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Digital transformation has been a concern for companies not just since the start of the pandemic. Only with the right technologies and an understanding of business processes can digitization offer real added value.
Jens Hinkelmann, Rödl & Partner
September 5, 2022
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This text has been automatically translated from German to English.

Make quality decisions 

The quality and speed of decisions made is decisive for the success of a company. Decisions are often made on the basis of intuition and experience. Data generated in the company by value creation processes and acquired from the market environment can help to objectify decisions and accelerate the decision-making process.

Underpinning decisions with appropriate data and information supports the intuition of one's own decisions and helps to prepare complex decision-making situations clearly. With the help of our developed CFO pyramid, we help you to make high-quality decisions.

ERP template in Germany: Successful roll-out 

The first step has been taken: Your SAP system has been successfully implemented in Germany. Now it's time to roll out to other countries - with various challenges: Depending on the country, there are different tax and legal requirements. In addition, cultural and economic conditions must be taken into account.

The greatest challenge is to filter out relevant aspects for the country concerned. It is advantageous for your company to have a partner who is familiar with both the specifics and the local language. With over 100 offices in 50 countries, Rödl & Partner takes into account the country-specific conditions to ensure that your roll-out is implemented successfully. 

ERP template - successful roll-out

Not all clouds are created equal

In the course of digitization, companies can no longer avoid one topic in particular: the cloud. An important point here is the choice between private and public cloud: companies in Germany place great trust in private cloud applications, not least because of data protection and legal aspects. Technical challenges also accompany companies: Harmonizing different solutions and managing different interfaces and technologies are just a few aspects.

In order to design the cloud journey optimally, medium-sized companies need a managed service provider that accompanies them from the beginning with the necessary understanding and takes care of the optimization of the processes in terms of a sensible coordinated architecture so that the business runs even more efficiently than before.

Human success factor

Only the combination of technology and people makes a project successful, because four out of five projects fail due to the fact that the people involved were not taken into account. That is why we have integrated both change management and customer success management as a fixed component of our implementation projects, ensuring that the key human factor is significantly involved in the project.

For the successful implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365, we developed "Rödl Evolve" - an agile implementation methodology that takes into account the above-mentioned characteristics, enables an early practical start of users in the system and ensures project success in four fixed phases.

Human success factor

Trusted Advisor 

Shortages of skilled workers, the streamlining of internal IT departments and increasingly complex IT infrastructures mean that companies often lack both the capacity and the expertise to fully master the complexity of hybrid system landscapes. In this context, managed service providers are evolving from operators and implementers to trusted advisors. Cooperation at eye level is indispensable for the success of the customer.

Functioning processes are the be-all and end-all

The success of a company is the symbiosis of the work results generated by man and system or machine at the end of a process. And it is precisely this symbiosis that business process management (BPM) is tasked with creating and ensuring.

Especially in small and medium-sized companies, the topic of process management is often underestimated and only considered necessary when what would have been simple at first suddenly becomes complex and very time-consuming. So when is the right moment to start with process management? Always! Because every day you let pass unused makes your competitor stronger. An experienced partner who supports companies in their digital transformation is an advantage.


The implementation or introduction of an ERP system, such as SAP S/4 Hana or Microsoft Dynamics 365, is a complex IT project with high investment costs. To ensure that the implementation succeeds in compliance and on target, your company can make use of the audit by IT auditors. Our IT auditors accompany the ERP implementation through to completion. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, technical, regulatory and legal requirements are taken into account, so that nothing stands in the way of project success and the associated customer satisfaction.

Designing ERP changeover securely
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Jens Hinkelmann, Rödl & Partner

Jens Hinkelmann, Head of Business and IT Consulting, Rödl & Partner.


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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.

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Event date

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

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Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

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

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Available until December 20, 2024

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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.