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How a Penetration Test Can Keep Your SAP System Safe
Published: 22/March/2018
Reading time: 2 mins
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
Published: 12/February/2018
Reading time: 11 mins
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
Published: 30/January/2018
Reading time: 3 mins
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
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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