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. 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…

  2. Data Services Cloud

    Securing and Governing Data at Rest

    Published: 02/May/2023

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Data at rest is a high-value target for hackers. It is a source of people, banking, product, and intellectual property information that is highly valuable for resale or creating counterfeit products. It includes quality assurance systems, development environments, client copies, disaster recovery sites, archives, and online backups. In this article, SAPinsider cybersecurity expert Julie Hallet…

  3. Enterprise Architecture sessions

    Providing Value with SAP in Uncertain Economic Times

    Published: 28/April/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Due to the economic circumstances of 2023, organizations across the business landscape are being forced to do more with their existing teams and resources than ever before. Many companies are unwilling or unable to invest in new solutions or team members, but struggle to find solutions that allow them to create more business value. To…

  4. Data Services Cloud

    Enabling a Data Fabric that Links Strategy to Execution

    Published: 27/April/2023

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Many organizations are slowly beginning to realize the fact that they have a significant gap between their data strategy and execution. Disparate landscapes and varied business user requirements to reactive approaches in addressing specific, high-value needs can make it difficult for organizations to meet their business objectives. In this article, we will explore how SAP…

  5. SAP Overhauls Online Support Portal with “SAP for Me”

    Published: 27/April/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    SAP recently announced that it will change its main help portal. In May 2023, SAP will discontinue its SAP ONE Support Launchpad, moving all of its help and support functionality to the new SAP for Me. The move comes after SAP said users pushed for additional simplicity and transparency from their user assistance program. The…

  6. Cybersecurity

    Five Key Steps for Infrastructure Security

    Published: 19/April/2023

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Security should be top of mind for all businesses that rely on SAP landscapes for mission-critical business functions. Cyberattacks can affect not just the SAP system, but also those of other connected systems. Issues like limited visibility and unpatched systems increase the likelihood of cyberattacks, as well as other system failures. Yet organizations must also…

  7. Enterprise Architecture sessions

    RISE with SAP Options for Cloud and On-Premise Systems

    Published: 12/April/2023

    Reading time: 6 mins

    The article discusses system options for SAP solutions, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of cloud-based versus on-premise systems. Cloud computing offers scalability, robust security features, and up-to-date technology, while on-premise systems provide greater control over data and performance. The article also discusses SAP systems and modules based on business and functional areas, including financials, logistics,…

  8. Cloud computing. Cloud Innovation and Transformation

    SAP Datasphere – An Introduction

    Published: 12/April/2023

    Reading time: 4 mins

    As enterprises adopt data-driven best practices and decisions, the quality of data plays a key role. As data is processed from multiple data sources, the business context to the data is typically lost. Without the right context, business queries on the dataset might not always return the best results, in turn hampering downstream data applications,…

  9. 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…

  10. 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…