SAP (Product) Reports

CASE STUDY: Southwestern/Great American chose to swap its dual environment (SAP ERP ran off of a legacy IBM AS/400) for a leaner infrastructure based on VMware ESX and IBM blade servers with Intel Xeon processors that could run both SAP ERP and its Windows applications. Read this case study to learn about the combined VMware and Intel solution.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will explain how education and training programs from SAP are now offered in a wide variety of delivery options to meet the needs of today’s workforce. This paper will also introduce you to the flexible training options now available from SAP, as well as some innovative new offerings just released in the last few months.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Reference data is the lifeblood of an organization but inconsistencies can lead to inefficient processes and inaccurate analytics. Master reference data makes operational data more accurate, simplifies synchronization and migration projects and improves MDM effectiveness. Learn some key considerations for creating a reference data master.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: BI solutions are fast becoming a mainstay for organizations that recognize that proper collection and analysis of information can improve critical business processes. This paper provides key evaluation concerns for organizations looking to implement comprehensive training to ensure the success of their enterprise BI projects.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how the SAP® Safeguarding for Operations portfolio of services offers the expertise and tools needed to stabilize, optimize, and efficiently maintain today’s complex landscapes, while simultaneously reducing operational costs.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key strategic issues and best practices involved in transforming your business to enable growth. Discover the steps you must take to innovate, translate business strategy into IT strategy, develop a roadmap for strategic business transformation, and obtain maximum benefit from your SAP investment.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how the SAP Safeguarding for Upgrade portfolio of services helps you identify and address potential challenges associated with an upgrade of your SAP solution early – and ensure its success. Read on to learn more about how to upgrade successfully with SAP Safeguard.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Organizations have increasingly complex software, interface, and IT landscapes. This paper explains how the SAP Safeguarding for Integration Validation portfolio of services offers the process, tools, and expertise you need to reduce the technical risk and cost associated with implementing new software solutions.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

VIDEO: Find out how SAP software allows you to identify, mitigate, and manage risk so that you can increase visibility into the impact of risks, reduce cost and risk across strategic initiatives, and increase your strategic effectiveness.

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 | Premiered: 17 Sep 2010

EBOOK: Mobility was going to be "the next big thing" in CRM but didn’t pan out, with "road warriors" frustrated with user interfaces meant for a PC. But the success of smart phones has changed the game. This e-book helps enterprises understand the marketplace for devices, applications and managing it all in order to create a mobile CRM program.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 13 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This eight-page whitepaper is a guideline for improving the rendering and efficiency of the complete SAP production reporting system. It discusses how to leverage the value of existing systems reports, and how to deliver timely, properly formatted reports and business documents.

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 | Published: 10 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents the situation of N-Hair, a fictional high-end hair-care products company that is now expanding into channels in broader consumer markets. Read this paper to learn how the firm has positioned itself well for long-term success as it preserved its brand image with SAP software.

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how SAP for Banking solutions, which encompass the SAP® CRM application, encourage agility and customer centricity in today’s demanding market. By seamlessly connecting front- and back-office tasks, they can provide a superior customer experience and stronger top-line growth.

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 | Published: 02 Sep 2010

EBOOK: This E-book from an ECM expert offers advice on how organizations can apply ECM technology and techniques as well as insight into issues such as how programs can be funded and organized successfully. Learn some of the leading best practices that can help ensure that your organization’s ECM strategy effectively supports your overall business goals.

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Alloy software by IBM and SAP is a solution that presents information and data from SAP applications in the context of what millions of business users are familiar with–the IBM Lotus Notes collaboration software user interface. Access this white paper to learn about how it works, deployment options, customization options and much more.

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 | Published: 13 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a summary of the 2nd webcast in a series sponsored by IBM that is designed to empower IT and Business Unit managers to develop a strong business case for the return on investment (ROI) of their business intelligence initiatives.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how organizations with highly-complex organizational structures will find an application independent business intelligence strategy more effective than BI tools that come bundled in ERP applications.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Recent reports expose the monumental growth rate of data volumes. With increasing data volumes comes a need for computational power to absorb and analyze all this data in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. This paper attempts to shed some light on the decision process for selecting a specialty analytic server in today's business environments.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: A Winter Corporation white paper, this paper examines the architecture and performance of Sybase IQ in view of the requirements of demanding new BI and data warehouse applications. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Whether or not analytics should become an integral part of an organization’s planning and decision-making seems to be beyond question However, at what level, for what purpose and how to go about deploying analytics are questions that each organization needs to answer for itself. These questions are the focus of this paper.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study of Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative, Inc. to learn how replacing its old document imaging system with a new low-maintenance full-featured document management, imaging and workflow suite improved allowed for better information sharing and document availability, faster customer service and increased productivity.

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | Published: 02 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: SAP solutions are business-critical, requiring high levels of availability, performance and support services. HP's Mission Critical Services Enhancement for SAP Environments proactively address performance and availability issues, benefiting from a single point of accountability for all support requirements. Read this paper for more details.

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 | Published: 23 Jul 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript in which speaker Steffen Vierkorn, Head of Research and Consulting for the Business Application Research Center – BARC GmbH, offers guidance to IT System Architects, outlining the pros and cons of architectural scenarios and how to best plan to transfer to a more open and enhanced BI environment.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 07 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Hear from Ross Wainwright, Executive Vice President, SAP Field Services, and Greg Pike, Senior Vice President, SAP Active Global Support and gain insight into the cost-saving and problem-solving services that have the biggest impact, where and how SAP customers should begin using these services.

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the disruptions to SAP’s roadmap after the acquisition of BOBJ, and discusses various scenarios in which customers might decide to stay with SAP BOBJ for its BI strategy, and also when it might be best to use a third-party BI platform to leverage their SAP investments. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 | Published: 26 May 2010