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. Dan Lahl, SAP Global Vice President of BTP Marketing and Solutions

    Maximizing BTP with SAP’s Dan Lahl

    In this video, Dan Lahl, SAP Global Vice President of BTP Marketing and Solutions, highlights some of the key features of SAP’s Business Technology Platform. He also delivers insights on what drives SAP BTP adoption and how organizations can build the business case to leverage BTP.... Mastering SAP Premium Access Membership Required You must be…

  2. SAP Business Technology Platform

    Integrating and Innovating with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

    SAP’s Business Technology Platform is one of its most commonly-used offerings. BTP features all of SAP’s core platform technologies - everything from database data management, analytics planning, integration, and an app development environment. In this video, you will hear from Thorsten Leiduck, who leads the SAP Business Technology Platform ecosystem, on how best to leverage…

  3. Is SAP Digital/Indirect Access License Required for Customers?

    Published: 09/February/2023

    Reading time: 5 mins

    An increasing number of organizations rely on bots or other non-human actors to address regular tasks and processes throughout their SAP landscapes. Organizations may want to use this method, Digital Access, or rely on third-party apps to access SAP systems, which is Indirect Access. Though they can help businesses streamline operations, Digital and Indirect Access…

  4. Red Hat and SAP Deepen Their Partnership to Deliver Innovation

    Published: 09/February/2023

    Reading time: 5 mins

    As organizations face pressure to do more with less, they need a stable foundation that allows them to automate and innovate within their SAP landscapes. To that end, SAP it will run a growing part of its cloud infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this article, you will learn how this move aims to…

  5. Renewable Enterprise

    Green IT = Sustainable Businesses

    Published: 02/February/2023

    Reading time: 11 mins

    Sustainability should be the new headline for everything humans do. Sustainability means fulfilling current generations’ needs without compromising the needs of future generations. However, this is difficult to achieve. Sustainability issues have already started to affect our lives and our economies. This article explains how sustainability issues are affecting business operations and how IT can…

  6. How to Protect Data at Rest

    Published: 02/February/2023

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Companies often prioritize data they are actively using within their cybersecurity planning and infrastructure. However, it is important that they do not overlook data at rest. Examples of data at rest include archives, online backups, client copies for quality assurance and development environments, and disaster recovery sites. Though it may not be top of mind,…

  7. How to Be Transformative with SAP S/4HANA Integrations

    Published: 02/February/2023

    Reading time: 6 mins

    Integration is a key component of any organization’s migration strategy. Yet integration tools have remained largely stagnant in recent years, which may stand in the way of achieving real time. Yet there are still three main option available for those planning to overhaul SAP S/4HANA systems. In this article, SAPinsider expert Ann Largent will take…

  8. security

    Incorporating SAP into an Overarching NIST/CMMC Program

    Published: 16/January/2023

    Reading time: 5 mins

    In this article, you will gain insights into some of the most important potential issues to look for in your overall security scheme. It is crucial that security personnel understand the best ways for them to add risk in the SAP environment into a companywide compliance program. You will learn how best to execute on…

  9. Five Sustainability Trends to Watch

    Published: 13/January/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    There is a new, fervent push for companies to prioritize environmental and sustainability concerns. While these initiatives are important, organizations must also balance their financial responsibilities with those new shareholders demands for environmental responsibility. In recent years, five major trends have emerged on how organizations factor sustainability into their overall strategy and how this impacts…

  10. Gamifying Sustainability

    Published: 09/January/2023

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are an increasingly significant part of the decision-making process for organizations. It can be difficult to for organizations to forecast the impact of some of these decisions. Some are now turning to gamified simulations to play out scenarios. Baton Simulations offers its ERPsim solution to gain insights into the…