SAP Executive Forum Archives

What is an SAP Executive Forum?

An SAP Executive Forum gives technology leaders in the SAP space an opportunity to share stories, challenges, and ideas. It can be useful to hear from those that have the same responsibilities and are beholden to similar goals. At SAPinsider, the place for leaders to interact is the Technology Executive Forum (TEF).

What is an SAP Executive Forum?

The TEF engages with executives and leaders at SAP customer companies to hear their SAP journeys and technology-related priorities. This engagement happens through multiple avenues, including:

Virtual executive meetings
Webinars from the most important technology vendors in the SAP ecosystem
Virtual executive summits with customer and vendor speakers
In-person summits, such as at the SAPinsider conference in Las Vegas
Research reports, which utilize survey data and in-person interview to capture the trends that matter most to technology leaders

SAP Executive Forums help leaders find the answers they need to move their businesses forward. That often means finding the right technology and the TEF partners with a diverse set of key vendors such as Deloitte, SUSE, Microsoft, and Worksoft. Each of those vendors captures different parts of the SAP journey — from strategy and implementation to architecture, infrastructure, and testing automation.

Key Considerations for an SAPinsiders:

TEF’s recent research into the CIO’s Agenda for 2022 found that technology leaders are primarily focused on increasing process efficiency and visibility while reducing IT costs. The technologies they are focused on to accomplish this include SAP S/4HANA and cloud offerings.
Technology leaders are often an excellent source of thought leadership in the SAP space, as they are the ones making the ultimate buying decisions on many of SAP’s solutions. The TEF includes leadership perspectives from every industry and from companies at various stages of their SAP journeys — from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA in the cloud.
SAP S/4HANA remains the most strategic investment for executives in the SAPinsider community. Across the whole technology group, our research in SAP S/4HANA migration also shows that SAP’s 2027 mainstream maintenance deadline on legacy SAP ERPs is among the top drivers to move to SAP S/4HANA. Through the TEF, we are able to bring together perspectives on how technology leaders should best navigate the SAP S/4HANA migration process.

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3 Scenarios for Simulating Risk Analysis Processes with Risk Terminator

Reading time: 7 mins

Follow three scenarios that simulate risk analysis for role maintenance and user role provisioning with Risk Terminator in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0. Key Concept An access risk violation occurs when defined access control policies and procedures designed to enforce control of a user’s capability to perform specific activities in the system are compromised. In...…
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Ask the HR Expert: How to Add Custom Infotypes to Your Queries for HR/Payroll Reporting

Reading time: 5 mins

You can improve your SAP and Ad Hoc queries by adding custom infotypes with these step-by-step instructions. Key Concept Dear HR Expert, How do you add custom infotype fields or even standard SAP infotypes such as date specifications to the Ad Hoc Query? — Lynn White, Senior Business Analyst, HR Thanks for the question. You...…
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Considering BW for Your HR Organization? What You Need to Know

Reading time: 32 mins

Companies are increasingly going to need HR reports based on information stored in various sources, including R/3, third-party tools, and the Internet. Business Information Warehouse (BW) provides that capability. The author has worked on numerous implementations of BW for HR, and explains some key considerations for companies thinking about their own BW for HR implementation....…