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Successful planning and budgeting requires insights based on accurate data. Gaining this insight can be difficult, however — organizations often rely on outdated processes that do not deliver timely, accurate insights. Discover how a business planning approach that focuses on consolidating data, modeling forecasts, and automating budgets can help you develop reliable reports and improve your business planning and budgeting processes.
Many users view SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 as interchangeable, but there is an important distinction between the two: SAPUI5 is one of the underlying technologies that can be used with SAP Fiori, while SAP Fiori is more than just a technology. It’s a design concept intended to produce the optimal user experience (UX). This article explores exactly what SAP Fiori is, what makes it stand out from other UX offerings, and what the recent release of SAP Fiori 2.0 means for your business.
Cybersecurity is a topic that’s at the forefront of every business these days. Companies want to know how to keep their infrastructures secure — especially SAP customers, as they begin to move to new technologies like SAP HANA. During a recent SAPinsider Live Q&A, Jason Delaune, SAP Solution Lead at Hitachi, and José Betancourt, Senior Architect at SUSE, answered questions from attendees regarding encryption, security maintenance, patch updates, and more.
Below is an abridged transcript of the SAPinsider Live Q&A conversation where Jason and José discussed best practices for protecting SAP HANA infrastructures. The full transcript is available on SAPinsider Online at bit.ly/ProtectHANA.
With all the advances in the SAP space since the advent of SAP HANA, the many cloud-based offerings, and most recently SAP Leonardo, many wonder about the future of the ABAP programming language. During a recent SAPinsider Live Q&A, Faisal Altaf, SAP Technical Division Head at Al Yamamah Steel Industries Co., shared how even with technology like SAP Fiori as a front end, ABAP coding will always be used on the back end. Below is an abridged transcript of the SAPinsider Live Q&A conversation during which Faisal shared tips for designing queries, forms, and dashboards. The full transcript is available on SAPinsider Online at bit.ly/ABAPdevChat.
Data corruption, component failures, and power outages are just a few examples of major issues that IT departments must be prepared for at any given moment. In the event of system downtime, organizations must have a proper disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) strategy in place to minimize the business impact. But how can organizations ensure failover and fallback procedures run smoothly? During a recent SAPinsider Live Q&A, Peter Schinagl, Technical Architect, and Markus Gürtler, Technical Alliance Manager SAP Global Alliance at SUSE, answered questions from attendees regarding DR and HA scenarios for SAP HANA infrastructure, automation solutions for failover, system replication, and more.
This is an abridged transcript of the SAPinsider Live Q&A conversation where Peter and Markus discussed best practices for DR and automated failover clusters for SAP HANA infrastructure. The full transcript is available on SAPinsider Online at bit.ly/HAandDRscenarios.
As more and more customers are moving to SAP S/4HANA Finance, they have many questions about how to prepare for the transition and about how the company’s finance and closing processes will be affected. During a recent SAPinsider Live Q&A, Dr. Christoph Ernst, Global Solution Owner for Accounting and Financial Close Solutions at SAP, and Steve Stechschulte, Senior Solutions Consultant at BlackLine, answered questions from attendees regarding integration, analytics, automation, and more.
Below is an abridged transcript of the SAPinsider Live Q&A conversation where Christoph and Steve discussed what changes to expect with the move to SAP S/4HANA Finance and how BlackLine can help. The full transcript is available on SAPinsider Online at bit.ly/MaximizeYourMove.
As enterprise infrastructures become more complicated by mixtures of on-premise, cloud, and hybrid technologies, simplicity is becoming more important. An emerging need is for an enterprise cloud built on “hyperconverged” infrastructure, one in which a variety of technologies, including virtualized solutions, can be accessed from a single point. Find out how a simplified hyperconverged environment that includes virtualized SAP workloads can consolidate companies’ data center footprints and provide easier migrations and management and improved performance and availability.
