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by Kolja Ewering, SAP AG SAPinsider While the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative is intended to simplify banking across the European Union, the process of becoming compliant before SEPA fully takes effect in February 2014 is challenging for some financial institutions. To help with the transition to SEPA, SAP has developed SAP Payment Engine, a solution that consolidates multiple platforms onto a single SEPA-compliant platform. Learn more about the competitive advantages of SAP Payment Engine in this article.
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by Annette Fuchs, SAP SAPinsider With the frequency at which data is stored and exchanged, the necessity of securing that data has become even more important. It is equally as important to ensure that the encryption tools you use to secure your data work as they’re supposed to. That’s where the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140 standard comes in. In this article, you’ll learn more about the FIPS 140 standard, which defines a set of security requirements for products that implement cryptography, as well as SAP’s work to meet the standard’s requirements.
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by SAP and partners SAPinsider Risk management today should focus not only on the traditional management of financial portfolio risk and preparation for natural disasters, but also on identifying and addressing possible events and situations that may affect a company’s ability to optimize performance and achieve organizational goals. In this special report, you’ll hear from SAP’s Norman Marks about how companies can refocus their risk management practices. You’ll also hear from a number of SAP partners about how their services and solutions can help with this endeavor.
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by James Fisher, SAP SAPinsider SAP has not been sitting still when it comes to innovating the core SAP ERP Financials capabilities that are the bedrock of many organization' transaction processing and financial reporting. This article explores four areas in which this innovation has been especially powerful: invoice-to-pay and e-invoicing, financial risk management for commodities, travel management, and a shared services framework.
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by Marty Etzel and Jeremiah Stone, SAP SAPinsider Did you know that 57% of companies believe sustainability is necessary to be competitive, but only 33% actually have a business case for it? This installment of the "Sustainable Business" column offers a guide to executing the sustainability business case by addressing key areas that customers most often have questions about and laying out five strong cases for sustainability.
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by Jonathan Cooper and Frane Milicevic, SAP SAPinsider Eliminating the need for passwords in business applications means getting rid of processes that can be costly and that have inherent security risks. With single sign-on (SSO) functionality, users only need to authenticate once, thus eliminating password chaos. This article discusses how the argument in favor of SSO has become even stronger with the new security functionality that is now available within SAP NetWeaver Single Sign-On.
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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 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 Sami Muneer, SAP SAPinsider If you look across the SAP customer base, you’ll see a clear corporate focus on reducing the environmental inputs and outputs of operations. To help with these reduction efforts, customers worldwide are implementing the latest release of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand; this article highlights customers’ feedback and experience with the solution.
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by Armin Hechler-Stark, SAP AG, and Swapan Saha, SAP Labs SAPinsider When a large SAP customer experienced a complex performance and scalability problem, SAP used its development processes and tools to identify and fix performance issues in that customer’s landscape. Learn how you can use these same tools to diagnose problems in your own landscape and get an introduction to SAP’s method for testing these fixes to make sure that the production landscape can handle the business’s needs.
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