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Start Your Enterprise Risk Management Process with Diligent Risk Planning

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More and more, companies are recognizing the relevance of solid risk management to protect themselves from diverse threats and increase the success rate of their strategies and initiatives. The enterprise risk management (ERM) process can be divided into five phases: risk planning, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response allocation, and risk monitoring. Learn about how...…
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What You Need to Know About SAP and SaaS

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John Wookey, vice president of Large Enterprise On-Demand at SAP, laid out SAP’s strategy for enterprise on-demand applications during a recent keynote at the SIIA ON-Demand Europe 2009. Rather than hosting an entire SAP application, such as SAP ERP Human Capital Management, off-site, SAP will offer Internet-based enterprise applications by subscription. Wookey said these applications...…
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Improve Your Business Agility with Enterprise SOA — a Model-Driven Approach to Flexible Application Development

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Model-driven software techniques make it easier and faster to develop business process-oriented applications. Business object modeling, business process component modeling, and business process modeling represent real, process-relevant entities in an implementation, make the entities more transparent, and allow you to close the gap between documentation and development. Enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) uses SAP’s modeling...…
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Reasons to Perform a Controlling Area Reorganization

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Learn about the options to change the controlling area structure in an SAP Financials system post go-live. Key Concept The key element of the CO enterprise structure is the Controlling Area. At the initial stages of any project the analyst defines the organizational relationship between controlling areas (CO) and company codes (FI). The decisions made...…
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Pay-for-Performance Approach with SAP ERP HCM Enterprise Compensation Management

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ManagementLearn how to implement the pay-for-performance approach with the help of SAP ERP HCM Enterprise Compensation Management to recognize and reward employee achievement, and to help motivate workers. Key Concept Pay for performance (incentive pay) is the theory of paying employees based on their performance — usually using a sliding scale of achievement — rather...…
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Information Design Tool vs. Universe Designer: A Primer for Users

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Are you making the transition from Universe Designer tools to the new Information Design Tool (IDT) in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0? Read this report by Mike McErlain to gain an understanding of how to translate your Universe Designer skills to IDT skills. See the major differences between the two tools and get an introduction to...…
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An Introduction to SAP HANA Enterprise Information Management (EIM): A New Way to Move Data into SAP HANA

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Learn the steps needed to set up an SAP Enterprise Information Management (EIM) task to real-time replicate and manipulate a data feed to SAP HANA from an external source database. Learn how to integrate the Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality transforms within EIM to clean, join, and otherwise manipulate data via SAP HANA...…
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Manage Supply Chain Risks with SAP Supply Chain Performance Management 2.0

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SAP Supply Chain Performance Management 2.0 offers extended performance and risk indicators in a number of key areas, including the Supply Chain Council’s Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model. Learn how to effectively map these key risk indicators to an enterprise risk management program using SAP Supply Chain Performance Management 2.0 and SAP Risk Management...…
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R/3 Enterprise 4.7 Simplifies Authorization Hierarchy Maintenance in CO

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Did you know that it is now possible to set up authorization profiles for users in a more flexible and simple way? New developments since 4.0 enable you to save time by doing just that. The author explains how administrators can set up authorizations without the need to assign authorization objects to every single CO...…
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Use Cases for Embedded SAP BW in Your SAP Transactional System

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SAP system users have had the ability to run an embedded SAP BW system inside SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), starting with SAP NetWeaver 7.0; Suite on SAP HANA; and SAP S/4HANA. See how to use this capability (since it is included in your SAP transactional licenses) with minimal pain and cost. Key Concept Although...…