The success of any business depends on attracting, hiring, and retaining the best people. A bias-free approach that puts candidates and their experience first is key to a diverse, high-performing workforce, and an engaging user experience is crucial to employee satisfaction. Learn how SAP SuccessFactors applications help organizations become digital HR leaders by providing them with guidance, direction, and recommendations that put employee experience first and enabling them to create personal engagement in the workplace.
To stand out in today’s fast-moving marketplace, businesses need to be able to change and adapt at a higher speed than ever. The resulting pace of change can outrun traditional manual and automated testing, leaving enterprises with a difficult choice between risk and innovation. Effective regression testing delivers the confidence and security needed to maintain business continuity and deliver innovation. However, traditional approaches to regression testing can take weeks to run, and months or years to prepare. Learn about Testimony, a new solution from Basis Technologies that employs Robotic Test Automation (RTA) to dramatically increase scope, decrease cost, and reduce time needed for regression testing in SAP landscapes.
As companies are shifting to a Value as a Service (VaaS) model, the focus becomes less on the delivery model and more on the value delivered. Effectively delivering VaaS requires a partnership between vendors and customers, one that is outcome-based, rather than a negotiated, transactional exchange of goods and services for money – and where both parties are empowered to support each other as well as hold each other accountable for achieving measurable, agreed-upon results. This model also requires a strong company culture that can support employees in making the necessary mind shift. Find out if your company is ready to deliver VaaS.
While strategic HR remains essential, a new approach known as sustainable HR is taking on an increasingly central role as digital business needs and new expectations force organizations to evolve rapidly. A sustainable HR mindset helps organizations establish a culture that fosters technological innovation, enables the ability to quickly adapt to unforeseen disruption, and attracts top talent. Learn how SAP solutions help organizations embrace sustainable HR to stay ahead of the curve and be ready for the workforce of the future.
The new digital reality, rife with increasing competition and a rapid rate of change, demands the reinvention of existing business models — and sooner rather than later. What if you could not only successfully navigate a swift transition to this new business reality, but also thrive in it? Learn how SAP Digital Business Services helps organizations accelerate their digital journey with SAP MaxAttention — a holistic, strategic engagement with SAP that provides organizations with the experts, services, methods, and tools needed to succeed in a digital business landscape.
Developers play a crucial role in helping SAP customers succeed. To help both SAP and non-SAP developers create and innovate successfully with SAP software, openness is at the core of SAP’s software development strategy. Learn how SAP is supporting and working in partnership with developers to help businesses run better, and how the 2017 SAP TechEd events are designed to be both relevant and accessible to the developer community.
Machine learning is a compelling opportunity for businesses to make intelligent business decisions based on instant, data-driven insights, and retailers are finding this technology to be a natural fit. Machine learning enables retailers to connect fashion trends to actual sales and inventory levels using predictive analytics, ensuring that they always have the right items in the right locations to reach the right customers. Learn how SAP Leonardo Machine Learning and SAP CoPilot together provide the support retailers need to make better business decisions in real time.
Cybercrime is not some theoretical threat — it is a real and growing issue for companies of all shapes and sizes. With trends such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, a growing number of connected devices, and the use of personally identifiable information for analytics, data in the digital economy is valuable, plentiful, and vulnerable from myriad angles. Learn how the built-in security features of SAP HANA can help you avoid cyber threats with a secure digital platform that can also be complemented by a variety of specialized security and governance solutions.
In a world of constant transformation and reinvention, SAP continues to be a market leader in digital technologies. This holds true in Silicon Valley, where the west coast offices of SAP North America face unique challenges and opportunities from operating in the cradle of innovation. To stay one step ahead of the competition, SAP is focusing on promoting transformational opportunities for its customers.
This is the environment that John McGee, Managing Director, West Region, SAP North America, found when he joined the team in November 2016. SAPinsider recently sat down with him to discuss everything from his experiences with customers to the culture within SAP that powers its success.
