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Mobile service provider Vodafone Group has grown tremendously since its creation 27 years ago. And in today’s booming mobile market, there is no foreseeable end in sight. But to continue to grow as a company, Vodafone needed to function more like a single entity, with common practices, centralized operations, and data sharing between operating companies.

See how FedEx Office fast-tracked an SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards project to harmonize reporting for center managers at the roughly 1,800 FedEx Office locations, resulting in a streamlined view of business operations, increased efficiency, and additional revenue opportunities. Learn how FedEx Office dealt with unique challenges, such as changing data warehouse fields and aggregating data to address preset metrics for the predefined key performance indicators (KPIs).

This article explores how Société de transport de Montréal (STM) partnered with SAP to develop the STM Merci App, a mobile app at the centerpiece of an innovative reward and recognition program.

This article outlines how Rich Products is creating new business opportunities and enhancing its customer interaction experience by redesigning its product development processes. It examines the company’s overall strategy for the redesign, including its proof-of-concept planning, the benefits it aims to achieve, and the efforts involved in securing end-user engagement and acceptance.

Crocs revenue surged between 2005 to 2007, and the footwear retailer and manufacturer's highly customized legacy IT systems were not ideal to keep up with the company's growth. To sustain the expected success, Crocs realized it needed a systems landscape that could mature with the company, and it embarked on Project Sunlight, which included an implementation of SAP Apparel and Footwear. Hear how the company gained newfound visibility into the business and streamlined cumbersome processes to save time and money. Learn the many benefits Crocs reaped as a result of the project, such as reduced days sales outstanding, improved fill rater, and lower SG&A costs.

Network Equipment Manufacturer Fujitsu Network Communications wanted to reduce complexity in its configure, price, and quote (CPQ) processes in hopes to provide more accurate proposals. Hear how the company integrated FPX CPQ with SAP ERP to decrease pricing errors by 80%, significantly reduce price quoting cycle times, and gain real-time visibility into pricing updates.

With 30,000 employees, ConAgra Foods needed to evolve beyond file cabinets and into the cloud to keeptrack of crucial HR documentation. ConAgra Foods paired with PwC to implement SAP SuccessFactors solutions to integrate their fragmented HR landscape. Hear how the company kicked off its “My Recipe” project to streamline the HR system, reevaluate existing HR processes, and leverage the extensive experience of PwC to cook up a true recipe for HR success.

See how ConAgra Foods:

• Reduced or eliminated manual files and reporting
• Improved ESS and MSS capabilities
• Decommissioned eight legacy HR systems

Sappi Limited has grown to become a leading global producer and supplier of dissolving wood pulp, paper pulp, and paper products — with an expanded system landscape to match. Its Southern Africa division recognized an opportunity to improve efficiency by consolidating the data spread across its multiple manufacturing systems. Learn how Sappi Southern Africa used SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence to gain increased visibility into its production costs by integrating its manufacturing data.

Mirgor, an Argentinian manufacturing company, was in need of new system to replace its legacy ERP environment to establish stronger production communication and tracking. Explore what factors led Mirgor to select SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, and learn how the company implemented this project across its entire business.

With demand quickly exceeding the distribution model, headphone manufacturer Skullcandy synced up with SAP to better manage explosive growth in the niche market of lifestyle and performance. By implementing SAP Business ByDesign, Skullcandy replaced its manual spreadsheet-based system with a fully automated process to efficiently manage orders from purchase through delivery. Hear how SAP Business ByDesign also supported Skullcandy through global expansion, a strategic acquisition, and integration of third-party logistics providers and electronic data interchange (EDI) vendors to reach a larger customer base.

As a global company tracking unprecedented growth, Under Armour needed to leave behind its manual approach to account reconciliations and journal entries. The company sought a web-based platform that would make the process more efficient and minimize risk. Delve into how software from BlackLine automated Under Armour’s financial processes and allowed employees to step away from administrative tasks and focus more on value-add ones.

