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by Scott Leatherman, SAP SAPinsider The scale of adoption for SAP HANA is unprecedented, and SAP is relying on its partners to get customers the "powered by SAP HANA" analytics and custom applications they need to leverage the speed and transparency offered by this new database technology. In this article, you'll learn how SAP's value-added resellers, independent software vendors, and systems integration partners are helping companies that have "big data" challenges understand the scale of SAP HANA and identify areas where it can help drive their business forward.
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by James Fisher, SAP SAPinsider A precarious market and slow economic growth have taken finance challenges to the next level, spurring CFOs to develop a growing range of skills. To help, SAP has developed a number of innovative solutions that use today’s most valuable technologies – in-memory, mobile, and cloud -- to drive down costs and improve the predictability of earnings. This article details how CFOs and their teams can leverage these technologies to conquer their most daunting financial challenges.
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by Jean-Bernard Rolland and Kouros Behzad, SAP SAPinsider Too much data is rarely seen as a bad thing since it can provide detailed insight into the business. However, the HR organization has lacked the ability to easily access data across the enterprise, leaving crucial HR metrics unseen by executives who have the power to act on them. Advanced analytics solutions can help SAP customers maximize the value of HR and, with this information at their fingertips, executives can make more-informed business decisions more quickly.
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by Steve Lenz, SAP AG SAPinsider Large high-tech vendors are finding that creating a customized, end-to-end preconfigured solution is no easy feat. To help these solution providers and their customers, SAP offers the SAP Solution Sales Configuration application, giving solution vendors the ability to quickly and easily configure hardware, software, and services components to create a complex solution for their customers without the risk of the various components not working together.
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by Rebecca Newell, SAP SAPinsider Information found in social media channels can be extremely valuable to a business, but the amount of time needed to comb through the web in search of this data is out of most people’s reach. And early automated solutions built to mine this information have fallen flat, unable to account for the context that gives data its meaning. In this article, you’ll learn how the SAP Social Media Analytics application by NetBase can help businesses gauge consumer sentiment in real time.
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by Stephanie Buscemi, SAP SAPinsider Most CIOs would likely agree that the ability to demonstrate deep business knowledge and a clear impact from IT investments is important to success. This feat is not always easily managed, however, as new trends and technologies create challenges in the business world. Familiar with these challenges, SAP is giving businesses a way to turn them into opportunities by using technology to harness data assets and enable systems of engagement. This article looks at four organizations that use business analytics solutions from SAP to gain more value from their data.
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by Henner Schliebs, SAP SAPinsider Procurement analytics — which encompass traditional spend analytics and key procurement measures — provide the key to identifying areas of low performance, optimizing procurement functions, and reducing costs. But what's the best way to configure and deploy a procurement analytics program? This article will walk you through the 4-step process.
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by Stephanie Buscemi, SAP SAPinsider A company's information has always been one of its most precious resources. But the way companies tap into and interact with that information must change. In the past, businesses invested in "systems of record" to house their structured data in databases. Now, with a growing need to be able to easily and flexibly access up-to-date information, companies need to switch to "systems of engagement," in which users can create and share data views, interacting with the information within them. In this article, you'll learn about systems of engagement and how they support the evolution of business analytics.
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by SAP and Partners SAPinsider Business analytics — SAP's fastest growing and largest segment — is driving entirely new ways of doing business for customers. And the way in which companies can access this analytic information is changing too. Users can now access the information they want in the manner they choose, be it on-demand (in the cloud), on a phone or tablet, or on a desktop or laptop. In this special report, you'll learn about the trends driving the business analytics revolution and then drill down into several subsets of business analytics with articles that focus on BI, GRC, EPM, data warehousing, and EIM.
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by Joerg Brosowski, SAP SAPinsider For many companies, the service organization is the most profitable aspect of their business. An efficient service organization not only gives way to favorable customer satisfaction surveys, but also boosts profits. In this article, learn about one application that gives SAP customers the opportunity to improve their service operations: SAP Multiresource Scheduling.
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