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Analyst Insights are written by SAPinsider’s research team. Based on information gleaned from surveys of the SAPinsider Community, conversations with experts, SAP employees, vendors, and SAPinsiders, Analyst Insights provide a thoughtful analysis of critical topics, technologies, and challenges that SAP customers face today.
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Transforming Six-Sigma with Process Intelligence
Six-Sigma pertains to a group of analytical methods that companies across industries leverage to eliminate defects in their products and processes. The core crux of this methodology is simple- every step in a business process that helps deliver a product or service is also an opportunity to introduce a defect and the methodology focuses on…
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Building Customer Intelligence Capabilities
A key area that SAPinsiders highlight as one of the top business challenges: evolving customer expectations and demand. This has emerged as a top business driver in many of our research reports, including the most recent report, SAPinsider Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA. To meet the rapidly evolving customer expectation and demands, organizations need to...…
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Integrating Legacy Applications with Modern Apps
A vast majority of SAP customers are in some stage of modernizing their SAP and overall IT landscape to meet business demand for seamless workflows, integrated customer experiences and enterprise-wide analytics. Yet, often this modernization project is not uniformly applied across all applications. Simple ROI (return-on-investment) calculations fail to show positive impact for modernizing several...…
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Is RISE with SAP Gaining Traction?
RISE with SAP was announced by SAP during a special event in January 2021. Within a few months the company was reporting hundreds of licenses sold, and they made a point of discussing the growing license numbers during each quarterly earnings call. This culminated in the announcement that they had won more than 1,300 customers...…
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Machine Learning for Supply Chain Data Quality Management
Machine Learning (ML) based algorithms are slowly percolating into a wide variety of supply chain planning solutions. However, they play a key role in foundational aspects of supply chain planning as well, particularly in data quality management. Data quality has emerged as one of the aspects SAPinsiders have highlighted in their responses to our upcoming…
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Supply Chain Visibility Foundations Beyond Technology
Supply chain visibility has recently emerged as one of the most important foundational capabilities for supply chain excellence. While technical aspects of supply chain visibility are obviously critical, there are many non-technology aspects that SAPinsiders need to be aware of. This article shares some of them like: • Need to build relationship of trust with…
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Excess Inventory Management with AI
Inventory planning and management have taken a whole new form in the COVID era. Optimal inventory planning and management were never easy, but the challenges have now increased manyfold. As organizations changed their inventory strategies, many of them moving from just-in-time to just-on-case, the associated planning, and management challenges also need to be addressed. Excess…
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Holistic Automation – The Next Wave in Business Transformation
SAPinsider’s recent research on how CIOs are thinking of Transformation in the Enterprise found that almost half are implementing automation tools and technologies in both new and existing systems. Another SAPinsider research on Process automation and SAP S/4HANA discovered that the most important drivers for transformation are the need to become a digital enterprise to...…
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Machine Learning Renaissance with SAP Kyma 2.0
Open source development is very normal in the data science world. The popularity of languages like Python and R can be attributed to the explosion of development work happening to leverage open-source tools and technologies. However, many who are on SAP technologies are often unsure how to leverage and integrate open source tools within their…
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Which Cloud Skills are Needed for the SAP Cloud Transition?
SAP’s primary focus has turned to The Cloud. For SAP customers, that means there are new technologies to learn and different skills required for cloud deployments. We talked with Rizing CTO Martin Stenzig about these cloud skills, and key SAP technologies such as the SAP Business Technology Platform that are important for customers moving to…
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