Quench your thirst for an interesting data governance project by reading about Keurig Green Mountain’s new master data management (MDM) organization. As it migrated to SAP ERP after outgrowing a legacy ERP system, Keurig Green Mountain wanted to ensure a solid foundation of business process discipline to allow for continued growth and expansion. With the MDM organization overseeing data governance, the company was able to document rules and develop standards to ensure data quality and adherence to global standards.

Farouk Systems, a global high-end hair care manufacturing company based in the United States, replaced its homegrown, legacy systems with a full SAP ERP environment and simultaneously capitalized on the opportunity to upgrade its financial and operational reporting processes. Learn how Global Software’s Spreadsheet Server tool was deployed and discover the many ways Farouk Systems has benefited from the ability to pull together and analyze reports quickly and effortlessly.

The local sales team at global bitters and rum manufacturer, Angostura Limited, wanted to spend less time on the manual, paper-based process for fulfilling orders out in the field and on the road – writing out orders and traveling back and forth to the office – and more time actually selling products. Angostura wanted to supply its local sales representatives with a mobile application that would streamline processes, eliminate order inaccuracies, and provide the team with updated, real-time inventory information. Learn how this custom application fit their specific needs and find out how Angostura’s sales team and its bottom line has benefited from a complete suite of mobile applications in the field.

VSP Global, a leader in the eye care, eyewear, and lens technology industries, clearly saw that its manual testing practices were too slow, costly, and unable to keep up with the pace of change. The company set its gaze on more efficient, automated business process testing to save time and minimize the risk of errors. Discover how VSP Global locks-in quality business execution with Worksoft software for daily, lights-out business process testing.

Interroll Worldwide Group, a global core product provider, recently looked to SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to replace its legacy data center, increase the reliability and availability of its system, and set the company up for future business intelligence projects. Discover how this global manufacturer had its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud implementation live in six months and how this successful, swift migration has generated quick results, including an early return on investment.

Wholesale alcohol distributor Glazer’s Distributors makes roughly 250,000 monthly deliveries of malt beverages, wines, and spirits to customers in 15 US States, the US Virgin Islands, and Canada. Entering its second century of doing business, Glazer’s mapped out a vision for a future-state IT infrastructure with a focus on supporting an influx of data, advanced reporting capabilities, and transitioning to a real-time enterprise. Discover how Glazer’s took this step by implementing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0 solutions with SAP HANA as a sidecar appliance to achieve real-time operational reporting, real-time month-end sales analytics, and a single source of BI truth.

Find out how Foodstuffs North Island is turning the art of grocery retailing into a science in a post-merger landscape with an SAP reimplementation and working with BackOffice Associates on a national data alignment project. See how the business is bringing science to how it manages its stock for its retail, wholesale, and liquor brands. Learn how the SAP software and aligned data are improving data visibility, inventory management, reporting, and decision making; enhancing customer satisfaction, promotion planning, and invoice reconciliation; and leading to better customer relationship management activities, such as customer loyalty programs and online shopping.

Colombian chocolate manufacturer Casa Luker began to grow into international markets and thus required an updated SAP ERP system to ensure the company could meet compliance standards and modernize its business practices with access to real-time data. Discover how the company implemented SAP HANA along with SAP HANA studio and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to significantly decrease critical report generation, improve quality management, and gain new insight into production processes.

The global 2008 financial crisis presented a multitude of challenges for companies in the insurance industry, including higher pressure on margins and strict regulatory reporting requirements. Swiss Re, a global provider of leading wholesale resinsurance and insurance, was not immune to these challenges. To help overcome these hurdles, Swiss Re undertook a multi-year finance transformation journey called the ATLAS Project. Read how Swiss Re’s Reinsurance Finance division uses SAP S/4HANA Finance as the centerpiece of a transformation defined by simplification, integration, and automation of finance processes, and reach its target of a five-day close.

Among golf enthusiasts, David Leadbetter Golf is a household name in golf instruction, including personal lessons, product design, and training goods and services. This article explores how the growing company transitioned from relying on spreadsheet-based manual processes to SAP Business One in the cloud in order to achieve a 15% increase in revenue, 10% decrease in operational costs, and optimized stock levels with a 17% reduction in inventory.

