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Digital Transformation Insights with Hitachi Vantara
Just a few years ago, the term digital transformation was little more than a concept — a nebulous ideal that had little basis in reality for the day-to-day business. We’d heard of digital disruptors, and were aware of a few famous examples of new business models that were transforming entire industries. For the most part,…
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Businesses Need to Do Three Things in 2018: SAPPHIRE NOW Makes It Happen
In my world, it’s not too early to start thinking about SAPPHIRE NOW in 2018, which I’ll cover onsite this year June 5-7 in Orlando, Florida. One of my first steps was to catch up with Chakib Bouhdary, Global Digital Transformation Officer at SAP. Bouhdary is a busy guy, traveling worldwide to talk with SAP customers…
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Has Your System Been Breached?
Since cyber attackers are aware of methods for breaking into SAP systems, companies need to take countermeasures. It is important that they know what data they should analyze to detect where their systems have been compromised, according to Juan Perez-Etchegoyen of Onapsis. In his upcoming Cybersecurity for SAP Customers 2018 session, “Detect and Respond: How…
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How a Penetration Test Can Keep Your SAP System Safe
In his Cybersecurity for SAP Customers 2018 session “Going from the Outside In: The Truth About Penetration Testing,” Frederik Weidemann of Virtual Forge explains why you should perform a penetration test of your SAP landscape. Security breaches are a big problem and enterprise technology is not exempt, as recent news reports have shown. Weidemann says…
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Technical Guide: Intercompany Billing Options on SAP S/4HANA 1610
As organizations become ever more global, it is becoming increasingly common for the employees charging time to a project to be working in a different legal entity from the one to which the project belongs. Every professional service organization is familiar with this situation, since they inevitably have consultants scattered across the world, but…
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Improve SAP BPC Reports Using Local Member
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) 10.1 resolves some difficulties finance users have had in setting up advanced finance reports. It includes multiple solutions, one of which is a user-friendly feature called Local Member. Any finance user who has prepared a report using SAP BPC has needed to pull data from SAP BPC while…
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Compare the Reporting Benefits of Two Key SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Functions
A classic dilemma for reporting analysts who are trying to add a Microsoft Excel formula to an EPM report is whether to use EPMCopyRange or the EPM Local Member. The EPMCopyRange feature is used to repeat the content of a range of cells to the bottom (columns) or side (rows) of a report. The range…
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Improve BPC Formatting with the EPMCopyRange Formula
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) 7.5 users were able to perform powerful formatting using the FormatRange formula. Formatting is still important in SAP BPC 10.0 or 10.1, both in terms of consistency and for publishing reports to management and other users. SAP BPC 10.1 has packed the power of FormatRange beautifully into one…
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Process optimization through capacity utilization and intelligent use of cloud services
Large physical storage space produces high costs. Process optimization is the magic word used by many companies seeking to reduce the accumulation of high inventories, and thus become faster, more flexible and efficient. With Just-in-Time or Just-in-Sequence (synchronous procurement), production processes are specifically optimized – at least in theory. Full capacity utilization while minimizing inventory…
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Why You Need eCommerce Integration
The process of buying and selling online has grown substantially in the past several years. eCommerce is now — or should be — top of mind for merchants, entrepreneurs, and retailers everywhere. But with selling online comes the tedious task of maintaining records and data such as orders, invoices, inventory, shipping updates, customer information, and so…
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