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. 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…

  2. Integration

    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…

  3. Case Study: Alphabet’s SAP on Google Cloud Journey-Experiences and Innovations

    The world’s 17th largest company, Alphabet, shares its real-life technical experiences implementing a comprehensive SAP S/4HANA landscape on Google Cloud. Learn about some of Alphabet’s key implementation challenges and how these challenges were overcome by creative Google Cloud and SAP S/4HANA innovations. Get a glimpse into the practical application of Google’s development philosophies such as…

  4. Case Study: Alphabet’s SAP on Google Cloud Journey-Experiences and Innovations

    The world’s 17th largest company, Alphabet, shares its real-life technical experiences implementing a comprehensive SAP S/4HANA landscape on Google Cloud. Learn about some of Alphabet’s key implementation challenges and how these challenges were overcome by creative Google Cloud and SAP S/4HANA innovations. Get a glimpse into the practical application of Google’s development philosophies such as…

  5. One-Third of SAP Customers in the Software and Technology Sector Already Run SAP S/4HANA

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Industrial Sector Customers More Focused on Centralizing Financial Reporting on a Global Scale by Pierce Owen, Vice President of Research & Publishing, SAPinsider SAPinsider recently published its 2020 “SAP S/4HANA Migration Benchmark Report,” which explains how and why SAP S/4HANA adoption has progressed globally over the course of the past year. The report analyzes the…

  6. 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…

  7. 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...…

  8. 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...…

  9. 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…

  10. 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…