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  1. How SAP Shops Can Mitigate the Risks of Accounts Payable Compliance

    Published: 17/April/2019

    Reading time: 7 mins

    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…

  2. Delivering on the Digital Supply Chain Promise

    Published: 11/April/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

    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…

  3. The Many Faces of the Future of SAP Analytics – Part 1 (Is Embedded Analytics the Death of SAP BW?)

    Published: 11/April/2019

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

  4. How to Develop Guiding Principles for Digital Ethics and Put Them into Practice

    Published: 09/April/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

    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…

  5. ABAP Platform 1809 Optimizations for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 02/April/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

    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…

  6. SAPinsider Kicks Off 2019 Event: Day 1 Wrap-Up

    Published: 20/March/2019

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

  7. 7 Tips for a Successful CRM or CXM Initiative

    Published: 19/March/2019

    Reading time: 8 mins

    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…

  8. Case Study Update: Real-World Lessons from National Vision’s SAP Commerce and Marketing Implementation

    Published: 12/March/2019

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

  9. Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls When Modernizing the SAP Landscape

    Published: 05/March/2019

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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…

  10. Enhanced Development Tools Delivered with ABAP Platform 1809

    Published: 27/February/2019

    Reading time: 7 mins

      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…