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SAP Announces Board Level Organizational Changes
The message for SAP in 2020 has been very much one of customer focus. At their FKOM event in January, the message was “Forward Together” and the keynotes in all regions focused on customer stories and driving customer success. A week later, during the FY2019 earnings call, CFO Luka Mucic stated that, “Everyone needs to…
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Trends in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Usage – A Benchmark Study
Even with the extension of mainstream maintenance for existing SAP ERP systems to 2027, the topic of SAP S/4HANA migration is still a critical one for most SAP ERP customers. This is not only because the migration process can require a significant time and resource investment, but also because many customers are now leveraging the…
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Understanding the Value of Robotic Process Automation in FP&A
In his more than two decades’ worth of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Brian Kalish has come to the conclusion that best practices for this group can be applied globally, with little to no alteration. “Unlike accounting, tax, and cash management—which face different government regulations depending on location—FP&A practices can be applied anywhere…
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How Johns Hopkins Improved Process Efficiency with SAP Fiori
Although business transactions such as entering travel reimbursement forms, ordering office supplies, or performing the proper paperwork to onboard a new employee may not immediately come to mind when you think of the most important aspects of running a business, these transactions happen frequently enough that the efficiency with which they run is worth examining.…
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SAP Announces Extension of Mainstream Maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0
By Robert Holland, VP Research and Publishing, SAPinsider SAP announced yesterday that it will now provide mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 and other core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 until the end of 2027. This will be followed by an optional extended maintenance that will be available until the end of 2030. In…
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A Low-cost Solution to Help Prevent Cyber Security Breaches in Your SAP System
According to multiple sources, the average hacker spends about 200 days in your system before you’ve even realized they’re there. “The amount of data mining that they can capture in that time is incredible,” says Bill Oliver, Head of Technology for Winterhawk. He says these days, it’s more likely a matter of when you’ll be…
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L3Harris and Lessons Learned While Moving SAP S/4HANA to the Cloud
When moving to SAP S/4HANA, it is important to learn as much as possible from the experience of others that have already travelled that path. And what is especially useful are the lessons that they have learned along the way. Josh Fisher, Senior Manager – SAP Technical Services at L3 Harris, has much that he…
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Revolutionizing and Modernizing your Financial Processes with SAP S/4HANA Finance
A former accountant himself, Paul Ovigele, SAP Consultant and Founder and CEO of ERPfixers, understands this group’s mindset. “You can’t just hand an accountant a shiny new thing like SAP S/4HANA Finance and expect them to get excited. They want to get to the bottom of exactly what the benefits are and whether the benefits…
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Redesigning Roles and Analyzing Custom Transactions to Prepare for SAP S/4HANA Migration
Naturally, companies that have been in business for decades have decades worth of user roles amassed in their systems landscape. When preparing for the upgrade to SAP S/4HANA, not every company will need to remediate all of their security roles, however this is the approach that one long-time SAP customer decided to take as part…
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How a Hybrid Model for Talent Management Has Led to Improved Business Processes and Results at a Large Canadian Bank
By AJ Whalen, Senior Research Analyst, SAPinsider In a 2019 SAPinsider survey of SAP and SAP SuccessFactors customers, 39% of respondents classified their human capital management (HCM) solution landscape as a hybrid of both on-premise and cloud solutions. When asked to describe their projected HCM solution landscape one year from now, the trend toward hybrid…
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