Technology Insights

Technology insights are written by SAPinsider’s team of research analysts. Based on information gleaned from interviews with the SAP vendor community, technology insights deep dive into the technologies that support, integrate with, and extend SAP technology and enable businesses to innovate and transform.​

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  1. financial processes

    Enhance Supply Chain Efficiency with Spend Management Visibility

    Published: 29/April/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    The recent economic disruption has accelerated inefficiencies across the global supply chain, creating uncertainty for organizations. As a result, procurement teams face increasing challenges due to supply chain uncertainty. With globalization and the rise of new technologies, the supply chain has become more complex. To keep up with this ever-changing landscape, organizations need to be…

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    Enhance Global Tax Management with Testing Automation  

    Published: 14/April/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Indirect Tax Complexity Driving Constant Functionality Changes Real-time reporting and e-invoicing mandates drive organizations to continually update and enhance global tax management functionality to accurately assess tax obligations promptly and avoid fines or other penalties. Growing complexity in compliance management, governance, and regulations is the primary driver of an organization’s digital tax strategy, according to…

  3. Growing Need for Sales Tax Compliance Automation

    Published: 11/April/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Economic Nexus Complexity is Increasing Across the U.S., Creating Challenges for Tax Teams  Sales and use tax compliance is growing more burdensome for organizations that are conducting business in the U.S. due to complex economic nexus mandates. Many states are expanding their sales tax jurisdiction to include out-of-state companies with a certain level of sales…

  4. Economic Sustainability

    Kennametal’s Global Rewards Journey with Xoxoday and SAP SuccessFactors

    Published: 01/April/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    How do you make rewards appealing to your employees? They need to be relevant to their daily lives. That can be a challenge when you have employees in different countries around the world. Kennametal overcame that challenge and increased engagement in its rewards program by providing localized awards with the help of Xoxoday and SAP…

  5. Economic Sustainability

    Kennametal Transforms Rewards and Redemption with Xoxoday and SAP SuccessFactors

    Published: 01/April/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    A rewards program can be a way for a company to show appreciation to its productive employees beyond the paycheck, but rewards programs are not useful if the rewards themselves are not appealing and hard to redeem. Kennametal sought to improve its rewards and recognition program to acknowledge and encourage work that benefits its customers…

  6. Contract Intelligence as a Competitive Differentiator

    Published: 01/April/2022

    Reading time: 6 mins

    As technology around us has evolved exponentially, so have solutions that help organizations leverage technology as an enabler. One such category of solutions is contract lifecycle management solutions. Since the early days of manually drafting contracts that went through several review cycles, contract lifecycle management has come a long way, thanks to technology. This article…

  7. Discussing Contract Intelligence with icertis

    Published: 31/March/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions have been around for a while now. These solutions leverage technology to help manage, automate, and organize the contract process through all stages of contract lifecycle, like contract initiation, development, negotiation, compliance, and contract renewal. These solutions not only streamline the process by standardizing the process steps, like core templates,…

  8. Payment Fraud

    Intelligent Solutions for Payment Fraud Risk Management

    Published: 31/March/2022

    Reading time: 6 mins

    The extensive nature of supply chain networks creates many points of risk. One of such risks, within the procure to pay space is supplier payment fraud. Some examples of procurement fraud are supplier spoofing, business email compromise and spoofing an officer of a company. Procurement fraud is not only becoming more prevalent but is also…

  9. Payment Fraud

    Discussing Payment Fraud Risk Management with Apex

    Published: 31/March/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The extensive nature of supply chain networks creates many points of risk. One of such risks is supplier payment fraud within the procure-to-pay space. Some examples of procurement fraud are supplier spoofing, business email compromise, and spoofing an officer of a company. Procurement fraud is becoming more prevalent and is becoming more and more sophisticated.…

  10. Decision Intelligence

    Creating Value Through Decision Intelligence in SAP Landscape

    Published: 30/March/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    A key aspect that consistently emerged in 2021, in multiple SAPinsider research reports about data and analytics, was that SAPinsiders believe that while the market has many different analytics tools and solutions to choose from, they still feel there is a void in terms of the kind of available analytics tools vs. the tools that…