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by SAP and partners SAPinsider With an increasing number of challenges facing the finance organization, now is the time to ensure your CFO and finance team have all the resources they require to navigate an ever-changing business environment. In this special report, you’ll learn more about how to transform your finance organization to ensure that it can meet your business’s most pressing needs.
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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 Frank Krause, Jens Kram, and Markus Bredel, SAP AG SAPinsider Regulatory requirements and accounting rules implemented in the past decade have made calculating a company's current and future financial obligations more time consuming and complicated. Small mistakes when accounting for the cost of retiring assets can cause monetary and possibly legal trouble for an organization. To help its customers calculate their asset retirement obligations (AROs) more accurately and easily, SAP has developed SAP Asset Retirement Obligation Management, a solution that automates the data management and accounting processes associated with AROs. This article explains the importance of ARO management and how SAP's new application can streamline your accounting efforts.
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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 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 Lenore Johnson, Rebecca Newell, Bil Khan, and Kishore Bhamidipati, SAP SAPinsider A recurring theme for companies these days is to do more with less. In this primer, you'll learn about SAP's solution extensions — solutions sourced from third parties that provide their own unique benefits and also closely integrate with SAP solutions and key business processes. These offerings allow companies to build on current IT investments, enabling them to create even more competitive, compelling, and holistic solutions.
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by Carolee Gearhart and Fergus O'Reilly, SAP SAPinsider SAP is on a mission to bring its core technology platforms to an even broader set of end users and to see these platforms used to provide new and exciting innovations. One of the ways SAP is doing this is by sharing their technology platforms with other solution developers through original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partnerships. This primer introduces you to the OEM concept, digs into some examples of how companies are benefiting from the OEM program today, and provides information to help other companies decide if they too are candidates for the OEM program.
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by Philip Say and Dawn Crew, SAP SAPinsider What's new for finance and HR professionals in 2010? Step through the top finance capabilities (from streamlining change requests to reorganizing profit centers) and HR capabilities (from improving compensation management to reducing operational delivery costs) newly available in enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.
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by Wilhelm Wälti, Dr. Stefan Engelhardt, and Michael de la Cruz, SAP SAPinsider SAP is in the trenches with its industrially diverse customers, collaborating to better understand and address their specific needs. This article looks at three different industries—financial services, utilities, and the public sector—to uncover how customers are leveraging SAP’s industry expertise to tackle pressing issues.
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by David Williams, SAP SAPinsider The 7.5 release of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, offers an expanded ability for business users to improve agility, reduce cycle time, and increase user productivity. Get to know the top three highly anticipated new features of this new release.
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