May 4, 2020
•6 minute read
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Breakthru Beverage Group Increases SAP Systems Usage Through Change ManagementChange management emerged as the top challenge for SAP deployments in previous SAPinsider research. For Breakthru Beverage Group — a North American alcoholic beverage wholesaler headquartered in Cicero, Illinois — the successful implementation of SAP HANA 2.0-based business intelligence products required an evolution in its change management strategy. SAPinsider recently interviewed Desmond Foley, Solutions Architect for Business Intelligence at Breakthru Beverage, to understand how the company effectively communicated with different sets of stakeholders to improve the usage and user acceptance of SAP HANA-based analytics tools.
Keys to Building an Intelligent MRO OrganizationIn aviation industries, such as aerospace and defense (A&D), maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) organizations operate a very complicated framework to maintain their aerospace assets. In the SAP ecosystem, these assets involve many different business segments, and maintenance activities need to be planned for, executed, and documented — and in a timely manner — to ensure the airplanes are not only safe for flight but also available to transport the customers that rely on their on-time operation. MRO organizations must ensure parts are available when needed, repairs happen quickly, MRO workers are optimizing productivity, and all this is done at the lowest possible cost. Learn how intelligent technologies can help drive data through the value chain to the aerospace ecosystem stakeholders who are demanding more integrated products, more automation of repetitive tasks, and intelligence embedded into their business processes.
Apr 10, 2020
•13 minute read
An Introduction to DataOps: A New Approach to Acting on Large Volumes of Information Faster and More EffectivelyCompanies seeking better ways to collect, understand, and act on data should know about an emerging data management methodology called “DataOps”. This new movement aims to improve an organization’s use of data through better data quality, shorter cycle time, superior data management, and accelerated analytics. As data volumes grow and become more diverse, distributed, and siloed, companies need a platform for data engineers to move, automate, and transform the essential data as needed. Learn how companies can employ DataOps to get the right data, to the right place, at the right time so the data can generate insights, revenues, and a competitive advantage in the digital economy.
Apr 3, 2020
•6 minute read
Automate Your SAP Processes More StrategicallyAnalysts and business leaders agree that digital transformation is a top strategic priority in the coming years — and the investment dollars are following. The pressure to go faster is acute for organizations that run their business on SAP ERP systems. In the clamor to digitize, organizations must realize that different business processes require differentiated digitization strategies and technology solutions — or risk setbacks and wasted investment. According to this article written by Winshuttle's Manager, Product Marketing, Jeanette Mifsud, digitizing these strategic data processes takes a different class of automation software.
Read this article and learn:
- Examples of strategic data processes
- Requirements for digitizing strategic data processes
- How business and IT teams can make an impact across an organization’s SAP landscape
Mar 18, 2020
•2 minute read
SAP Introduces the Concept of Live ProcessesEvery SAP customer has specific needs for digitizing workflows and automating the related structured and unstructured activities on top of applications as process extensions. Learn how SAP Intelligent Business Process Management on SAP Cloud Platform can help organizations automate digital workflows, manage business decisions, and enact changes directly on a running process. This article explains the notion of “Live Processes,” which provides business process experts end-to-end process visibility, the flexibility to manage process variants, and the ability to extend and configure processes to their various needs across application boundaries. Learn how this “live” view into business operations can help business process experts track process performance against targets to detect and remediate potential bottlenecks — before they cause unnecessary costs or negatively affect service-level agreements.
Feb 19, 2020
•13 minute read
Turn Any-Sized Data Volume into Business Value: Discover the Power of SAP Data Warehouse CloudData volumes today are growing exponentially due to the various ways that data is being produced. SAP customers are being inundated with information as more and more data is arriving into hybrid environments of on-premise and cloud systems from various ERP solutions, data lakes, customer feedback via mobile apps, and social media interactions, to name a few. Business users want access to data and analytics without having to burden IT for assistance, and companies want faster and more cost-effective solutions with options in the cloud. This article shares how, in response to these demands, SAP now offers SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. You will learn:
- How this new solution brings together data from different sources
- How it unifies that information in an easily understandable and accessible environment
- How it provides a platform where business users can collaborate harmoniously with IT
Feb 19, 2020
•13 minute read
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