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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    Strategy Is Key for a Digital Transformation

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Before diving headfirst into any major technological undertaking – such as a move to the cloud or overall digital transformation – companies must ensure they have a robust and well thought out business strategy. Enterprises must have a roadmap of what they want to accomplish, how they want to accomplish it, the key stakeholders that…

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    Benchmark Report: Cloud and SAP S/4HANA DevOps

    Reading time: 1 mins

    SAP customers today face increasing business demand for high-quality and rapid software deployments and updates. SAP’s accelerating product roadmap demands a faster and more collaborative approach to development, change management, and testing. In addition, most SAP customers continue to add non-SAP applications that integrate with SAP. SAP teams, used to multi-year development projects followed by...…

  3. Building a Successful SAP Digital Transformation

    Tips to Attain Faster Stabilization with S/4HANA Production Execution Implementation

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Most S/4 implementations could expect a period of stabilization before all users adapt to the new system. While this may vary widely across S/4HANA implementations due to industry, process complexities, and organization culture, among other things, everyone can gain tips from another company’s implementations journey. An effective and efficient people and process design is critical…

  4. How Digital Transformation Led to Quote-to-Cash Optimization for IBM

    Reading time: 10 mins

    Learn how to support an integrated, end-to-end process that helps drive our sales cycle to encourage innovation and provide clarity for customers, speed for the seller and efficiency for our administrative teams. SAPinsider sat down with Renee Hook, IBM’s Vice President of Global Quote-to-Cash Transformation, and Doug Watts, IBM’s CIO Quote-to-Cash SAP Lead, to discuss…

  5. Getting Ready for the SEC’s Proposed Rules on Cybersecurity

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Learn how to accommodate the potential new rules proposed by the SEC in March of 2020. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) had released its publication on Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). The intent highlighted there was to help organizations better “identify, assess, and manage their cybersecurity risks in the context…

  6. SAP s/4 HANA

    What Decision Makers Need to Know to Move to SAP S/4HANA Effectively

    Reading time: 13 mins

    In this article, we’ll spotlight the 10 key areas for success in SAP S/4HANA implementations, using insights from our executives and experts in SAP’s Chief Customer Office, a group dedicated to facilitating successful transformations. And rather than explaining why projects fail, we’re going to tell you what makes them succeed. You’ve heard the horror stories…

  7. Collaboration Is Key to a Successful Migration

    Reading time: 8 mins

    SAPinsider spoke with Sherry Yu, Senior Director of SAP Success Architect at SUSE, a global leader in open-source solutions, about how SUSE helps accelerate SAP S/4HANA migration, as well as safeguard the SAP landscape once migration is complete. Many organizations have yet to begin their migration to SAP S/4HANA or are in the early stages…

  8. 4 Strategies That You Need to Hire the Right SAP Talent

    Reading time: 3 mins

    This article will help you understand the different strategies needed to not only attract new, skilled talent, but ensure that they are satisfied with their role in the organization and remain a productive employee for a long time. We’ve seen tumultuous changes in trends in the job market over the last two years. The inclusion…

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    How BTP is Transforming Enterprise

    Reading time: 5 mins

    SAPinsider sat down with Dan Lahl, SAP’s Global Vice President of BTP Marketing and Solutions, to discuss SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) and its capabilities to transform businesses. Lahl explains how BTP is a cloud platform composed of a number of technologies—from automation, application, development integration, data management, database, analytics and AI—but really at the…

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    BTP’s Integration Capabilities Allow Faster Innovation

    Reading time: 4 mins

    SAPinsider sat down with Thorsten Leiduck, SAP’s Senior Vice President and Co-Lead of the Global BTP Ecosystem, to discuss SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) and its capabilities to transform businesses. He explains what is driving the adoption of BTP and the advantages that the cloud can offer to end users over traditional on-premise solutions. It…