SAP-Solution: ECC-6.0

A few years ago, Yaskawa decided to standardize its heterogeneous ERP landscape across Europe on SAP. In the process, the service processes were also to be modernized and standardized through the introduction of a field service management solution.

Syniti (formerly BackOffice Associates) reports on Yell.com's SAP S/4HANA migration to Microsoft Azure Cloud

The disturbing sentence "Cloud only brings ERP into the dilemma" was on the cover of the DSAG member magazine. A wake-up call, but one that did not reach SAP Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert.

There is something masochistic about good consultants: they optimize and automate until they themselves are no longer needed either. The SAP Data Hub could have a similarly unpleasant effect on the rest of SAP's offering.

In order to test the improved procurement of S/4, there is the possibility to set up an S/4 system in front of the existing SAP landscape - and this without a cost-intensive project, change to Hana or burdening the key users.

With the introduction of Hana 2, the path to S/4 for existing SAP customers has become even more challenging. In this exclusive interview with E-3, Hinrich Mielke, Director of SAP at Alegri, outlines the advantages and disadvantages of possible changeover scenarios.

Since Concur was purchased by SAP, a lot has happened in terms of data exchange between the two system worlds. SAP is working hard to connect the solution to its systems. Many scenarios can already be mapped using native integration, as long as the right conditions are in place. Although new possibilities are constantly being added, companies are still facing a number of challenges.

There will not be a DB "Hana" monoculture. Executives from the SAP community confirm: An AnyDB strategy is being evaluated. With diplomatic words, an SAP defeat is transfigured into a success for the community: DB freedom of choice for all!

Regardless of the disasters and mistakes with Hana and S/4, SAP is determined to now build a Hana monoculture after years of R/3 pluralism - SAP is cleaning up its act. While SAP's cloud program becomes more and more chaotic: Amazon, Google, Microsoft or SAP itself?

SolMan 7.2 has the blues and S/4 is not developing homogeneously. SAP's global markets are heterogeneous, making a consolidated product development and roadmap difficult. In Europe, S/4 business is tentatively starting, in the U.S. they are stuck with R/3 and fixing with cloud services, and in Asia many systems are not under maintenance. SAP has the blues.

The title says it all, because the latest ERP system from Walldorf has a different architecture than its predecessors. One reason for this is, of course, Hana. SAP has tried to preserve what is good and enable innovations - but this does not make the "release change" any easier. Andreas Emhart and Hinrich Mielke from Alegri E-3 give an overview of the master plan for S/4....

SAP has embarked on the largest project in its more than forty-year history: the version change from a "black box" ERP to an open ERP with the in-memory computing platform Hana. For a Trusted Advisor like Atos, the key now is: enabling S/4 and Hana. Frank Scharpenberg, Head of SAP at Atos Germany, spoke about this with E-3 Editor-in-Chief Peter M. Färbinger.