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Evolving Business Intelligence and Analytics – Research Report 2024Jun 28, 2024 — Organizations are grappling with a flood of data from diverse sources, requiring advanced tools and strategies for efficient management and optimization. To adapt to evolving business environments, companies are redefining their business intelligence (BI) strategies by incorporating AI, data science, self-service applications, and cloud technologies. An SAPinsider survey of 144 business and IT leaders underscored the growing importance of BI in driving data-driven decisions, optimizing operations, and improving customer experiences. Agility in response to global changes was a key driver for 45% of respondents, with a slight increase in focus on ROI for technology investments to 35%. Despite a slight decline in expectations for cross-enterprise BI, there is still strong demand for integrated data management solutions. The survey also highlighted a shift towards proactive, real-time decision-making, with greater emphasis on empowering both C-suite and line-of-business stakeholders to align decisions with strategic goals and enhance agility.
Automating and Integrating GRC Processes – Research Report 2024Jun 28, 2024 — SAPinsider examines the challenges and opportunities faced by SAP GRC teams as they strive to integrate their landscapes more tightly and leverage automation to enhance efficiencies. The complexity of global regulations and sprawling application landscapes heightens the need for visibility, making compliance a significant challenge. The report highlights how GRC teams are preparing for rapid changes by investing in solutions that provide insights, security, and automation. A significant 65% of survey respondents focus on end-to-end automated processes to meet compliance and audit requirements. Key technologies in use include automated solutions for addressing SoD conflicts and integrated identity and access management solutions. Organizations plan to continue investing in intelligent technologies to improve visibility and efficiency for their compliance teams.
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Jun 28, 2024
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Global Tax Management 2024 – Benchmark ReportJun 28, 2024 — SAPinsider delves into the shifting priorities in taxation and technology, emphasizing the significant impact of digital transformation and the adoption of SAP S/4HANA on finance and tax functions. It reveals the key drivers shaping tax priorities and projects, highlighting new solutions tax professionals are investing in. The rapid changes in global tax regulations have made control and governance the primary concern for 43% of businesses, underscoring the challenges of compliance in a complex tax landscape. In 2024, integration and visibility are paramount for tax teams due to the multitude of business applications supported by SAP customers. Budgets for global indirect tax compliance remain stable or are increasing, with 63% of survey respondents affirming this trend. E-filing and tax control frameworks are increasingly being implemented, while investments in personnel and tax localization tools are growing to address the intricacies of local laws and meet global compliance demands through digital strategies.
Jun 28, 2024
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Data, Integration, & SAP BTP Benchmark ReportMay 31, 2024 — As enterprise landscapes grow increasingly complex, it is crucial for organizations to ensure data movement across these landscapes meets their current and future needs. Despite many core systems still running in local environments, this recent SAPinsider research on Data, Integration and SAP BTP highlights that a significant number of workloads have already moved to the cloud with more than three quarters (78%) of respondents reporting they need to support cloud-to-on-premise integration scenarios. Additionally, designing a platform strategy becomes a critical component of a comprehensive data and integration strategy, as these platforms offer enhanced analytics, development, and artificial intelligence capabilities, including those of data and integration.
The survey asked the respondents to about their data landscapes, the integration scenarios they need to support, the number of solutions they are connecting with SAP systems, the types of integration tools they are using to complete these connections, their approaches taken to data across the enterprise their familiarity with SAP BTP, and the SAP BTP services they are using. While one of the biggest challenges organizations faced over the last few years has been about managing the exponential growth in data volumes and complexity, the need to ensure effective data governance and quality (35%) was identified as the most important factor in the current research. Complicating this scenario is the complexity of the overall IT landscape with just 24% of respondents reporting that they are running predominantly SAP solutions.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 131 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Understand the types of integration scenarios that organizations are supporting.
- Explore the factors driving strategy for data, integration, and platforms.
- Learn about the which SAP BTP services are being used by organizations.
- See the data, integration, and SAP BTP technologies being used, implemented, or evaluated for use in the future.
May 31, 2024
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SAP S/4HANA Finance State of the Market 2024 – Benchmark Research ReportMay 31, 2024 — SAPinsider surveyed 155 members of the broader SAP finance community between March and May of 2024 to get a better understanding of the business priorities and challenges that organizations contend with as they enable their SAP S/4HANA Finance deployments. The survey also sought to understand the goals that companies hope to achieve.
May 31, 2024
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Deployment Approaches to SAP S/4HANA 2024Apr 30, 2024 — In this report:
SAP S/4HANA adoption continues to steadily increase as organizations move away from SAP Business Suite and SAP ECC. While that growth has not accelerated, the proportion of respondent organizations that have no plans for SAP S/4HANA is going down. This year, just 11% of respondents reported having no plans, the smallest number since SAPinsider started tracking this information in 2020. What is notable is that, while the move to SAP S/4HANA is still more likely than not to be part of a broader transformation, more respondents are focusing on completing their deployment as quickly as possible.
