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. Red Hat

    SAP Expands Partnership with Red Hat

    Reading time: 4 mins

    SAP and Red Hat announced an expanded partnership that will focus on increasing SAP’s use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Mentioned in the announcement is that SAP is moving part of their internal IT landscape and their SAP Enterprise Cloud Services portfolio to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Most notably for members of…

  2. SAP S/4HANA Adoption

    Is SAP S/4HANA Adoption Accelerating?

    Reading time: 5 mins

    We are less than five years away from the end of mainstream maintenance for core SAP Business Suite applications. While approximately 20,000 customers have already licensed SAP S/4HANA, approximately half are net-new to enterprise ERP at SAP. That means as many as 35,000 customers currently have no plans for SAP S/4HANA. RISE with SAP is…

  3. Inventory Accuracy

    Building Foundation for Inventory Management

    Reading time: 3 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…

  4. Inventory Accuracy

    Is Your Inventory Strategy a Bottleneck?

    Reading time: 2 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…

  5. Advanced Analytics Inventory

    Pairing Data and Analytics for Inventory Management

    Reading time: 2 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…

  6. Data Management Inventory Management

    Data Management for Robust Inventory Management

    Reading time: 3 mins

    SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused only on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us, is the immense focus on supply chain and inventory management…

  7. Inventory Accuracy

    Inventory Accuracy: The Struggle With the Fundamentals

    Reading time: 1 mins

    SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused only on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us, is the immense focus on supply chain and inventory management…

  8. Advanced Analytics Inventory

    Advanced Analytics Requirement in Inventory Management

    Reading time: 4 mins

    SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused only on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us, is the immense focus on supply chain and inventory management…

  9. security

    Cloud Security Fundamentals

    Reading time: 6 mins

    SAP workloads are moving to the cloud at an accelerating rate, with 50% of those currently running on-premise likely to move in the next two years. While some will go into software-as-a-service environments, the bulk of SAP workloads moving to the cloud will go into infrastructure-as-a-service environments. This type of environment requires a different approach…

  10. Inventory System Dynamics

    Leveraging System Dynamics in Supply Chain Planning

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Any analytics technique or any analytics jargon, whether it's data science or advanced analytics, is eventually all about leveraging data or information to extract insights and knowledge based on specific techniques. However, using defined techniques sometimes leads to challenges or failures when companies try to leverage these algorithms in the real world. The reason we…