Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management

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A Roadmap to Success for Your CRM Projects

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Before setting out on an implementation of SAP CRM, consider crucial tips, tricks, and lessons learned in this excerpt from George Fratian’s SAP PRESS book Planning Your SAP CRM Implementation. Key Concept A business case is a document that’s typically written for a senior level audience, and it has to include the reasoning behind an...…
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4 Ways to Manage Authentication for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

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Sort out the authentication options offered for BusinessObjects Enterprise and see how to use them. Key Concept Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user who attempts to access the system. This article was originally published on BusinessObjects Expert SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise provides several authentication methods for enabling users to log on...…
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SAP and SuccessFactors – An Overview

Reading time: 70 mins

In this exclusive in-depth report, learn about SuccessFactors and what the acquisition means for SAP ERP HCM and your business. Get a detailed, comprehensive overview of SuccessFactors, SAP’s strategy, the future of SAP ERP HCM, and how the acquisition of SuccessFactors affects your business. It aims to dispel any myths or confusion around SuccessFactors and...…
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Best Practices for Planning, Testing, and Deploying Changes in a Mature SAP ERP Landscape

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/Project ManagementMike Moore, an SAP technical solution architect, explains the benefits of using an N+1 landscape model when making project and production support changes, including avoiding long production support freezes. He shows how to implement it, drawing on lessons learned during deployment. Key Concept The SAP N+1 landscape provides a solution for lowering the risk...…
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Complete the Engineer-to-Order Process with Period-End Postings for Project Valuation

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In an engineer-to-order manufacturing environment, you iteratively design a product with your customer and then produce the product based on these newly developed specifications. These projects typically run over many financial periods. At the end of each period, you need to ensure that you correctly value the work in process, the cost of goods sold,...…
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Using Standards for a More Maintainable Solution

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D. Russell Sloan explains the value of establishing and adhering to standards when you are delivering a solution. Key Concept Solution Documentation is much more than a collection of Microsoft Word documents and some flow charts. It is a representation of everything that goes into designing, building, testing, delivering, and supporting a solution. Implementations generate...…
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Discover the Compare and Adjust Functionality Changes in SAP Solution Manager 7.1

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ManagerLearn how to use SAP Solution Manager 7.1 to run a comparison and adjustment of structure nodes between solutions and projects as well as keep your productive SAP solutions and projects synchronized and up to date. Key Concept SAP Solution Manager provides a compare and adjust feature to identify the differences between the structure and...…
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10 Key Steps for Empowering SAP Project End Users

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ManagementGiving project end users a stake in SAP project implementations offers some great benefits for the business. Despite the fact that every SAP project is context sensitive, there are 10 main steps, based on five vital parameters — system, solutions, data, process, and people (roles) — that hold the key for empowering the SAP project...…
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How SAP Solution Manager Standards and Procedures Can Prevent Confusion

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ManagerLearn the importance of defining SAP Solution Manager standards and procedures, and creating a reference document for all projects. Standards and procedures play an important role when your organization starts a new SAP Solution Manager project and wants to establish SAP Solution Manager as a central source of information. SAP Solution Manager provides different tools...…
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Coping with the Recession: A Project Manager’s Survival Guide

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ManagementRecessions pose several risks that can harm your SAP project. Fortunately there are steps you can take to mitigate these risks and protect your project, even in today’s economy. The economy is famously susceptible to the domino effect. The housing bubble bursts, which in turn ruins certain financial instruments and endangers the ability of major...…