Technology

Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.

SAP and Partner Technologies

Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.

SAP and Partner Technologies

Enterprise software technology companies like SAP have, for decades, helped provide organizations with technology tools that can help them run their businesses more effectively and efficiently. SAP and partner technologies today focus on technology solutions across various industries like energy & natural resources, service industries, consumer industries, discrete industries, financial services, and public services. Technology solutions offered range from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions to technology platforms that can help organizations build intelligent enterprise capabilities.

Business Technology Categories

Enterprise Resource Planning: These solutions help organizations integrate business processes across their enterprise and facilitate a seamless information flow across the organization. These solutions generally have modules focused on various functions and sub-functions that exist within organizations such as finance, procurement, CRM and customer experience, HR and people engagement, and supply chain management. Best-of-breed ERP solutions integrate both transactional/operational as well as planning capabilities.

Specialized business operations point systems: These solutions are specialized solutions focused on certain functions or business processes within certain functions and are transactional systems that help capture business operations transactions. Examples are supply chain and logistics, accounting solutions, treasury management solutions, GRC solutions, spend management solutions, HR and payroll solutions, CRM systems etc.

Planning point systems: These systems focus on business planning, often leveraging data from transactional systems or modules for planning purposes. Examples of such systems are supply chain planning systems, financial planning and analysis systems, business intelligence (BI) tools, and advanced analytics solutions. These solutions or systems help generate insights from the data that can then help organizations run their operations more effectively.

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    Industries Prioritize Cyber Threats Differently

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    Between January and March 2022, SAPinsider surveyed 346 members of our community about the cybersecurity threats to their SAP systems. 31% of those respondents said their organization was in the Software & Technology sector, 20% were from the Manufacturing & Agriculture sector, and 11% were from the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector. The full findings...…

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    Microsoft Becomes First Public Cloud Provider to Use RISE with SAP

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    Microsoft has become the first public cloud provider to employ RISE with SAP to move some of its internal SAP ERP systems to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, SAP announced March 24.  Microsoft’s implementation of RISE with SAP will increase its expertise with SAP solutions and establish best practices that can be shared with RISE...…

  3. Vertex Case Study with Ingram Micro

    Ingram Micro, a distributor of information technology products and services, has been relying on SAP and Vertex solutions to meet its unique business and tax department needs. Ingram Micro implemented Vertex O Series On-Demand for North America several years ago and since then, has worked towards deploying Vertex for their tax process automation globally. The...…

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    Bentley Systems Explores SAP S/4HANA

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    Bentley Systems serves architectural engineers worldwide with its innovative software products. The company’s mission is to advance the world’s infrastructure. The company runs a highly evolved, intertwined infrastructure. Essential, says Barry Carney, Senior Director of Global Business Services, is keeping pace with innovations as they happen. To balance its complex SAP landscape with its ambition…

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    Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Drive IT Landscape of the Future

    Barry Carney, Senior Director of Global Business Services at Bentley Systems, shares how the global software provider is building a roadmap toward achieving a competitive edge.  Bentley Systems runs a highly evolved, intertwined infrastructure. Essential for the company, says Barry Carney, Senior Director of Global Business Services, is keeping pace with innovations as they happen. To balance its complex SAP landscape with its ambition to develop an enterprise system of the…

  6. How Microsoft utilizes Azure & Zero Trust Security for SAP

    In this session we will be covering how Microsoft has adopted a Zero Trust security architecture for SAP deployments, enabling Azure networking, identity access management and monitoring. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here

  7. Intel IT transforms Intel Supply Chain with SAP HANA

    May 20, 2021

    The increasing complexity in the supply chain has created the need for IT businesses to move to new real-time analytics solutions based on SAP HANA and simplify the system back to a standard integrated ERP solution. How can you deliver advanced analytics/predictive capabilities for my supply chain? How can you reduce risk across the supply…

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    Reducing Closing Time and Increasing Data Quality at KMD

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    Newly acquired companies often face roadblocks in consolidating their financial and accounting operations with their new parent company’s systems. Streamlining financial closing processes, addressing inefficiencies, and automating time-intensive activities with cloud technology can help acquired companies plan for an orderly, smooth transition. One of the largest IT firms in Denmark, KMD, an NEC Company, proved…

  9. How KMD Reduced Closing Time by 50% with SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting

    In December 2018, KMD was purchased by a Japanese Company called NEC. Changes occurred with the acquisition, such as the introduction of a new Global Chart of account. Furthermore, the fiscal year had to be changed. To adapt to these changes, KMD implemented an SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting. This allowed KMD to reduce their…

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    How Endress+Hauser Is Creating a Simpler Business by Making Integration a Strategic Imperative

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    As SAP customers today begin to look more strategically at integration, some are creating centers of excellence dedicated to integration priorities. This case study reveals how one such organization, Endress+Hauser, formed a competency center that focused all the company’s resources and skills around applications integration in one place. Learn how the business moved its integration…