Advanced Meter Infrastructure: Composite Technologies to Meet New Demands in Sales and Service
Find out how advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) helps utilities innovate business processes for sales and customer service. Discover what benefits AMI brings and why, and learn how the SAP NetWeaver platform and enterprise service-oriented architecture can support your AMI implementation.
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SAP AG is the largest European software enterprise, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. SAP was founded in 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Germany. The acronym was later changed to stand for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications And Products in Data Processing") and since the 2005 annual general meeting the company's official name is just SAP AG.
27 janvier 2009 : Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing Sales, and Service
This white paper addresses questions and opportunities from the point of view of the manufacturer of complex products and equipment. Additionally, it demonstrates the value of best practices through the success stories of SAP (...)
27 janvier 2009 : Enterprise Performance Management for Finance
Applications for financial performance management help address changing corporate finance priorities.
27 janvier 2009 : Brand Management: Leveraging the Power of Integrated Marketing
The evolution in consumer marketing is causing everyone to think in new ways. Today’s consumers may not be reached effectively via TV, radio or print media –– but they may be open to Internet advertising, product placement advertising, loyalty offers, word of mouth or point of (...)
27 janvier 2009 : Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management: Realizing the Value of Cross-Enterprise Solutions
This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.
27 janvier 2009 : Channel Sales Management: New Applications for High-Tech Vendors
Channel management is a pressing issue for high-tech manufacturers that sell through partners. Today, however, it is not a question of whether using sales channels partners is a good idea, but rather how to optimize their use.
27 janvier 2009 : Hitting the Moving Target of Operational Excellence
This white paper presents IDC’s framework for implementing operational excellence (op ex) and helps the reader move toward an effective op ex implementation while avoiding potential pitfalls.
27 janvier 2009 : Enabling Profitable Growth Through Procurement
This SAP Insight proposes answers to three key questions regarding how procurement can enable profitable enterprise growth.
17 octobre 2008 : Organizational Readiness
This SAP executive insight Organizational Readiness ex¬plains the organizational readiness challenges that companies face. It describes – at a high level – how to establish a framework for success, how to meet overall objectives, and how to create an environment receptive to change (...)
17 octobre 2008 : Retailer Deepens Relationships, Understands Customers Better Through SAP® Software Upgrade
SAP(r) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has been providing a scalable solution that integrates the sales, ordering, inventory, delivery, and financial reporting processes across the company. The software enabled Room & Board to manage growth while keeping design associates fully (...)
17 octobre 2008 : SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING
The sales and operations planning process can be designed to bring a company's marketing, finance, sales, and operations departments together to continuously monitor and meet customer demand. As the separate departments collaborate, they create business plans with the latest and most (...)
17 octobre 2008 : Maximize Profit, Reduce Sales Order Operating Costs, and Increase Customer Satisfaction
The success of your sales organization depends on its ability to achieve perfect order management, and a gain in order performance can significantly improve profit margin. To achieve this, sales organizations must be equipped to be both efficient and effective in their actions to satisfy the (...)
17 octobre 2008 : Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability
This paper reviews the forces that affect the professional services market today, defines and explains the main pillars of service delivery innovation, and reviews the benefits firms derive from service delivery innovation. It concludes by listing key operating and financial metrics that can (...)
17 octobre 2008 : Supply Chain Risk Management for Wholesale Distribution Companies
For wholesale distribution companies, supply chains are becoming increasingly global in scope while expanding in size and complexity. Forward-looking companies and supply chain professionals are focusing more energy on managing supply chain risk. Companies can implement risk management programs (...)
17 octobre 2008 : Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
Small and midsize companies live in an aggressively competitive world. Information can be one of the most powerful competitive tools available, or it can bog your company down. Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay (...)
17 octobre 2008 : Business Intelligence The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations
Business intelligence provides a spectrum of tools and solutions to support this aim. It’s the underlying technology behind more effective decision making. By helping align individual and departmental efforts with overall corporate strategies, it should lead to improved organizational (...)
17 octobre 2008 : High-Tech Industries: The Supply Chain Executive's Strategic Agenda
50% of 146 high-tech companies regard supply chain management as a customer service differentiator, market strategy differentiator, or as a profit center – while the rest view supply chain as a cost center. This Sector Insight explores the concerns and process roadmap of supply chain (...)
17 octobre 2008 : UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING SUPPLY CHAIN RISK: Business Process Innovation
Many organizations do not commit the time and resources necessary to understand global sourcing and the ramifications, costs, and benefits of redesigning supply chains to better manage risk. To address this, companies can implement programs to identify and profile risk variables, quantify risk (...)
17 octobre 2008 : SAP Winning the War for Talent in the High-Tech Industry
Increasingly, human capital management (HCM) is becoming a priority for high-tech senior executives. The workforce, they realize, is not only a source of competitive differentiation, but also the key to accomplishing a number of strategic goals, such as product and service innovation and (...)
