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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Insights From Haresh Chhaya, SAP Treasury and Working Capital Solutions Leader: The Challenges of Cash Flow Forecasting for SAP Customers
Cash flow forecasting is crucial for businesses, but complexities arise from disconnected financial systems. Dive into insights from SAP’s Haresh Chhaya on how integrated solutions can address these challenges and optimize financial strategies.
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SAP Customers Struggle to Maximize Full SAP Cash and Treasury Functionality
Although tools such as SAP’s Cash Management and Treasury are crucial in driving business growth, many businesses have yet to explore the full potential of such tools and their functionalities. Preliminary insights from SAPinsider’s upcoming Cash Management and Visibility research confirm that many organizations still use legacy SAP ERP systems with classic tools, SAP Cash…...…
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SAP Increases Pressure for On-Premise Customers
In 2022, for the first time in nearly a decade, SAP announced an increase in maintenance fees by up to 3.3% based on the local consumer price index (CPI) rate. The company said the adjustment was due to increased energy and labor costs and increasing expenses for third-party services. The increase that went into effect…
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Accelerating the Financial Close Process: BlackLine Launches 5-Day Fast Track for Mid-Size Organizations
Finance leaders at mid-sized organizations are under increasing pressure. They face requests to enhance the efficiency of the financial close process, yet many have budget constraints that make it more difficult to leverage emerging technologies that can help in this area. BlackLine's recent announcement of their 5-Day Fast Track program seems to be in direct…
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Customers Call for Cloud and On-Premise Equality
During SAP’s 2023 Q2 earnings call, SAP’s CEO Christian Klein made several statements about how innovations in generative AI and sustainability to be exclusively available in the cloud. Klein also indicated that these new offerings would only be available to RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP customers. While no specific information was provided in…
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Is SAP Abandoning On-Premise?
There has been significant discussion surrounding SAP’s stance on cloud versus on-premise. The recent statement by DSAG board member Sebastian Westphal implies that SAP is focusing enhancements on the public cloud version of SAP S/4HANA in a push to accelerate cloud adoption. But beyond these statements, there also seems to be a growing concern among…
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Analyst Solution Brief: SAP Signavio for Finance Operations
SAP Signavio is a cloud-based solution that enables finance process modeling and empowers companies to achieve this by providing a comprehensive solution for understanding, improving, and transforming their business processes. SAPinsider recently spent time with SAP Signavio team to demo the solution. Here is a summary breakdown for the SAPinsider finance community. This content is…
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Evolving Business Intelligence: Enabling Strategic Imperatives with a Cohesive Data Fabric
As organizations seek to evolve or expand upon their ability to enable a cohesive data fabric, business intelligence programs may or may not reflect organizational strategies that should be leveraged to shape these programs. Additionally, many organizations face challenges in executing business intelligence programs that align with strategic imperatives. Corresponding solutions are shifting from on-premise…
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Themes of Transformation Permeate SAP Customers and Ecosystem Partners
SAP and its partner ecosystem have guided customers through enterprise transformation journeys for half a century. This has continued as SAP customers adopt S/4HANA, often consolidating many disparate systems in the process. Ecobat, the world leader in both lead production and battery recycling (99% of the metal volume that Ecobat produces is captured and repurposed),…
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Cloud Innovation and Transformation
Beyond moving data to the cloud, organizations also want applications that provide additional insight from their data. Most organizations can use analytics, many other critical KPIs. But they often lack greater insight around that data. This is the functionality that hyperscalers can offer, connecting corporate data sets with weather or trend data provides more context…
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