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  1. A Smooth-Running SAP S/4HANA Implementation Depends on Successful Sizing

    Published: 29/January/2019

    Reading time: 2 mins

    With support for SAP Business Suite ending in 2025, the pressure to make the move to SAP S/4HANA is steadily rising, and over 2,200 SAP customers are already using the solution. While there are many important considerations involved when it comes to ensuring a successful move, there is one in particular that is crucial —…

  2. What Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Capabilities Are on the Horizon for SAP Customers

    Published: 28/January/2019

    Reading time: 2 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…

  3. A Look at the Reporting Benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud

    Published: 05/December/2018

    Reading time: 9 mins

    SAP has done it again. It’s made us all rethink what we are currently doing as we wait patiently until it has a fully integrated product. I’m, of course, talking about SAP Analytics Cloud, which is part of its Unified Reporting strategy that will allow customers to combine data from all SAP systems, including SAP…

  4. How SAP Uses Emerging Technologies to Help Its Customers Realize Their Dreams

    Published: 28/November/2018

    Reading time: 11 mins

    Q: You’ve had a lot of roles within SAP. Could you tell us a little bit about your path to your current role within SAP? A: I have always been curious and wanted to understand how companies run. And what better way to do that than to join the world’s largest enterprise software provider and…

  5. An open letter from Jamie Bedard, New President and CEO of Wellesley Information Services

    Published: 19/November/2018

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Insiders, I want to introduce myself as the new President and CEO of Wellesley Information Services (WIS), which is also the owner/operator of SAPinsider and several other end user communities. As you may have read in a recent press release, JAZ’D! Advisors Investment Corporation has acquired 100% of WIS with a significant investment earmarked to…

  6. Technical Guide: Add Currencies using S/4HANA Finance 1809

    Published: 25/October/2018

    Reading time: 10 mins

    Traditionally, once you have gone live in a production system, the SAP system gives you a warning message (Figure 1) when you try to add a currency in the ledgers definition, and you then need SAP System Landscape Optimization (SLO) service for such a change in your currency setup. Figure 1 – Issue when adding…

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    SAP S/4HANA Finance 1610

    Published: 11/October/2018

    Reading time: 10 mins

    SAP S/4HANA Finance 1610 provides users with the flexibility of using two main currencies plus eight freely definable currencies. The translation of the user-defined currencies, whether real time or not, is based on the currency configuration completed after executing transaction code FINSC_LEDGER. The eight freely definable currencies allowed by SAP S/4HANA Finance 1610 are available…

  8. 5 RPA Use Cases to Explore in an SAP System

    Published: 05/October/2018

    Reading time: 6 mins

    In a typical day or week SAP system users complete routine, time-consuming tasks that require minimal judgment. If these system tasks were removed from their daily or weekly routines, these users would have more time to focus on matters of more importance. Robotic process automation (RPA) provides an opportunity to automate such mundane activities. In…

  9. Efficient Data Management in Healthcare Using SAP Master Data Governance

    Published: 20/September/2018

    Reading time: 9 mins

    SAP’s Master Data Governance application provides an integrated data management capability for the creation, maintenance, validation, and distribution of master data across the enterprise. If you already have an SAP ERP system, then adding SAP Master Data Governance accelerates the master data maintenance process, leading to enhanced quality of your master data by leaps and…

  10. Simplify Release Strategy Decisions in Procurement with Business Rule Framework Plus (BRFplus)

    Published: 14/September/2018

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Every procurement organization has its own complex business rules and processes for purchase orders and requisitions, uniquely designed to meet their own needs. To help its customers avoid errors and risks when processing purchase orders and requisitions, the standard SAP system delivers an approval process via a release strategy concept, which companies often adapt to…