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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 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 Jason Yotopoulos, SAP SAPinsider Mobile commerce is enabling retailers and consumer products companies to engage with customers like never before, offering massive growth opportunities. However, consumer mobility has also intensified the pressure on retailers to redefine the shopping experience and deliver multichannel retailing, as well as to implement trade promotion management, traceable marketing spend, coupon program performance assessment, and other capabilities from the mobile world. This article explores SAP's project "Apollo," which aims to help companies in this endeavor.
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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 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 Jeff Veis, SAP SAPinsider In this installment of the "SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio Primer" column, SAP's Jeff Veis explains the conflicting need for an approach to business applications that is both effective and agile. But he also reveals how SAP has successfully combined effectiveness and agility with its series of industry- and line-of-business-focused SAP BusinessObjects analytic applications.
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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 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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by Jonathan D. Becher, SAP SAPinsider How can your company join the 10% of organizations that effectively execute on their business strategies? With insights on the bigger picture, SAP Executive Vice President Jonathan Becher offers five ways to better align strategy and execution to help keep organizations on track.
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by Paul Clark, SAP SAPinsider SAP BusinessObjects product portfolio contains great tools, but many people are still unfamiliar with the full range of functionality this solution suite brings. This article demystifies the portfolio, highlighting its goals and describing its five key solution areas—enterprise information management (EIM); business intelligence (BI); enterprise performance management (EPM); governance, risk, and compliance; and analytic applications.
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