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Overview: Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.
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4 Keys to Aligning Your Business and IT Efforts: Business Transformation Consulting Supports Your Project from Planning Through Execution by SAP America, Inc.
June 23, 2010 - Business Transformation Consulting Supports Your Project from Planning Through Execution. Read this paper to find out more.
Aberdeen Group: Enterprise Strategy Report - Global ERP Functionality Differences by SAP America, Inc.
September 17, 2008 - Enterprises looking to compete in a global marketplace must be able to comply with international financial and legal requirements-they must be able to think globally but at the same time act (and comply) locally.
Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability by SAP America, Inc.
June 01, 2008 - To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America, Inc.
January 23, 2009 - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
Beyond Boundaries: A New Role in Finance in Driving Business Collaboration by SAP America, Inc.
June 01, 2008 - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America, Inc.
June 01, 2008 - This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America, Inc.
January 23, 2009 - Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with mission-critical business processes, smart businesses can set a path for industry leadership.
Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America, Inc.
January 23, 2009 - Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.
Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America, Inc.
January 23, 2009 - To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.
Data Management for Business Intelligence by SAP America, Inc.
January 23, 2009 - This report investigates the strategies, capabilities, and supporting technologies that Best-in-Class companies are employing to alleviate the pressure to accelerate the delivery of actionable information within their enterprises.
Data Mart Consolidation and Business Intelligence Standardization: Getting the Most Value Out of Information by SAP America, Inc.
March 12, 2010 - Making information more broadly and easily available to more users throughout an organization - and beyond the organization - has never been a more strategic corporate imperative. In growing numbers, enterprises are coming to understand the value of placing consistent, integrated data into the hands of everyone who needs it.
End User Performance - Building and Maintaining ROI by SAP America, Inc.
January 01, 2006 - In this white paper, explore how organizations are achieving strong returns on investment on their information technologie endeavors and investments by emphasizing user performance.
Explore Your Business at the Speed of Thought by SAP America, Inc.
February 01, 2010 - This paper explores the problems of bringing BI to everyone in the enterprise without heavily relying on IT, and presents a solution for this very problem. Read on to learn how SAP® BusinessObjects™ Explorer solution will solve your BI visibility problems.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management: Realizing the Value Of Cross-Enterprise Solutions by SAP America, Inc.
January 01, 2007 - This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise GRC solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.
GRC Strategies - Finding the Right Balance of Business and IT by SAP America, Inc.
April 12, 2010 - This white paper demonstrates that both business and IT GRC initiatives are continuing to grow in relevance and provides key recommendations for companies seeking to transform business processes to reduce costs, improve governance and compliance, while mitigating and managing risk.
Hottest Innovations in BI by SAP America, Inc.
August 12, 2010 - BI with expansive search, social networking, and mobile capabilities can revitalize and revolutionize your business intelligence deployment. Find out how to evaluate emerging trends for all these innovations and understand where they add value.
How Far to SAP Excellence? The 5 Minute SAP Maturity Assessment by SAP America, Inc.
April 12, 2010 - This paper provides readers an opportunity to make a rapid thumb-nail assessment of their firm’s SAP maturity across five maturity levels and four categories of activity. It helps rapidly identify weaknesses to be addressed in order to reach the level of a thriving center of excellence and, by extension, a higher return on SAP investments.
Identify - and Reach - Your Next Big SAP Project’s Goals: Discover How a PMO Can Be Your Project’s Guiding Light by SAP America, Inc.
June 23, 2010 - One of the most important things a PMO can do for an organization is to enforce consistency across the enterprise’s processes. Learn more about how a PMO can be your project’s guiding light.
Improving Performance Testing of SAP and Non-SAP Solutions: Optimize Quality, Performance and Scalability by SAP America, Inc.
June 23, 2010 - Learn how you can test both your SAP and non-SAP software more easily and with more confidence in the results through services offered by SAP Consulting and applications such as SAP LoadRunner by HP.
Leadership Makes the Difference during Times of Global Financial Crisis: Optimizing Business Cycles through Technology Investment by SAP America, Inc.
January 23, 2009 - Investing in the right IT platform and end-to-end business processes enables companies to simplify the IT landscape and reduce total it cost.
Lean Business Intelligence - How and Why Organizations Are Moving to Self-Service BI by SAP America, Inc.
February 01, 2010 - This paper presents the findings of a Forrester Consulting evaluation of over 30 interviews with professionals across multiple industries across the world and presents how SAP® BusinessObjects™ offers a comprehensive solution that will help in solving the majority of issues in providing self-service BI.
Learning from BPM Leaders: Benefits, Prerequisites and the Impact of Successful BPM Initiatives by SAP America, Inc.
June 05, 2009 - The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those that do BPM right reap the ultimate reward of business innovation: competitive advantage.
Make the Most of Your Customer COE: A 3-Step Approach by SAP America, Inc.
