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The Opinion of the SAP Community, MAG 24-05, Satire: The Last

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SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig is co-author of a book on the Business Technology Platform. The graphic below is offered as supplementary material.
E3 Magazine
16 May 2024
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SAP software used to be considered complex but manageable. Currently, the three-year consolidation and orchestration of in-house programs and cloud acquisitions by SAP CEO Christian Klein seem to have produced nothing more than a complicated monster, see graphic.

This unstructured conglomerate of functions, data and processes should not be expected of any existing SAP customer. Nevertheless, the three SAP board members Christian Klein, Thomas Saueressig and Jürgen Müller believe in the success of S/4 and the Treasury and Risk Management subsystem.

With this complexity and intricacy, S/4 becomes a self-sufficient system. The focus is no longer on the service provided by the software, but merely on the operational maintenance of the system itself. The focus is on mastering the system; whether meaningful and useful output is created in the end is no longer an issue.

However, if existing SAP customers are only concerned with maintaining and stabilizing a complicated ERP system, then the digital transformation will fall by the wayside.

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Transformation Backlog in the SAP Community

Clean core

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

More information will follow shortly.

Event date

Wednesday, May 21, and
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Early Bird Ticket

Available until Friday, January 24, 2025
EUR 390 excl. VAT

Regular ticket

EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, March 5, and
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Early Bird Ticket

Available until December 20, 2024

EUR 390 excl. VAT
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 2025, 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.