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Guidance for Supply Chain Professionals on Customer Experience Management and Beyond

Manufacturing and operations are areas that businesses of all sizes can’t ignore — as managing customer and procurement data is not optional when it comes to optimizing the supply chain. And these areas don’t work in a vacuum. Designing products, planning production, and making and delivering products involves partners and suppliers. SAP, which has long…

• SAP Business Technology Platform

Inside Juergen Mueller’s SAP TechEd 2019 Executive Keynote

The video that played at the start of the SAP TechEd 2019 opening keynote in Las Vegas concluded with “We live in the experience economy. Be the experience company. Experience Management is here.” And that perfectly set the stage for the comments that followed over the next hour and a half. First to take the…

• SAP Machine Learning

5 Important Announcements for SAPinsiders

SAP TechEd took place this week in Las Vegas, unveiling several developments for the SAPinsider community – not the least of which being SAP’s and Microsoft’s joint announcement that Microsoft Azure Blockchain Service and SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain Service will be interoperable. During his main keynote, which outlined SAP’s business technology platform strategy for the…

• SAP SuccessFactors

SAP’s 2019 SuccessConnect Las Vegas Emphasizes Human Resources ‘Experience’

At SAP’s 2019 SuccessConnect Las Vegas conference in Las Vegas, September 16-18, “experience” was the keyword. While SAP’s message at the event was heavily focused on the SAP Qualtrics Employee Engagement solution and the topic of employee experience, there was still plenty of content and chatter about other key solutions like Employee Central and Employee…

• SAP Blockchain

Microsoft, SAP Announce Interoperability of Azure Blockchain Service and SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain Service

SAP and Microsoft announced a blockchain technology partnership at SAP TechEd 2019 in Las Vegas. Joint customers of the two companies will benefit from increased flexibility to construct and implement blockchain solutions leveraging SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service on Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure and linked with the Azure Blockchain Service. Here, we share some of…

• SAP Manufacturing Automation

Event-Driven Messaging Empowering Real-Time Factory Analytics Beyond the Plant

SAPinsider has started to produce a research report titled, “Integrating SAP Systems with the Factory Floor,” which will show that leaders – SAP customers with integrated IT and operational technology (OT) systems – improve operations through increased visibility into the factory floor. The report presents findings that demonstrate that leaders focus on extracting data from…

• SAP Business Network

Orchestrating Multi-Channel Order Fulfillment in Supply Chains

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…

• SAP Manufacturing Automation

Building Intelligence at the Edge and a Pipeline to the Cloud

As we have posted before, SAPinsider has started work on a report titled “Integrating SAP Systems with the Factory Floor: Road-Mapping IT/OT Integration,” focused on collecting data from manufacturing facilities and maximizing the value and utility of that data. To build on that research, and to gain deeper insight into how SAP partners support customers…

• SAP Finance Automation

Financial Management Impact of Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence

Keeping pace with technology in financial management can be a tricky endeavor. Intelligent automation (IA) has caught the attention of finance professionals at enterprises large and small and is being adopted at impressive rates. But what exactly is IA? It is the breadth and complexities of mechanizations, such as robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial…

• SAP SuccessFactors

Why Customers Need to Build a Measurable Business Case for Employee Central

A successful transition to a cloud-based core HR solution like SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central requires more than just a project plan. For an Employee Central project to succeed, you must undertake a critical review of existing business processes, closely align with HR’s strategic goals, and – most importantly – obtain buy-in from the highest levels…