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  1. SAP Rolls Out SAP S/4HANA-Based Subledger

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    Earlier in January, SAP announced its new SAP S/4HANA for financial products subledger. Aimed at handling the complex regulatory and reporting requirements for financial institutions, insurance companies, and fintech companies, the subledger uses a central data hub for information between operational and finance systems. Regulatory changes like IFRS 9 and 17 have added new wrinkles…
  2. SAP Sets the Stage for New XM Frontier With Qualtrics Acquisition

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    SAP has taken a giant step forward in setting the stage for the future of the experience economy. Last week, SAP announced that it had completed its acquisition of Qualtrics International, the global pioneer of the experience management (XM) software category. Ryan Smith will continue to lead Qualtrics, which will retain its current leadership and…
  3. New Horizons: An Outline of the SAPinsider Digital Supply Management New Research Approach

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    I’m reading a book titled The Barons of the Sea, which is an account of the 19th century merchants and trading companies that battled for supremacy in importing tea from China in exchange for shipments of opium. The goal of these entrepreneurs was to find a way to shorten a traditional six-month journey from China…
  4. Cloud Continues to Lead SAP Growth: SAP Sets Aggressive 5-Year Outlook

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    On January 29, 2019, SAP officially announced its financial results for Q4 2018 and the full year of 2018. Cloud revenues continue to power SAP’s overall revenue growth — SAP reported that cloud revenue for the year reached €4.9 billion and overall revenue edged up 5% to €24.71 billion. Overall cloud and software revenue fell…
  5. A Smooth-Running SAP S/4HANA Implementation Depends on Successful Sizing

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    With support for SAP Business Suite ending in 2025, the pressure to make the move to SAP S/4HANA is steadily rising, and over 2,200 SAP customers are already using the solution. While there are many important considerations involved when it comes to ensuring a successful move, there is one in particular that is crucial —…
  6. What Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Capabilities Are on the Horizon for SAP Customers

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    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…
  7. How SAP Customers Can Meet the Challenges of Italy’s E-Invoicing Mandate

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    When Italy flipped the European Union’s (EU’s) regulations on business-to-business (B2B) electronic invoicing (e-invoicing), it opened the floodgates for the type of complex regulations companies doing business in Latin America have had to deal with for more than a decade. For SAP customers that aren’t prepared for European B2B e-invoicing, that could be very bad…
  8. A Look at the Reporting Benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud

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    SAP has done it again. It’s made us all rethink what we are currently doing as we wait patiently until it has a fully integrated product. I’m, of course, talking about SAP Analytics Cloud, which is part of its Unified Reporting strategy that will allow customers to combine data from all SAP systems, including SAP…
  9. How SAP Uses Emerging Technologies to Help Its Customers Realize Their Dreams

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    Q: You’ve had a lot of roles within SAP. Could you tell us a little bit about your path to your current role within SAP? A: I have always been curious and wanted to understand how companies run. And what better way to do that than to join the world’s largest enterprise software provider and…
  10. An open letter from Jamie Bedard, New President and CEO of Wellesley Information Services

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    Insiders, I want to introduce myself as the new President and CEO of Wellesley Information Services (WIS), which is also the owner/operator of SAPinsider and several other end user communities. As you may have read in a recent press release, JAZ’D! Advisors Investment Corporation has acquired 100% of WIS with a significant investment earmarked to…