Edesia Nutrition, a small nonprofit committed to treating and preventing global childhood malnutrition, manufactures ready-to-use food products that do not require water or refrigeration. Read this article to learn about Edesia’s journey to simplify its business processes with SAP Business One. The cloud solution for small and medium-size (SME) organizations gave Edesia the ability to trace raw materials from start to finish and enhanced visibility into its entire production process, which ultimately will allow it to provide more lifesaving foods to more children in need.

GRAY Gallery customers expect personalized attention and immediacy whether they visit the brick-and-mortar gallery in Hollywood, California, or shop for high-end art, jewelry, and craft products online. This article takes you inside the doors of the renowned gallery, looking at how with SAP Anywhere it can closely mirror the physical shopping experience with a virtual model by integrating its customer relationship management (CRM), real-time inventory, point-of-sale, and website functionality into one simple-to-manage cloud application.

New York Life Insurance Company, one of the largest life insurers in the world, is responding to the dramatic changes sweeping through the business world by accelerating its evolution into a more agile enterprise. In particular, the organization is speeding up analytics for real-time insight and improving process efficiencies around data access and management. Discover how New York Life implemented SAP S/4HANA Finance in a managed SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud environment to enable instant financial insights, faster processes, and more strategic use of its financial data.

In keeping with its commitment to efficiency, National Grid needed to simplify its procurement process for its customers and internal users. After a move to SAP ERP and SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM), the business decided a move to the cloud would improve its system scalability as well as the supplier experience. Learn how the gas and electric company worked collaboratively and proficiently to address its setbacks and propel the company into a new mindset for achieving business and IT efficiency with SAP Ariba solutions.

With 40 SAP systems, 213 interfaces, and 30TB of data across development, test, and production environments, Celanese — a specialty materials company based in Texas — knew it needed a way to decrease its annual SAP operational costs. By partnering with IBM and leveraging IBM Cloud Managed Services for SAP, the company was able to migrate its SAP data center and transition away from a capital expense model. Learn how Celanese reduced operational costs by over 50%, increased flexibility for delivery of the SAP platform and operations, and improved service levels for its managed infrastructure.

Dolby Laboratories, a leader in audio, video, and voice technology, has always been on the technological cutting-edge. But when it came to internal business intelligence (BI) solutions, Dolby had room for improvement. Lengthy delays, data redundancy, and lack of agility hampered the company from deriving insights as fast as it wanted. Learn about Dolby’s journey to real-time, easy-to-use BI via SAP Business Warehouse 7.5 powered by SAP HANA. Discover how Dolby is leveraging the SAP HANA platform to transform its BI environment for dramatically faster performance, broader adoption, and immediate answers to the most pressing business questions.  

Lannett Company, Inc. is a growing pharmaceutical firm – in fact, Fortune named Lannett Company, Inc. the fastest-growing company of 2015. This rapid growth made the company’s manual-based testing processes untenable. With its new acquisitions and intricate business processes, Lannett could no longer afford the time and resources needed to perform regression testing the old-fashioned way. Learn how Lannett used Worksoft Certify to automate 90% of its SAP business process testing, reduce production defects by 60%, and achieve a 40% reduction in testing time per project - freeing up resources for greater innovation in the growing company.

Scotts Miracle-Gro, a household name for lawn and garden products, took a hard look at how to best improve its account reconciliation process. Exceptions, discrepancies, and manual, spreadsheet-based processes were cropping up across its SAP landscape, making reconciliation difficult and time consuming for preparers, approvers, and internal auditors alike. It was time for the company to weed out inefficiencies and plant best practices to revive its account reconciliation process. Find out how Scotts Miracle-Gro automated account reconciliation, certification, and monitoring of account activity while providing end-to-end visibility throughout the company.

In 2006, the European Union passed a new regulation that heralded dramatic changes for Varian Medical Systems, a producer of medical devices for oncology, imaging, and proton therapy. Under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, Varian had to reengineer many of its products in order to make their chemical compositions environmentally compliant. This was a big task, and Varian needed a solution that could aid them along every step of the way, from efficient reengineering to transparent manufacturing. Learn how Varian adopted SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to meet complex compliance requirements and, in the process, streamline and improve its engineering and production departments.

