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. Integration

    How Endress+Hauser Is Creating a Simpler Business by Making Integration a Strategic Imperative

    Published: 11/January/2021

    Reading time: 6 mins

    As SAP customers today begin to look more strategically at integration, some are creating centers of excellence dedicated to integration priorities. This case study reveals how one such organization, Endress+Hauser, formed a competency center that focused all the company’s resources and skills around applications integration in one place. Learn how the business moved its integration…

  2. Case Study: Alphabet’s SAP on Google Cloud Journey-Experiences and Innovations

    The world’s 17th largest company, Alphabet, shares its real-life technical experiences implementing a comprehensive SAP S/4HANA landscape on Google Cloud. Learn about some of Alphabet’s key implementation challenges and how these challenges were overcome by creative Google Cloud and SAP S/4HANA innovations. Get a glimpse into the practical application of Google’s development philosophies such as…

  3. Case Study: Alphabet’s SAP on Google Cloud Journey-Experiences and Innovations

    The world’s 17th largest company, Alphabet, shares its real-life technical experiences implementing a comprehensive SAP S/4HANA landscape on Google Cloud. Learn about some of Alphabet’s key implementation challenges and how these challenges were overcome by creative Google Cloud and SAP S/4HANA innovations. Get a glimpse into the practical application of Google’s development philosophies such as…

  4. BI & HANA: Case study: Transforming business intelligence at Mobile Mini with a Business Intelligence Competency Center

    Published: 04/March/2019

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Learn how Mobile Mini migrated from its legacy enterprise data warehouse to the SAP HANA platform to enable real-time reporting. here Heather Sinkwitz If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View…

  5. A Foundation for Growth

    Published: 23/January/2018

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Fast-growing Vivint Smart Home realized it needed to replace its patchwork of systems if it wanted to keep on expanding. Its checklist of required functionality for future business needs led to the selection of SAP S/4HANA as the technology foundation. An early adopter of SAP S/4HANA in a cloud deployment, Vivint Smart Home has realized…

  6. Automating Business Process Testing at Applied Materials

    Published: 10/August/2017

    Reading time: 8 mins

    When tasked with moving to a single SAP instance, Applied Materials, a semiconductor and display equipment leader, knew it needed a solution to deploy more projects faster with reduced manual effort. Discover how Applied Materials implemented Worksoft Certify test automation to cut test cycles nearly in half and replace thousands of manual tests while boosting…

  7. How You Can Benefit from the Values of IBM Power in Your Journey to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 01/March/2017

    Reading time: 15 mins

    More than 10 vendors offer SAP HANA appliances on common Intel x86 architecture or modified x86 with proprietary chipsets to expand the number of sockets.  Since 2015, IBM Power Systems has been certified to run SAP HANA in a tailored datacenter integration (TDI) environment. The SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems solution is the ideal…