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Technology insights are written by SAPinsider’s team of research analysts. Based on information gleaned from interviews with the SAP vendor community, technology insights deep dive into the technologies that support, integrate with, and extend SAP technology and enable businesses to innovate and transform.
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Minimizing Challenges During SAP S/4HANA DeploymentJan 30, 2025 — Over the next few years many organizations are likely to start a transition to SAP S/4HANA. While it is essential to have a thorough preparation, just as important is ensuring that the project does not encounter delays or roadblocks during the implementation process as these can increase costs and delay timelines. This is why it is just as important to focus on the deployment stage of any project as it is the preparation for that project. Working with an experienced partner can help achieve these goals as well as providing the framework for ongoing success.
• Establish an enterprise data model and ensure that it includes both that which will be included in SAP S/4HANA as well as that which will be utilized across other parts of the enterprise.
• Identify and address the most significant tasks at the start of the deployment stage in order to avoid delays or bottlenecks mid-project.
• Use the business case established during the preparation stage to identify and track key metrics and KPIs in order to provide a baseline for decisions once the project is underway.
• Implement a comprehensive testing protocol that is clear to testers, involves team members from across the organization, and provides multiple test cycles to ensure the go-live solution behaves as designed.
• Communicate with impacted business users regularly so they have an opportunity to understand what is changing, ask questions, and have time to transition to new processes and technology.
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Give your Supply Chains a Boost with Data Ingestion, Advanced Analytics and AIOct 4, 2024 — Organizations are adapting to a shifting business environment marked by geopolitical changes and evolving ESG regulations, leveraging tools and solutions from PwC, including SCOR and AI-based analytics, to enhance supply chain efficiency and performance.
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Rethinking Tax and Compliance with SovosAug 1, 2024 — Organizations are beginning to rethink the way that they execute their global tax management strategy. In the past, they relied on declarative reports, aggregate reports and other traditional tax returns. However, these do not always contain the level of detail and granularity that modern organizations need in order to operate in real-time. Tax administrations have moved away from those declarative reports to harvesting real-time source data from both transactions and accounting systems in different shapes and forms. Many SAP organizations are partnering with trusted third-party solutions providers like Sovos to leverage data from across their SAP landscape to gain a holistic understanding of their compliance issues and find end-to-end solutions
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Building Impactful Solutions with Low-Code ToolsJul 3, 2024 — Organizations leveraging SAP face several challenges that impede agility and efficiency, including resource constraints due to reliance on specialized experts and incomplete processes that lead to risky shadow IT solutions. The necessity to keep the SAP core clean to manage TCO and future-proofing adds to these difficulties. SAP primarily optimizes internal processes, necessitating extensions or innovations for broader business needs. An agility layer like Microsoft Power Platform enables efficient development of connected solutions using both SAP and non-SAP data, reducing dependency on specialized resources and maintaining the integrity of SAP upgrades and extensions. This platform also addresses process gaps, minimizes reliance on manual solutions, enhances governance, and improves flexibility and delivery speed. Integrating advanced platforms like Microsoft Power Platform maximizes SAP investments, with Krippner emphasizing the importance of preserving SAP's core while addressing peripheral inefficiencies to enhance user experiences without replacing SAP components.
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How Do You Better Manage Systems and Improve Resilience?Mar 28, 2024 — Organizations today need to keep their business solutions up and running, and infrastructure providers have been focused on activities that help organizations accelerate implementations and reduce both planned and unplanned downtime. However, enterprise landscapes can often be complex to both implement and maintain. This is particularly true for SAP landscapes where there are often multiple […]
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Using Automation to Address ChangeMar 15, 2024 — Today’s infrastructure and environments are changing more rapidly than ever. Cloud infrastructure and cloud-based solutions are becoming part of enterprise landscapes, while at the same time there is a critical need to bring together data from across the enterprise to provide a greater depth of understanding of the business. But as organizations start to use these new landscapes, they often struggle with the rate of change that they are expected to achieve. An inability to keep pace with change can then impact how quickly organizations can comply with changing needs and requirements.
Change is accelerating for SAP customers. After years of running environments that have had minimal adjustments, landscapes, infrastructure, and the solutions that are running on them are shifting rapidly. Many organizations are struggling to keep up with this change, and are looking for ways in which they can better manage this change, reduce costs, and streamline the management of their environments.
o The pace of change will continue to increase, so organizations must be prepared to manage these infrastructure and environmental shifts.
o In addition to changing, environments are also more likely to become more complex. With the mixture of cloud and on-premise environments that will exist while enterprise solutions move to the cloud, it is important to be agile enough to react as necessary.
o Implementing an automation platform will provide the ability to streamline manual, repetitive administrative tasks and scale the ability to patch, remediate, and release new systems and infrastructure.
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Transforming Warehouse Operations with Fulfilld’s Intelligent WMSFeb 9, 2024 — Despite its evolution, traditional warehousing software has struggled to provide intelligent, user-friendly, and cost-effective solutions. Hindered by decades-old technical limitations, it faces a daunting task in meeting current, let alone future, warehousing needs. Effective warehouse management is crucial for achieving key business goals. Fulfilld presents a comprehensive software and hardware solution, offering instant visibility into warehouse operations and advanced technology to boost efficiency. Leveraging location-aware AI technology and task orchestration capabilities, Fulfilld streamlines core warehouse processes, reducing wasted worker activity by 40%, enhancing inventory accuracy, optimizing product placement, and boosting worker efficiency by 80% compared to WMS systems lacking location guidance.
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Future-Proofing and Scaling Workload Automation with RunMyJobs by Redwood SoftwareJan 22, 2024 — Organizations need to ensure their automation initiatives enable innovation and adaptability to evolving business needs. However, while identifying optimal starting points and potential areas for expansion is key, integrating tools across both on-premise and cloud-based systems is essential. Equally important is reducing adoption barriers for both IT teams and business users to facilitate a smooth and effective digital transition. Redwood Software offers a comprehensive range of IT solutions, focusing on workload automation and file transfer to provide complete business process automation end-to-end. Workload automation offerings include three products: Tidal, ActiveBatch and their flagship enterprise solution, RunMyJobs. RunMyJobs is a full stack enterprise job scheduler and batch processor that automates mission-critical processes in complex computing environments for your SAP and non-SAP tech stack.
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Bringing Data Access and Analysis to all Businesspeople with Phocas SoftwareJan 18, 2024 — In the current corporate landscape, aligning data across the enterprise for robust decision-making presents a continuous challenge for many organizations. The vast amount of data that organizations produce is not only difficult to handle, but also even more challenging to analyze due to data complexity or a lack of in-house expertise. Additionally, with businesses drawing data from various sources including ERPs, finance, sales, or operational systems, and external parties, complexities escalate and complicate the integration of comprehensive business data. Manual integration of data is an arduous and time-intensive task, often requiring specialized skills. Consequently, only a few people hold and comprehend this data, which creates a bottleneck when there is a need for quick decisions and effective analysis based on accurate, real-time data. Integrating a business planning and analytics platform can significantly reduce the hassle of data management. Phocas Software provides a business planning platform that manages all your data and is compatible with more than 200 data sources enabling financial and operational data integration. Phocas is an all-in-one platform for business planning and analytics - connecting everyone with the information they need, when they need it.
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