Most organizations today are somewhere along the journey toward becoming a digital business, with meeting high expectations for the customer experience a central driver. One of the keys to creating an exceptional experience is the ability to access data in back-end systems in real time, which means that robust integration is critical. This article introduces a new, standardized approach to integration that can help you accelerate your digital transformation and ensure a seamless customer experience.

A holistic integration approach is a key prerequisite for organizations pursuing a digital path for their business. This article introduces SAP’s Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M), which helps organizations shape their integration strategy — using predefined integration patterns for processes-, data-, user-, and Internet of Things-centric integration scenarios — and become an Intelligent Enterprise.

Secure connections between applications is critical in modern, hyperconnected landscapes. The SAP Cloud Platform Credential Store service enables highly secure connections between applications in cloud-based landscapes by storing the required credentials and making them available to applications via a REST API. This article provides an overview of the key concepts and configuration tasks that are required to use this service in SAP Cloud Platform landscapes.

Organizations and citizens worldwide have seen the results of the global plastic crisis. In response, policymakers, society, and leading companies, such as SAP, are coming together to work on solutions — by avoiding single-use plastics, better managing and recycling the plastic waste stream, and creating what’s called a “circular economy.” SAP specifically is helping its customers redesign global value networks toward more circular business models through efforts such as the Circular Economy 2030 and SAP Leonardo Plastics challenges and a number of circular uses cases – around secondary materials marketplace, extended producer responsibility, waste insights, and citizen engagement – that are already at work across various industries. Learn about these and other ways that SAP customers can adopt more sustainable business practices, which could unlock $4.5 trillion in growth by turning waste into wealth.

Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing integration cycles. Discover how Dolby Labs implemented a solution by SAP partner Tricentis that provided risk-based prioritization and documentation of regression testing and end-to-end coverage for automating workstreams. Learn how the company automated regression testing for approximately 40% of mission-critical applications and saved roughly 75% savings in hours on regression testing.

Gone are the days when retailers could forecast inventory based on previous actuals and manufacturers could absorb unplanned production downtime by artificially inflating stock levels. In today's digital age, the abillity of companies to provide exemplary customer service in a digital environment is now tied to the performance and availability of their ERP systems. SAP customers are increasingly moving away from managing these systems in their own data centers and relying on cloud environments to run their mission critical applications and deliver high availability.

Learn why managed cloud provider CorpFlex opted for the Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure to run its customers’ SAP solutions and how this provider is offering improved technology and service options to these customers that minimize their system latency and reduce their storage footprint. See how CorpFlex can now deliver an approximate 40% performance improvement to its customers’ workloads, along with a capability to add a new node and create a new SAP environment for a customer in as little as two hours.

With millions of patients, pharmacies, and hospitals relying on its healthcare services and products, Cardinal Health employs an IT landscape consisting of thousands of SAP and non-SAP applications running countless business processes to conduct its business. To uphold stringent quality standards, improve operations, and provide necessary maintenance and business process testing, the company sought a test automation solution that could reduce costs, improve reliability, and promote continuous integration and development. Learn how it implemented Worksoft automation solutions to achieve these outcomes — as well as receive unexpected benefits from robotic process automation (RPA).

Preventing access risk and ensuring regulatory compliance are top priorities for any business, and cable and wire manufacturer Southwire Company, LLC, understands how analytics are required to successfully achieve these goals. Concerned that access-related risks were unacceptably high, Southwire embarked on a multi-phased project that aimed to remove, reduce, and mitigate these risks and to design more efficient user roles. Learn how Southwire Company, LLC, leveraged Security Weaver solutions to identify risks, remove or reduce segregation-of-duties (SoD) conflicts, optimize user role design, and improve overall business processes.

