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SAPinsider Q&A: A Chat with New SAP SuccessFactors Head of Product Meg Bear
Published: 07/November/2019
Reading time: 9 mins
Over the last several years, human capital management (HCM) solutions have been evolving to integrate technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more recently, experience data (X data) in an effort to offer human resources (HR) leaders a better understanding of employee engagement and the ability to generate greater strategic insights from their data.…
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Measuring the Success of Recruiting Efforts and Investments
Published: 05/November/2019
Reading time: 4 mins
Over the past two decades, recruiting applications have evolved from back-office applicant tracking systems to very intelligent cloud-based recruiting and recruiting marketing solutions – allowing organizations to engage with more and better candidates while tracking the success of their investments. To achieve key human resources (HR) business goals around time to hire, cost to hire,…
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Simple Ways to Get Started on Your SAP S/4HANA Journey
Published: 31/October/2019
Reading time: 6 mins
Moving to SAP S/4HANA is the No. 1 project on the minds of SAP customers. As the 2025 deadline approaches, organizations find themselves at least in the evaluation and fact-finding stage of the project. SAPinsider had the opportunity to sit down with Sven Denecken, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Co-Innovation SAP S/4HANA at SAP…
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What’s Your X-Data Strategy?
Published: 30/October/2019
Reading time: 4 mins
For many years, human resources (HR) applications have been largely focused on capturing transactional data across an employment life cycle. This data — often referred to as operational data, or O-data — is used to measure the effectiveness of HR business processes, track compliance, and demonstrate HR’s value to the organization. As valuable as O-data…
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Improved Interoperability Boosts Benefits of SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain Service
Published: 22/October/2019
Reading time: 3 mins
Over the past couple years, SAP has made significant investments in a technology that many in its ecosystem still do not understand, but some partners have made similar bets. Joint customers of SAP and Microsoft will benefit from increased flexibility to construct and implement blockchain solutions leveraging SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service on Microsoft Azure’s…
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SAP SuccessFactors Announces Move to a Bi-annual Release Schedule
Published: 18/October/2019
Reading time: 2 mins
SAP SuccessFactors’ recent announcement of a change in its release schedule from a quarterly to bi-annual cadence reflects both a willingness to listen to customer feedback and a desire to streamline the flow of change that has proven disruptive for some customers. Until now, SAP SuccessFactors releases have occurred on a quarterly basis, with enhancements…
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How Do Operations and IT Approach the Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain Differently?
Published: 17/October/2019
Reading time: 4 mins
SAPinsider recently published a report titled, “Transforming the Intelligent Supply Chain,” which benchmarks the leading SAP customers in supply chain management on their progress in digital transformation in the supply chain. Digitally transforming the supply chain involves a range of technical and strategic considerations. In this case, digital transformation of the supply chain means multiple…
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SAP Australia User Group CEO Mark Baker to Step Down
Published: 17/October/2019
Reading time: 3 mins
The SAP Australia User Group (SAUG) announced today that Mark Baker will leave his post as CEO next month, November 22, 2019. Baker’s departure comes on the heels of the announcement that SAP CEO Bill McDermott is stepping down. SAUG is one of the largest in the Asia-Pacific region, boasting more than 3,500 members from…
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Bill McDermott Leaves CEO Position at SAP: Impact for SAPinsiders
Published: 11/October/2019
Reading time: 4 mins
SAP CEO Bill McDermott announced yesterday that effective immediately he is stepping down from the helm of the German software company after nine years on the job. During his near-decade leading SAP, McDermott steered SAP in several significant ways. The company began its transition to its cloud, snapping up over $20 billion of acquisitions while…
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Serialization in the Supply Chain for a Deeper Analysis to Identify Bottlenecks and Issues
Published: 10/October/2019
Reading time: 3 mins
We recently interviewed leadership at ACSIS about its serialization capabilities in its Intelligent Product and Asset Traceability solutions. Serialization essentially means separating out the data from each individual product. Here, we share some of our thoughts on serialization with IoT and analytics technologies and how it builds on SAP ERP functionality to contribute to digital…
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