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. A green computer memory board. Nagarro AI Cloud

    Nagarro and Green AI Cloud Join Forces to Drive Advanced AI Adoption

    Published: 07/July/2023

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    The collaboration will help Nordic industrial companies utilize AI to become strategic value creators. This content is for Mastering SAP Premium Access members only.Log In Join Now

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    How Vertica by OpenText Enables Anritsu’s Analytical Database Capabilities

    Published: 06/July/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Anritsu Service Assurance, which delivers insights to top global telecommunications providers, announced an extension of its long-running partnership with OpenText in order to bolster its 5G support services. Anritsu said it would rely on the analytical database Vertica by OpenText to allow for multi-petabyte scale data processing to keep pace with the requirements of 5G.…

  3. A picture of the 2022 entrance to the Fortinet chamionship. Fortinet PGA TOUR

    The 2023 Fortinet Cup Season Begins

    Published: 06/July/2023

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    Fortinet has sponsored three young professional golfers to compete in the Fortinet Cup, profits aimed at closing the cybersecurity skills gap.

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    Thales Partners with Google Cloud to Deliver AI-Powered Security Capabilities

    Published: 06/July/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Data security is a key focus for all SAP organizations, yet fewer than one-quarter of organizations knew precisely where all of their data was stored. Data can be scattered across multiple databases and files. This is only complicated by the fact that many organizations have hybrid deployments between on-premise and cloud systems. This not only…

  5. Phase 0 of the SAP S/4HANA Journey

    Published: 20/June/2023

    Reading time: 4 mins

    SAP S/4HANA implementations are one of the most talked about subjects in the SAP space. Organizations are approaching the 2027 end of maintenance deadline, and those who have not begun the process of migrating from legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA risk falling behind and losing a competitive edge in the marketplace. For those companies that…

  6. SAP Cybersecurity interview with ChatGPT

    Published: 13/June/2023

    Reading time: 10 mins

    AI is one of the leading topics in all technology industries. Companies of all kinds are looking for the best ways to leverage this rapidly-advancing technology. To take a look at how AI can help bolster cybersecurity, SAPinsider expert Bill Oliver posed some common SAP Cybersecurity questions to notable AI chat model ChatGPT. In this…

  7. Datasphere

    How HanesBrands Future-Proofed with Enterprise Transformation

    Published: 17/May/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    In this recap from SAP SAPPHIRE 2023, learn how HanesBrands leveraged SAP technologies to transform their business. HanesBrands Global CIO Subra Goparaju outlined the value of a business transformation powered by SAP S/4HANA, Rise with SAP, and SAP BTP in a conversation with SAP Executive Board Member, Customer Success Scott Russell. Goparaju outlined the value…

  8. SAP and OpenAI Collaboration: Unveiling the Future of AI Integration at SAPPHIRE 2023

    Published: 16/May/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Keynote In the enterprise technology sector, speculation and anticipation have been steadily building around SAP’s collaboration with OpenAI. This followed a recent first-quarter earnings call where Christian Klein, SAP CEO, suggested a strategic shift toward artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT. At SAPPHIRE 2023, SAP elaborated on this strategic focus, shedding…

  9. Data Services Cloud

    How Jabil Responds to Key GRC Drivers

    Published: 10/May/2023

    Reading time: 4 mins

    GRC teams must find more efficient ways to deal with the constantly shifting landscape in which they work. There are an increasing number of security threats, while the move to SAP S/4HANA provides a new set of responsibilities for them to contend with. Additionally, data privacy requirements and regulations are constantly changing across all regions…

  10. Inside Verizon’s Transformation

    Published: 08/May/2023

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Verizon recently underwent a significant transformation, aligning its corporate structure and modernizing technologies. Following her keynote speech at SAPinsider Vegas 2023, Verizon Global Technology Solutions’ Jane Connell, SVP and CIO of Corporate Systems, gave an exclusive interview to SAPinsider. Connell addressed how she made her company’s transformation a success, the tough decisions she and the…