Offering personalized services can improve the customer experience for nearly any type of business. Companies leading in this digital age are establishing a competitive advantage by deploying technology that leverages data generated by customer behavior to improve their customers’ experience across different channels. Learn how lighting manufacturer Acuity Brands — which provides lighting, lighting controls, and building management solutions globally — has evolved its business to now offer connected building technology solutions that enable its customers to transform their buildings from cost centers to strategic assets. Learn how Acuity partnered with SAP to create a solution for joint customers that improve in-store operations for the store managers and associates, in-store engagement with customers, as well as conversions — and how this proof of concept is intended to extend well beyond the retail space to other industries.

Deforestation is devastating to Earth’s rainforests, and to the planet as a whole — it creates more of an impact on climate change than the emissions of planes, trains, cars, trucks, and ships combined, according to a study. With 90% of rainforest logging being done illegally, a massive opportunity opened up for Rainforest Connection, a non-profit organization focused on using technology to combat deforestation. Rainforest Connection teamed up with SAP to analyze data collected by recycled cell phones that monitored the sounds of the rainforest not only to identify illegal logging as it was happening, but even predict where a tree could be cut illegally ahead of time, allowing rangers to stop the activity and prevent future deforestation.  

For the past 120 years, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has been at the forefront of a continuously changing mobility industry. It has achieved this by leading with innovation in its products and services for customers, as well as in its internal systems and processes. Following this commitment, the company recently updated its system landscapes by expanding its SAP footprint. SAP system monitoring and change management processes have become progressively important to Goodyear – resulting in an increasing trend in working with SAP Solution Manager. With a goal of implementing better, easier, and faster software tools and processes – and answering SAP system users’ call for improved system performance and usability – the business decided to upgrade to SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Learn how the upgrade provided Goodyear benefits such as improved efficiency and resource allocation, enhanced visual representation, and a less restrictive content documentation structure.

Sanofi, a major multinational pharmaceutical company, has plans for expansion. To facilitate that growth, Sanofi decided it needed to automate its financial close, account reconciliation, and journal entry processes as many of them were manual and disparate across its business units. Discover how even partway through a global implementation of a record-to-report solution to transform its financial processes, Sanofi has already seen greater efficiency and time savings, allowing the staff to concentrate on value-added activities for its life-saving health care operations and medical research and development.

The disruptive nature of technology innovation is not limited to business: The public sector must also consider the impact of digital transformation. The State of Illinois recognized a need for improved technology and functionality across its growing responsibilities, and in 2016 began a digital transformation that aimed to replace 420 systems across 58 agencies in 30 months. The state selected SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to deploy SAP ERP and SAP HANA technology across its organization. Learn how it leveraged SAP solutions to achieve better decision making on improved data analysis as well as better spend tracking and hiring processes — and how the gains are causing other agencies across the state to ask how they can benefit.

During the digitization of the medical world, the mental health field was virtually passed over. To fill this gap, HarrisLogic develops technology platforms for the behavioral healthcare field to help its users identify the workflow of mentally ill individuals moving through the system and ensure no one gets lost in the cracks. Through a combination of various engines that apply clinical evidence-based practices, fuse data streams together from various locations, and apply advanced and predictive analytics — paired with SAP technology — HarrisLogic was able to drastically improve the delivery of much needed mental health services, drive more connections to healthcare, and create a reliable model to gauge the risk in a variety of settings.

Three billion people across 230 countries currently consume lifestyle entertainment from Discovery, Inc. — a company that creates more than 8,000 hours of original programming in 50 languages each year and distributes television and digital content globally. After experiencing fast domestic and international growth, and with day-to-day accounting functions spread across offices in more than 20 countries, the company knew it could benefit from global standardization of controls and governance of its SAP landscape.  In an effort to standardize and automate its financial close and journal entry process, Discovery, Inc. integrated its SAP ERP system with BlackLine solutions — Account Reconciliations, Journal Entry, and Task Management. Learn how the business now benefits from stronger financial controls, more efficient audit processes, and an improved journal entry workflow.

Due to its aggressive acquisition strategy, professional services company VINCI Energies – which has already grown to 77,500 employees spread throughout more than 1,000 global companies – needed an updated ERP program and IT strategy to integrate its new companies into the fold as quickly and easily as possible. To accomplish this, the business decided to consolidate on a single-instance environment with over 30,000 users running on SAP S/4HANA. Learn how VINCI Energies underwent a 10-month project that culminated in a migration over the weekend that imparted some valuable lessons. With 14 countries live so far and plans to deploy it universally, uncover the benefits the business is already reaping from the capabilities that SAP S/4HANA has introduced and innovating with SAP Cloud Platform, SAP C/4HANA, and more intelligent reporting and analytics.

