SAP America Inc

ANALYST REPORT: This report takes a close look at the capabilities of the software vendors that are addressing the Global Trade Management (GTM) market and summarizes their functionality and ability to address the different kinds of risk in the global supply chain.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: As the key findings in this report will show, developing or enhancing a spend analysis program and closing process gaps to ensure tight linkage to the sourcing process are straightforward and practical ways to attain greater savings and deliver greater value in this period of uncertainty and strict budgets.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

ANALYST REPORT: This paper focuses on Global Trade Management (GTM) trends in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, with an emphasis on the challenges and solutions for Global Trade Compliance (GTC).

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: The SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for Brazil (SAP BusinessObjects Nota Fiscal Eletronica) application helps companies that do business in Brazil meet digital invoice regulations. The application enables automated, certified, and secure communication with government systems at the state and federal level.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: The SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management application provides full visibility into direct and indirect spend, and helps companies proactively identify cost savings opportunities and supply risks, reduce costs, maintain supply continuity, and increase spend under management.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

EBOOK: Find out how to tap into a long-running program with over 750 OEM partners worldwide, and make SAP BusinessObjects market leading BI platform your own.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Find out how CA used the same SAP BusinessObjects tool across multiple products to reduce their customers' costs and reduce the time it takes them to create their own customized reports.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Find out how Picis incorporated business intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis technology from SAP BusinessObjects in the development of the Picis CareSuite family of products. You'll also learn how they comprise best practice applications for automating and documenting their business and clinical processes in their acute care departments.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Find out how Acxiom, specializing in providing customer and information management solutions for companies around the world, uses SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to transform consumer data into actionable BI.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Find out how Investlink used SAP BusinessObjects tools to enable third-party administrators who work with investment advisors and plan sponsors to build and change statements on an ad hoc basis.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This report serves as a roadmap for those attempting to match environmental and social stewardship to clear, actionable, and measureable improvements to their bottom lines – thus ensuring the sustainability of their business ecosystem.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

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: In today's wholesale distribution business climate, order management is crucial to corporate success. Read how the right software support can introduce superior end-to-end order management performance into your organization to make the critical difference.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Are you on a path to demand-driven manufacturing? This white paper explores how respondents to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey are pursuing demand-driven agendas - linking them with efforts to boost operational efficiency and sustain growth.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Find out how discrete manufacturers are becoming truly customer-centric by pursuing or planning a variety of initiatives, including the improvement of customer service and the closer integration of customers into product design. The greatest impact is expected from plans to implement demand-driven manufacturing.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn efficient ways to handle excess and obsolete inventory. Excess at-risk inventory ultimately impacts a company's bottom line. Tactics used to resolve inventory issues can be costly. Using private, on-line, competitive auction portals provides one way to manage excess inventory with low-overhead execution.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009