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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    Red Hat is enhancing its Ansible Automation Platform with event-driven automation and generative AI to help SAP customers streamline their operations and achieve significant ROI, while also promoting a phased and strategic approach to extending automation across hybrid environments.

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    Adapting to Change: What SAP Data Services Users Need to Know About the Salesforce Adapter Retirement

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    The Salesforce adapter for SAP Data Services is retiring in summer 2025, prompting organizations to adopt the Simba Salesforce Adapter for seamless data integration, real-time updates, and compatibility with modern Salesforce APIs to avoid disruption in critical business processes.

  3. Clean core strategy SAP Data

    Part 3: SAP Variant Configuration: ROI, Strategic Roadmap, and Final Considerations

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    The final part of this article series illustrates the benefits and ROI of migrating from Classic Variant Configuration (LO-VC) to Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC) through case studies, highlights SAP’s strategic roadmap for AVC including AI integration and cloud solutions, and offers a decision framework for organizations to align their configuration strategy with long-term goals.

  4. Clean core strategy SAP Data

    Is Your SAP Data a Strategic Asset or a Digital Anchor?

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    To remain competitive in the digital economy, organizations must shift from traditional SAP data extraction to creating governed, reusable Data Products within a real-time Data Core Architecture, enabling immediate insights and intelligent automation while turning data into a strategic asset.

  5. Unleashing SAP Data to Enhance Strategic Financial Planning Using an Open Ecosystem Strategy

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    PwC is establishing itself as a leader in the SAP Central Finance space by providing tailored methodologies and industry-specific knowledge that have enabled clients, such as a multinational consumer goods company, to streamline financial operations and modernize their systems with significant efficiency gains.

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    SAP carve-outs are made more efficient and less risky through cbs Corporate Business Solutions’ proprietary tools, the Enterprise Analyzer and Enterprise Transformer, that streamline data migration and compliance while allowing organizations to modernize their ERP landscapes.

  7. Accelerating SAP S/4HANA Migrations with Terraform on AWS

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    As SAP customers accelerate their migration to SAP S/4HANA by the 2027 support deadline, many are utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions like AWS’s open-source Terraform modules to simplify and automate their deployment processes, leading to improved operational efficiency and standardization across diverse SAP landscapes.

  8. Lessons from Microsoft’s Migration of SAP to Azure, and How They Optimized SAP for Azure

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    Microsoft successfully migrated its entire SAP operations to Azure, enhancing performance and flexibility while providing valuable insights and a practical roadmap for other SAP customers considering cloud migration. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here

  9. Saviynt University Takes Aim at the SAP Security Skills Gap

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    Saviynt has launched a global Partner Delivery Excellence Program and Saviynt University to enhance identity security implementation quality and workforce skills, addressing the industry’s growing demand for trained identity governance professionals.

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    Protiviti Demonstrates Value of Transformation Assurance in S/4HANA Engagement

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    Protiviti’s successful SAP S/4HANA case study demonstrates how comprehensive transformation assurance significantly reduces risks and aligns IT with business goals, aiding a multinational client in overcoming integration challenges and achieving key project milestones.