Apr 13, 2021
•10 minute read
Q&A
Access answers to hundreds of questions posed by our SAPinsider Community during live events and conferences, virtual events and webinars, and during video interviews. These documented Q&A sessions can help you understand how to move forward on common business challenges alongside your peers.
From Push to Pull: Deutsche Börse Group’s Approach to Digitization, Process Redesign, and Defining Sustainable User JourneysIf you only try to force change from the top, you will not be able to build sustainable results. Many CIOs fall into a common trap when trying to drive their transformation projects – implementing too much too soon without getting enough support from their teams and line of business stakeholders.
In this article, Lars Bolanca, Head of Corporate IT at Deutsche Börse Group shares the company’s multi-year project and explains how they prioritized innovation within its core processes, starting with basic functions such as purchasing and travel expense before moving to customer-facing and more complex initiatives like Financial Core.
Read the article to:
- Know about the SAP and other cloud-based solutions that Deutsche Börse relies on as part of its journey;
- Learn how the company renovated its existing infrastructure and process landscape; and
- Understand how turning innovation initiatives from push to pull can be useful to gain support for innovation, align user journeys with demand, and achieve process standardization across the business.
An Insider Look at Ingevity’s SAP S/4HANA Business TransformationIngevity is a specialty chemical company based in Charleston, South Carolina that current runs a 20-year-old, heavily customized version of SAP ECC 6.0. But, now for much longer — like many companies, Ingevity is focused on building a digital platform that can support technologies like analytics, automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help the business become more agile in the face of disruption. The company’s VP of IT and CIO, Michael Mullis, recently talked with SAPinsider about Ingevity’s current SAP S/4HANA business transformation initiative.
This is the next big phase for Ingevity from a technology perspective, and the company is finding that it’s not only about technology upgrades — it’s also about organizational redesign.
Read this executive Q&A and learn:
• How Ingevity is implementing a global business transformation leveraging SAP in a remote working environment;
• New leadership approaches to help prevent burn-out among employees; and
• How Ingevity plans to become more agile in 2021 and beyond.
Apr 2, 2021
•8 minute read
SAP Answers Questions from the Community About Its New Offering: RISE with SAPRISE with SAP is an offer that brings together everything you need to holistically transform your business at your own speed, on your own terms, and with a fast time to value — regardless of your point of departure. In this article, hear directly from SAP’s EVP & Chief Performance Officer, Robin Manherz, who recently sat down with SAPinsider to answer questions being asked by chief information and transformation officers around RISE with SAP.
Mar 3, 2021
•5 minute read
Vendor Document Automation for Accounts Payable ProcessesManaging accounts payable and vendor invoice processing can be streamlined by applying automation. Reductions in human error, faster invoice processing times, and decreased labor costs are just some of the benefits that can be gained by using vendor document automation (VDA) software, which is offered as an add-on by many SAP certified suppliers.
In this Q&A, discover important facts about the key components of VDA, and a listing of vendors in this space. You will learn:
- The different components offered by VDA products and how these components can help you streamline processes;
- Efficiencies that can be gained by using VDA software and things to consider when implementing; and
- VDA software vendors recommended by the author.
Oct 14, 2020
•5 minute read
Key Ways To Influence Development of SAP S/4HANA CloudSAP has continually emphasized their desire to hear from customers and incorporate that feedback into software improvements. The company has historically received commentary through various avenues, including co-innovation projects, customer surveys, hands-on partnerships, and customer request processes. In their latest innovation that connects customers directly with SAP regarding suggested enhancements to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP created the Customer Influence portal. In this Q&A, a seasoned delaware United Kingdom consultant speaks to SAPinsider about the new portal and explains how users can interact with it to contribute to innovation and improvement initiatives around SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
After reading this Q&A you will be able to:
- Explain what the Customer Influence portal is and why it was created;
- List best practices for engaging with the portal, including how to avoid repeat requests and how to check the status of your requests; and
- Understand how to handle a rejected improvement request.
Jul 2, 2020
•4 minute read
Q&A: Payroll and Its Impact on Cloud HRAJ Whalen, Senior Research Analyst, HR, SAPinsider spoke with Imran Sajid, Director HXM Solution Marketing, SAP during an SAPinsider webinar on Thursday, May 7, 2020 to review the findings of a recent SAPinsider benchmark study that looked at customer payroll strategies and practices – including the solution landscape and technologies they use – to understand the top issues facing payroll organizations and executives. Following the webinar Whalen and Sajid answered questions from the audience.
After reading this Q&A you will be able to:
- Understand how SAP plans to support SAP Human Capital Management for SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition until 2040;
- Explain how the COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the pace of change in payroll; and
- Learn about some of the top issues facing payroll organizations and executives today.
May 14, 2020
•4 minute read
SAP Expert Q&A: 3 Key Skills That Will Facilitate SAP S/4HANA and Cloud IntegrationA solid integration strategy is crucial for providing the flexibility and agility organizations require to meet rapidly changing business needs. Hear directly from SAP Expert Arghadip Kar as he answers your questions, including: Why is integration so important now? What are the most important components for integration? Which skills would be most important to learn […]
Apr 8, 2020
•7 minute read
Four Questions to Help You Understand Embedded AnalyticsEmbedded analytics can provide key insights for your organization's success, but how can you start and optimize embedded analytics in your SAP projects? Dmitry Kuznetsov is a pioneer in SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics space and an author of a book “First Steps in SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics." He has a long track record implementing operational reporting systems and data warehouses based on SAP S/4HANA , SAP HANA-native, business warehouse and SAP Analytics Cloud technologies. He has accumulated knowledge in the BI area by completing most of the projects as hands-on modeler; therefore, any architectural and way-of-working advice comes from practical observations.
Join us as SAP Expert Dmitry Kuznetsov answers your questions, including:
What is embedded analytics and why is it important to SAP customers?
What are the benefits of using embedded analytics?
What do you need to do to take advantage of embedded analytics?
What resources can be helpful for embedded analytics?
Mar 23, 2020
•5 minute read
Six Questions to Help You Better Understand SAP S/4HANA in the CloudThe following Q&A is from SAPinsider’s webinar, SAP S/4HANA in the Cloud, presented by Robert Holland, SAPinsider’s Analyst in the Cloud, Security, and SAP S/4HANA space, on Thursday, January 30, 2020. Click here to listen to the on-demand version.
Mar 2, 2020
•4 minute read
Three Questions to Help You Understand Current Finance Strategy for Moving to the CloudIn Q4 of 2019, SAPinsider surveyed 102 members of our audience for an upcoming report, “Streamlining Financial Processes in the Cloud,” to understand their current finance strategy, whether that involves cloud-native solutions, and how they plan on meeting their strategic needs and objectives. We found that the majority (54%) ran at least one financial solution […]
Jan 15, 2020
•2 minute read
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