Analyst Insights

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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  1. scm planning

    Strategies to Build Supply Chain Planning Foundations

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    SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. Since the top business drivers…

  2. CIO Change Executive Forum SAP

    How Tech Leaders Are Using DevOps for Change

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    Companies are increasingly using DevOps to drive change in organizations. Find out how top tech leaders are deploying the methodology.

  3. Customer Intelligence

    Developing a Supply Chain Visibility Roadmap

    Reading time: 2 mins

    SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. Since the top business drivers focus...…

  4. Supply Chain Data Silos

    Eliminating Data Silos for Supply Chain Analytics

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    Fragmentation of data remains a key obstacle on the path of integrated supply chain planning. Many organizations have invested in point systems for planning various elements of supply chains over the years, have legacy systems, and also have data pertaining to supply chain residing in enterprise systems like ERP, CRM etc. With the advent of…

  5. Supply Chain Visibility

    Supply Chain Planning and Business Agility

    Reading time: 1 mins

    SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. This was evident in…

  6. Data Security Analyst Insight

    Impact of European Cloud Data Security Restrictions

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    European Union (EU) cybersecurity authorities are in the process of drafting a new certification system for cloud services that specifies that high-risk data can only be stored in the EU and can only be accessed by employees that are located in an EU country. And, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article on the...…

  7. Machine Learning for Supply Chain

    Leveraging Machine Learning on Customer Intelligence Data

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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 understand their…

  8. Supply Chain Process Automation

    Increasing Focus on Supply Chain Process Automation

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    Process automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. And recently we have seen an increased focus on supply chain process automation. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now…

  9. Six-Sigma

    Transforming Six-Sigma with Process Intelligence

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    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…

  10. Customer Intelligence

    Building Customer Intelligence Capabilities

    Reading time: 3 mins

    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...…