On the heels of its migration to SAP S/4HANA, professional services company VINCI Energies wanted to extend the new functionality with a new application for employee timesheet entry that would replace former manual, paper-based processes. Learn how the business designed and developed the online app using SAP Cloud Platform, and how this application is creating more advanced capabilities for workers and managers who need to keep track of hours and other associated costs applied to individual projects from the field.

When Versum Materials was divested in 2016, it took the opportunity not only to make a fresh IT start with a greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation, but also to do it with a big-bang approach. The newly independent business accomplished the massive change in 15 months with a painless go-live. Along the way, it discovered some major differences between its original SAP ERP system and SAP S/4HANA, including security and data models, and passes along several lessons learned.

Processing $2 billion through its billing system and $120 billion of global travel spend annually, travel technology company Sabre needed a sophisticated and failure-proof software system. The business turned to SAP HANA Enterprise Edition to handle its complex requirements. The Sabre team worked with SAP to implement this solution, and as a result, has since reduced invoice processing and review time from days to hours and runtime for reports to minutes, paving the way for more advanced analytics and decision making by the business.

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 organization turned to Worksoft Certify to automate its SAP testing and business processes, the many benefits that resulted, and how it used the solution in ways it didn’t originally anticipate.

After 140 years in business, global technology giant Ericsson knows a thing or two about staying at the forefront of a changing industry. Learn how the company has modernized its IT delivery approach, and increased customer satisfaction, by adopting a continuous delivery model for its digital business support systems portfolio, and how it used the ActiveControl solution by Basis Technologies to integrate SAP applications into this new model.

When Cooper Standard — systems and components provider for the automotive and industrial industries — saw the need to automate access management, the company undertook a project would affect over 11,000 desktop users, require defining common processes to meet compliance requirements, and improve control over its heterogenous SAP and non-SAP application landscape. Learn how the company came to the decision to select and implement a suite of access management applications by Security Weaver designed to tackle critical and complex challenges.

After 140 years in business, global technology giant Ericsson knows a thing or two about staying at the forefront of a changing industry. Learn how the company has modernized its IT delivery approach, and increased customer satisfaction, by adopting a continuous delivery model for its digital business support systems portfolio, and how it used the ActiveControl solution by Basis Technologies to integrate SAP applications into this new model.

As artificial intelligence (AI) moves toward becoming a standard technology in daily business, companies increasingly need to balance the potential risks posed by AI-based software with the pursuit of growth and success. This article provides guidance on how to mitigate the risks posed by AI software by expanding your existing security standards with a clearly defined set of digital ethics. It looks at some typical ethical challenges related to the use of AI-based software and then helps you get started developing a strategy for ethical AI in your own organization.

Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing integration cycles. Discover how Dolby Labs implemented a solution by SAP partner Tricentis that provided risk-based prioritization and documentation of regression testing and end-to-end coverage for automating workstreams. Learn how the company automated regression testing for approximately 40% of mission-critical applications and saved roughly 75% savings in hours on regression testing.

Gone are the days when retailers could forecast inventory based on previous actuals and manufacturers could absorb unplanned production downtime by artificially inflating stock levels. In today's digital age, the abillity of companies to provide exemplary customer service in a digital environment is now tied to the performance and availability of their ERP systems. SAP customers are increasingly moving away from managing these systems in their own data centers and relying on cloud environments to run their mission critical applications and deliver high availability.

Learn why managed cloud provider CorpFlex opted for the Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure to run its customers’ SAP solutions and how this provider is offering improved technology and service options to these customers that minimize their system latency and reduce their storage footprint. See how CorpFlex can now deliver an approximate 40% performance improvement to its customers’ workloads, along with a capability to add a new node and create a new SAP environment for a customer in as little as two hours.

