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.
New Partnership With Spryker Systems
April 22, 2024
Customers benefit from a holistic solution for new business models in the B2B and B2C environment.
SAP balance of innovation and risk management
April 19, 2024
Companies are facing various challenges and key issues in the digital transformation. The integration of AI and machine learning in particular is increasingly becoming an unavoidable trend.
Minsait Receives Recognition From SAP
April 19, 2024
Minsait has managed to generate the highest volume of business in Spain with its solutions and consolidate its position as a competent partner in the SAP universe.
NTT, Nvidia, and Red Hat
April 18, 2024
A jointly developed solution enables real-time analysis of large amounts of data with AI and reduces power consumption and latency.
Niels Northe Is Head of HCM at Natuvion
April 18, 2024
Natuvion has brought SAP and HCM specialist Niels Northe on board as Head of Human Capital Management (HCM).
New Partnership Between Datamation and xSuite
April 17, 2024
The aim is to enter into strategic alliances with technological market leaders in order to offer innovative IT solutions.
Hana's light and shadow
September 13, 2019
The SAP community looks at the eternal construction site of the SAP database Hana with one laughing and one crying eye.
Doubling
September 6, 2019
What is a globe? A very reduced and simplified model of our world. The globe is therefore a duplication of the earth on the basis of well-defined parameters.
Monoculture
August 30, 2019
Under Bill McDermott, SAP has become a successful monoculture. What sounds like "fake news" at first glance becomes obvious when a critical comparison is made with the Kagermann era. But who can still remember the former SAP CEO Professor Henning Kagermann?
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
1 February 2022
Decompilation and intellectual property
Spiegel reported on the dark side of SAP in issue 46/2021 on page 62. The authors suspect the theft of intellectual property and accuse the ERP world market leader of unfair competition.
31 January 2022
Facts, facts, facts
The legendary Focus co-founder and editor-in-chief Helmut Markwort coined: Facts, facts, facts and think of the readers. For SAP CEO Christian Klein, it's facts, facts, facts, and thinking of the community.
January 24, 2022
Duty to cooperate
Pulling the ERP cart out of the mud again has always required good SAP roadmaps and the initiative of existing customers.
January 20, 2022
A reason to celebrate
For many SAP users, the switch to Hana is accompanied by a move to Linux. The operating system, which recently turned 30, opens up a huge ecosystem of open source solutions.
SAP News
August 22, 2023
SAP Startup Spotlight Series: goFlux
E3 Magazine has selected the most exciting startups to feature in our SAP Startup Spotlight Series. In today's installment, we feature goFlux, which offers a freight trading platform and related products.
Commerz Real is the first German asset manager to successively convert all key business processes to S/4. And it is doing so in combination with the integration and development platform SAP Business Technology Platform.
August 15, 2023
MES and MII support
The SAP user group DSAG has achieved that SAP extends the maintenance for the manufacturing solutions Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII) until the end of 2030.
August 14, 2023
Swiss Federal Railways Drives Cloud Migration With Red Hat
Red Hat Consulting helps rail company move mission-critical applications to new cloud environment with Red Hat AMQ Streams
Business Management
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February 1, 2017
There is no way around a new R/4
For decades, I was a fervent advocate of the monopoly benefits of the SAP ERP standard and the conviction that there was no real competition in terms of functional breadth, integration of process flows and consistent reporting.
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February 1, 2017
Complex foreign trade
Global export control and efficient customs management in foreign trade are complex tasks. Many prohibitions and restrictions have to be taken into account. It is an area without added value, critical from a professional and technical point of view - in other words, an ideal outsourcing topic. In the meantime, there are also offers for this on the SAP market. But how can companies evaluate and use such an option for themselves?
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February 1, 2017
Gummy bears from the 3D printer
Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the food industry. The initial skepticism has largely been overcome. Customized packaging "off the shelf" is already in vogue. Recently, the first restaurant with 3D printers for additive food manufacturing opened in London.
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February 1, 2017
The magic stairs in the castle SAP
Is SAP financing its new strategy through hidden price increases for existing customers? Some people are reminded of Harry Potter when they try to find their way unscathed up the magical stairs in Hogwarts Castle - but they suddenly and unexpectedly change direction.
IT Management
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July 1, 2016
Big Data Business Club networks data experts
The Fraunhofer Big Data Alliance has created a nationwide platform for cross-industry networking and collaboration.
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July 1, 2016
Opportunity constraint
By 2025, SAP customers will have to switch to Hana if they want to use Business Suite S/4. This is no easy task, because the changeover often means a fundamental change in the IT infrastructure. What initially sounds like a lot of risks and stumbling blocks offers notable advantages.
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June 1, 2016
Does Hana need Flash?
The question of whether flash storage is worthwhile for an in-memory technology such as Hana comes up again and again in discussions with customers. In fact, there are many reasons to rely on flash here.
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June 1, 2016
SAP standard does not deliver processes
There is a lot of talk about "processes" in the SAP environment: business processes, business process monitoring, software development processes, software maintenance processes, transport processes, migration processes. But what is behind the term?
Economy
September 1, 2015
Group sisters with joint market presence
Nionex is merged with Bertelsmann Group sister Arvato Systems S4M. The two companies now operate jointly on the market as Arvato Systems and offer their customers seamlessly integrated digital communications services, from conception to international rollout.
September 1, 2015
Distribution partnership for disaster recovery
Libelle and Infolytics have entered into a cooperation for the distribution of Libelle products and services around the asynchronous data mirroring software DBShadow.
September 1, 2015
China's Industry 4.0 Patents
Fraunhofer IAO has analyzed Chinese patent activities for Industry 4.0. China has applied for important patents and will get sovereignty over production data in the future.
September 1, 2015
Digitization - A megatrend with consequences
Digitization is one of a number of economic megatrends that have influenced the global economic system since the beginning of the 19th century and are also known as Kondratieff cycles in innovation research.
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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