Technology

Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.

SAP and Partner Technologies

Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.

SAP and Partner Technologies

Enterprise software technology companies like SAP have, for decades, helped provide organizations with technology tools that can help them run their businesses more effectively and efficiently. SAP and partner technologies today focus on technology solutions across various industries like energy & natural resources, service industries, consumer industries, discrete industries, financial services, and public services. Technology solutions offered range from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions to technology platforms that can help organizations build intelligent enterprise capabilities.

Business Technology Categories

Enterprise Resource Planning: These solutions help organizations integrate business processes across their enterprise and facilitate a seamless information flow across the organization. These solutions generally have modules focused on various functions and sub-functions that exist within organizations such as finance, procurement, CRM and customer experience, HR and people engagement, and supply chain management. Best-of-breed ERP solutions integrate both transactional/operational as well as planning capabilities.

Specialized business operations point systems: These solutions are specialized solutions focused on certain functions or business processes within certain functions and are transactional systems that help capture business operations transactions. Examples are supply chain and logistics, accounting solutions, treasury management solutions, GRC solutions, spend management solutions, HR and payroll solutions, CRM systems etc.

Planning point systems: These systems focus on business planning, often leveraging data from transactional systems or modules for planning purposes. Examples of such systems are supply chain planning systems, financial planning and analysis systems, business intelligence (BI) tools, and advanced analytics solutions. These solutions or systems help generate insights from the data that can then help organizations run their operations more effectively.

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  1. SAP SECOPS

    Do I Really Need an SAP SECOPS Program?

    Published: 29/November/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Companies may not believe that an SAP SECOPS program is necessary, but there may be more factors at play than they considered. In this article, SAPinsider Bill Oliver will walk you through some of the key considerations that SAP users must make when setting up their overall security plan. Some organizations that simply having their…

  2. security

    Why Supplementing SAP Cybersecurity Is Vital

    Published: 22/November/2022

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Everything that makes SAP systems so useful for business operations also makes them crucial to protect. All of the critical data stored within must be safeguarded with the highest priority. In this article, you can learn about the best ways to find third-party solutions to security issues and dissolve the silos that can hamper your…

  3. How Microsoft Helps Meet Growing Data Requirements

    Published: 22/November/2022

    Reading time: 11 mins

    Data is the lifeblood of modern business. Organizations are collecting vast amounts of information in order to intelligently run operations and gain an advantage within their field. In this digital economy, companies have a growing need to scale up their data capacity so that they do not fall behind. SAP users in particular often require…

  4. Is Integration the Hardest Part of an SAP S/4HANA Migration?

    Published: 21/November/2022

    Reading time: 8 mins

    When migrating to SAP S/4HANA, there are several Key Decision pillars that you need to work through to determine the right choices for our upgrade journey. From talking with so many of you architecting your migration plan, you are deciding where S/4HANA will reside, what path to take to get to S/4, what business value…

  5. security

    Today’s Security Challenges for Industries

    Published: 16/November/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    There is now more than one megabyte of data per second being created for every person on earth. If harnessed properly, that creates a wide array of exciting opportunities for businesses. However, there are also significant security challenges associated with such large amounts of data floating around. Across all industries and disciplines, organizations must now…

  6. Integrating and Automating

    Integrating and Automating Your Business to the Next Level

    Published: 15/November/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    At SAPinsider’s EMEA event in Vienna, Red Hat Senior Principal Product Manager for SAP Arne Arnold offered insights on automation and integration. In this session on day three of the event, Arnold shared expertise on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution and explained how to maximize the value of your SAP environment using RHEL.

  7. cybersecurity security GRC

    Preventing SAP Security Vulnerabilities

    Published: 15/November/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The move to SAP S/4HANA comes with its own set of challenges. As SAP landscapes evolve to support business-critical processes with enhanced controls for managing and monitoring, there is an increased need for comprehensive approaches and platforms that cover all aspects of security, including data and application to detect complex cyberattack patterns and anomalies in…

  8. SAP’s Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M) for the Intelligent Enterprise

    Adopting an Intelligent Approach to Integration: Reimagining Business Processes with SAP Integration Suite

    Published: 15/November/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Integration is strategic for businesses. SAP Integration Suite solves a number of integration challenges and comes with pre-built integration content that accelerates business outcomes. It is a modern, comprehensive integration platform with event mesh for scalable and resilient real-time processing and is also the most used SAP BTP cloud service.

  9. executive board

    SAP CMSO Julia White Leads the Charge for ERP in the Cloud

    Published: 14/November/2022

    Reading time: 10 mins

    As SAP celebrates its 50th anniversary, it’s implementing new solutions driven by its newly appointed Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer and member of the Executive Board, Julia White. She joined the company in 2021 after growing Microsoft Azure into a top cloud offering, and now she’s on a mission to take SAP beyond ERP. SAPinsider…

  10. Deploy SAP HANA in Azure Faster with Less Risk and Higher Quality

    10 Critical Success Factors for Business Transformation

    Published: 11/November/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Business transformation is a complex process requiring all facets of an organization to pitch in to move to adopt SAP S/4HANA. With so many unique starting points if you are a customer running SAP ERP for many years, or if you are just starting your journey to the cloud and digital transformation, it can be…