by Lenore Johnson, Rebecca Newell, Cindy Morel, Bil Khan, Wendy Maldonado, SAP
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To help companies meet the unique needs of their business and industry niches, 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.
by SAP and partners
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Companies today are facing a number of financial challenges, from market and regulation changes, to mounting pressure on margins and profitability. On top of that, business teams from all areas of the enterprise are now turning to the finance department, seeking its input on business unit-specific financial issues. In this special report, you’ll hear from SAP’s Dr. Winfried Schmitt, as well as expert SAP partners, about the technologies, services, and best practices that can support the financials department as they work to overcome these challenges and become a more strategic adviser to the business.
by SAP and partners
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At this point, the benefits of mobilizing your business are clear and most organizations have taken the first steps toward reaching that goal. Now it is important to focus on the next piece — finding the right enterprise mobile apps that fit your specific business needs. This special report, kicked off with an article from SAP's Bernd-Uwe Pagel, showcases high-quality mobile apps and explores app strategy tips that can help companies overcome their specific challenges and reach their mobile goals.
by SAP and Partners
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A myriad of benefits, new development opportunities, the potential for even faster deployments, and deeper partner involvement — all of these elements are combining to make SAP HANA the engine of change that will enable businesses to take great advantage of every opportunity they see. In this special report, which is kicked off with an article from SAP’s Dr. Vishal Sikka, you’ll learn more about SAP HANA and the partners that can help you get the most from it.
by SAP and Partners
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The challenges of today’s supply chains are very different from those of the past. In this special report, you’ll hear from SAP’s Hans Thalbauer about the pressing need for organizations to create real-time, demand-driven supply chains which can react to market fluctuations and customer needs. You’ll also hear from SAP partners who can help organizations succeed in this bid.
by SuccessFactors and Partners
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2012 was an important year for SuccessFactors, with its acquisition by SAP. As customers continue moving toward the cloud, SAP and SuccessFactors plan to meet the evolving needs of these companies by expanding the breadth of cloud solutions and continuing to grow a partner community that can help customers get the most out of these solutions. This special report, kicked off with an article from Mercedes Ellison of SuccessFactors, takes a closer look at the acquisition, future cloud plans, and the partner ecosystem.
by SAP and partners
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Risk management today should focus not only on the traditional management of financial portfolio risk and preparation for natural disasters, but also on identifying and addressing possible events and situations that may affect a company’s ability to optimize performance and achieve organizational goals. In this special report, you’ll hear from SAP’s Norman Marks about how companies can refocus their risk management practices. You’ll also hear from a number of SAP partners about how their services and solutions can help with this endeavor.
by SAP and partners
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As technology trends change the way companies do business, they also provide a unique opportunity to bring a new level of innovation to the enterprise. And for the CIO, this is the perfect chance to propel that innovation. Today's savviest CIOs are shifting from being "keepers of the information systems" to "innovation champions" in the enterprise. In this special report, you'll learn how CIOs are using innovative new technologies to stay ahead of the ever-changing market.
by SAP's Global Ecosystem and Channel Marketing Group
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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.
by SAP cloud experts
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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.
by SAP and partners
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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.
by SAP and partners
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Your company’s software and solutions can make or break the business, so the continued reliability of these tools is of paramount importance. That’s why the SAP Enterprise Support organization focuses on providing SAP customers with guidance and end-to-end support that can help them ensure that their solutions are running optimally at all times. In this special report, you’ll learn how, by taking advantage of SAP Solution Manager, application lifecycle management, and certified SAP partners, you can ensure that you’re getting the end-to-end support you need to keep your solutions up and running.
by SAP mobility experts
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In today's business environment, any organization that fails to develop a mobile strategy risks being left behind. We have already seen mobile technology revolutionize the consumer engagement experience; now it is revolutionizing the way the enterprise engages with customers, partners, and employees. In this article, you'll learn how, by taking an end-to-end approach to mobility, SAP provides customers with solutions that integrate with the offerings of its partner ecosystem, opening up a universe of mobile options.
by SAP and Partners
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When it comes to opening the door for new innovations, both big data and mobility play a major role. In this special report, you'll hear from SAP's partners about some of the solutions and services that you can leverage to capitalize on the unique opportunities that big data and mobility have to offer, while also maximizing your investment in SAP software and achieving better business results.
by SAP and Partners
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The goals of the business and IT can often seem to be at odds. With Duet Enterprise, however, companies can meet the needs of both. Duet Enterprise provides the building blocks that developers can use to compose solutions that blend the functionality of SAP and Microsoft. For IT, this helps broaden the use of SAP software and expand the scope of Microsoft SharePoint. Business users gain a unified view of both their data and their tasks, giving them a central place from which to manage their business processes. In this special report, you'll learn more about Duet Enterprise and some of the innovative solutions partners have already built with it.