Companies are increasingly realizing the enormous value that can be extracted from connecting people, products, and assets in a collaborative network that provides a real-time, operational view of the business. The mission and purpose of the SAP Leonardo portfolio is to help SAP customers realize this value and change thought into action by capturing sensor data in real time and using it to drive new business processes and models. Here, SAP’s Hans Thalbauer, Senior Vice President, IoT and Digital Supply Chain, explains how SAP Leonardo fuels digital innovation by delivering sensor data in a business context, a key ingredient in an organization’s transition from producing things to outcomes.
SAP Leonardo burst on the scene as an Internet of Things (IoT) platform — but it has become much more. In this exclusive interview with SAPinsider, SAP’s Thomas Ohnemus, Vice President of Solution Marketing, IoT and Digital Supply Chain, and Richard Howells, Vice President, IoT and Digital Supply Chain, discuss how SAP Leonardo now represents a system of innovation and intelligence that can work together with a company’s system of record to propel it into the future as a digital enterprise.
In a digital supply chain, design, manufacturing, asset management, and finished products all come together in an uninterrupted, real-time loop to meet customer expectations for immediacy and customization. To achieve this, formerly siloed domains and processes must come closer together and become agile enough to meet individual demands. Learn how product design, manufacturing, and asset management are changing in modern supply chains, and how by combining IoT sensor data and other unstructured source data with business data, organizations can make real-time decisions based on current conditions to satisfy changing customer needs.
Delivering the products customers want, when and where they want them, requires a delicate balance between demand planning, response, and execution — a balance that is complicated in modern supply chains by evolving customer expectations for speed and personalization. The traditional supply chain planning and execution tools still deployed in many organizations are simply not built for the speed and agility demands of the digital age. Learn how SAP supports modern supply chains with solutions that go beyond traditional approaches to planning and execution, using innovative technologies to enable real-time insight and responsiveness.
SAP HANA is more than just an in-memory database — it integrates data access, advanced analytical processing and application development in a single platform — and is a compelling option for companies seeking to gain an edge in a highly competitive economy. Despite its advantages, however, some may be hesitant to explore an SAP HANA implementation due to concerns about the potential resource investments involved. Learn how SAP HANA, express edition, offers developers, analysts, and data engineers a simplified version of the software that allows them to create innovative applications without expensive hardware configurations or not-yet-needed features.
In the digital economy, communication is everything — whether it’s people to people, people to machine, or machine to machine. Intelligent interconnectivity among all people and things across an organization can drive better efficiencies and deeper insights for smarter business. Learn how the SAP Digital Interconnect team, an integrated business unit within SAP Digital Business Services, provides customers with an efficient, secure, and effective connection among people and things that transfers data around the organization optimally, enabling businesses to gain a competitive edge and thrive in the digital world.
As new technologies continue to emerge, organizations must consider how best to harness these innovations to meet their most pressing needs and drive their business forward. Connecting with peers to share successes, deployment strategies, and technology recommendations is invaluable to making the best possible decision for your business, and this type of collaborative setting is the foundation on which DSAG is built. Learn how DSAG fosters a cooperative relationship with its members and with SAP to help organizations solve their business challenges and find the answers they need to be successful.
Businesses are experiencing a period of data hyper-growth, and are under increasing pressure to find a way to store and leverage unstructured data from disparate sources with their enterprise transactional data. With SAP HANA as its foundational core, SAP Universal Data Management powered by SAP HANA helps businesses solve this big data challenge by allowing the separation of storage and computational capabilities. Learn how a bimodal IT framework built on SAP HANA allows companies to leave transactional systems of record untouched while taking advantage of innovative analytics.
SAP HANA is here to stay — it is the default, in-memory database underlying every new analytic and transaction system of record delivered by SAP, including SAP S/4HANA. This means that SAP HANA will factor into future plans of nearly every SAP customer. Making any kind of move to a new technology can be a cause for anxiety, however. Learn how organizations can alleviate any concerns they might have about moving to SAP HANA by first taking it for a test drive using their own data, so they can see exactly how their deployment will run.
