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by Eric Duffaut, SAP SAPinsider These days, consumers are used to being able to easily download music, videos, and apps through iTunes. Through that single platform, users can access offerings from a variety of sources. SAP has applied this same concept, making scores of applications, services, and technologies from its partner ecosystem available to customers through SAP platforms. In this executive Q&A, Eric Duffaut, president of SAP Global Ecosystem and Channels, discusses SAP's partner ecosystem and exciting co-innovation plans for the future.
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by Steve Graham, SAP SAPinsider SAP channel partners provide a mix of technology innovation and business acumen to support their customers, recognizing the value of innovation, but also ensuring that customer investments are well guided to drive pragmatic business impact. In this article, you'll hear from six channel partner executives about what they consider to be the crucial issues that cause customers to dramatically change how they do business. You'll also learn about how each partner company is responding to these issues from both a technology and a business perspective.
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by Dawn Crew, SAP SAPinsider The SAP Global Ecosystem and Channels organization delivers game-changing innovation in a nondisruptive way to ensure its customers become best-run businesses. The organization enables businesses to reach beyond the capabilities of any single vendor by providing access to a trusted network of partners, customers, and individuals.
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by Silvio Bessa, SAP America, Inc. SAPinsider As technology advances, businesses are demanding more innovation that can be deployed in less time, with minimal disruption. To help customers meet this growing demand, SAP Active Global Support now offers SAP ActiveEmbedded, a new service that takes a hands-on approach to delivering programs by proactively and seamlessly integrating SAP experts into customers’ operational units. This article covers four areas that underscore each SAP ActiveEmbedded engagement to help companies leverage new innovations quickly and effectively.
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by SAP cloud experts SAPinsider In the cloud, SAP provides a full suite of solutions that enable customers to run their entire business, line of business applications, and collaboration solutions. In this special report, you’ll learn how SAP has combined with SuccessFactors to accelerate its ability to offer cloud applications to different business departments, leveraging collaborative, analytical, and mobile capabilities.
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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 Dr. Ralf Rath, SAP AG SAPinsider For decision makers searching through vast amounts of data for actionable, meaningful information that contains the appropriate level of detail and context, the SAP Visual Business interface can be a powerful tool. This interactive user interface technology enables users to visualize both SAP and non-SAP data from various sources on a single screen, allowing users to navigate intuitively through business data and manipulate the level of detail in which the information is displayed.
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by Kevin Ichhpurani, SAP AG SAPinsider SAP has built a strong network of partners that today incorporates more than 10,000 diverse companies around the world. To help readers understand the true customer value of these partnerships in the SAP ecosystem, this article looks at four specific examples and explains the key customer benefits of each.
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by Mark Yolton, SAP SAPinsider Social networking tools have become broadly accepted as business tools, and SAP embraces this value through SAP Community Network, a central part of an SAP user’s social media universe. Uncover the three key pillars of value that SAP Community Network is focusing on in 2011—social innovation, social intelligence, and social commerce—along with success stories from Walt Disney Co. and Baylor College of Medicine.
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