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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 SAP's Global Ecosystem and Channel Marketing Group SAPinsider SAP offers select solution extensions that integrate directly into your existing landscape, providing increased business value to complement the SAP business solutions you already have in place. In this special report, you can explore several of these solution extensions in more detail and take a look at the benefits the various tools can bring to an organization.
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by Bil Khan, SAP SAPinsider Companies often implement point solutions to provide quick fixes to their content management problems, but these loosely connected band-aid solutions don’t allow them to integrate SAP and non-SAP content — and often end up costing more time and money in the long run. Uncover an enterprise content management solution designed for the long haul — SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText — with an extensive list of capabilities that point solutions alone can’t match.
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by Andrew Cabanski-Dunning, SAP SAPinsider User interfaces (UIs) are supposed to be easy to use, yet managing all the UI options out there can seem complicated to many companies. This installment of the “User Experience” column discusses factors that explain this complexity, presents SAP’s “core and extensions” approach to UIs, and looks at UI options that best serve the three main types of SAP users—the frequent user, the occasional user, and the unique user.
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by Karl Kessler, SAP AG SAPinsider What makes SAP NetWeaver Application Server unique? Besides the fact that it is the foundation and runtime environment for nearly 90% of SAP solutions, it has important new features that address customer needs in the areas of TCO, lifecycle management, user interface strategy, embedded analytics, development, administration, and security. This article discusses those features, with a focus on the enhancements that help developers and administrators support SAP Business Suite users.
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by Kishore Bhamidipati, SAP SAPinsider Companies need to keep their SAP applications running optimally with a well-rounded approach to application lifecycle management (ALM). But with so many ALM offerings on the market, how can customers be sure they get the ones they need? To help them make an informed decision, ALM expert Kishore Bhamidipati offers a high-level overview of what he sees as SAP’s top 10 solution extensions for ALM.
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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 Rebecca Newell, SAP SAPinsider Going green is not only beneficial to the environment, but also to a company’s coffers. And one facet of green IT that can bring quick cost savings is green data and document management. In this article, you’ll learn how sustainable IT practices can add value to your organization and go through three strategies that focus on making document and data management processes greener, either through automation or by digitalizing part of the process.
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by Kishore Bhamidipati, SAP SAPinsider Dive into the first two phases of the application lifecycle management process—Requirements and Design—and find out how the SAP Enterprise Modeling application by IDS Scheer helps organizations navigate through each of them. This article also outlines the tool’s role and benefits in two specific SAP scenarios.
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by Rebecca Newell, SAP SAPinsider You’ve probably heard of SAP solution extensions like SAP Interactive Forms software by Adobe, the SAP Information Interchange application by Crossgate, and the SAP Data Maintenance for ERP application by Vistex. But did you know that these extensions can also contribute to a company’s data management strategy? This article explores each solution — and their data management features — in detail.
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