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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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Points to Consider on Your Supply Chain Digitization Journey
For years supply chain management has involved a series of processes completed in disparate legacy systems. In today’s hyper-competitive digital business world, however, enterprises face challenges rising from customers’ demand for more customized products via varied channels and with faster delivery times. To meet this demand, enterprises need better collaboration and communication with their suppliers,…
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Understanding the Case for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
For many organizations, the path to modernization is paved by the cloud. The cloud offers a host of benefits, including rapid implementation, flexibility, scalability, lower maintenance costs, easier regulatory compliance, and access to technologies such as the Internet of Things. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP customers can take advantage of these benefits in their own…
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An Inside Look at SAP’s Release Strategy for the ABAP Stack
by Karl Kessler, Vice President of Product Management ABAP Platform, SAP SE In September 2018, SAP released version 1809 of the on-premise ABAP platform. ABAP platform 1809 is the technological foundation for SAP S/4HANA 1809, and includes an ABAP programming layer that is fully optimized for SAP HANA and for the development and…
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Beyond the Buzz: Everything You Need to Know About SAP C/4HANA as the Intelligent Customer Experience Management Team Kicks Off 2019 Research Agenda
You’ve heard the buzz about SAP C/4HANA — but how are your peers implementing and using this suite of solutions in the real world? The SAPinsider Intelligent Customer Experience Management (CXM) team will uncover just that in the coming weeks, as we launch the first of a series of upcoming surveys to our insider community,…
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Insights for Your Emerging SAP Security Strategy
Security is at the forefront for many IT leaders and their technical teams. Between regulations such as GDPR and mounting cyberattacks, most enterprise businesses want to know that they are doing the right things on a daily basis to protect their critical assets. SAPinsider had the pleasure of sitting down with key leadership from SAP…
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How to Simplify Business Role Integration in SAP Identity Management and SAP Access Control
IT organizations typically use identity management solutions to handle a large amount of personnel changes to provision and de-provision users throughout an enterprise. The process contains technical roles that manage different resources. SAP Access Control provides a business role concept that users define (i.e., users or administrators manage the roles) and use to manage a…
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