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From left to right: Gerhard Kuppler, Vice President SAP Alliances, Oracle, and Kuen Sang Lam, Senior Director—Global SAP on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Technology, Oracle. In recent years, many black box systems have been replaced by hybrid architectures and composable IT. Oracle is at the forefront of this development with an extremely broad range of solutions.
The Coronavirus has caused considerable economic dislocation. The hope that the spook will end soon is understandable, but there could be more software audits on the part of the manufacturers in the period thereafter.
No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.
HR administrators can use Centric's master data check programs to check all master data from SAP HCM for errors.
The person who should be doing Operations is now doing Development at SAP. The world is upside down: Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller has disappeared and his colleague on the Executive Board, Chief Operation Officer Christian Klein, is doing his job.
For a long time, SAP was considered a closed system in a heterogeneous system environment. R/3 and even still ERP/ECC 6.0 feel comfortable on different platforms.
There can be no monoculture in the SAP community. SAP's success is based on a unique partner ecosystem, including database providers IBM and Oracle. SAP's existing customers have always preferred the choice.
I hear time and again from IT candidates that they are inundated with meaningless job offers from recruiters, especially via social media channels. Many headhunters do not pay enough attention to the job requirements of the client and the individual candidate profiles.
If you want to protect your SAP data from misuse, you also have to restrict access rights for SAP Basis administrators. Security tests at customers' sites reveal serious weaknesses in this area.
SAP seems to want to suspend the laws of economics: You eliminate your own innovations and try to overtake yourself - to the detriment of existing customers and the community.
Virtual Forge has created a starter package for the implementation of SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (SAP ETD) to counter attacks more quickly.
When it comes to digitization projects, new business models and new business processes play a key role, as do business integration and networking - fields of action in which Seeburger has long been one of the key players in the market and is continuously driving forward what has been achieved.

Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-66-24355460

Event date

Wednesday, June 10, and
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Early Bird Ticket

Regular ticket

EUR 390 excl. VAT
available until 1.10.2025
EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Subscribers to the E3 magazine
reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students*
reduced with promocode STStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
EUR 290 excl. VAT
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.