SAP (Product) White Papers

WHITE PAPER: SAP first unveiled Business ByDesign, its SaaS ERP application suite aimed at midsize companies, four years ago. Now, it is considered a viable SaaS product worthy of consideration at the highest level. This paper looks at Business ByDesign and predicts its possible path in the future, as well as current use cases, including increased visibility.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at cloud-computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies and what you need to know about these emerging trends.

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn why automation is the best way to make your testing processes more efficient while preventing critical business process disruption.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find an overview of the challenges associated with SAP application performance testing and suggested selection criteria to look for when choosing a strategy to overcome the issues.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 10 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: The thought of an SAP upgrade can be overwhelming, but the challenges are not a secret. Use this white paper as a reference to overcoming seven of the most common obstacles involved.

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 | Published: 29 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover intelligent automation tools that free your IT team from the labor-intensive and time-consuming tasks that are associated with the administration of the SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator appliance while accelerating time-to-insight with easily-accessible, timely, accurate business intelligence (BI) data.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 23 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses five obstacles that small businesses and midsized companies face.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The impacts of a system outage are felt within minutes of the incident and range from production and shipping stoppages to lost business, industry penalties and failed audits. Read this paper to learn how a disaster recovery (DR) plan based in the cloud mitigates these risks and protects the interests of shareholders, investors and customers.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: A costly, complicated migration to a best-of-breed e-Procurement platform is not the only way to achieve a consumer-friendly user interface (UI) and ensure user adoption. Read this paper to discover a cost-effective alternative that allows SAP ERP users to leverage their existing infrastructure to achieve e-Procurement adoption.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Enhancing usability is the key to getting beyond tacit user acceptance of an e-Procurement system to the full adoption and compliance that yields cost reduction and full ROI. Read this paper to learn the full compliance strategies that best-in-class organizations are using for their e-Procurement implementations.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise.

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, discover how SAP In-Memory Appliance (SAP HANA) delivers SAP In-Memory Computing technology through an ongoing engineering collaboration between SAP and Intel to provide optimized performance and reliability on Intel architecture, including the Intel Xeon processor E7 family.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces SAP In-Memory Computing technology concepts, explains how SAP HANA uses them to help deliver real-time business insight, and describes how synergies with Intel architecture-based server platforms drive solution value.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document provides guidelines on how to deploy a SAP application solution with optimal application networking solutions. It is intended to reduce the time to implement a SAP application deployment and increase the likelihood of success by demonstrating techniques that were found to be successful.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study details the performance scalability of the Cisco unified computing system (UCS) platform coupled with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors and EMC CLARiiON storage, and demonstrates why it's a great fit for virtualized SAP solutions.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: By simplifying and making system refresh execution consistent, automation can decrease the potential for errors inherent in standard approaches. Read this paper to discover an automation solution that can be used for traditional SAP systems as well as SAP’s Business Warehouse (BW).

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to simplify the often cumbersome, critical change management activities needed to simplify SAP solution deployments, increase operational performance, and decrease total cost of ownership (TCO) with a single, cohesive system that includes compute, network, and storage access components.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to find out how to meet the new challenges posed by the proliferation of XML-based services. Discover an appliance that can be combined with SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver to improve performance, security, availability, and monitoring and auditing (for compliance) for applications and Web services in SAP environments.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to discover a next-generation data center platform that provides the compute, network, and storage access components, deployed as a single cohesive system, to complement the SAP NetWeaver architecture.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to discover powerful, self-service business intelligence (BI) that helps you locate, evaluate, and use your crucial business information while minimizing the operational cost.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, discover RBE Plus Analysis, a system designed by IBIS experts in SAP to pinpoint problem areas in business processes, master data and customizing usage and communicate the results with fact-based, easy to use content front-ended by a browser-based navigation tool.

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents implementation vision for faster, more efficient and cost effective migration, from PeopleSoft to SAP, through a viable solution.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, discover the reasons why you should be considering an SAP upgrade to improve enterprise resource planning (ERP) and how to get started. Learn about new features of the latest SAP release as well as the technical advances and new technologies available to you.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In today's highly-competitive business climate, immediate access to, and effective analysis of business data can mean the difference between success and failure for an organization. This white paper introduces in-memory computing technology that enables these capabilities.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper describes IBM ProtecTIER’s fast performance, scalable capacity and replication for SAP backup environments. It also describes two real-life SAP and ProtecTIER deployments to see how IBM is meeting SAP backup needs in even the most challenging environments.

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 | Published: 18 Oct 2011