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  1. Discover What’s New in Best Practices

    Published: 30/August/2018

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Protiviti is offering a comprehensive SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence suite (BI suite) webinar series that presents SAP best practices you will want to incorporate into your organization. This dynamic three-part series will share proven methodologies including how to gain valuable insight from real-world projects and how a hybrid approach can help organizations quickly and affordably…

  2. Strategic Versus Standard Financial Planning in Healthcare Using SAP BPC

    Published: 24/August/2018

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Building a standard financial planning, budgeting, and forecast model in healthcare presents a daunting challenge because the key performance indicators (KPIs) are unique to each organization and the market conditions are ever changing. The KPIs for a cancer specialty research center may be quite different from those of a group of family medicine practitioners or…

  3. Leverage the Benefits of Finance Shared Services with Central Payments Functionality

    Published: 17/August/2018

    Reading time: 10 mins

    In my blog titled “Accelerate Your Finance Shared Services Transformation and Centralized Reporting,” I provided a quick overview of the innovations included in SAP S/4HANA 1709. In this blog, I provide a detailed view of the Central Payments functionality introduced with SAP S/4HANA 1709. This functionality is a key enabler for a central execution of…

  4. Improve the Auditability of Your SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance Foundation Solution

    Published: 27/July/2018

    Reading time: 11 mins

    SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance foundation (Central Finance) is the least disruptive deployment option for SAP S/4HANA adoption in finance, especially for enterprises with a heterogeneous landscape consisting of multiple SAP and non-SAP finance transactional systems. Figure 1 provides a high-level overview of Central Finance in SAP S/4HANA along with its architecture. Figure 1 —…

  5. Accelerate Your Finance Shared Services Transformation and Centralized Reporting

    Published: 16/July/2018

    Reading time: 13 mins

    New features have been introduced in SAP S/4HANA 1709 that enable enterprises to leverage the benefits of shared services for certain financial processes along with added reporting flexibilities. In this blog, I provide a quick overview of the innovations in SAP S/4HANA 1709 along with some key considerations and limitations while implementing them. I focus…

  6. Gain Business Insights from Highly Connected Data Through SAP HANA Graph

    Published: 11/July/2018

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Data has been universally recognized as one of the most important pillars of the modern knowledge world. Big data technologies have changed the way data is stored and processed. Modern data visualization tools enable businesses to derive better insights from this data. Big data technologies and appliance-based database systems ensure optimized data storage and retrieval.…

  7. SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, Day 3: How SAP Technologies Are Improving People’s Lives

    Published: 12/June/2018

    Reading time: 5 mins

    While machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics technologies have certainly been lauded for the time savings and productivity gains they can bring to the digital business world, often overlooked is what these technologies can do for people in a humanitarian sense. This was not the case during the closing keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, which…

  8. SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, Day 2: SAP Co-Founder Hasso Plattner Charts a Course for the Intelligent Enterprise

    Published: 06/June/2018

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Hasso Plattner, SAP Co-Founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, kicked off the second day of SAPPHIRE NOW with a keynote presentation on the meaning of the Intelligent Enterprise. “The Intelligent Enterprise is not a marketing story thriving on buzzwords,” Plattner cautioned. “It’s a logical consequence of what is possible today using modern technology and…

  9. SAP CEO Bill McDermott Kicks Off SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 by Announcing SAP C/4HANA

    Published: 05/June/2018

    Reading time: 3 mins

    SAP CEO Bill McDermott kicked off his SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 keynote discussing a simple, yet significant concept: The biggest problems the world faces also represent the biggest opportunities. Whether it’s feeding a growing population, managing a changing environment, or eliminating bias in the workforce, McDermott stated that these problems are best solved by businesses that…

  10. SAPPHIRE NOW in 2018 Coverage

    Published: 01/June/2018

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player enabled in your browser to watch the video stream. SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference begins on Tuesday, June 5 and runs until Thursday, June 7. If you can’t attend the event in Orlando, catch all the executive keynotes and selected sessions here…