by Kevin Benedict, Netcentric Strategies
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Mobile Outlook 2012 research report here. You'll learn what 602 survey respondents think about enterprise mobility today, and where they expect mobility will drive them in the near future.
by SAP and Partners
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Business analytics — SAP's fastest growing and largest segment — is driving entirely new ways of doing business for customers. And the way in which companies can access this analytic information is changing too. Users can now access the information they want in the manner they choose, be it on-demand (in the cloud), on a phone or tablet, or on a desktop or laptop. In this special report, you'll learn about the trends driving the business analytics revolution and then drill down into several subsets of business analytics with articles that focus on BI, GRC, EPM, data warehousing, and EIM.
by SAP and Partners
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Companies are always looking for ways to improve their end-to-end IT operations and ensure that their solution landscapes run optimally at all times. In this special report, you'll learn about two support offerings — Run SAP and SAP Enterprise Support — that can help these companies do just that. You'll also hear from partners certified in Run SAP and SAP Enterprise Support about the various offerings and services available to help you get the most out of your IT investments.
by SAP and Partners
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With the enterprise awash in information, successful organizations are those that can strategically manage their data and documents. SAP’s General Manager of Enterprise Information Management, Victor Szczerba, introduces this special report with tips and insights for your enterprise information management (EIM) strategy, including information about the key role that partners play. Then, prominent SAP partners discuss an array of tools and solutions that help companies meet their unique EIM needs.
by SAP and Partners
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Reduced TCO, increased business innovation, and more productive IT users — these things are all achievable through a well-planned, integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy. In this special report, you'll hear from both Stephen Spears, SAP's Global Vice President and General Manager of Field Services Software, and partners about the growing list of solutions that SAP customers can leverage in their quest for ALM excellence.
by SAP and Partners
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The migration from the old world of physical servers to today’s virtualized data centers and virtual system landscapes is well underway — the challenge now is effectively managing all of the physical, virtual, and cloud-based layers in the enterprise. SAP’s Gunther Schmalzhaf kicks off this special report with a look at how SAP is developing enabling technology to facilitate this step for customers. In addition, you’ll hear from distinguished SAP partners about their unique virtualization and cloud offerings.
by Stephanie Buscemi, Jason Rose, Byron Banks, Dan Kearnan, Michael Lortz, James Fisher, SAP
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True business analytics should enable everyone in an organization to know all aspects of their business, make decisions with confidence, and act boldly. In this special report, SAP’s Stephanie Buscemi introduces SAP’s current and future business analytics initiatives—from technology innovations to the Silver Cloud Marketplace. You’ll also hear from other SAP executives with their insights into hot business analytics topics, such as SAP HANA and the new releases of BI, EIM, GRC, and EPM solutions.
by SAP and Partners
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Changing market conditions have led to a shift in the world of operations. Can your company adapt? In this special report, SAP’s Director of Manufacturing Solutions Marketing, Chuck Pharris, discusses four operational strategies to help companies thrive in a reemerging market. SAP partners also offer examples of complementary solutions that can help companies further automate and track their operational processes, enable a more adaptive supply chain, and ensure that their supply processes are sustainable.
by SAP and Partners
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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.
by SAP and Partners
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Lately, analysts are using a new term—eGRC, or enterprise governance, risk, and compliance—to describe the evolving GRC practices shared across the entire business. This special report, featuring David Milam, SAP’s Executive Vice President of GRC Solution Management, and leading SAP partners, includes information about SAP BusinessObjects GRC applications and other solutions from the partner ecosystem that help companies achieve greater performance across their GRC activities.
by SAP and Partners
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Companies that treat sustainability as only a compliance, PR, or philanthropic exercise shortchange themselves—sustainability programs afford companies not only societal and environmental benefits, but significant business gains as well. This Special Report identifies how you can leverage SAP’s robust ecosystem of sustainability partners, experts, and leading NGOs to get the most out of your sustainability investments.
by SAP and Partners
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It's only a matter of time before your company commits to cloud computing, which leading experts deem the biggest change in the technology industry in the past 20 years. In this Special Report, SAP and partners uncover how cloud computing is changing the way customers use SAP applications, and how your organization can prepare for the cloud.
by SAP
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IT organizations are under intense pressure: Today's CIOs are challenged to reduce IT complexity and infrastructure costs, yet increase operational efficiency at the same time. In this Special Report, SAP executives highlight how SAP's IT Transformation Services help IT meet these demands through three tiers—structural, operations, and technology.
by SAP and Partners
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Most organizations are losing US$5 million to US$20 million annually due to data-related issues. To address this problem, what companies need is an enterprise information management (EIM) strategy that treats information as a corporate asset. This Special Report helps SAP customers find the right solutions and services to get their EIM strategy on track.
