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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    In this article, we will explore the benefits of the subscription model, like Software-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service, in the technological arena Within the last few years, more companies (and consumers) are becoming part of the subscription economy. However, servitization now extends into a multitude of product and service categories, changing the business landscape — both financially…

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    SAPinsider’s Roundtable with Splunk explores the core pillars of modernizing your monitoring approach.

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    Drive Your Digital Transformation Effectively with S/4HANA

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    Drive Your Digital Transformation When transitioning your organization to an SAP intelligent enterprise it is best for your firm to be in the proverbial “driver’s seat.” There, your firm’s best interest remains intact. Internal and external driving forces such as cultural barriers and system integrators’ agendas can often challenge your firm’s interest. Deploying and adopting...…

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    How Tech Execs are Leading Organizational Change

    September 15, 2022

    Change has come in many forms for business and IT leaders across all industries. Geopolitical events, market forces, changing consumer behavior, and commodity price fluctuations have all put various pressures on decision-makers. Add to the fact that technology is rapidly evolving and transitions to new solutions such as SAP S/4HANA and the Cloud have placed…

  5. Mastering SAP 2022 – A Partner’s Perspective

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    From a partner’s perspective, Chris Rae has plenty of experience attending SAP-related conferences around the world.

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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...…

  8. 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…