Any company moving to SAP HANA or SAP S/4HANA must have a strategy in place for managing data — especially organizations who will be converting their existing SAP systems. While data management best practices for SAP systems recommend reducing the size of existing systems to reduce the cost and complexity of a conversion, different strategies can be used depending on a variety of factors. Learn how to choose the right data management strategy to ensure a successful conversion to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA.
With a steady influx of data coming into organizations from new and non-traditional sources, businesses are seeking ways to gain insight into this data that can be used for a competitive edge. SAP HANA provides a firm foundation for harnessing structured and unstructured data and enabling the analytics that support better decision making. Learn how a scalable, end-to-end, big data and analytics platform for SAP Vora and SAP HANA extends these analytic capabilities to help organizations gain the contextual awareness they need to turn insight into action.
Monetization is the end goal for all data use — organizations must find a way to leverage data to either reduce costs or gain new revenue. To effectively monetize the growing volumes of data in modern business landscapes, organizations need a comprehensive strategy that is scalable, flexible, and able to synthesize internal and external data to derive unique insights. Learn how to build this strategy with a data governance platform that centers on SAP HANA and enables you to effectively use data by discovering, contextualizing, and measuring data sources.
For many organizations, SAP HANA has become a critical component of the move toward digitization, serving as a platform for next-generation solutions such as SAP S/4HANA and providing speed and power as a database for traditional SAP applications. Running SAP HANA on an outdated server platform can limit the benefits it can provide, however. Learn how deploying SAP HANA on the right server enables the high availability, scalability, reliability, and memory support required to meet the demands of a digital business.
As organizations map out a path forward for their business, many are including a move to SAP S/4HANA in their plans. There are several considerations involved in choosing the right migration approach, however. Is your organization ready for a direct migration to SAP S/4HANA, or would it make more sense to first migrate to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA? Learn how to choose the best approach for your business, and set up your organization for a successful deployment, by examining the business implications of these two options.
The digital economy is awash in new, interconnected technologies that are driving exponential data growth and creating new, digital business models. While businesses can struggle to extract value from these developments, those that are prepared are well positioned to take advantage of the significant opportunities they present. Learn three ways SAP HANA makes large data loads and complex business models easier to manage and process, enabling organizations to seize business opportunities in the digital economy.
Every single data area processed in SAP HANA is highly sensitive. To safeguard against security threats, SAP HANA includes a built-in feature that encrypts the vast majority of accrued data, known as data volumes, on the SAP HANA server’s hard drive. But what about the log files that record ongoing changes to the SAP HANA database and are used to restore data in the event of an error, such as a system failure? Learn how to extend the direct encryption capabilities provided for data volumes to include log volumes using a remote data center encryption function.
Many businesses are actively involved in migrating to SAP S/4HANA, which is becoming the core for all data-driven processes in SAP environments. To ensure a smooth migration to SAP S/4HANA, organizations must ensure that data from legacy systems is clean, accurate, and organized to reflect how it will be used in the new system. Learn why including business users — who know which data is mission-critical and exactly how it is being used — is critical to ensuring the data quality and accuracy required for a successful transition to SAP S/4HANA.
The digital economy is changing the way companies do business, including how they manage billing, which is a critical point of contact between an organization and its customers. A smooth invoicing process paves the way to prompt payment and a satisfied customer. If something goes wrong, however, organizations risk a costly cycle of phone calls, emails, complaints, and potentially lost revenue due to customer dissatisfaction. Learn how to minimize this risk by using SAP Operational Process Intelligence — an SAP HANA-based solution that delivers real-time insight into processes across your landscape — to monitor and optimize your end-to-end SAP Hybris Billing process.
As the volume of data collected by organizations continues to increase, so too do regulations designed to protect data from misuse, particularly when it comes to personal data. One of these is the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into full effect on May 25th, 2018, and has global implications — it applies to any company that processes the personal data of people in the EU, whether or not that company is physically located within the EU. Learn how basic technical features and security safeguards included with SAP Business Suite applications help you comply with key areas of the GDPR data protection legislation and avoid the risk of steep fines due to violations.
