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 November 2024
SAP Ambassador
Thomas Saueressig was brought onto the Executive Board by SAP CEO Christian Klein and entrusted with numerous new and important tasks following the recent reorganization.
Thomas Saueressig is currently the face of SAP, and not just at the DSAG Annual Congress.
E-world Energy & Water
January 21, 2025
Essen will be the meeting place for the energy industry from February 11 to 13, 2025. Exhibitors at E-World will showcase solutions for a climate-neutral future.
Small impact? AI Affects Others More
January 15, 2025
Austrian finance and insurance experts estimate that artificial intelligence will have a greater impact on others than on themselves.
Study on AI integration in DAX 40 companies
January 13, 2025
HTW Berlin has analyzed the integration of AI technologies in the DAX 40 companies.
For many companies, financial planning is the linchpin of operational accounting. It is a central control mechanism for liquidity and economic growth. This is because companies use financial planning to work out their liquidity requirements, calculate the opportunities and risks of investments and lay the foundations for competitiveness and future viability.
Eleven Billion Euros in Cyber Security
January 10, 2025
In 2024, spending on cyber security in Germany increased from 13.8 percent to 11.2 billion EUR.
SAP appoints Andreas J. Wagner as new Head of Austria
January 9, 2025
Andreas J. Wagner took over as Managing Director of SAP Austria at the beginning of 2025.
SAP Business Suite 2033
January 23, 2025
Members of the SAP community were surprised to read an announcement in the German business magazine Handelsblatt this week, which stated that there could be an ECC maintenance extension until 2033. If an adapted RISE with SAP contract is signed, SoH should be possible for several more years.
BTP From Hana, to AI to Clean Core
January 16, 2025
"Hello World" was programmed by SAP employee Raja Gupta in numerous programming languages and frameworks on SAP BTP to demonstrate the openness and flexibility of this platform (see community.sap.com). The SAP Cloud Application Programming Model will also be discussed at the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025 in Heidelberg, Germany.
AI Looks to SAP
January 9, 2025
ChatGPT from OpenAI is capable of providing rapid responses to a wide range of inquiries; however, it should be noted that the accuracy of these responses may not always be guaranteed. Specialized AI systems can be beneficial tools, as demonstrated by our experiment with a Google system based on the multimodal chatbot Gemini 1.5, which was fed four years’ worth of E3 Magazine’s articles.
RISE, Cloud, and Exit
December 19, 2024
A typical RISE with SAP contract is an agreement to provide full disclosure to the ERP market leader. Following a RISE conversion, the SAP customer has almost only obligations and hardly any rights. Will the EU provide assistance with the implementation of the Data Service Act?
Comments
January 9, 2025
The Five Trends That Will Define Cybersecurity in 2025
According to the report prepared by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) on the state of cybersecurity in the EU, the number of cybersecurity-related incidents will increase by 24 percent in 2025, with ransomware and DoS/DDoS attacks being the most common.
December 24, 2024
Pragmatism Vs. Plans in BTP
There is another way! We have worked intensively with SAP BTP and evaluated that BTP is far more autonomous than SAP officially presents it as with the S/4 roadmap. From a pragmatic perspective, BTP is also a robust platform for ECC 6.0.
December 20, 2024
Dual SAP Rise license
A Rise-with-SAP license is a multidimensional contract. SAP collects at least twice with a Rise contract without any claim to success.
December 16, 2024
Ansible - the news doesn't stop
Ansible is an established standard that is here to stay. However, in the SAP world, application possibilities, from accelerated Rise migration to faster implementation of innovations, are still underutilized.
Community News
January 21, 2025
E-world Energy & Water
Essen will be the meeting place for the energy industry from February 11 to 13, 2025. Exhibitors at E-World will showcase solutions for a climate-neutral future.
January 15, 2025
Small impact? AI Affects Others More
Austrian finance and insurance experts estimate that artificial intelligence will have a greater impact on others than on themselves.
January 13, 2025
Study on AI integration in DAX 40 companies
HTW Berlin has analyzed the integration of AI technologies in the DAX 40 companies.
For many companies, financial planning is the linchpin of operational accounting. It is a central control mechanism for liquidity and economic growth. This is because companies use financial planning to work out their liquidity requirements, calculate the opportunities and risks of investments and lay the foundations for competitiveness and future viability.
Business Management
December 19, 2024
Away with paper and Z programs: Digitized production with SAP DM
Paper-based processes can still be found in production - to the detriment of the environment and efficiency. Modern MES solutions such as SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM) provide a remedy here by helping companies to digitize their production processes more easily.
December 18, 2024
SAP security: Automated virtual patching
The new SecurityBridge feature provides real-time protection for unpatched SAP systems and increases efficiency and security.
December 17, 2024
Personnel deployment halved: nice SAP maintenance weekend
TÜV Süd with its 25,000 SAP users has recently started using the SAP Basis automation suite EPOS. The main benefits: a reduction in weekend staff deployment with the option of automating recurring downtimes and scheduled restarts outside regular working hours.
December 16, 2024
Global Template for Sales and Service
International business is of central importance for the mechanical engineering company Windmöller & Hölscher. To enable international reselling directly via the subsidiaries, W&H is introducing a global template for all sales and service entities with the support of cbs.
IT Management
December 23, 2024
Q3-2024 release: SAP Business AI for IT and platforms
Three months earlier than planned in our roadmap, SAP presented 100 functions for generative AI that can be used immediately in all SAP cloud applications.
December 5, 2024
UiPath Presents New Vision of the Future
UiPath presents Agent Builder, a tool for automation developers and business users to create, test, and publish agents.
November 21, 2024
When the hacker pretends to be a colleague: Preparing for cyber attacks through social engineering
A caller from the IT department who needs the password for a PC update, an email from the boardroom with a link to a website or a desperate text message from a colleague who can't access her computer - cyber criminals could be behind it all.
November 20, 2024
Data interoperability with Graph Engine
Common data foundation enables interoperability using a Data Integrity Suite to accelerate the delivery of trusted data for analytics and AI initiatives
Economy
August 14, 2024
Cyber insurance is the IT standard
The first cyber insurance policies for companies were offered in the DACH region a good ten years ago. Since then, the market has grown and the insurance offerings have matured considerably.
June 3, 2024
Are AI and Digitalization Our Saviors?
The many changes in business, technology, politics, and society can make you think. And the more innovations there are, the greater the desire for orientation and clarity.
March 26, 2024
CNT and Amazon Business: Partnership for SAP solutions
Preferred Partnership agreed for convenient procurement processes.
March 25, 2024
Natuvion and Adesso Orange intensify their cooperation
Natuvion Data Conversion Server. The SAP architects at Adesso Orange and the digital relocation specialist Natuvion have expanded their partnership.
E3 book tip
Quality management
with SAP S/4HANA
In this book, you will learn step by step how to map your QM processes in SAP S/4HANA and make the necessary customizing settings. The experienced team of authors explains the central master data and control instruments in QM. You will also learn about the new functions provided by SAP Extended Warehouse Management.
- Map all quality assurance processes in QM
- Inspection process, notifications and quality control
- Fiori apps and new features of SAP S/4HANA explained clearly
- With a new chapter on SAP Quality Issue Resolution
- Map all quality assurance processes in QM
- Inspection process, notifications and quality control
- Fiori apps and new features of SAP S/4HANA explained clearly
- With a new chapter on SAP Quality Issue Resolution
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