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  1. Clovity

    Thoughts on Event-Driven Business Processes, Risk Mitigation, and Running a Real-Time Business

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Event-driven business processes are becoming more relevant, and there is a great wave of interest in this topic in the SAP ecosystem. The event-enabled nature of the SAP S/4HANA ERP system, coupled with its sibling Business Technology Platform, enables enterprises to use and develop responsive applications rapidly to seamlessly to take advantage of this new…

  2. Data Services Cloud

    Taking Back Control of Your Unstructured Data

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Locating, storing, managing, and analyzing are only few of the challenges that organizations manage with unstructured data. While many enterprises are unaware of the origin of all their unstructured data, they need to adopt new approaches to control and optimize data management as it is crucial for increasing measurable corporate value. This article discusses how…

  3. AP Automation – What, Why and How?

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Accounts Payable is one of the most important aspects of any SAP organization. Ensuring that suppliers are paid on time keeps the business running smoothly. Yet many companies are still running this crucial part of the business with too many manual touchpoints. Each touchpoint opens the company up to human error. It can also be…

  4. Key SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite Features of H2 2022: Part 3

    Reading time: 7 mins

    SAP released its most recent update to SAP SuccessFactors recently, updating many of the features while also adding some new ones. In this article, we will cover some of the key enhancements made to the Performance & Goals, Compensation, Succession & Development, Calibration, and Opportunity Marketplace applications within SuccessFactors. The updates to the performance and…

  5. Accelerating Your Next SAP SuccessFactors Performance Management

    Reading time: 7 mins

    The process of assimilating information and making decisions during a technology implementation takes a significant amount of time. Therefore, customers should make necessary decisions ahead of the implementation to avoid unnecessary risks, project delays, and increased costs. Regardless of whether organizational processes drive the design of a cloud application or if cloud application influences processes,…

  6. Key SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite features of H2 2022: Part 2

    Reading time: 6 mins

    SAP released its most recent update to SAP SuccessFactors recently, updating many of the features while also adding some new ones. In this article, we will cover some of the key enhancements made to the recruiting, onboarding, and learning applications within SuccessFactors. The updates to the recruiting application aim to make it easier for both…

  7. Using SAP to Manage U.S. Sales Tax from Overseas

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Many organizations from outside the U.S. struggle to do business within the country, due in large part to its complex and often confusing sales tax system. Unlike VAT or GST, sales tax is only levied on the final transaction with the customer, and there are no charging or reporting requirements for the companies in the…

  8. inventory management

    Demand Driven Planning – Dynamic Adjustment – Step 3

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Buffers need to be re-calculated dynamically if material, market or company-related parameters change. This can be done with the consulting solution safety stock and buffer simulation. Buffers must be recalculated if the average daily usage changes and changed daily, weekly, or monthly depending on the analysis period. If the average daily usage is calculated based…

  9. Enterprise Architecture sessions

    RISE with SAP Options for Cloud and On-Premise Systems

    Reading time: 6 mins

    The article discusses system options for SAP solutions, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of cloud-based versus on-premise systems. Cloud computing offers scalability, robust security features, and up-to-date technology, while on-premise systems provide greater control over data and performance. The article also discusses SAP systems and modules based on business and functional areas, including financials, logistics,…

  10. Cloud computing. Cloud Innovation and Transformation

    SAP Datasphere – An Introduction

    Reading time: 4 mins

    As enterprises adopt data-driven best practices and decisions, the quality of data plays a key role. As data is processed from multiple data sources, the business context to the data is typically lost. Without the right context, business queries on the dataset might not always return the best results, in turn hampering downstream data applications,…