June 23, 2010 - To achieve effective objectives and drive effective Application Lifecycle Management, an organization must transform its Customer COE by enhancing the value it delivers to the business. Read this paper to learn so much more.
Managing Non-Production Systems: Trim Your Development, Testing and Training Systems by SAP America, Inc.
June 23, 2010 - All companies wrestle with inefficiency and increasing costs when creating, refreshing, and maintaining nonproduction environments for development, testing, and training. Read how SAP Test Data Migration Server can help by letting you create and refresh nonproduction systems with greatly reduced data sets.
Managing Risk In Perilous Times: Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery by SAP America, Inc.
June 02, 2009 - In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.
Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset by SAP America, Inc.
January 01, 2007 - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.
Misguided, Opportunistic, or Strategic - Where Do You Stand on the Sustainability Ranking? by SAP America, Inc.
March 15, 2010 - Across SAP's global customer base, there is a continuum of sustainability approaches – spanning from misguided to opportunistic and strategic. Find out where you rank in this special report from SAP. (Full article)
Product Compliance, Safety, and Stewardship for Process Industries by SAP America, Inc.
March 15, 2010 - Discover how companies taking a strategic approach toward safer and greener products can successfully meet the challenges of achieving effective compliance, safety, and product stewardship in a complex regulatory world, while at the same time gaining a competitive business advantage for the future.
Reduce the Pain of ERP Upgrades with Better Planning by SAP America, Inc.
June 01, 2007 - This Report offers guidance on developing an overall corporate strategy for maintaining an ERP system by providing practical advice for planning and managing an ERP upgrade project.
SAP Maps the Corporate Sustainable Future Enterprise-Wide Sustainability Software Comes of Age by SAP America, Inc.
March 16, 2010 - Read this AMR review of how SAP is building a strongly differentiated position in the sustainable software market place – and structuring a compelling platform for growth as the economy recovers and migrates toward a more sustainable and resource-optimized model.
SAP ROI through the Care and Nurturing of SAP End Users by SAP America, Inc.
April 12, 2010 - This paper reveals how continuous end user training can reduce costs and increase returns on SAP investments. It includes a detailed "end user maturity model" by which clients can assess the expertise levels of their SAP end user base.
Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT by SAP America, Inc.
June 02, 2009 - A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making.
Succeeding with New Procurement Strategies by SAP America, Inc.
March 16, 2010 - Get the results of a 2009 SAP survey in which over 200 procurement executives reveal what procurement strategies are working for their organizations in today's challenging economy and what they envision for the future of procurement. Results are analyzed by industry and company size.
The Business Imperative for Holistic Carbon Management by SAP America, Inc.
April 12, 2010 - This Analyst Insight highlights the changing business landscape due to the growing importance of carbon management. It provides specific focus on the role technology plays in the automation of key business process. The report provides actionable recommendations for companies to effectively reduce the risk related to climate change.
The Economist: In search of clarity - Unraveling the complexities of executive decision-making by SAP America, Inc.
September 01, 2007 - Decision-making by companies has enormous room to improve both in terms of efficiency and quality; it will have to for companies to keep pace in an increasingly competitive global business environment.
The EPA's Mandatory Reporting Rule: How It Works and Guidelines to Successful Compliance by SAP America, Inc.
March 16, 2010 - Read prescriptive, step-by-step guidelines to help companies successfully comply with the EPA's Final Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule. Learn how the right software can help global organizations address the complexity of growing GHG regulations while reducing risks at both the enterprise and local level.
The Renewed Finance Function: Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance by SAP America, Inc.
September 2008 - In August 2007, CFO Research Services launched a research program to explore the ways in which the role of the finance team has changed in recent years. This report presents the findings of our online survey of 255 senior finance executives.
The Role of ERP in Globalization by SAP America, Inc.
September 18, 2008 - This whitepaper examines the role of ERP in Globalization in detail, outlining steps to improve current strategies to meet the changing face of the global business of today ...and tomorrow.
The Superstar CFO - Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role by SAP America, Inc.
May 01, 2007 - Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
Unified Data Management: A Collaboration of Data Disciplines and Business Strategies by SAP America, Inc.
June 02, 2010 - This report helps organizations plan and execute effective UDM efforts. The report also drills into the business initiatives that need UDM, the data management practices and tools that support it, and the organizational structures that enable the cross-functional collaboration that’s critical to UDM success.
Using Business Intelligence to Help Control Outcomes in an Uncontrollable World by SAP America, Inc.
April 12, 2010 - The focus of this study was to learn how retailers are responding to the need for real-time business intelligence in their operations, especially in light of the past year's economic conditions. The report will provide insight to better understand how retailers perceive challenges and opportunities created by the sudden emergence of social media.
Weathering a Global Fiscal Crisis: Doing More for Less with SAP by SAP America, Inc.
April 12, 2010 - This paper provides concrete guidance and a detailed example of how clients can gain measurable business benefit through iterative business process improvement enabled by an SAP applications platform.
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