Analyst Insights

Analyst Insights are written by SAPinsider’s research team. Based on information gleaned from surveys of the SAPinsider Community, conversations with experts, SAP employees, vendors, and SAPinsiders, Analyst Insights provide a thoughtful analysis of critical topics, technologies, and challenges that SAP customers face today.

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  1. skills data employees HR HCM

    Digging Deeper on Skills Data to Identify Employee Strengths

    Published: 22/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Companies can add more context to their skills data and go beyond just an employee’s job description to identify important skillsets.

  2. GRC Leadership budgets

    GRC Leadership Matters in Technology Adoption

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    GRC budgets are recovering, but technology adoption that could enable process improvement is largely dependent on GRC leadership titles.

  3. Skills Gap HR technology

    Growing Skills Gap Emphasizing Importance of Training and Retention

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Companies are dealing with a growing skills gap. What are the top organizations doing to address that challenge?

  4. Cloud Sustainability

    The Increasing Need for Cloud Sustainability

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    In a conversation with Google Cloud, one of the topics discussed was that the business case for moving to the cloud is changing. While organizations are still looking at digitization, flexibility and scalability, and minimizing disruption as key reasons for moving to the cloud, there is increased interest in sustainability as a major part of...…

  5. S/4HANA Deployment

    SAP S/4HANA Deployment Choices

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    SAPinsider is currently running research that focuses on how organizations are planning for an SAP S/4HANA deployment. While the final report on Deployment Approaches for SAP S/4HANA will be published later this month, there are already some interesting insights that can be discussed as the survey comes to a close. If you wish to participate...…

  6. Association-rule mining

    Leveraging Association-Rule Mining in Logistics Planning

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Inventory optimization remains a key focus area for SAPinsiders, as highlighted in our most recent research report, Inventory Optimization and Management. When organizations undertake an inventory optimization initiative, they typically leverage conventional multi-echelon inventory optimization tools that leverages inventory placement in conjunction with integer programming and statistical methods to determine how much inventory to hold…

  7. GRC Centralization cloud apps

    Cloud Transformation Creates Greater Need for GRC Centralization

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Cloud applications have expanded the application stack for many organizations. This has led to a growing need for GRC Centralization.

  8. Navigating SAP SuccessFactors Staffing For Your HR Transformation

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    SAP SuccessFactors staffing for HXM projects may be a challenge as the market rebounds to pre-pandemic levels. How can companies ensure they are getting the best implementation services?

  9. AIoT Inventory Management

    AIoT for Inventory Management and Planning

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    There is no doubt that the AI-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) has the capability to transform the way supply chains run significantly. This is why we will cover this aspect, among others, in our November research report, Inventory Planning and Optimization State of The Market. While we predominantly think of the usage of AIoT in…

  10. Supply Chain Planning Skills

    Critical Skills for The Future of Supply Chain Planning

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    In response to the survey for our upcoming research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, SAPinsiders highlighted advanced analytics capabilities as the top technology when the current state and immediate next steps timeframe are considered together, as shown in figure 1. As you can see from figure 1, SAPinsiders have indicated that they have…