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. Industry Focus on RISE with SAP

    The Ultimate Recipe for Your SAP System Transformation

    Published: 10/November/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    In this article, you will get a step-by-step walkthrough on how to run your digital transformation, complete with helpful tips, pitfalls to avoid, and a roadmap of simple steps that will ensure the transformation meets your goals. First, inspect the business case. It should have a good, solid, and hard TCO reduction. Watch out for…

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    A look at SAP SuccessFactors Payroll Control Center Manage Configuration  

    Published: 10/November/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    In 2021 SAP SuccessFactors delivered a new experience for how to configure the payroll control center application. SAP has delivered multiple enhancements throughout 2022 including game changing pre-delivered content that makes it much easier for customers to get up and running. Read this article to understand the key functionality including the latest and greatest innovations.…

  3. SAP Financial Close

    A “No Regrets” Approach to Financial Transformation

    Published: 10/November/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    As businesses look to the future and modernize their practices, digital transformation has become a top priority. Although IT and the business team often take center stage in digital transformation initiatives, finance and accounting teams and processes can play a critical role in delivering success. Digital transformation, like a move to SAP S/4HANA, for example,…

  4. Discover Ways to Improve ROI for your SAP Applications

    Transforming Businesses with RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure

    Published: 04/November/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    This article introduces RISE with SAP as comprehensive “business transformation as a service” offering from SAP and its strategic partners. It explains the benefits of RISE with SAP as well as its main components and the main phases of a RISE with SAP engagements. Finally, it outlines benefits of a RISE with SAP on Microsoft…

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    Strategy Is Key for a Digital Transformation

    Published: 04/November/2022

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Before diving headfirst into any major technological undertaking – such as a move to the cloud or overall digital transformation – companies must ensure they have a robust and well thought out business strategy. Enterprises must have a roadmap of what they want to accomplish, how they want to accomplish it, the key stakeholders that…

  6. finance automation

    Benchmark Report: Cloud and SAP S/4HANA DevOps

    Published: 31/October/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    SAP customers today face increasing business demand for high-quality and rapid software deployments and updates. SAP’s accelerating product roadmap demands a faster and more collaborative approach to development, change management, and testing. In addition, most SAP customers continue to add non-SAP applications that integrate with SAP. SAP teams, used to multi-year development projects followed by...…

  7. Building a Successful SAP Digital Transformation

    Tips to Attain Faster Stabilization with S/4HANA Production Execution Implementation

    Published: 28/October/2022

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Most S/4 implementations could expect a period of stabilization before all users adapt to the new system. While this may vary widely across S/4HANA implementations due to industry, process complexities, and organization culture, among other things, everyone can gain tips from another company’s implementations journey. An effective and efficient people and process design is critical…

  8. Getting Ready for the SEC’s Proposed Rules on Cybersecurity

    Published: 26/October/2022

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Learn how to accommodate the potential new rules proposed by the SEC in March of 2020. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) had released its publication on Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). The intent highlighted there was to help organizations better “identify, assess, and manage their cybersecurity risks in the context…

  9. SAP s/4 HANA

    What Decision Makers Need to Know to Move to SAP S/4HANA Effectively

    Published: 21/October/2022

    Reading time: 13 mins

    In this article, we’ll spotlight the 10 key areas for success in SAP S/4HANA implementations, using insights from our executives and experts in SAP’s Chief Customer Office, a group dedicated to facilitating successful transformations. And rather than explaining why projects fail, we’re going to tell you what makes them succeed. You’ve heard the horror stories…

  10. Collaboration Is Key to a Successful Migration

    Published: 21/October/2022

    Reading time: 8 mins

    SAPinsider spoke with Sherry Yu, Senior Director of SAP Success Architect at SUSE, a global leader in open-source solutions, about how SUSE helps accelerate SAP S/4HANA migration, as well as safeguard the SAP landscape once migration is complete. Many organizations have yet to begin their migration to SAP S/4HANA or are in the early stages…