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ABAP Platform 1809 Optimizations for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA
by Karl Kessler, Vice President of Product Management ABAP Platform, SAP SE ABAP platform 1809, the latest release of the on-premise ABAP platform — is a thorough foundation for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. In addition to delivering improvements to the Eclipse-based ABAP development tools that enable the efficient development and enhancement of business…
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SAPinsider Kicks Off 2019 Event: Day 1 Wrap-Up
Welcome to my first blog as a new member of the SAPinsider team! After spending more than 20 years as an author, presenter, consultant, and overall advocate for the SAP reporting and analytics toolset — always with the goal of helping to make the implementation of these tools something done FOR the business rather than…
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7 Tips for a Successful CRM or CXM Initiative
The older your company is, the tougher your CRM or CXM project might be – but it doesn’t have to be that way. If you are like most older organizations, you have all kinds of “home-grown” ways of doing things. You’ve cobbled together a patchwork of data sources and reports. You’ve customized things over the…
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Case Study Update: Real-World Lessons from National Vision’s SAP Commerce and Marketing Implementation
In 2017, Hillary Bliss, Director of CRM & Marketing Analytics at National Vision, told SAPinsider audiences about her company’s experiences implementing SAP Hybris Commerce and SAP Hybris Marketing during the Customer Engagement & Commerce conference. Bliss described challenges the company faced pre-implementation with its home-grown web platform shared between brands, such as difficulty integrating with…
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Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls When Modernizing the SAP Landscape
New technologies such as internet of things (IoT) and machine learning pose new challenges to companies, and businesses are contemplating how and where to use them to improve their business. The key is to seamlessly put immense amounts of data to work and automate the routine, while securing the whole. Companies that want to achieve…
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Enhanced Development Tools Delivered with ABAP Platform 1809
by Karl Kessler, Vice President of Product Management ABAP Platform, SAP SE Version 1809 of the on-premise ABAP platform — released in September 2018 and shipped together with SAP S/4HANA 1809 — delivers a set of notable improvements to the Eclipse-based ABAP development tools, which are tools for enabling rapid, efficient development and…
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In a “Customer-First” World, Don’t Let Sales Get Lost in the Shuffle
The market has undergone a major shift when it comes to CRM platforms. Organizations are focusing on the customer experience. Platforms like SAP C/4HANA claim to modernize the “sales-only” focus of previous generations of CRM, and instead take a more holistic system approach with a focus squarely on the customer. But as you consider your…
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Going Under the Hood of SAP C/4HANA
When it comes to companies implementing CRM platforms — it’s hard to talk about SAP C/4HANA without talking about Salesforce. Salesforce has long been an industry leader when it comes to sales force automation (SFA). SAP, however, claims that it takes a broader, customer-focused approach with its customer experience solution suite. While Salesforce can be…
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Analytics in the Cloud: Moving from Hype to Reality
Cloud has gone swiftly from buzzword to reality in most enterprise organizations. But while it’s being considered as a de-facto platform to support different business and technical operations — such as storage, HR, and procurement —many companies have been reluctant to deploy other types of business processes on the cloud. A recent SAPinsider survey from…
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SAP S/4HANA Migration Lessons Learned
With all the SAP ERP customers out there under the looming deadline of upgrading to SAP S/4HANA by the end of 2025, it’s not surprising that more and more of the customers that we speak with are currently planning or already undergoing migrations to SAP S/4HANA. During these conversations, we have heard many commonly recurring…
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