SAP Solution: R/3

If a company is willing to give a one hundred percent bonus on paid services to retain a customer, then customers should start thinking about the future.

SAP CEO Christian Klein wants to focus on ERP, the core strength of the ERP world market leader. This focus is honorable, but of little help to SAP's customers. The B2B world is more than just ERP.

SAP's authorization concept has been a challenge for the SAP Basis team since the beginning, because it has to be done quickly at the beginning of customizing and downstream no one wants to maintain the roles and authorizations.

SAP has taken a wrong turn: Instead of consolidating menus, screen masks and processes, a ChatGPT-like voice input is to be put over the disastrous UI. Why does SAP always start solving problems from the wrong side?

The end of ECC 6.0 and R/3 is clearly on the horizon. However, the exact date seems to be a challenge for SAP. What is clear, however, is that support for the previous SAP core systems will be discontinued in a few years.

ANWR succeeded in implementing S/4 Public Cloud in just 18 months - thanks to agile waves with clearly defined goals. In addition to the cloud-first approach of the ANWR Group, the possibility of using standard processes and complying with legal requirements spoke in favor of the public cloud.

Most information technology transformations can only succeed if business processes (algorithms) and the business information of the organizational and operational structure (data structures) are consolidated, harmonized, orchestrated and ultimately transformed.

Many roads lead to Rome, they say. For many years, the challenge for SAP legacy customers has been to harmonize, synchronize and orchestrate their data inventory. Now there are numerous paths to success for this task, but not all of them can be taken at the same time.

About twenty years ago, we had a cartoon in E-3 magazine that showed the ancient hero Sisyphus standing at the foot of the mountain with his stone to roll up forever, only to have it rumble back down from the top.

In the SAP R/3 era, the Customer Competence Center, CCC, was a great success. Certified existing SAP customers were able to save parts of the annual maintenance fee and thus cross-subsidize the CCC operation.

According to SAP, there are currently more than 10,000 productive S/4 systems. The proportion of R/3 to S/4 migrations thus already provides sufficient empirical data on some key issues that are underestimated.

System copies are a regular task in the SAP data center and there are numerous tools for this. But here the question arises: Can a complete SAP system be copied and then reused on a new domain for new tasks?