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by Georg Fischer and Stefanie Kübler, SAP AG SAPinsider All companies want to cut operating costs, reduce the communication efforts for the IT staff, and become all-around more agile entities. In this article, you’ll learn how system consolidation and system decommissioning projects can help you reach these goals. You’ll also discover why combining these two projects not only nets the benefits of a lean data center more quickly, it also means huge savings in time and money.
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by Tobias Kutning and Bernd F. Lober, SAP AG SAPinsider Originally introduced to boost quality assurance, SAP standard application benchmarks are also used to test and verify the scalability, concurrency, power efficiency, and multi-user behavior of system software components, relational database management systems (RDBMSs), and business applications. This article takes a closer look at these benchmarks and explores some of the record-breaking results achieved this year.
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by Tobias Kutning, SAP AG SAPinsider How can a company be sure that the energy-efficient server it chooses is truly a sustainable one? To help, SAP, in close cooperation with its partners, introduced the SAP server power standard application benchmark, which tests a vendor's server, allowing that vendor to demonstrate the server's efficiency — and enabling customers to evaluate it before purchasing. Explore the results from one SAP partner, Fujitsu, which earned the first SAP server power standard application benchmark
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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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by Richard Barrett, SAP SAPinsider Implementing cost-to-serve reporting and analysis operational processes can significantly benefit an organization. In this article, SAP’s Richard Barrett explores several best practices companies can take—identifying and eliminating non-value-add activities across the organization, for instance—to gain immediate cost savings and increase net margins by focusing on the most profitable customers and products.
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by Sheree Johnson, SAP Americas SAPinsider A Customer Center of Expertise (COE) can help the IT organization demonstrate its value, while ensuring solution quality and keeping TCO in check. Past SAPinsider articles have explored how to set up a COE; this article dives into how to take your Customer COE to a new level. Learn how to set and manage KPIs to set the right priorities for continuous improvement.
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by Shaf Begen, SAP SAPinsider Visibility into your organization’s health is vital at this economic inflection point. This article unlocks the value of an "enterprise health management" program, identifies three key goals to strive for when developing your program, highlights compliance and risk management capabilities offered by SAP, and uncovers real benefits from an SAP customer case study.
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by Clarissa Götz and Sebastian Schmitt, SAP AG SAPinsider As energy prices continue to rise, companies must take a hard look at the amount of energy their IT landscapes consume. Learn how SAP is helping companies decommission their inefficient legacy systems—without losing access to valuable data—and giving them the tools they need to select more energy-efficient servers in the future.
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by Neil Krefsky and John Garrish, SAP SAPinsider Our new series of sustainability columns opens with a pressing question: How do you manage the seemingly circuitous path to sustainability? SAP executives offer a three-pronged strategy for managing your sustainability initiative — and improving your business — using SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management.
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by Susanne Janssen, SAP AG, and Fayçal Hadjiat, EDF SAPinsider Load tests are critical for any company undergoing an implementation or upgrade. Yet too many companies overlook the most crucial load testing considerations. This article, which includes tips from Electricité de France’s hugely successful and productive load test project, explores a two-pronged approach to ensuring that your load tests — and your go-lives — are mistake-free.
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