White Paper: Business interest in environmental footprinting stemmed originally from an understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and complexities, and this remains an important driver. However, with growing public concern over environmental issues, environmental footprinting has grown in importance to many businesses.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

White Paper: How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

White Paper: Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

White Paper: In order to better understand the opportunities, challenges, risks and rewards companies have seen from these types of agreements, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in March 2008, sponsored by SAP, which asked 516 senior executives how their business relationships are evolving.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

White Paper: Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

White Paper: SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational, financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

White Paper: This SAP Executive Insight examines specific concerns that confront utility executives in today's economy. Further, it describes how gaining greater business visibility and transparency can enable organizations to execute decisively and effectively in this challenging climate.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

Case Study: Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

White Paper: Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

White Paper: This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009