SAP customers have long been able to tailor SAP standard applications to their needs using various extension options, such as predefined extension points and modifications. SAP S/4HANA and the cloud, however, bring with them demands such as rapid onboarding and software update cycles, requiring a new framework for extending applications. This article introduces the extensibility framework delivered with SAP S/4HANA 1511 and 1610. It explains the different extensibility approaches and walks through an example of using in-app extensibility — an approach that enables users to add features to applications using intuitive, web-based tools, without diving into the full details of the underlying code.
Today, companies face enormous pressure to digitize the business and deliver on evolving customer expectations. To do so, organizations are increasingly leveraging cloud technology, but moving off their legacy on-premise infrastructure can be a complex and time consuming process. With SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, companies can accelerate the roadmap to innovation and bypass many implementation and infrastructure challenges along the way. Learn how SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud can free companies from the traditional management and maintenance tasks associated with running an on-premise environment and how it can serve as a jumping-off point to experience SAP solutions.
Inspiration — combined with vision, creativity, and tenacity — can help companies of all sizes chart a course toward becoming the next big thing in business. Of course, inspiration alone is not enough. Technology has an increasing role to play in a company’s growth potential. The right technology decision, made early in the life of a company, can help pave the way for future success. Hear how SAP and its partners are actively working to help small and midsize companies around the world leverage analytics and the cloud to innovate business models and turn their inspiration into reality.
As organizations continue their digital transformation journey, new opportunities are emerging for SAP customers of all sizes. Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) are rapidly embracing digitization strategies and are just as likely to adopt cloud models as those in the large enterprise segment. These companies rely not only on SAP products and solutions, but also on its partners. Hear how through SAP’s Partner-First approach, SMEs are and gaining the right technology and capability for high growth needed to thrive in the digital economy and turn their cloud strategies into reality.
Digital technologies are reshaping the world around us, including how companies operate. Mobility, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and other innovations have shifted how companies, customers, partners, and employees interact. Organizations will therefore need to embrace new ways of working and harness their business networks. Learn how SAP plans on keeping the customer at the center of everything by offering access to a broad array of solutions and technologies to help businesses use emerging technologies to generate greater value for their customers today and into the future.
In the business world, innovation is never-ending. And with digital transformation affecting businesses everywhere, innovation is essential. Co-innovation and partnerships with digital transformation leaders can help companies avoid being disrupted. The resulting innovations enhance the capabilities of SAP’s partner and customer ecosystem by delivering a diverse network of expertise and best-in-class technologies and platforms. Hear how the SAP App Center provides a place where partners and customers can connect and transact business, simply and seamlessly.
Many companies today are finding themselves in need of guidance when it comes to tackling their biggest business challenges. With the help of its partner ecosystem, SAP is working to support customers in overcoming these issues. For example, take SAP’s global alliance with United VARs. United VARs received a 2017 SAP Pinnacle Award for Special Recognition Partner of the Year for demonstrating outstanding abilities in developing innovative solutions. Read this Q&A with Detlef Mehlmann, Managing Director of United VARs, to hear his thoughts on the network’s achievements and future goals.
The problem for companies embarking on digital transformation is that they often focus on simply becoming faster, rather than truly transforming their business. This is because they are too intent on meeting day-to-day operational needs rather than driving innovation. Emerging technologies are rapidly evolving market demands, shifting customer expectations, and, in some cases, upending entire industries. Learn how SAP Leonardo capabilities enable companies to innovate rapidly, and scale that innovation by embedding it into all applications and business processes to help companies make this transformation possible.
Finding the right consulting services can be a costly and time-consuming task — but for SAP customers that need only routine, limited-scope services, it doesn’t have to be. SAP Store offers packaged digital services that can be discovered, purchased, and provisioned completely online. Learn how a digital approach to consulting services delivers rapid results at a low cost, and helps companies embrace the digital economy.
