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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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How SAP Shops Can Mitigate the Risks of Accounts Payable Compliance
Accounts payable (AP) automation is supposed to save SAP customers money, but developments in digital tax may well make it a source of penalties and supply chain interruptions. With tax authorities all over the world seeking to increase revenues and close tax gaps, AP is becoming a new target for audits. Many SAP customers probably…
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Delivering on the Digital Supply Chain Promise
The drones are taking over. If not the drones, then artificial intelligence (AI) will take over and make decisions on our behalf. We will just lean back, and our jobs (if we still have them) will amount to pushing some corrective buttons, occasionally. Whatever the spin, and whatever people imagine, parts of the digital supply…
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The Many Faces of the Future of SAP Analytics – Part 1 (Is Embedded Analytics the Death of SAP BW?)
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 Develop Guiding Principles for Digital Ethics and Put Them into Practice
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves toward becoming a standard technology in daily business — such as the use of conversational user interface technology in call centers and financial close processes driven by machine learning — it is critical that organizations have a well-thought-out set of guiding principles in place for mitigating any potential ethical issues…
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