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 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. 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…

  10. 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…