Market Insights

The number of solutions available from SAP and their broader partner ecosystem is more than most SAPinsiders have the time to learn about or understand, let alone implement. To help provide the information you need on why the topics that these solutions address are important, SAPinsider’s skilled team of analysts and editors interview organizations to learn more about the solutions they offer and the business challenges they address. These articles explain current trends around these topics, how vendors are addressing them, and what you can do to prepare your own organization.

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    The Strategic Role of Sustainable Procurement

    Reading time: 7 mins

    by Kumar Singh, Research Director, SAPinsider   The Growing Importance of Supply Chain Sustainability As supply chains become global and complex, every company faces environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues within their supply chain network. While the most talked-about aspects are environmental problems include climate change, carbon emissions, pollution, and waste management, social and governance...…

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    Leveraging Smart Manufacturing to Meet Sustainability Goals

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    by Kumar Singh, Research Director, SAPinsider Building Sustainable Digital Twins While supply chain leaders across industries and geographies grapple with managing the ever-increasing supply chain complexities and risks, there is an additional demand on the companies to be more resourceful and conscientious of environmental and social needs. There is no doubt that the collective awareness...…

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    The Imperative of Analytics in the Cloud

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    By Kumar Singh, Research Director, SAPinsider Accelerating Digital Transformation Initiatives Every technology leader knows that the cloud will be a business imperative in the future.  The explosion in digitalization, data, and analytics methodologies means that organizations realize that their current on-premises environments are not sustainable from a long-term perspective. And while this contemplation comes from...…

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    Drive Finance Automation with Continuous Innovation Culture

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    By Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, SAPinsider   Digital transformation often starts with financial automation. Finance and accounting teams that embrace a “culture of continuous innovation,” are well-positioned to drive process optimization in support of financial automation adoption.  Key Takeaways: Organizations are adopting financial automation to manage increased complexities and demand facing today’s finance function  End-to-end financial process automation adoption is now a critical component of engaging a finance/accounting workforce...…

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    Future-Proof Remote Finance Teams with Automation

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    By Riz Ahmed, Chief Research Officer, SAPinsider and Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, SAPinsider  With remote teams on the rise, many organizations face difficulties finding a more secure and efficient way to manage end-to-end finance workflows in concert with SAP ERP source systems. Finance and accounting professionals have long relied on spreadsheets for the majority of...…

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    Experiencing Your SAP S/4HANA Future

    Reading time: 6 mins

    By Robert Holland, VP and Research Director, SAPinsider For those deploying SAP S/4HANA, one of the most important requirements they must fulfill is educating business users and executives on SAP S/4HANA features. While this can be partially achieved by attending webinars, demonstrations, and listening to what other customers have to say, it is still difficult…

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    Deliver Competitive Advantage via Cloud-Based SAP Workloads

    Reading time: 9 mins

    By Alex Soto, Editor, SAPinsider Organizations today are transitioning their SAP workloads to the cloud to achieve greater flexibility and scalability. Benefits of this move include increased efficiency, improved productivity beyond the initial transition, and the ability to deploy applications more rapidly than on-premise infrastructure supports. While the underlying thread that enables successful cloud adoption…

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    How SAP S/4HANA and Cloud Move Midmarket Visibility Forward

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Increasing the breadth and scope of business visibility has become a critical priority for most organizations as markets and working environments remain in flux. Our recent SAPinsider research on SAP S/4HANA and Central Finance found that visibility was the largest challenge and source of investment in 2021. Over half (53%) of our survey respondents in…

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    Strategies to Thwart Ransomware and Supply Chain Attacks

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Today, enterprises are confronting a myriad of cyberthreats. Two of the most destructive are ransomware and software supply chain attacks. Ransomware attacks have soared over the last couple of years, and that trend has only accelerated. In fact, ransomware attacks have increased 57% since the beginning of this year, and the average number of companies…

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    Trintech and Planful Partnership

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    by Ogo Nwanyanwu, SAPinsider, Research Director, Financial Management & Technology   Trintech and Planful Announce Strategic Global Partnership Trintech, a financial close automation software company, and Planful, a cloud financial planning & analysis (FP&A) software company, recently announced a strategic global partnership. The agreement provides mid-sized organizations with integrated, automation solutions for end-to-end finance and accounting processes.    Grant Halloran, CEO of Planful, comments on the opportunity with Trintech, “This…