The Internet of Things (IoT) offers an opportunity for organizations to digitally transform their business. To help SAP customers get started on this path, SAP offers SAP IoT Application Enablement, express edition, which allows developers to build and pilot IoT applications that can be quickly scaled through a consumption-based pricing model. Learn how the express edition of SAP IoT Application Enablement uses a pay-as-you-go approach to enable organizations to harness the power of IoT in their applications.
The impact digitization has had on business is immeasurable, and new opportunities continue to arise. Organizations traveling down this road expect market leaders such as SAP and its partners to help them navigate the digital economy. But as innovation bounds forward, SAP customers must feel confident that their core ERP systems remain stable in the face of change. Read on to hear why now is the time to explore new business processes and routes to market and how increased agility, improved interoperability, and scalable licensing can help organizations forge a path forward.
With the pace of innovation accelerating, companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how to solve the problem of bimodal IT — keeping their current IT operations running while adopting innovative new technologies that can help companies succeed in the digital economy. SAPinsider recently spoke with Mike Flannagan, SAP’s Senior Vice President, Product Strategy and Product Management, Analytics, about this problem, and how SAP complements systems of record with its system of intelligence, SAP Leonardo.
As IT organizations seek a more strategic role in businesses, data center administrators are on the front lines. They’re asked to do more with less while having to cope with big data. To help with these duties, SAP IT Operations Analytics offers a holistic view across the entire data center landscape with fast day-to-day maintenance and support operations so that administrators can spend more time strategically helping the business. Read on to hear how when integrated with Lenovo appliances, SAP IT Operations Analytics can give customers the ability to monitor their Lenovo server landscape as well as everything else — all in a single tool.
When SAP customers struggle with the implementation of a new business intelligence (BI) tool, it’s rarely because of the tool itself. In most cases, the issue is user reluctance to adopt the technology — users will only use a new BI tool if they are certain that it serves their needs. Learn about a six-step methodology that provides systematic and repeatable best practices for increasing end-user adoption and ensuring a successful BI implementation.
Cybersecurity is top of mind for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) professionals for one clear reason: The value of data is growing. Some might think technology alone is the solution to cyberattacks. And while solutions like SAP Enterprise Threat Detection do a great job at mitigating these risks, a more holistic GRC approach is the only way for companies to protect themselves in the digital age. Hear how a strong GRC program takes a holistic approach to risk management, fraud monitoring, and access governance by leveraging the three lines of defense to provide a strategic benefit to the company.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — a new data privacy regulation in Europe — will affect any organization that handles the personal data of EU residents, regardless of whether it is located in the EU. With the regulation going into effect in May 2018, and stiff fines for non-compliance, now is the time to establish a process for adherence. Learn how SAP customers can ensure compliance with the GDPR by focusing on four critical areas: policies, procedures, protocol, and people.
The introduction of SAP Fiori has been a game-changer for SAP applications. And with more organizations making the move to SAP S/4HANA, the SAP Fiori interface will continue to see increased adoption. However, understanding how to maintain access controls and segregation of duties (SoD) over SAP Fiori applications can be challenging. Read on to hear how integrating SAP Fiori applications into SoD activities will be essential in managing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), and why companies must rework their SoD risk analysis processes to gain complete visibility across the environment.
SAP systems are high-value targets for sophisticated cyberattacks — they contain treasure troves of sensitive data. While many companies have robust antivirus programs in place to defend against such attacks, most have certain limitations that can prevent them from fully protecting SAP systems. Learn where the security gaps exist with traditional antivirus software, and how to bridge them to keep your SAP systems secure.
Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus solutions may not fully protect SAP systems against advanced cyberattacks. However, the answer to SAP customers’ security questions may be closer than they realize. SAP Solution Manager 7.2 includes safety measures that organizations can immediately leverage. Learn how these five integrated applications — Service Level Reporting (SLR), Dashboard Builder, System Recommendations, Interface and Connection Monitoring (ICMon), and Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) — can safeguard SAP systems against cyber threats.
