OpenText to Feature Practical Applications at SAP Sapphire
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Migrating to SAP S/4HANA requires careful data management to control costs and improve system performance, with strategies like proactive data archiving playing a crucial role.
⇨ OpenText’s Vendor Invoice Management solution automates key accounts payable tasks within SAP, enhancing efficiency and transparency while reducing manual errors.
⇨ Effective information management through OpenText solutions integrates unstructured content with SAP, providing a comprehensive business context and improving decision-making capabilities.
Discussions around digital transformation often center on emerging technologies like AI. However, for many SAP users, the immediate focus remains on practical applications and achieving tangible outcomes, particularly concerning the ongoing journey to SAP S/4HANA.
At SAP Sapphire 2025, OpenText will discuss how its information management solutions integrate with and support SAP environments. OpenText aims to provide insights into how businesses can effectively manage their SAP transformation, optimize processes, and handle critical information.
Key Discussion Areas
Migrating to or expanding SAP S/4HANA involves significant investment. Unforeseen data growth and usage costs can impact project timelines and budgets. OpenText’s solutions offer mechanisms designed to help monitor, manage, and optimize S/4HANA-related expenses, supporting more predictable scaling.
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The software solutions provider will also feature solutions that enable better integration between SAP systems (including SAP S/4HANA, SAP R/3, and SAP SuccessFactors) and other key enterprise applications, such as Microsoft Office 365. This facilitates improved data flow and supports more effective collaborative workflows.
Additionally, with the OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP solutions, the company plans to show how this solution integrates with SAP to automate key AP tasks like invoice capture, validation, and approval routing. This aims to increase transparency, reduce manual intervention, and improve financial controls. Integrations with OpenText Content Cloud Integrations for SAP Solutions can also enhance compliance postures and mitigate risks across various business processes.
Effective information management throughout its lifecycle is crucial for performance and compliance. OpenText’s capabilities in this area include OpenText Core Archive for SAP Solutions, which enables systematic SAP data archiving based on defined rules. This can help control storage costs and maintain system performance.
Delivering relevant information to customers is key to engagement. OpenText provides tools that enable businesses to generate and distribute personalized communications across multiple channels, integrating with data potentially housed within SAP systems.
Informational Customer Sessions
During Sapphire, OpenText also plans to host informational sessions featuring customer use cases and practical strategies related to leveraging OpenText solutions within an SAP environment. Details on session topics and schedules will be available closer to the event.
For those attending SAP Sapphire 2025, the OpenText team will be available at Booth #302 to discuss these solutions in more detail.
What This Means for SAPinsiders
Strategic data management can optimize S/4HANA costs and performance. Migrating massive data volumes to SAP S/4HANA significantly impacts performance and cost, especially with its in-memory HANA database or cloud subscription models like RISE with SAP. Proactive data archiving and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) using solutions like OpenText Core Archive are crucial. For example, if a consumer goods company preparing for RISE with SAP faced a projected 10TB S/4HANA database, leading to high cloud subscription costs and extended migration downtime estimates. By implementing an archiving strategy before migration, they can significantly lower projected cloud costs, achieve a faster technical conversion, and improve day-one performance in S/4HANA.
Manual Accounts Payable processes within SAP are often slow and error prone. However, OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) automates the end-to-end process inside SAP with intelligent invoice capturing and automated validation against SAP purchase orders and goods receipts. These features streamline exception handling, digital approval workflows routed according to SAP rules, and automated posting to SAP FI/CO, creating a complete, auditable digital trail.
Unlock full business context with integrated information management for SAP. Business processes rely on both structured data in SAP and unstructured content. Often, this content lives in disconnected silos. OpenText solutions (like Extended ECM or Content Suite) integrate directly with SAP, linking relevant unstructured content to specific SAP business objects. For example, companies can utilize this solution to link a supplier contract PDF to the vendor master or link an engineering drawing to an equipment record in Plant Maintenance. This provides a 360-degree view accessible directly within the SAP user interface (like Fiori) or integrated platforms (like M365), improving decision-making, ensuring compliance, and boosting user productivity.