17 octobre 2008 : SAP® TECHNICAL UPGRADE TO mySAP™ ERP OFFERED BY SAP CONSULTING
The SAP(r) Technical Upgrade service to mySAP™ ERP delivers a rapid, low-risk, fixed-cost approach to upgrading from SAP R/3(r) software to the mySAP ERP application, with all the tools and resources required to effectively transition to the latest enterprise resource planning (ERP) (...)
17 octobre 2008 : MID MARKET SOLUTIONS
Mid Market Solutions Ltd.(MMS) – based in Letchworth, United Kingdom – sells the SAP(r) Best Practices Baseline Package offering. Small and midsize companies purchase on a managed service model, paying a monthly charge that covers all costs, from implementation to support. Training (...)
17 octobre 2008 : NEW CHALLENGES IN MANAGING ADVERTISING REVENUE
The dynamic and increasingly complex advertising market presents new challenges for media content companies. Firms now have to offer their customers ways to advertise through multiple channels. They must also understand the costs associated with each channel – and they need the right (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Populating Solution Manager Content Through Automation
It is difficult to find up-to-date, consistent business process documentation that matches the strict hierarchy of Solution Manager. Usually, the only solution is a manual process of identifying current business scenarios through interviewing process owners and detailed examination of the IMG. (...)
28 septembre 2008 : SAP Data Extraction Made Easy
This white paper provides an overview of SAP test data management challenges. It demonstrates how automated software completely identifies and documents the similarities and differences between SAP systems providing analysis into SAP instances and clients at all critical technical (...)
28 septembre 2008 : The All-In-One Data Management Solution for Developing, Executing and Monitoring SAP Data
In today's world, your SAP system has moved to center stage for managing all of your Corporation's mission-critical applications on a global basis. SAP controls the books, manages the inventory, produces the product and oversees the entire the sales process. Recognizing the importance (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Managing the Convergence of IT and Business Change: A Case Study of IBM's Deployment of IntelliCorp
This paper will examine 5 key business and IT stress points that can be predicted and prevented with the right use of software and tools when planning your next SAP lifecycle event.
28 septembre 2008 : SAP Support Pack: Accurate, Complete Interrogation and Diagnostics
This white paper provides an overview of SAP support packs, associated challenges faced by companies of all sizes and an easy to use application that automates most of the analysis that needs to take place prior to application in the Production (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management
Consider how life sciences manufacturers can deal effectively with dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, and rapid product innovation. Addressing compliance management, integration, and data utilization will help improve (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Easy Integration of Excel with SAP Solutions for Financial Data
This paper describes how to easily integrate Excel data with SAP solutions and the resulting benefits from such integration – reduction in financial closing time, reduction in data entry resources, and availability of timely data for (...)
28 septembre 2008 : An Easy Alternative to LSMW to Update Customer Master Records in SAP
This article describes an easy non-technical alternative to LSMW to update customer master records in SAP in fewer steps than LSMW, without technical involvement, and without requiring authorizations in SAP.
28 septembre 2008 : Making Mass Changes to SAP Data in Record Time with Minimal Resources
This paper describes some of the best practices that many companies have adopted and are able to make mass changes to SAP data in record time with minimal resources.
28 septembre 2008 : Empowering Business Users to Automate Transfer of Spreadsheets to SAP
This white paper describes how many companies are realizing significant productivity gains by empowering the business users with tools to transfer their own data between spreadsheets and SAP.
28 septembre 2008 : Upload Excel Data to SAP: 7 Best Practices
This paper describes 7 best practices that many companies have adopted in automating the upload of Excel data into SAP. Adopting these best practices will alleviate many of the pains that business users and IT analysts face in uploading Excel data to (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Leveraging Your SAP Investment with Applix Business Analytics
Financial and business managers today are seeking a higher level of analytical ability to manage business performance than ever before. But these kinds of analyses often lie beyond the reach of most of today's ERP systems.
28 septembre 2008 : ERP End-User Business Productivity: A Field Study of SAP & Microsoft
In this white paper, we measure how end users of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications describe the impact of Microsoft and SAP applications on their business productivity. This research found that Microsoft Dynamics end users on average rated their experience with Microsoft (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Ultimus and the Business Process Ecosystem: Complementing SAP and Enterprise Applications
With the largest global installed base of pure-play BPM solutions, the Ultimus BPM Suite exemplifies the role of managing OSAP processes in the business process ecosystem. Customers worldwide use it to extend, maximize and complement their investments in SAP or other enterprise (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Human Capital Management for the Public Sector
Discover how public sector agencies are shifting the focus in HR departments from transactional activities to performance with strategic human capital management. SAP solutions support this initiative, helping streamline processes, reduce costs, and optimize finite personnel (...)
28 septembre 2008 : SAP for Consumer Products: Enabling You to Take the Direct Road to Success
As CPG and retailing move rapidly toward a demand-driven future, it’s vital to keep in mind that accurate forecasting will be your key to superior performance –– and that the data driving your forecast and your response starts at the store. DSD companies can gain a clear edge (...)