SAP’s solutions for identity management and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) provide a powerful, integrated toolset for managing SAP accounts and authorizations. In some cases, however, users may have too many authorizations or licensing needs that exceed current agreements. Learn how using compliant identity management (CIM) practices in combination with SAP Identity Management and SAP GRC solutions enables you to better monitor authorizations and manage licensing.
Efficient integration and seamless data exchange are critical in a digital business landscape that spans a growing network of integrated systems and applications. Organizations must find the best way to manage the entire interface life cycle — from implementation through ongoing maintenance and operations. Learn how SAP Application Interface Framework 3.0 not only provides an effective way to monitor, analyze, and manage your existing application interfaces, but also enables you to quickly and easily build and deploy new interfaces, helping to improve governance across your system landscape.
Security is a major concern for anyone considering a move to the cloud ― along with the benefits of digitizing come increased risks due to code vulnerabilities, missing implementation of security patches, and misconfigurations, among others. So how do you make a successful transition to the digital economy without compromising your business? Learn how SAP minimizes risks with a comprehensive strategy that ensures the highest levels of security for SAP Cloud Platform.
As the longtime foundation for SAP’s solution portfolio, ABAP is central to SAP customer landscapes. To help these customers meet modern business needs, SAP continues to add enhancements and new capabilities for ABAP that bring the latest technologies — such as the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) — to ABAP-based environments. This article looks at the new features delivered with ABAP 7.52 and provides a sneak peek at the planned release of ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform, which enables ABAP developers to easily build innovative cloud applications and helps streamline the transition to the cloud.
In recent years, automation platforms have matured and become more common for businesses. Companies that leverage technology for accounts payable (AP) automation, specifically, can perform at optimum levels when they achieve a high level of automation in critical business processes, such as AP invoice management. During a recent SAPinsider Live Q&A, Esker’s Dean Bearman, Business Development Manager, and Howie Hahn, Senior Sales Engineer, answered questions from attendees regarding AP automation, reporting, security, and more.
Deloitte’s workforce is constantly on the go: with the majority of employees traveling weekly, they are rarely in their offices. As a result, space management is an important consideration for the organization, which needed to consider ways it could best leverage its real estate while providing a better working experience for employees. This is what led Deloitte to develop the Magnet app — a mobile application that assigns employees office space, suggests nearby contacts, and offers other recommendations such as directions and restaurant reviews.
With Magnet, office space is reserved for employees automatically when they enter a building, without having to physically check in. And the app’s recommendation engine performs on-the-fly analysis — using the processing power of SAP HANA — not only to find a workspace but also to select the spot based on employees’ connections. The app garnered Deloitte an honorable mention in the SAP HANA Innovation Awards’ Digital Trailblazer category for its ability to provide a cutting-edge application to employees.
Over the past two years, Deloitte rolled out Magnet internally across its US employee base, and the organization is starting to roll it out across its global network. To uncover more about Magnet, insiderPROFILES spoke with Chris Dinkel, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting, LLP, who co-leads the Deloitte’s SAP HANA analytics capability and was involved in Magnet’s development from the beginning. Dinkel discussed what was going on internally at Deloitte that spurred the app’s creation as well as some of the benefits employees have realized since its US rollout.
Even with all the hype about digital transformation, companies still receive information via traditional methods such as paper, email, and fax. Automating the conversion and understanding of these structured and unstructured inputs helps reduce manual data entry and cost, freeing business users to work on more valuable tasks. Capture technology gathers more information for analytics than is usual with manual entry, resulting in better reports. Integration with SAP systems allows the capture system to add context to that incoming data. This article examines advanced capture technology that extracts, validates, and updates core SAP systems by using digital innovations such as optimal character recognition.
