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6 Factors to Consider When Evaluating End-User Training Options
When budgets are tight, employee training is often one of the first things to be cut. In the short term, your company may save money, but what is the long-term effect on your projects and software adoption? A recent survey by IDC hinted that “the likelihood of project success is proportional to the skill level…
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7 Questions to Guide You on Your S&OP Transformation
For many businesses, getting sales and operations planning (S&OP) right is a critical step toward success. S&OP processes are responsible for cutting down waste and optimizing your organization’s resources. But for too often, S&OP falls short of expectations. Why does this happen – and what can you do to fix it? Every organization will answer…
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5 Reasons Why You Need an Agile Delivery Model for SAP ERP
The developing digital economy is driving a big change in the way applications and infrastructure are provisioned and delivered. But what if you’re running applications like SAP and it feels like the digital transformation doesn’t have a direct impact on you, at least not right now? In that case you might be wondering why methodologies…
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What Does the Future Hold for SAP ERP HCM?
This blog is based on Ralf Wagner’s HR 2016 session “SAP ERP HCM: Delivered and Planned Innovations” SAP SuccessFactors seems to hold all the headlines in the HR space these days, but there is still a place for SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM). Many organizations have built reliable, successful processes around SAP…
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Building a Best-Practice Talent Management Strategy with SAP SuccessFactors Solutions
A myriad of factors, such as business strategies or available resources, influence whether a business achieves success. But at the end of the day, there’s one factor that trumps almost all others in importance: people. You could have the best business plans or the smartest resource strategy around, but if they’re not carried out by…
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Behind the latest SAP BW Advance Mixed Load Benchmark
On July 4, 2016, SAP, on behalf of the SAP Benchmark Council, certified (Certification number: 2016035) the latest SAP BW Advance Mixed Load Benchmark (BW-AML Benchmark) where Hitachi now ranks first for the 2 billion initial record load, see the results here. For those of us at Hitachi, these results are no surprise. Hitachi’s converged…
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US Mandates for E-Invoicing and Reporting Are Taking Cues from Latin American and European Tax Authorities
Latin America is without a doubt the leader in business-to-government compliance requirements, and nations across the globe have taken note of how countries in this region have successfully cracked down on tax fraud. In 2015, the United States introduced two new fiscal requirements — public sector e-invoicing and country-by-country reporting — with themes that are…
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6 Questions to Ask Your Cloud Service Provider Before Moving SAP to the Cloud
Moving mission-critical applications such as SAP to the cloud can provide a great return in terms of user satisfaction and fiscal management. For an optimal return, however, you can’t go it alone — you need to carefully consider a cloud service provider (CSP) who can help you maximize your experience by helping you meet performance…
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Cybersecurity and Digital Business
Amid all the talk of empathy and running live, there was another, subtler theme that occasionally popped up in Bill McDermott’s keynote speech for SAPPHIRE 2016: cybersecurity. While it was far from a main focus of the presentation, cybersecurity reared its head on more than one occasion. McDermott stated early on in the speech that…
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Empathy Leading SAP’s Effort to Help Companies Run Live
ORLANDO, Florida — Empathy was the main theme emanating from SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s keynote presentation before an announced record-setting crowd of 30,000 attendees at Tuesday’s opening day of SAPPHIRE NOW 2016. The overriding goal for SAP, McDermott said, is to demonstrate an unmatched level of passion, energy, and empathy for the customer. That alone,…
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