SAP Solution: maintenance

The next Maintenance will be held in Dortmund on February 12 and 13, 2020, and will provide valuable impetus around future top maintenance topics.

IT not as a vicarious agent, but as a process driver - with this mindset and SAP S/4 as a basis, the Weig Group has set out to master the digital transformation. One important goal: greater efficiency and transparency for business processes.

For many years, the Swiss electronics retail chain Interdiscount has relied on SAP ERP throughout the company and also has a document archive in use. Since the old archive solution was very license and maintenance intensive, they were looking for an efficient system.

Maintenance for SAP Solution Manager 7.1 will end at the end of 2017. IT users should now use the remaining time to make the switch promptly.

A separate office building will be constructed in Leipzig by September 2017 for around 80 of the total of 190 employees.

The digital transformation is also changing the role of the Business Warehouse (BW) in the company. The new BW/4 Hana shows what a BW of the future could look like. But questions remain unanswered.

There is hardly an IT topic where theoretical possibilities and everyday reality are further apart than Industry 4.0, but manufacturing companies are coming under pressure from several sides.

Sympatex, the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech functional materials, sources SAP maintenance services for its ERP deployment from third-party provider Rimini Street. E-3 spoke with CIO Hasso Ercelebi about the reasons for turning its back on vendor support and relying on Rimini Street, as well as the experience gained with the global SAP third-party maintenance provider.

Business processes in banks are largely IT-based. As a result, internal IT organizations face the challenge of mastering the complex application landscapes in order to meet the high demands for quality, cost-effectiveness and flexibility.