SAP Solution: Business Suite 7

SAP users who choose strictly between best-of-breed tools and suite solutions for SAP Basis automation solutions are missing out on optimization potential. It makes sense to use a suite as a "central point of management" with the integration of other tools.

SAP has publicly announced Business Suite 7 will remain in maintenance beyond 2025 - the deadline has been pushed back.

Where does the value creation of an ERP/CRM system take place? In the back office? In the higher-level business processes?

Now I'm also writing about the federal chairman of the Jusos, Kevin Kühnert, not just because everyone else is doing it, but because DSAG head Marco Lenck anticipated one of Kühnert's trains of thought many years ago:

There are "rumors" that yet another SAP customizing has hit the wall. Unfortunately, these reports are all too often true! The culprit is quickly found: SAP.

Hasso Plattner wants to lead his existing customers into the age of digital transformation. The ideas of what is innovative and what is digital diverge.

The realization is crystallizing in the SAP community that there is hardly any way around Hana and S/4. There will be a very hard deadline by 2030. Those who can't show a migration roadmap for Hana and S/4 this year will have a timing problem. SAP partner Data Migration Services has the answers. With the Board of Directors and...

"Yes, I said, Cebit, what's up? The time is ripe for new styles," says Jan Delay. The Cebit organizers think so too, by the way.

Allgeier ES board member Jörg Dietmann sees S/4 as a generational shift with major changes and opportunities for existing SAP customers. In an exclusive interview with E-3, he answers critical questions about the interaction between S/4 and Hadoop, as well as about machine learning and security in the Hana Cloud Platform.

It's more than a release upgrade, and SAP knows that about digital transformation. Nevertheless, with the latest ERP version and an in-memory computing database, it is trying to convince the SAP community that Hana, Fiori, Cloud and S/4 are sufficient.

There seems to be no way around Ariba or S/4 Hana in SAP-based purchasing. However, there are attractive alternatives for responding to the requirements of digitization in the short term.

There is always room for improvement, and working with SAP software is always subject to a learning curve. Were the many modifications really necessary?