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What New Mandates Mean for Multinationals in Latin America
Governments throughout Latin America take tax collection seriously, and several countries are implementing comprehensive steps to reduce tax evasion, prevent fraud, and maximize their revenues. In fact, Mexico recently withheld more than $384 million in value-added tax (VAT) refunds to three multinationals, including Colgate and Unilever, as it carefully scrutinized their operations. Multinational companies operating…
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Cost Benefits of SAP HANA in the Cloud
A lot of business owners who have already invested in an SAP installation may not think SAP HANA is a viable option for them due to the costs to procure the enterprise class equipment needed to support the powerful in-memory database, but are eager to leverage all of the capabilities that SAP HANA has to…
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Why SAP HANA or S/4HANA? Key Enablers That Will Drive Value to Your Business
With the announcement of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), SAP has asked its customers to take a leap of faith. Emphasizing the suite’s benefits, SAP has shared with customers how this latest generation of ERP will address their needs — with SAP S/4HANA you can run simple and reduce the complexity of…
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Brazil Nota Fiscal – Insider Tips for Procure-to-Pay
In my previous article, we discussed the importance of contingency for your orders-to-cash process flow. In today’s blog, I wanted to focus on the importance of end-to-end automation from an accounts payable (AP) perspective. Many companies are not addressing the opportunity that the Brazilian invoicing model creates for AP and inbound logistics teams. While there are unique…
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SAP Lumira – An Introduction
Last year SAP enhanced their tool called Visual Intelligence and made it much more user friendly. In general, the graphs became more advanced, while the self-service data visualization development effort was simplified. They also renamed the tool Lumira. In this blog I’ll take a quick look at some of the features of this tool and…
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Contract Lifecycle Management: Comparing Ariba and SAP
Organizations that look to manage contracts effectively and efficiently have clear-cut agenda. It wants to mitigate financial risk that might arise due to non-compliance of contract and also effectively manage the relationship with vendors, customers and employees who help in creating value. Managing relationships could be a challenging process if there is no visibility and…
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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – A Beginner’s Guide
In this blog we take a quick look at the features of Design Studio. We explore the basic functions and also look at the capabilities of this new interesting tool from SAP. Overview Design Studio is a far superior alternative to BEx Web App Designer. In addition to helping you build more dynamic dashboards, it…
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Real HANA Performance Test Benchmarks
Over the last 8 months I have been working with a team of people to move a very large SAP BW system to HANA. Overall we moved data into a 15TB BW on HANA environment and tested almost 100 of the most used queries. We also tested HANA vs. BWA and HANA data load performance…
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New Tools for Managing Large Tables in HANA and for SAP BW on HANA
In a ‘scale-out’ environment of SAP HANA, there may be many servers with InfoCubes and DSOs. Some of these can be so very large and accessed so very frequently that it can lead to bottlenecks, even for HANA. To fix this, you can partition large tables and move them across multiple servers to provide load balancing. In…
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Tips for enhancing standard SAP ERP HCM Infotypes
This HR tip comes courtesy of Sylvia Chaudoir of Deloitte, who is speaking at our upcoming HR 2013 event, 11-14 June in Amsterdam! Get an introduction to enhancing standard infotypes. Step 1: Choose the Infotype to Enhance Enter the Infotype number and press Create All Use the four-digit number, including leading zeros Infotype Version: You may define…
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