Having the right tax technology in place is crucial for dealing with the many changes in the global tax landscape. Digital-era tax compliance demands are challenging companies, putting them at risk for non-compliance and pressuring them to move away from spreadsheets and ad hoc practices. Reliance on such homegrown applications is no longer an option for keeping up with the swift changes in tax rules and rate changes. Advanced tax-specific software that is integrated with a company’s ERP system can address these pressures. This article examines how to support an end-to-end tax life cycle with tax-specific software.
To ensure a successful migration to SAP S/4HANA, organizations must know where to start, which initiatives will help the business the most, and how to drive user adoption. This article explores Knoa User Experience Management (UEM) and how its unique analytics helps SAP customers build a business case for SAP S/4HANA.
An absence of strategy trails only domain expertise as the reason why many companies have yet to adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning. Companies are challenged with how to apply these and other breakthrough technologies for business value. This article details several examples of how organizations can deploy machine learning today, and how SAP S/4HANA and SAP Leonardo come together in the cloud and on-premise to address the many innovative opportunities the technology brings.
This article provides an inside look at three of SAP’s most popular cloud products: SAP Cloud for Real Estate, SAP RealSpend, and SAP Financial Statement Insights. Each of these solutions can be purchased on the SAP Store and have been purpose-built to accommodate the modern business users’ needs to access personalized data and solutions instantly.
In today’s IT landscapes, software developers must not only support the daily operations of modern business, but also balance the performance expectations of end users demanding short response times and IT administrators requiring minimal resource consumption. This article explains how to use transaction SAT (the ABAP Trace tool, also known as Runtime Analysis) to collect the information you need to identify problem areas in your ABAP code and formulate a strategy for optimizing performance.
Companies that successfully handle data security breaches rely on a balanced combination of regulatory compliance and security technology. This article explains how SAP Cloud Platform integrates these concepts to provide reliable, built-in protection for SAP customers. You will learn the difference between “security” and “compliance,” and how these concepts work together in SAP Cloud Platform to help organizations achieve the highest levels of security.
While the use of cloud-based solutions is on the rise, on-premise solutions remain a critical part of IT infrastructures. To help minimize the administrative burden of managing these hybrid environments, SAP offers SAP Landscape Management. This article explains how SAP Landscape Management simplifies the maintenance of hybrid SAP landscapes. It first looks at the solution’s functionality, and then walks through how it is used in key implementation scenarios.
SAP NetWeaver serves as the technology foundation for many SAP customer landscapes. With maintenance ending for older SAP NetWeaver releases still in use at some customer sites, now is the time to move to a newer version that will meet modern business needs and pave the way to adopting innovations such as SAP S/4HANA. This article helps you make a strategic plan for your organization by providing a concise, comprehensive overview of SAP’s current maintenance strategy for SAP NetWeaver.
You spoke and we listened: In a recent SAPinsider audience survey, you told us that customer case studies are important to you. More than half of respondents indicated that they regularly read customer case studies to obtain information to enhance business performance, make purchasing decisions, and identify a potential consulting service or solution provider. We also discovered that close to 75% of SAP professionals use case studies during the research and evaluation of a project life cycle. With this much value identified in case studies, it became clear that they should be included in our flagship magazine, SAPinsider.
Read on to hear from Rizal Ahmed, President of SAPinsider, as he explains how insiderPROFILES has merged with SAPinsider to create a single publication full of carefully curated content to answer your most pressing business questions.
Paul Lewis, Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Vantara, defines the modern digital transformation in a Q&A with SAPinsider. Lewis discusses the relevance of data-centric data strategies, the impact a data-centric approach has on IT and the business, and touches on data center modernization trends.
This article explores how Cisco used SAP HANA and SAP Predictive Analytics to transform its global sales processes and foster a culture of collaboration. From a simple sales pipeline management tool that it rolled out to more than 2,000 sales executives, Cisco eventually moved all sales reference data and marketing models onto the predictive platform to generate real-time insights. Results included:
- Pipeline analysis to include at-risk deals, product associations, and product recommendations
- Elimination of fragmented, siloed analytics and an inability to run concurrent analytics projects
- Current sales versus projected snapshot available at any time in the quarter
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