by SAP and Partners
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SAP customers rely on a heterogeneous and intricately crafted mix of systems applications—and not all of them are SAP solutions. So how can you ensure that your solution landscape runs optimally at all times? For starters, you can’t do it alone. This Special Report explores how companies can turn to SAP and certified support partners to run their business operations securely and without interruption.
by SAP and Partners
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Virtualization technology is here to stay: If you have not yet incorporated some form of virtualization into your landscape, you will. This Special Report offers information, tips, and tricks for companies in all phases of virtualization—newcomers, early adopters, and conservative adopters alike.
by SAP and Partners
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Successfully gathering and acting on business intelligence (BI) data is a critical goal for any company. In this special report, you'll learn about tools and services from SAP and partners that can help your company make the most of its BI information.
by Jonathan D. Becher, George Mathew, and Jeff Veis
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Discover how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer revolutionizes the way companies use their business intelligence data. This special report also showcases industry use cases and examines enhanced SAP BusinessObjects Explorer capabilities for business users.
by SAP and Partners
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Many companies are on the brink of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) transition, but many still have questions: When should we implement IFRS? How should we prepare? Who do we involve? Get expert advice and recommendations from SAP executives and partners in this special report.
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Risks are inherent in decisions made at every level within an organization. Is your company equipped to deal with the dynamic nature of the risks you must contend with? What steps can you take to achieve more risk-adjusted thinking? Uncover the SAP and partner solutions to help you answer these key questions.
by SAP and Partners
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Are your systems running the way you want them to?
by SAP
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In this executive interview, SAP's Tom Roberts explains how solution extensions enable SAP customers to achieve even greater ROI for their IT systems.
by SAP and Partners
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SAP's Lothar Rieger advises companies how to stop maintaining systems they don't use. Learn about SAP’s new Retention Warehouse tool, which meets the requirements of system decommissioning and data retention to help companies as they work to build an end-to-end ILM strategy.
by SAP
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President & CEO of SAP North America Greg Tomb remarks on the importance of IT in the context of SAP services, and Harvard Business School’s Andrew McAfee illustrates the strategic importance of keeping IT at the center of business innovation and go-to-market initiatives.
by Philip Lay and Geoffrey Moore
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Industry leaders Geoffrey Moore and Philip Lay outline a 7-step course toward optimizing IT in your business networks.
by Peter Graf, SAP, and additional SAP executives
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Old IT architectures, designed for efficiency within the company, cannot keep up with new requirements to optimize business opportunities and continuously transform the company and its business network. Uncover how to power your business network now for competitive advantage.
by Peter Graf, Marty Etzel, Peter Bussey, Jennifer Scholze, Sami Muneer, and Richard Mendis
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Across the SAP customer base, there is a continuum of sustainability approaches, from misguided to opportunistic to
strategic. Where are you in this ranking?
by SAP and participating vendors
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No acronym is more misunderstood than GRC — short for governance, risk, and compliance. With help from SAP and partners, learn how to navigate through the GRC maze and find the right mix of processes and technology for your organization's specific governance needs.
by Jonathan D. Becher, David Williams, Richard Barrett, Philip Mugglestone, and Lothar Schubert
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Understand why most businesses can't execute on their strategies, and how your company can avoid falling into the same trap. This Special Report delves into hot EPM topics including SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, SAP solutions for cost and profitability reporting, IFRS and XBRL, and performance management for the supply chain.
by SAP and participating vendors
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Achieving your vision of the perfect plant isn't something you can accomplish in a day. In this Special Report, you'll learn how — with help from SAP and the partner ecosystem — you can break the perfect plant ideal into small, manageable steps that you can implement in short order to achieve a quick ROI.
by SAP and participating vendors
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Many enterprises are uncomfortable shutting down legacy systems; they fear they won't be able to access the data contained within them should an audit or lawsuit arise. Learn how information lifecycle management solutions from SAP and partners can alleviate those fears — and save you big bucks in the not-so-long run.
by Tom Roberts, SAP AG
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With IT budgets under intense scrutiny, any new investments need to deliver near-immediate payback. But which solutions really deliver the highest value in the shortest amount of time? Uncover three key starting points to help your business optimize its IT operations.
by Tom Roberts, SAP AG
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Understand how SAP works with key software vendors to ensure that customers can tactically extend their current investments and build even more competitive, compelling, and holistic solutions.
by SAP and Partners
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For most companies, the common activities of changing and creating business processes don't fare well. Six telling questions can help you put business process change and composition into perspective.
by SAP and Partners
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Companies are increasingly turning to virtualization to reduce IT costs and boost their bottom lines. This special feature explores what impact virtualization can have for SAP customers.
by Jonathan D. Becher, SAP, and additional SAP executives
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Garner valuable advice for sorting through all the BI, GRC, and EPM tools and technologies now available to you as part of the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio.