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.
IT security: strategic intelligence instead of flying blind
August 23, 2024
Defensive IT security with monitoring of the entire risk situation often fails due to a lack of expertise in taking a holistic approach. In the face of rapidly increasing complexity, a flood of buzzwords and supposedly universal solutions, this often turns into flying blind, with companies neglecting the most basic security measures.
IBM and SAP bring generative AI
August 21, 2024
New functions for generative AI are to be developed as part of the cooperation between IBM and SAP.
Flying Blind Through the SAP Community
August 20, 2024
It's frightening how little SAP boss Klein knows about us customers. Since the sales reps now limit themselves to only delivering the latest price list instead of offering more extended consultations with customers, the SAP spirit of old has disappeared.
Itesys Expands Its Market Presence With NexQuent Consulting
August 20, 2024
Itesys, specialist for SAP Basis project and operational services, enters into a strategic alliance with NexQuent Consulting in Germany.
How companies really use AR and VR
August 19, 2024
Training and further education as well as design and planning dominate the applications.
ChargeX new partner of SAP
August 19, 2024
ChargeX, Munich-based provider of e-charging infrastructure solutions, is a new partner of SAP Germany and relies on SAP E-Mobility as a standardized cloud solution for e-mobility.
Men's Union
June 18, 2020
Once again, there has been a change on the SAP Executive Board. Only a short time after SAP came to the realization that, as a global market leader, it no longer needed Stefan Ries as Chief Human Resources Officer or the valuable experience of SAP veteran Michael Kleinemeier, co-chief executive Jennifer Morgan was shown the door.
Cloud, the new back office
June 18, 2020
If, due to the current challenges, the home office proves to be suitable for the masses and efficient, then one's own four walls could become the front office and the back office is in the cloud.
New3 Economy
April 10, 2020
There was the New Economy (Internet bubble). It was the time when SAP almost blanked out the World Wide Web. SAP then plunged into the New New Economy with all the more zeal.
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
13 June 2022
Take features live in record time
So it can be when DevOps approaches accelerate time-to-production from months to days. Addressing this in the context of the S/4 project is seen by successful SAP customers as a natural part of the transformation.
June 9, 2022
Future of SAP
SAP CEO Christian Klein is making an honest effort. He has eliminated many construction sites. He has reorganized and established a new management style. But comprehensive success and a clear strategy are still missing. Professor Hasso Plattner is growing impatient.
June 7, 2022
The future of licensing
SAP licensing options and costs change regularly. It's no wonder that those responsible lose track of the situation and incur additional costs. Currently, Rise, DAAP and licensing by entitlement are hotly debated.
June 1, 2022
Data Management in the VUCA World of SAP
Globalization and digitization are driving the networking of business processes across many levels. The success or failure of business models depends on factors that are increasingly beyond our ability to influence and control.
SAP News
December 12, 2023
Gartner Predicts Key Technology Trends for 2024
These trends include topics such as AI, sustainability, and optimization. In addition, the labor shortage is a top concern for many companies. Gartner presents tools that organizations can use to combat this problem.
December 12, 2023
Fivetran receives Hitrust certification
The certification demonstrates that the Fivetran platform leverages multiple selected controls to provide a complete security program that comprehensively protects against current and emerging threats worldwide.
December 4, 2023
Cintas and Lemongrass complete SAP migration to the Google Cloud
The project offers lower costs and a faster, more secure and more stable data management platform with LCP Migrate
December 4, 2023
Netapp and AWS Deliver Performance Boost for Ontap
New Amazon FSx for Netapp Ontap Scale-Out File Systems help organizations migrate or expand data-intensive, high-performance workloads to the cloud
Business Management
September 19, 2017
The higher support level - public cloud computing
Companies can benefit from the public cloud without sacrificing individual performance requirements in IT operations. The ladder to heaven is a hybrid concept that combines infrastructure services from the public cloud with precisely tailored support services.
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September 18, 2017
Rather WannaSwitch than WannaCry
At the latest since the global ransomware attacks in spring 2017, SAP users have also been bombarded by IT vendors of almost all categories with offers of possible protective measures and rules of conduct - but only a few like Libelle BusinessShadow have been able to prove their effectiveness.
September 15, 2017
A clear case of cloud - e-procurement
Modern e-procurement solutions from the cloud create new opportunities for companies to
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September 13, 2017
Tracking down risks in customer code
An SAP failure can have serious consequences for Trumpf. For this reason, the Swabian machine manufacturer is pursuing targeted approaches to ensure smooth system operation. One of these is the use of the Virtual Forge CodeProfiler, which identifies risks in the Abap customer code.
IT Management
March 22, 2017
Far more open source than you think
Open source software is playing an increasingly important role in the SAP ecosystem. This is also demonstrated by the use of a large number of open source components at SAP itself, such as Android, Git, Java, Linux, Maven, MaxDB, OpenStack, Spring and hundreds of other components and projects.
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March 1, 2017
Digital app ecosystem in the enterprise
The SAP application landscape is changing rapidly. In addition to the classic transactional SAP systems, the user experience of the applications and the use of cloud platforms are increasingly coming to the fore. Through mobile technologies, Fiori UX, web apps and developments on the Hana Cloud Platform, the IT landscape in the S/4 environment is transforming into a hybrid, digital app ecosystem.
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March 1, 2017
Intelligent metering point operation
With the Act on the Digitization of the Energy Transition, the productive start of smart meters can get underway. Meter operators must establish complete process support for smart metering as quickly as possible. An efficient process design can be realized on the basis of SAP IS-U, the SAP IM4G add-on and a market communication component.
March 1, 2017
Hadoop & Co.: Trial and error welcome
Big Data presents IT managers with the challenge of constantly expanding their analytics skills to keep pace with ad hoc business requirements. And that's in addition to day-to-day business. With Big Data for IT, new technologies can be tried out and system operations optimized at the same time.
Economy
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July 1, 2016
Digital sovereignty
The German Digital Economy Association (BVDW) welcomes the German government's discussion of the issues essential to the digital economy and calls for the targeted promotion of digital technologies and business models.
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July 1, 2016
Gigabit Society
Is Germany in danger of falling into mediocrity? According to a recent study by IW Consult, Germany is strong in innovation, but has only average network speeds.
June 1, 2016
MES, CAQ, Industry 4.0 and SAP
The MES and CAQ software manufacturer Pickert & Partner GmbH from Pfinztal takes over Idos QMS from Karlsruhe retroactively as of January 1, 2016.
June 1, 2016
Customized cloud solutions
SVA and DARZ build joint portfolio for modular IT services.
E3 book tip
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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