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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    Protect Your Sustainability Goals with SAP Cybersecurity

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Security is a critical component of any SAP landscape. Many organizations likely have not considered the role that security plays in sustainability. Modern threats like ransomware can derail virtually every aspect of a business – including sustainability. In this article, SAPinsider expert Gaurav Singh lays out five key cyber hygiene practices that will protect your…

  2. T-Systems SAP S/4HANA

    Digitalization Is the Key to SAP Modernization

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Business leaders are no doubt excited about the opportunities presented by a move to the cloud. However, many will still have reservations about such an involved overhaul. They may wonder what will become of their data and processes and have security concerns regarding their SAP landscapes. In this article, you will learn how the key…

  3. Provide Actionable Insights With Your Next Dashboard

    Reading time: 6 mins

    Dashboards are often created with a boilerplate approach. They sometimes have the most typical metrics listed out, but forget one crucial aspect - what action do we need to take next? The most critical aspect starts with understanding the requirements and making sure that you are visualizing the right KPIs—not just metrics. In this article…

  4. Thinking Platform? Think Value!

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Software solutions primarily exist to address certain business requirements. These solutions, like SAP Business Technology Platform, may seem as though they are simply a requirement for businesses to have. However they can pay huge dividends. With the potential to add over $195K annual benefit (per 100 users) and a six-month payback period, according to figures…

  5. Do I Really Need an SAP SECOPS Program?

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Companies may not believe that an SAP SECOPS program is necessary, but there may be more factors at play than they considered. In this article, SAPinsider Bill Oliver will walk you through some of the key considerations that SAP users must make when setting up their overall security plan. Some organizations that simply having their…

  6. How Microsoft Helps Meet Growing Data Requirements

    Reading time: 11 mins

    Data is the lifeblood of modern business. Organizations are collecting vast amounts of information in order to intelligently run operations and gain an advantage within their field. In this digital economy, companies have a growing need to scale up their data capacity so that they do not fall behind. SAP users in particular often require…

  7. Is Integration the Hardest Part of an SAP S/4HANA Migration?

    Reading time: 8 mins

    When migrating to SAP S/4HANA, there are several Key Decision pillars that you need to work through to determine the right choices for our upgrade journey. From talking with so many of you architecting your migration plan, you are deciding where S/4HANA will reside, what path to take to get to S/4, what business value…

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    Today’s Security Challenges for Industries

    Reading time: 5 mins

    There is now more than one megabyte of data per second being created for every person on earth. If harnessed properly, that creates a wide array of exciting opportunities for businesses. However, there are also significant security challenges associated with such large amounts of data floating around. Across all industries and disciplines, organizations must now…

  9. Integrating and Automating

    Integrating and Automating Your Business to the Next Level

    Reading time: 1 mins

    At SAPinsider’s EMEA event in Vienna, Red Hat Senior Principal Product Manager for SAP Arne Arnold offered insights on automation and integration. In this session on day three of the event, Arnold shared expertise on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution and explained how to maximize the value of your SAP environment using RHEL.

  10. cybersecurity security GRC

    Preventing SAP Security Vulnerabilities

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The move to SAP S/4HANA comes with its own set of challenges. As SAP landscapes evolve to support business-critical processes with enhanced controls for managing and monitoring, there is an increased need for comprehensive approaches and platforms that cover all aspects of security, including data and application to detect complex cyberattack patterns and anomalies in…