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The following articles are written by SAP experts, contributors from the SAPinsider Community, and SAPinsider’s skilled team of editors and research analysts. From technical guides to thought leadership pieces, these articles contain essential insights to help SAP customers solve day-to-day challenges, understand what types of decisions organizations need to be making, and receive lessons learned from other SAP customer experiences.

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  1. Five Key Steps for Infrastructure Security

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Security should be top of mind for all businesses that rely on SAP landscapes for mission-critical business functions. Cyberattacks can affect not just the SAP system, but also those of other connected systems. Issues like limited visibility and unpatched systems increase the likelihood of cyberattacks, as well as other system failures. Yet organizations must also…

  2. financial close

    Simplifying, Standardizing, and Automating SAP Close Activities

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Financial close is consistently highlighted by SAPinsiders as one of the most challenging and complex aspects of their organization’s finance processes. Much of this complexity comes from the fact that many organizations rely on manual processes to address the close, leading to delays and errors that can stack up over time. For SAP users, the…

  3. financial reporting

    A Smarter Approach to Intercompany

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Companies are constantly, merging, shifting, growing, and reorganizing across borders. Finance and accounting teams must coordinate transactions among different parts of the business, which often span between different geographic locations. These sectors each have their own tax laws and regulatory bodies to appease, which may be in flux. Many large multinational organizations also have a…

  4. eBook: The SAP User`s Guide to Reducing Invoice-to-Pay Costs

    Reading time: 1 min

    If it feels like it costs your business too much time and money to process invoices, you are not alone. According to the Institute of Finance and Management (IOFM), controllers say accounts payable (AP) is the most time-consuming, labor-intensive, and paper intensive finance and administration (F&A) function, topping notoriously burdensome tasks such as accounts receivable…

  5. Snow Software – Migrate to SAP® S/4HANA… without Overpaying

    Reading time: 1 min

    Migrating, as we all know, is a mammoth task so it’s unsurprising the rate of adoption has been slow. Migration is a timeconsuming and costly process that many organizations shy away from; some already feel that SAP will move 2027 out further, while some larger, more complex organizations will continue to work on an older...…

  6. SAP Ariba Integration: How IPS Helps Make the Most of Your Investment

    Reading time: 1 min

    It’s tempting to think that deploying SAP Ariba will solve all your invoice processing problems. But it doesn’t take long to realize that you might need a bit more help. That’s where automated invoice processing solutions that integrate tightly with SAP Ariba come in! Register below and learn why SAP Ariba users need AP automation....…

  7. Alternatives to SAP PI/PO

    Reading time: 5 mins

    EAI facilitates communication between enterprise applications to move business data across various systems. SAP PO is a middleware often used by customers with SAP in their landscape. It provides various adapters to establish connectivity with various systems. SAP Integration Suite, MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, and Dell Boomi Atmosphere are all powerful Integration Platforms that offer prebuilt…

  8. SAP S/4HANA in the Cloud

    Reimagining Enterprise Infrastructure for SAP HANA

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Hitachi Vantara's infrastructure, combined with Red Hat OpenShift®, offers a robust and dependable infrastructure solution for containerized applications, providing high availability and superior performance that enables container applications to remain accessible and performant. Resilient and adaptable infrastructure can accommodate diverse demands in a constantly changing environment, which is crucial for effectively implementing a container platform.…

  9. Fujitsu: SAP Value Assessment 

    Reading time: 1 min

    Build a business case for your S/4HANA transformation, along with a Value Realization Roadmap from where you begin to where you want to go. Register below and download the brochure provided by Fujitsu and learn more.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here

  10. Design for a Circular Business

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Organizations are increasingly facing the burden of solving or at least reducing the climate crisis. Businesses must consider new ways to reduce their carbon emissions and produce less waste. One of the leading solutions is to implement a circular economy. This involves reshaping the flow of materials around the world, creating items that can be…