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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  1. McAfee Saves 2,500 Hours of Manual Effort with Test and Business Process Automation on Its Journey to SAP S/4HANA

    Reading time: 11 mins

    McAfee was amidst sweeping change – shifting its accounting standards and financial reporting in SAP ERP, separating its IT systems from its parent company in a spinoff, and moving from a waterfall method to an agile methodology. In response, the business wanted to increase the velocity of its application delivery and testing. Learn how the…

  2. Cybersecurity: Case study: How Merck KGaA closed the gap between its enterprise SAP landscape and cybersecurity monitoring and incident response teams

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    Learn how the Merck Group (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) integrated its global SAP landscape into its existing 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) monitoring and incident response processes. Click this link to view the slides from this session — Cyber_2017_Newman_Casestudyhowmerckkgaaclosedthegap.   Branden Newman If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to...…

  3. Financials: Case study: How Bentley Systems transformed its global travel and expense management system with Concur and SAP

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    Learn how Bentley Systems configured Concur Travel and Concur Audit to support travel requests and approvals, expense approvals, mobile device travel booking, and expense submission. FIN2017_Frick_Kantamaneni_Casestudyhowbentleysystems Jim Frick If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor. Ram Kantamaneni If you have comments...…

  4. BI & HANA: Case study: Transforming business intelligence at Mobile Mini with a Business Intelligence Competency Center

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    Learn how Mobile Mini migrated from its legacy enterprise data warehouse to the SAP HANA platform to enable real-time reporting. here Heather Sinkwitz If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View…

  5. BI & HANA: Case study: Real-world lessons from Mobile Mini’s SAP HANA platform migration

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    Explore technical and strategic factors that contributed to Mobile Mini’s successful migration from a legacy SQL Server Enterprise Data Warehouse to an SAP HANA platform. here Heather Sinkwitz If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a…

  6. A Foundation for Growth

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Fast-growing Vivint Smart Home realized it needed to replace its patchwork of systems if it wanted to keep on expanding. Its checklist of required functionality for future business needs led to the selection of SAP S/4HANA as the technology foundation. An early adopter of SAP S/4HANA in a cloud deployment, Vivint Smart Home has realized…

  7. Automating Business Process Testing at Applied Materials

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    When tasked with moving to a single SAP instance, Applied Materials, a semiconductor and display equipment leader, knew it needed a solution to deploy more projects faster with reduced manual effort. Discover how Applied Materials implemented Worksoft Certify test automation to cut test cycles nearly in half and replace thousands of manual tests while boosting…

  8. An Attendee Perspective: One-on-One with Drew Iacone of Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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    The heart of an SAPinsider event is its attendees. These attendees come from companies around the world and across industries, all with their own unique goals and projects to work on. They are the ones truly creating the value and energy of an event, and I was lucky enough to sit down with one during…

  9. Graybar Benefits from SAP UEM by Knoa During Its SAP S/4HANA Migration

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    Upgrades to your enterprise systems – especially upgrades to the ones that run your mission-critical applications – can bring dramatic benefits to the business. But often these benefits aren’t realized to their full extent. IT often has limited capabilities when it comes to determining how well and how easily users are adopting a new technology,…

  10. How You Can Benefit from the Values of IBM Power in Your Journey to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA

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    More than 10 vendors offer SAP HANA appliances on common Intel x86 architecture or modified x86 with proprietary chipsets to expand the number of sockets.  Since 2015, IBM Power Systems has been certified to run SAP HANA in a tailored datacenter integration (TDI) environment. The SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems solution is the ideal...…