With millions of patients, pharmacies, and hospitals relying on its healthcare services and products, Cardinal Health employs an IT landscape consisting of thousands of SAP and non-SAP applications running countless business processes to conduct its business. To uphold stringent quality standards, improve operations, and provide necessary maintenance and business process testing, the company sought a test automation solution that could reduce costs, improve reliability, and promote continuous integration and development. Learn how it implemented Worksoft automation solutions to achieve these outcomes — as well as receive unexpected benefits from robotic process automation (RPA).

Preventing access risk and ensuring regulatory compliance are top priorities for any business, and cable and wire manufacturer Southwire Company, LLC, understands how analytics are required to successfully achieve these goals. Concerned that access-related risks were unacceptably high, Southwire embarked on a multi-phased project that aimed to remove, reduce, and mitigate these risks and to design more efficient user roles. Learn how Southwire Company, LLC, leveraged Security Weaver solutions to identify risks, remove or reduce segregation-of-duties (SoD) conflicts, optimize user role design, and improve overall business processes.

Offering personalized services can improve the customer experience for nearly any type of business. Companies leading in this digital age are establishing a competitive advantage by deploying technology that leverages data generated by customer behavior to improve their customers’ experience across different channels. Learn how lighting manufacturer Acuity Brands — which provides lighting, lighting controls, and building management solutions globally — has evolved its business to now offer connected building technology solutions that enable its customers to transform their buildings from cost centers to strategic assets. Learn how Acuity partnered with SAP to create a solution for joint customers that improve in-store operations for the store managers and associates, in-store engagement with customers, as well as conversions — and how this proof of concept is intended to extend well beyond the retail space to other industries.

Deforestation is devastating to Earth’s rainforests, and to the planet as a whole — it creates more of an impact on climate change than the emissions of planes, trains, cars, trucks, and ships combined, according to a study. With 90% of rainforest logging being done illegally, a massive opportunity opened up for Rainforest Connection, a non-profit organization focused on using technology to combat deforestation. Rainforest Connection teamed up with SAP to analyze data collected by recycled cell phones that monitored the sounds of the rainforest not only to identify illegal logging as it was happening, but even predict where a tree could be cut illegally ahead of time, allowing rangers to stop the activity and prevent future deforestation.  

For the past 120 years, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has been at the forefront of a continuously changing mobility industry. It has achieved this by leading with innovation in its products and services for customers, as well as in its internal systems and processes. Following this commitment, the company recently updated its system landscapes by expanding its SAP footprint. SAP system monitoring and change management processes have become progressively important to Goodyear – resulting in an increasing trend in working with SAP Solution Manager. With a goal of implementing better, easier, and faster software tools and processes – and answering SAP system users’ call for improved system performance and usability – the business decided to upgrade to SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Learn how the upgrade provided Goodyear benefits such as improved efficiency and resource allocation, enhanced visual representation, and a less restrictive content documentation structure.

Sanofi, a major multinational pharmaceutical company, has plans for expansion. To facilitate that growth, Sanofi decided it needed to automate its financial close, account reconciliation, and journal entry processes as many of them were manual and disparate across its business units. Discover how even partway through a global implementation of a record-to-report solution to transform its financial processes, Sanofi has already seen greater efficiency and time savings, allowing the staff to concentrate on value-added activities for its life-saving health care operations and medical research and development.

The disruptive nature of technology innovation is not limited to business: The public sector must also consider the impact of digital transformation. The State of Illinois recognized a need for improved technology and functionality across its growing responsibilities, and in 2016 began a digital transformation that aimed to replace 420 systems across 58 agencies in 30 months. The state selected SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to deploy SAP ERP and SAP HANA technology across its organization. Learn how it leveraged SAP solutions to achieve better decision making on improved data analysis as well as better spend tracking and hiring processes — and how the gains are causing other agencies across the state to ask how they can benefit.