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The survey asked the respondents to about their SAP S/4HANA deployment plans, the type of deployment they planned on doing, their cloud strategy, the timeline to switching to SAP S/4HANA, the length of their deployment, and factors impacting that deployment timeline, and the challenges that they faced in deploying SAP S/4HANA. As has been the case in the last four years, a system conversion is the most likely deployment model, and the most likely type of deployment is a standalone deployment. While using cloud-based infrastructure continues to be a focus for most respondents, this year saw respondents looking to simplify their landscapes with fewer planning on leveraging hybrid landscapes.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 150 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
Understand the the deployment models that organizations are planning on using.
Explore the deployment timeline and the factors impacting that timeline.
Learn about what factors present the biggest challenges when performing a SAP S/4HANA deployment.
See the staffing approach to deployment projects and how organizations plan on using system integrators.
Apr 30, 2024
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The CIO’s 2024 Agenda for SAP, SAP S/4HANA, the Cloud and BeyondApr 30, 2024 — Business leaders, particularly Chief Information Officers (CIOs), are tasked with the vital job of ensuring that their organization’s data and IT structure delivers agility, visibility, and efficiency to all parts of their enterprise. With a constantly-shifting business landscape, decision-makers are always searching for solutions and strategies that bolster the capabilities that their IT architecture can deliver.
This executive benchmark study explores the top priorities that tech executives and their organizations have for 2024. See how much progress they have made in their SAP S/4HANA and cloud journeys. We will compare this year's results to previous ones to paint a full picture of the trends among SAP organizations.
Apr 30, 2024
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AI & Automation in FinanceApr 8, 2024 — In this report:
In 2024, finance leaders at SAP customers must make difficult decisions to help their businesses navigate a constantly-shifting economic landscape. To help facilitate these decisions, advanced tools like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are reshaping the conversation around how organizations are able to accomplish essential tasks efficiently and accurately. This research explores the increasing demand for AI and automation capabilities and how finance professionals are employing them.
The survey asked the respondents about their SAP landscapes, the financial workflows that pose the most issues, plans to deploy AI and automation solutions throughout the finance and accounting teams, expected benefits of deploying AI and automation, and how they expect to achieve those benefits. Organizations showed keen interest in automating manual and repetitive processes like payment processing and the financial close and infusing AI into advanced planning capabilities like financial reporting and analytics and financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 159 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
Explore the AI and automation solutions that organizations are planning to use for their SAP landscapes.
Understand the emerging solutions becoming available in the field.
Learn about how respondents are planning to succeed in their AI and automation ambitions.
See the actions they are taking to leverage AI and automation to the fullest extent.
Apr 8, 2024
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SAP Infrastructure and Landscape Trends 2024Feb 29, 2024 — Infrastructure is the foundation of any SAP landscape. Although SAP has a goal of becoming a cloud company, many organizations have yet to make the move to cloud-based infrastructure. This is because a significant number of existing systems reside on legacy infrastructure. However, this infrastructure is changing. When SAPinsider first researched infrastructure and landscape trends in 2022, the top two infrastructure choices were a private-cloud environment and multi-tenant hyperscaler or public cloud. The third most likely infrastructure choice was new on-premise infrastructure, selected by more than a quarter of survey respondents. Now, many respondents are considering infrastructure from RISE with SAP as one of the more likely infrastructure choices after private-cloud or hosted environments.
The survey asked the respondents to about their SAP workloads, the infrastructure on which those workloads are running, plans for future infrastructure, the importance of sustainability goals in infrastructure planning, and how the organization was planning on achieving those infrastructure goals. Sustainability has become more important to organizations over the last two years, and there continues to be more focus on cloud-based infrastructure for the future. The most important goals of infrastructure change continue to related to minimizing operational inefficiencies and reducing costs while at the same time increasing flexibility and improving resilience.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 176 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
- Explore the infrastructure that organizations are planning to use for their SAP workloads.
- Understand the timeline for updating that infrastructure.
- Learn about how respondents are planning to measure the success of infrastructure initiatives.
- See the actions they are taking to support more sustainable infrastructure.
Feb 29, 2024
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Tax Technology Innovation and Automation – Benchmark ReportDec 29, 2023 — In the dynamic tax compliance landscape, finance and tax leaders face challenges in adopting new technologies, as outlined in SAPinsider’s Tax Technology Innovation and Automation benchmark report. Notable challenges include budget constraints, integration issues, and a lack of technical expertise. Addressing these, many are turning to solutions like SAP S/4HANA Cloud for its real-time analytics and flexibility. This shift is vital for integrating tax strategy into business transformations, thus enhancing compliance and tax planning. The survey underscores a trend towards embracing technologies like AI and automation to streamline tax processes, including the implementation of sales and use tax solutions and global tax engines.
Dec 29, 2023
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