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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 SAP and Partners SAPinsider When it comes to opening the door for new innovations, both big data and mobility play a major role. In this special report, you'll hear from SAP's partners about some of the solutions and services that you can leverage to capitalize on the unique opportunities that big data and mobility have to offer, while also maximizing your investment in SAP software and achieving better business results.
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by Richard Strattner, SAP SAPinsider Implementing the newest solutions is exciting for a business, but to truly maximize the return on the investment in the technology, the company's IT organization and user population must be educated on the solutions before they go live. This can be quite an undertaking, but SAP has developed a series of SAP Accelerated Learning packages to help expedite the learning process. This article discusses the packages for SAP HANA, mobility, and business intelligence, and reviews the different ways the offerings can be delivered for faster and more convenient learning.
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by Stephanie Buscemi, Jason Rose, Byron Banks, Dan Kearnan, Michael Lortz, James Fisher, SAP SAPinsider True business analytics should enable everyone in an organization to know all aspects of their business, make decisions with confidence, and act boldly. In this special report, SAP’s Stephanie Buscemi introduces SAP’s current and future business analytics initiatives—from technology innovations to the Silver Cloud Marketplace. You’ll also hear from other SAP executives with their insights into hot business analytics topics, such as SAP HANA and the new releases of BI, EIM, GRC, and EPM solutions.
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by Dr. Prasad Akella, SAP SAPinsider Small businesses and midsize enterprises (SMEs) face three key challenges that impede their ability to make good, data-driven decisions: ensuring the integrity of information, democratizing the availability of information, and controlling the cost of ownership. This article sheds light on how the key components of SAP's SME portfolio — SAP BusinessObjects Edge Business Intelligence software and SAP BusinessObjects Edge Rapid Marts packages — address these challenges.
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by Steve Lucas, SAP SAPinsider SAP has slowly and steadily been transforming itself. Its product portfolio is no longer solely centered on SAP Business Suite; it now shares the spotlight with a newer class of solutions known as business analytics. But what, exactly, are "business analytics" solutions? What's driving their high demand? In this interview, you'll learn the answers to these questions and more from Steve Lucas, Head of the Business Analytics Organization at SAP.
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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 SAP and Partners SAPinsider SAP and its partners have been pushing the boundaries of traditional business intelligence (BI) with a wave of new business analytics solutions that enable true information innovation. SAP’s Sanjay J. Poonen kicks off this special report with a look at the market dynamics that are driving the current BI revolution, as well as what’s in it for customers. Then, SAP partners describe how they are lending their own talents to support this revolution.
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by Holly Simmons, SAP SAPinsider A business person’s work is much more ad hoc and interactive than it used to be, and users need a mix of personal and business tools to get it done. Uncover two on-demand personal productivity tools—SAP StreamWork and SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand—that support this new way of working, helping business people effectively collaborate and gain better business insight.
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