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  1. Compare the Reporting Benefits of Two Key SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Functions

    Published: 30/January/2018

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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

    Published: 08/January/2018

    Reading time: 3 mins

    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…

  3. Process optimization through capacity utilization and intelligent use of cloud services

    Published: 31/October/2017

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

  4. Why You Need eCommerce Integration

    Published: 20/October/2017

    Reading time: 3 mins

    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…

  5. History, Data, and Success in the Digital Economy

    Published: 19/October/2017

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Back in 1973, in the early days of SAP, co-founder Hasso Plattner had a mishap. In those days, the company processed data using punch cards that ran on mainframe computers. Time on these mainframes was a precious commodity, and programmers like Hasso would travel from computer to computer according to availability, toting the punch cards…

  6. Want to Write a Great RFP? — Don’t Forget About Data!

    Published: 16/October/2017

    Reading time: 4 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…

  7. How Well Do You Know Your SAP Financial Close?

    Published: 16/October/2017

    Reading time: 1 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…

  8. Unlocking Big Data at SAP TechEd

    Published: 28/September/2017

    Reading time: 4 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…

  9. SAP TechEd Keynote Boldly Tackles 3 Tenets of Digital Transformation

    Published: 27/September/2017

    Reading time: 3 mins

    In his SAP TechEd keynote Tuesday morning, Bjorn Goerke, SAP Chief Technology Officer and President, SAP Cloud Platform, fully embraced a Star Trek theme to explain the promise of digital transformation before an announced crowd of 6,000 at the Venetian-Palazzo. With the keynote stage transformed into the bridge of the USS Enterprise, several keynote executives…

  10. EDI/B2B Cloud Services: Is it for you?

    Published: 13/September/2017

    Reading time: 3 mins

    You might wonder whether the outsourcing of electronic data interchange (EDI) is worthwhile for your business. In this article, we will inform you about the benefits of EDI/B2B Cloud Services, and what to look for when searching for a suitable provider. Especially in the IT field, a great deal of knowledge and expertise is often…