a risky bet with Hana. Tying S/4 tightly to the Hana database platform means that ERP performance is forever tied to SAP's skill and Hana's performance.
31 March 2022
The path to successful omnichannel sales
Bringing diverse sales channels and sales models under one roof harbors potential for technological and operational conflict. Digital systems must mesh smoothly. How can this be achieved?
29 March 2022
Color theory and consultant shortage
At the end of last year, the E-3 editorial team began a research project: Can the S/4 conversion succeed with the existing resources? There were two answers: Yes, because SAP provides good tools. No, because consultants are missing and the concepts are not designed for complex data structures.
28 March 2022
Smashes SAP
There will be no integration in the form of an SAP "back to standard" function. The R/3 times with one database and many app servers are over. The three-tier client/server model is dead.
SAP News
19 October 2023
SAP Invests 250 Million Euros in New Site in Berlin
The investment in the new Berlin site is aimed at promoting future technologies. The decision includes a new office concept with a focus on sustainability.
18 October 2023
The Belly of an Architect: SAP plans to acquire LeanIX to combine with Signavio, Cloud ALM, and Tricentis
SAP will acquire LeanIX, the recognized enterprise architecture manager (EAM), but SAP is confusing cause with effect. The cause of the S/4 disaster is not a missing EAM. The LeanIX acquisition will not achieve its intended effect in IT.
In addition to the inevitable topic of AI, Christian Klein's keynote at the DSAG Congress focused on the Business Technology Platform. Naturally, he also addressed the cloud-only strategy and what on-prem customers can expect in the future.
11 October 2023
BlackLine—Difficulties in Accounting
New research reveals growing challenges are impacting business outcomes, talent retention, and more.
Business Management
June 27, 2017
Strategic purchasing as a driver of innovation
Until the 1990s, "procurement" referred almost exclusively to transactional aspects and tactical/operational functions. The purchasing departments were executive organs for covering the requirements of the business units: The aim was and still is to process their orders in a legally secure manner and in compliance with guidelines.
June 26, 2017
The iceberg paradox
80 percent of all information is unstructured. SAP does nothing to change that! What SAP users are missing is a 360-degree view of all information, not just the structured information.
June 21, 2017
Fast template rollout in China
As a result of company acquisitions at the globally oriented machine and plant manufacturer J. Wagner, an inorganically grown IT landscape consisting of SAP and non-SAP solutions has emerged. To support further growth and improve transparency, Wagner has decided to introduce SAP step by step in all companies of the group.
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The clock is ticking: support for the current SAP Business Suite will end in 2025. At least 50,000 SAP user companies must have decided on an alternative by then - such as S/4 Hana, on-premise or from the cloud. German companies are still hesitant about the cloud.
IT Management
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February 1, 2017
A good tool is not enough
Companies often describe their employees as the major success factor. Corporate assets also include patents, production processes and corporate processes developed over many years. Currently, only a few mention their data in this context.
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February 1, 2017
Code Doctors Hours
During the on-Hana system changeover, existing SAP customers with generated custom code are required to scrutinize and adapt this program data. Automation helps with this architecture-related therapy.
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February 1, 2017
Abap in the S/4 Hana Era
For many SAP customers, the question is highly relevant and keeps the community busy. Can Abap custom code also be used in conjunction with S/4 Hana? The answer: basically yes - but.
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February 1, 2017
Virtualization - but with what?
From networks and storage to operating systems and databases, virtualization is not only on the rise, it is already a fundamental part of every IT infrastructure. But which platform is the right one for my company?
Economy
June 1, 2016
Global alliance for Business ByDesign
The newly founded "Global Cloud Solutions Group" for SAP Business ByDesign is presenting itself to the public on the occasion of the SAP Business ByDesign Customer Conference in Orlando/USA.
June 1, 2016
Neutral cloud platforms
As its first project, the new subsidiary of the SAP Gold Partner is dedicating its iRetPlat platform to the topic of reusable transport packaging in the retail and logistics industry.
June 1, 2016
Digitization Enabler
Hyland Software and Axians enter into strategic partnership.
June 1, 2016
Plus 9.4 percent sales
In 2015, the ten leading German management consultancies almost achieved their sales forecast of just under 10 percent at 9.4 percent and exceeded the previous year's growth (plus 9.2 percent).
E3 Book Tip
The latest guide to accounting with SAP FI
Keep your financial processes in SAP S/4HANA under control! This practical guide accompanies you in your daily tasks, from financial accounting to accounts payable and accounts receivable invoices to payment transactions, asset accounting, and closing tasks. The authors explain the processes step by step and use numerous examples to show you how to use the SAP Fiori apps efficiently. This third edition is based on SAP S/4HANA 2023, but is also suitable for older SAP S/4HANA releases and SAP S/4HANA 2025.
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Up-to-date expertise for users in financial accounting
• All tasks under control: from asset accounting to payment transactions
• Clearly explained: SAP Fiori, business partners, and much more.
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