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 BTP

    Optimization of RISE with SAP and Microsoft Azure

    Published: 06/April/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    As organizations begin their journeys to the cloud and SAP S/4HANA, many will rely on RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure. Each of these companies will have different requirements and priorities that can only be met by taking a customized approach to deployment and maintenance. In this article, SAPinsider expert Ram Ranganathan highlights some of…

  2. HR Technology Adoption Creates Difficult Balance for HR Leaders

    Published: 02/April/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Coming out of COVID-19, most SAPinsider organizations (62% of survey respondents) said they were accelerating investments in HR technology. In recent months, the impact of recent HR technology investments has become apparent amid ongoing layoffs in the software technology sector. A 365 Data Science report revealed that HR teams are among those most affected by…

  3. Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen appointed CEO at SUSE

    Published: 22/March/2023

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The Supervisory Board of SUSE S.A. appointed Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, former Red Hat senior vice president and general manager for the Asia Pacific region, as the new CEO starting May 1, 2023. 

  4. Why SAP Datasphere Matters

    Published: 20/March/2023

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    SAP Datasphere, the next generation of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution, solves a lot of the challenges people have with the volume and distribution across data. SAP Datasphere closely aligns existing components in the Business Technology Platform along with newly available data integration, data cataloging, and semantic modeling features.

  5. SAP Strategy Insight Featured Image

    SAP’s Sale of Qualtrics Stake Signals Strategy Shift

    Published: 13/March/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    SAP announced on March 13 that it reached an agreement to sell its controlling stake of Qualtrics International Inc. to a consortium headlined by private equity investors Silver Lake and pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. After a negotiation process of more than six weeks, Silver Lake will acquire Qualtrics at a purchase price…

  6. Christian Klein image SAP Cloud Growth

    SAP Reports Cloud Growth in 2022

    Published: 09/March/2023

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    In 2022, cloud revenue continued to be their main growth driver, increasing by 24%. SAP began this journey to moving towards a cloud company two years earlier. An important part of this initiative has been the implementation of RISE with SAP to enable organizations to become agile, intelligent enterprises. The SAP Business Network connects millions…

  7. Finance Transformation Journey with SAP BTP

    Embrace RISE with SAP for Multi-Cloud Strategy and Solutions

    Published: 28/February/2023

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Cloud usage is now a given for the vast majority of businesses. But not all organizations are getting the most out of their cloud strategy, if they are even using the right cloud at all. SAP customers want improved resilience, increased flexibility/agility, on-demand scalability, compliance/regulations, and cloud-native core applications. One of the best ways to…

  8. SAP Investments in Your Success

    Published: 27/February/2023

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Some SAP customers may feel that they are always inundated with sales pitches for new SAP features and extensions, even though they are struggling to find success with the SAP landscape they already have. Yet a significant portion of SAP users are unaware of the wide array of options that SAP provides for its clients…

  9. Dan Lahl, SAP Global Vice President of BTP Marketing and Solutions

    Maximizing BTP with SAP’s Dan Lahl

    In this video, Dan Lahl, SAP Global Vice President of BTP Marketing and Solutions, highlights some of the key features of SAP’s Business Technology Platform. He also delivers insights on what drives SAP BTP adoption and how organizations can build the business case to leverage BTP.... Mastering SAP Premium Access Membership Required You must be…

  10. SAP Business Technology Platform

    Integrating and Innovating with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

    SAP’s Business Technology Platform is one of its most commonly-used offerings. BTP features all of SAP’s core platform technologies - everything from database data management, analytics planning, integration, and an app development environment. In this video, you will hear from Thorsten Leiduck, who leads the SAP Business Technology Platform ecosystem, on how best to leverage…