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Modernize Your SAP Landscape
SAPinsider Events has released a second online video series: Modernize your SAP Landscape that was recorded at a series of live events produced by SAPinsider Events and sponsors SAP, SUSE, VMware, HPE, and Intel. This exclusive sequence explores the changing SAP solution landscape and the limitations of traditional client-server architecture to handle new software capabilities…
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SAP HANA Security: Preventing the Internal Threat
Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing…
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Electronic Auditing is Coming to Mexico – Are You Prepared?
In a recent interview with CNN Expansion, Aristoteles Nunez, the head of Mexico’s Tax Administration Services (SAT), stated that the Mexican government will begin deploying electronic audits in the second half of 2016. This is a move the SAT has already been gearing up for over the past few years by moving much of its…
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SAP HANA Then and Now: A Smarter Way to a System of Insight
The recent Forrester Research survey “Evolve Your Business Intelligence To Systems of Insight” defines a system of insight as one where traditional business intelligence (BI), agile BI, and big data converge to “deliver actionable insights necessary to win, serve, and retain customers.” It should come as no surprise to the SAP customer that – as…
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Running SAP HANA? What You Need to Know from a Basis Perspective
SAP HANA is becoming a reality for many SAP customers. As a Basis Administrator, DBA, or System Architect, you may be asking yourself what that will mean for you. What are the key decision points during the planning phases that will require your input? What skills will you need to attain and leverage during implementation,…
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What New Mandates Mean for Multinationals in Latin America
Governments throughout Latin America take tax collection seriously, and several countries are implementing comprehensive steps to reduce tax evasion, prevent fraud, and maximize their revenues. In fact, Mexico recently withheld more than $384 million in value-added tax (VAT) refunds to three multinationals, including Colgate and Unilever, as it carefully scrutinized their operations. Multinational companies operating…
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Cost Benefits of SAP HANA in the Cloud
A lot of business owners who have already invested in an SAP installation may not think SAP HANA is a viable option for them due to the costs to procure the enterprise class equipment needed to support the powerful in-memory database, but are eager to leverage all of the capabilities that SAP HANA has to…
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Why SAP HANA or S/4HANA? Key Enablers That Will Drive Value to Your Business
With the announcement of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), SAP has asked its customers to take a leap of faith. Emphasizing the suite’s benefits, SAP has shared with customers how this latest generation of ERP will address their needs — with SAP S/4HANA you can run simple and reduce the complexity of…
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Brazil Nota Fiscal – Insider Tips for Procure-to-Pay
In my previous article, we discussed the importance of contingency for your orders-to-cash process flow. In today’s blog, I wanted to focus on the importance of end-to-end automation from an accounts payable (AP) perspective. Many companies are not addressing the opportunity that the Brazilian invoicing model creates for AP and inbound logistics teams. While there are unique…
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SAP Lumira – An Introduction
Last year SAP enhanced their tool called Visual Intelligence and made it much more user friendly. In general, the graphs became more advanced, while the self-service data visualization development effort was simplified. They also renamed the tool Lumira. In this blog I’ll take a quick look at some of the features of this tool and…
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