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

    Asia Pacific becomes cloud revenue driver for SAP in Q3

    Published: 24/October/2024

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    SAP reported strong Q3 2024 results, with Asia Pacific and Japan leading cloud revenue growth at 43%, contributing to an overall revenue increase of 11%. The results highlight successful adoption of RISE with SAP by notable customers in the region.

  2. Image of Capgemini building | Syniti

    Capgemini to acquire Syniti for greater data management reach

    Published: 31/August/2024

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    Capgemini has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Syniti, the enterprise data management software and services provider.

  3. SAP reshuffles executive board as members Scott Russell, Julia White to depart

    Published: 30/July/2024

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    SAP has announced that executive board members Scott Russell – who previously served as President of SAP Asia Pacific and Japan – and Julia White will be departing the company at the end of August. Russell, an Australian who joined the global business as Executive Board Member for Customer Success in 2021, joined SAP in…

  4. SAP: Business AI delivered 33 percent cloud revenue growth in APJ

    Published: 23/July/2024

    Reading time: 3 mins

    SAP has reported a 33 percent increase in cloud revenue in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region in its second quarter of 2024, with deals enabled by its Business AI offering.  SAP Chief Executive Officer Christian Klein said, “Our cloud growth momentum remained strong in Q2, with Business AI enabling many deals. We continue to execute…

  5. How Microsoft deployed SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central across 109 countries

    Published: 17/July/2024

    Reading time: 5 mins

    When Satya Nadella took the reins as Microsoft CEO in 2014, the company saw its culture and performance management processes transform when it shifted from using employee ratings and forced grading curves to a more employee development-centric approach, according to Microsoft director of HR strategy and innovation Divya Sharma. Speaking at Mastering SAP Collaborate in…

  6. Fujitsu streamlines procurement with SAP Ariba to support more ANZ First Nations suppliers

    Published: 23/April/2024

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    Fujitsu has overhauled its then-decentralised procurement process with SAP Ariba, helping the company boost its spending with SME and First Nations suppliers.  The project aimed to create a single source of truth for all of Fujitsu’s spend and associated data, so employees and managers can make more informed decisions and initiate business strategies and initiatives…

  7. financial reporting

    SAP chooses BlackLine to streamline accounting processes for leased assets

    Published: 11/April/2024

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    In implementing Blackline’s SAP Account Substantiation and Automation solution, SAP has improved accuracy, speed and cost savings while reducing compliance risk. Not a small thing for a global company of 110,000 employees, 35,000 contracts and 140 legal entities across 180 countries. In terms of compliance, the changes to IFRFS16, the international accounting standard related to…

  8. The AI urgency in APAC

    Published: 22/February/2024

    Reading time: 3 mins

    This month both Australia and Singapore have proffered plans to build out their AI capabilities as the race to become the go-to country for artificial intelligence (AI) and AI productivity gains heats up. Hence last week’s SAP announcement in Germany of an end-to-end growth area focused on AI is well timed for the APAC region.…

  9. INTLOOP Strengthens SAP Consulting Prowess with Internal GROW with SAP Adoption | Appian

    Precog Delivers Analytics-Ready Data — from Everywhere

    Published: 08/September/2023

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Data is essential for companies that want to work in a forward-thinking way, as organizations need information to power their analytics. However, many organizations struggle with data management. Most organizations surveyed in SAPinsider’s 2023 SAP Data Management Strategies Research Report said that their data management strategy meets their requirements either only partially, slightly, or did…

  10. A Simple Workaround for Charts in SAP Analytics Cloud Story

    Published: 24/August/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    SAP Analytics Cloud is a state-of-the-art BI, planning and Augmented Analytics tool from SAP that enables self-service analytics and reporting on business data. SAC provides a robust set of widgets, charts and graphs to analyze data across multiple parameters and diverse datasets. “Bar/column” charts are one of the most extensively widgets used in stories and…