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SAPinsiders Should Proceed with Cautious Optimism in China
SAP perceives a big opportunity to fill a supply chain management (SCM) gap and consequently has started expanding its local partner base in China. As part of its current cloud strategy, SAP released solutions for customers last year on the Alibaba Cloud — the largest Chinese cloud services provider — and has done an excellent…
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Prepare for a Supply Chain Digital Transformation
SAPinsider recently surveyed SAP customers on digital transformation of the supply chain for an upcoming benchmark report, and our research and conversations with leaders revealed many lessons when it comes to preparing for this transformation. What to Expect from the Transformation Survey respondents that we identified as leaders — that is, organizations that consider themselves…
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The New World of Tax: Your Word Against the Government’s Big Data
In the not-too-distant future, tax administrations around the world will receive authenticated data from all your – and your trading partners’ – transactional systems in real time or near-real time. Your invoices will be tracked and approved through all stages, from issuance by the supplier to approval and payment by the buyer. The massive amount…
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Reduce Tax Risks in Procurement with SAP Ariba and Vertex Solutions
Tax functions are hardly the only part of organizations grappling with growing complexity. A similar dynamic holds across a range of corporate functions, including procurement. Dealing with tax requirements after the fact can result in procurement either underpaying or overpaying taxes to vendors while escalating the company’s audit risk. Procurement functions are increasingly adopting SAP…
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SAP and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
“I learn best by doing.” I made this claim to our Chief Research Officer, Riz Ahmed, on my first day as the new Vice President of Research at SAPinsider last week. Ten days later, I find myself writing my first blog post after already having written a full benchmark report. Keep an eye out for…
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3 Consequences of Mismanaging E-Invoicing Compliance for SAP Customers
Of all the issues SAP customers have to address when updating IT infrastructures and ultimately moving to SAP S/4HANA, tax compliance, at first blush, seems to be one of the most mundane. There’s not much excitement in making sure financial systems are compliant with global regulations for enforcing value-added tax (VAT) laws. But mishandling tax…
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SAPinsider and IDG Partner to Bring Educational and Networking Events to SAP Customers Worldwide
Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing…
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How to Prevent Complexity from Taxing the Customer Experience
The adjective “seamless” now goes hand-in-hand with the phrase “customer experience” for a good reason: these capabilities deliver a competitive advantage to most business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) companies across all industries, and particularly in the retail industry.
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The Many Faces of the Future of SAP Analytics – Part 2 (Do You Still Need, or Want, an Enterprise Data Warehouse?)
As promised in my last post, I’d like to continue the conversation about the future of SAP analytics in its many forms. In Part 1, I introduced this series of discussions with a trip in the Way Back Machine to look at the early days of SAP analytics solutions (LIS, HRIS, SIS, etc.) and the…
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Gain Instant Insight into Your Business Processes with Process Mining in the Cloud
As organizations continue to expand their global reach, optimizing business processes becomes increasingly important to ensure quality customer experiences and improve margins. Process mining solutions — such as the on-premise SAP Process Mining application by Celonis and SAP Process Mining by Celonis, cloud edition — have emerged as useful tools for supporting these types of…
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