E-3 Rubrik: Competence Center

Still up to date? When the CCC forum of the German-speaking user group was canceled last year, there was a great deal of uncertainty. Is there no such thing as SAP Basis anymore?

SAP's CCC/CCoE will determine the success of the S/4 conversion in the coming years, because only at the SAP base can the challenges regarding licenses, automation, staff shortages, monitoring, security and digital transformation be solved.

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But while SAP is celebrating the digital transformation with S/4 at one pole, existing customers are trying to keep the IT infrastructure and ERP architecture running at the other pole.

The term "complex systems" is no coincidence. Problems can arise in places that were - literally - not on the radar screen before. Observability brings the overview.

According to SAP's own figures, 87 percent of global trading volume is generated by SAP customers. SAP systems thus also dominate the software landscape in German-speaking countries.

If you don't want to pay for it, you have to start the S/4 transformation by 2025 at the latest. And even that only applies to projects lasting a maximum of two years. Whether it's a question of cost or time, the biggest risk is the data.

Volume frameworks and data structures are the basis of every successful business app. With this in mind, SAP has been trying to implement Gartner's data fabric paradigm for many years, first with Data Hub and now Datasphere.

Professional SAP license management offers companies a wide range of opportunities for optimization. SAP license management tools appear to be a simple solution to current challenges. But what do the tools realistically deliver today and what do the tool providers promise their customers?

Whether greenfield, brownfield or mixed-purple starfield, the data must be correct. And in the course of the SAP S/4 Hana project, as is well known, this data is migrated, copied or converted several times. Companies therefore need the certainty that this data is correct at all times - ideally with one click.

Infrastructure challenges were and are high for SAP Basis managers and employees in companies. Targeted automation solutions are in fact the only way to get a grip on the many tasks and activities.

Today, SAP forms the backbone of many companies across different industries. To ensure continuous business operations, the systems must be operated with high performance, security and as little downtime as possible.