Q&A
Access answers to hundreds of questions posed by our SAPinsider Community during live events and conferences, virtual events and webinars, and during video interviews. These documented Q&A sessions can help you understand how to move forward on common business challenges alongside your peers.
158 results
-
How to Automate and Streamline the Financial Close Process in Your SAP Systems
In this Q&A, experts provided tips and best practices for automating and streamlining the financial close process, including deep insight into suggested tools ways to leverage those tools for improved error management, faster data extraction, and greater efficiency. If you missed the chat or need a refresher, we welcome you to view the online chat…
-
How to Ensure a Successful SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Upgrade
In this Q&A session, experts from SAP provided answers to questions about all aspects of upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2, including the planning and technical considerations you’ll need to make before the move. They also addressed key new migration processes designed to save your organization time and effort when making this change. If you…
-
Optimize Asset Management with ECM for SAP Landscapes
During this live Q&A session, industry experts Nicholas Mauldin (AMER) and Claudia Traving (EMEA) of OpenText gave an international look at how leading organizations are leveraging Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in their SAP landscapes to digitize key assets and processes, thereby providing fast access to documentation. If you missed the chat or need a refresher,…
-
Q&A on SAP BI 4.2: What’s Happening with SAP’s BI Products, and What Does It Mean for You?
During this live Q&A session, Jayne, Ty Miller, Olivier Duvelleroy, and several other key product leaders from the BI product groups at SAP, including SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Lumira, SAP Design Studio, SAP Analysis for Office, and SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports, gathered to answer readers’ questions on the road ahead for SAP’s BI products,…
-
Optimizing BI Administration in SAP Environments: Q&A on How to Properly Maintain and Secure Complex, Shared Landscapes
Business intelligence (BI) is the lifeblood of data-driven organizations, enabling you to turn the data in your SAP systems into actionable information that drives better decision making, uncovers opportunity, and improves efficiency. The modern BI landscape is an increasingly complex one, however, with trends such as big data, the cloud, and the Internet of Things…
-
Meet Demand-Driven Scheduling Requirements with SAP ERP and SAP APO: Q&A on When to Use Which for Enhanced Supply and Production Planning
SAP ERP and the production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) and supply network planning (SNP) components of SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) offer functionality that can be utilized in a variety of design options to optimize production plans and provide greater visibility into your inventory management, but when do you use which? Especially…
-
Make Sense of the CO Cost Settlement Process: Live Q&A on Navigating Cost Settlement in SAP Systems
Cost settlement plays a critical role in business operations in SAP environments. It determines whether orders – such as production orders, sales orders, and internal orders – are settled in full as part of period-end processing. This process, which takes place in the controlling (CO) component of the SAP system, can appear to be highly…
-
Enhance and Simplify Your Data Warehousing with SAP BW 7.5: Live Q&A on the Newest Features and Functions of SAP BW Powered by SAP HANA
During this live Q&A session, Dr. Bjarne Berg, principal at PwC and speaker at HANA 2016, discussed the new capabilities of the 7.5 edition of SAP BW powered by SAP HANA, and answered readers’ questions on what features have been extended from earlier releases and how to leverage the latest release to improve productivity and…
-
Q&A on Personnel Administration Configuration and Best Practices for Global SAP ERP HCM Implementations
A growing enterprise is a thriving one, and one of the biggest — and richest — opportunities for growth lies in the global market. However, moving into a global market also increases the complexity of operations across lines of business, particularly when it comes to personnel. So what does this mean for SAP customers with…
-
How to Protect Your Data from Today’s Biggest Cybersecurity Threats: Q&A on Managing Security in Your SAP Landscape
Modern enterprises are facing a perfect storm of increasingly sophisticated technology, changing regulations, and cybersecurity attacks that are rapidly growing in their scale, scope, and speed. In today’s technology landscape, cloud and mobile connectivity to SAP systems demand more than just network firewalls and perimeters to effectively protect your applications, and auditors and compliance managers…
Your request has been successfully sent