28 septembre 2008 : How to Plan for an SAP ERP Upgrade
Learn why customers are chosing SAP ERP 6.0, the different upgrade scenerios and best practices.
28 septembre 2008 : Creating Business Value with Communication-Enabled CRM Processes
Read about how SAP Business Communications Management and SAP Customer Relationship Management provide the technology foundation for communication-enabled business processes that result in simplified interactions inherent in marketing, sales, and service (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Enabling Growth Through Mergers and Acquisitions - Executive Insights
Read this Executive Insight to learn the answers to the following questions: 1. How can you effectively grow your business through M&A?, 2. What challenges do you need to address?, 3. How can an integrated enterprise platform support the success of your M&A (...)
28 septembre 2008 : How Do I Drive Value Through a Value Network?
Supply chains are becoming value networks. How do companies design value networks to gain competitive advantage? What are the best practices? And, what determines value? In this Report, we share answers to these questions to help you drive greater value for your (...)
28 septembre 2008 : How General Mills Transformed Its Business With SAP
Learn how General Mills Inc. sought and engaged SAP Custom Development to enable mass status change in their existing mySAP Product Lifecycle Management application, and thus to help them modify their product specifications in the most efficient, effective, and reliable (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Stages of Transformation: The Demand-Driven Journey Begins With the End
Organizations are transforming traditional supply chains into outside-in, demand-driven value networks that coordinate customer demand (outside) back into the organization (in) to maximize customer value. But the journey is not the same for everyone. Each industry faces its own Moment of Truth (...)
28 septembre 2008 : There is No Execution Without Integration: MES Adoption Drives Performance
Discover how research shows that work in process often disappears into a black hole on the plant floor leaving the enterprise lacking the necessary information to make dynamic decisions. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) can help release production requirements to the factory on a weekly or (...)
28 septembre 2008 : From Millions To Billions With IT How Solar Energy Startup Powers Rapid Growth
Get the inside story on solar-energy startup Ausra’s meteoric rise to the billion-dollar mark. And learn how this technology innovator gained the confidence of mega-watt power companies like Pacific Gas and Electric to fuel its ambitious growth plans. Dr. David Mills, founder and chief (...)
28 septembre 2008 : Jet-Propelled Growth With IT How XOJET Quickly Became a High Flying Success
XOJET is growing nearly as fast as the Citation X aircraft that zip jetsetters to their destinations at nearly the speed of sound. This high-flying innovator is shaking up the $35 billion corporate jet travel market with a breakthrough value proposition designed to fuel stratospheric growth. In (...)
3 septembre 2008 : The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data Centers
In this white paper, consulting firm Realtech presents an example of a customer who realized high platform-related cost savings in a business-critical SAP landscape with high-availability requirements by moving to Linux.
18 juillet 2008 : Advanced Meter Infrastructure: Composite Technologies to Meet New Demands in Sales and Service
Find out how advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) helps utilities innovate business processes for sales and customer service. Discover what benefits AMI brings and why, and learn how the SAP NetWeaver platform and enterprise service-oriented architecture can support your AMI (...)
18 juillet 2008 : SAP for Public Sector: Solutions for State and Local Government
Discover how the SAP for Public Sector set of solutions can help your organization deliver value to taxpayers and constituents through an enterprise-wide architecture that supports new insight, adaptability, flexibility, and (...)
18 juillet 2008 : Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk
Explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk, and using IT solutions can create higher (...)
14 juillet 2008 : How to Simplify Integration with Your SAP Solutions
Traditionally companies had only two choices for integrating SAP solutions, complex and expensive platforms like EAI or write custom code. Integration Appliances offer companies a third option, one that dramatically simplifies and accelerates SAP integration by using a “configuration, not (...)
2 mai 2008 : IDC: In the Enterprise Long Tail, Will IT Matter?
Read how a firms key business and IT priorities and their experience with acquiring, implementing, and support of SAP solutions influences business. Learn about the challenges and opportunities for SMBs, and the IDCs framework for SMBs to bridge their strategic goals with day-to-day operational (...)
2 mai 2008 : IDC: Hitting the Moving Target of Operational Excellence
The first in a series of three thought leadership papers themes by IDC titled, "Hitting the Moving Target of Operational Excellence: Identifying & Obtaining the Information Needed for Continued Success".
24 avril 2008 : Corporate Performance Management
Read how SAP solutions for performance management help you improve corporate performance by aligning strategy with the actions required to achieve it. You can consolidate financial and non-financial information to gain insight into the factors that drive business (...)
28 mars 2008 : Minimizing the Burden of PCI Compliance: A New Approach to Credit Card Encryption
This paper describes a new approach to managing encrypted data that significantly strengthens an organization's security posture, while minimizing the cost and effort of PCI compliance. Read this white paper and find out more about how to comply with PCI compliance (...)
7 janvier 2008 : High Availability: Is it Sufficient for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?
For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences. This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of (...)
