E-3 Rubrik: MAG 16-11

As part of the maintenance strategy, I am repeatedly asked how companies should design and plan the changeover to Solution Manager 7.2.

There are two sides to the SAP dilemma: The Sapphire and DSAG keynotes state that Ariba, SuccessFactors and Hybris are now Hana-based. In IT practice, the data transfer from ERP/ECC to Ariba is done by CSV file via NetWeaver PI.

Misspelling a person's name is undoubtedly a bad habit. At least one person will notice this act of disrespect. But what about company and product names? SAP's in-memory computing database Hana is a good example and topic of conversation in almost every issue of E-3 Magazine.

Digital platforms and their business models are conquering industry after industry, region after region, market after market. But Europe currently has hardly any part in this model of success. Experts are calling for an open Internet economy.

Bosch wants to remove one of the most important barriers to entry for smaller companies in the networked industry. The company is taking the initiative and presenting a new and open industry standard developed in-house for exchanging data in the networked industry.

Many SMEs in Austria have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to digitization and automation of accounting.

Who is bringing the topic of digitization to companies in the SME sector? According to a study, it is increasingly the specialist department.

The German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) has published two recommendations for action in the technology environment.

The Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) honors Bill McDermott as Entrepreneur of the Year.

The Bavarian state prize "KfW Award GründerChampions 2016" went to the Munich-based Big Data pioneers Celonis.

Today, no one can avoid digital transformation. SAP itself wants to make companies fit for the change by using the Hana platform. Analogously, however, a transition or change has also been taking place at another level for many years.

In the past, SAP surveys consisted of rather arbitrary distributions of license inventories to the best of our knowledge. Detailed classifications according to authorizations or actual usage behavior were never required.