SAP Solution: R2

The current headlines prove it: Anyone who takes the topic of data security lightly is risking their livelihood. However, securing business-critical data in the age of SAP S/4 Hana is anything but child's play. Andreas Opfer and Holger Hügel explain what companies should pay attention to today.

The clock is ticking: support for the current SAP Business Suite will end in 2025. At least 50,000 SAP user companies must have decided on an alternative by then - such as S/4 Hana, on-premise or from the cloud. German companies are still hesitant about the cloud.

License management can only be the beginning. IT is important and sustainable. IT is the engine of digital transformation. Thus, asset management is a central and important task. E-3 Editor-in-Chief Peter Färbinger spoke with KPMG Partner Carsten Lang and Senior Manager Florian Ascherl about the new challenges and special features of the SAP scene.

E-3 Round Table with Petra Ellmerich, Regional Vice President at BlackLine, Reimund H. Kuche, Head of Corporate Accounting at Imperial Logistics International, Dr. Christoph Ernst, Senior Director Finance Solutions at SAP, and Martin Wolleswinkel, Managing Director and European Advisory Practice Leader at The Hackett Group.

For decades, I was a fervent advocate of the monopoly benefits of the SAP ERP standard and the conviction that there was no real competition in terms of functional breadth, integration of process flows and consistent reporting.

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

What analysts predict for the IT scene is tradition for the SAP community. Schizophrenic thinking is an ERP survival strategy for the existing SAP customer.