During the digitization of the medical world, the mental health field was virtually passed over. To fill this gap, HarrisLogic develops technology platforms for the behavioral healthcare field to help its users identify the workflow of mentally ill individuals moving through the system and ensure no one gets lost in the cracks. Through a combination of various engines that apply clinical evidence-based practices, fuse data streams together from various locations, and apply advanced and predictive analytics — paired with SAP technology — HarrisLogic was able to drastically improve the delivery of much needed mental health services, drive more connections to healthcare, and create a reliable model to gauge the risk in a variety of settings.

Three billion people across 230 countries currently consume lifestyle entertainment from Discovery, Inc. — a company that creates more than 8,000 hours of original programming in 50 languages each year and distributes television and digital content globally. After experiencing fast domestic and international growth, and with day-to-day accounting functions spread across offices in more than 20 countries, the company knew it could benefit from global standardization of controls and governance of its SAP landscape.  In an effort to standardize and automate its financial close and journal entry process, Discovery, Inc. integrated its SAP ERP system with BlackLine solutions — Account Reconciliations, Journal Entry, and Task Management. Learn how the business now benefits from stronger financial controls, more efficient audit processes, and an improved journal entry workflow.

Due to its aggressive acquisition strategy, professional services company VINCI Energies – which has already grown to 77,500 employees spread throughout more than 1,000 global companies – needed an updated ERP program and IT strategy to integrate its new companies into the fold as quickly and easily as possible. To accomplish this, the business decided to consolidate on a single-instance environment with over 30,000 users running on SAP S/4HANA. Learn how VINCI Energies underwent a 10-month project that culminated in a migration over the weekend that imparted some valuable lessons. With 14 countries live so far and plans to deploy it universally, uncover the benefits the business is already reaping from the capabilities that SAP S/4HANA has introduced and innovating with SAP Cloud Platform, SAP C/4HANA, and more intelligent reporting and analytics.

On the heels of its migration to SAP S/4HANA, professional services company VINCI Energies wanted to extend the new functionality with a new application for employee timesheet entry that would replace former manual, paper-based processes. Learn how the business designed and developed the online app using SAP Cloud Platform, and how this application is creating more advanced capabilities for workers and managers who need to keep track of hours and other associated costs applied to individual projects from the field.

When Versum Materials was divested in 2016, it took the opportunity not only to make a fresh IT start with a greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation, but also to do it with a big-bang approach. The newly independent business accomplished the massive change in 15 months with a painless go-live. Along the way, it discovered some major differences between its original SAP ERP system and SAP S/4HANA, including security and data models, and passes along several lessons learned.

Processing $2 billion through its billing system and $120 billion of global travel spend annually, travel technology company Sabre needed a sophisticated and failure-proof software system. The business turned to SAP HANA Enterprise Edition to handle its complex requirements. The Sabre team worked with SAP to implement this solution, and as a result, has since reduced invoice processing and review time from days to hours and runtime for reports to minutes, paving the way for more advanced analytics and decision making by the business.

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 organization turned to Worksoft Certify to automate its SAP testing and business processes, the many benefits that resulted, and how it used the solution in ways it didn’t originally anticipate.

After 140 years in business, global technology giant Ericsson knows a thing or two about staying at the forefront of a changing industry. Learn how the company has modernized its IT delivery approach, and increased customer satisfaction, by adopting a continuous delivery model for its digital business support systems portfolio, and how it used the ActiveControl solution by Basis Technologies to integrate SAP applications into this new model.

When Cooper Standard — systems and components provider for the automotive and industrial industries — saw the need to automate access management, the company undertook a project would affect over 11,000 desktop users, require defining common processes to meet compliance requirements, and improve control over its heterogenous SAP and non-SAP application landscape. Learn how the company came to the decision to select and implement a suite of access management applications by Security Weaver designed to tackle critical and complex challenges.

Many companies struggle with a variety of problems regarding their journal entry processes — such as approval procedures, accounting requirements, and complex workflows — that are unique to their business. A good number of these are SAP customers that continue to collect, route, and manage their journal entries with manual processes, emails, and spreadsheets, which is an error-prone and unsustainable approach. Discover a business-focused, spreadsheet-based workflow solution that features deep integration with SAP software, enabling SAP customers to eliminate manual data entry errors, track and manage multi-level review and approval processes faster, and better utilize their SAP systems.