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. Are Your Skills Up to Date for the Age of SAP HANA?

    Published: 14/May/2012

    Reading time: 18 mins

    /HANASAP’s recent innovations, including SAP HANA, are likely to cause a skills gap in the SAP community going forward. Experts trained on classical ERP or analytics systems don’t necessarily have the right skills for the future. Get a first-hand look at some of the new skills that you need to successfully embrace the change. Learn...…

  2. Process Mining for SAP S/4HANA Migration

    Published: 30/March/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Methods like Six Sigma and lean have for decades illustrated how eliminating inefficiencies in business processes help reduce operating cost and improve Return on Investment (ROI). The advent of process mining, which sits at the intersection of Business Process Management (BPM) and data mining, is a powerful technology leveraged by companies to find process inefficiencies...…

  3. Inventory Management

    Inventory Management and Optimization Research Report

    Published: 15/September/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Inventory Management and Optimization SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused exclusively on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, first of all, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us is the...…

  4. The Present and Future of Financial Planning and Analysis

    Published: 03/December/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

      Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals benefit from understanding new practices that make their peers successful. SAPinsider’s research report on Assessing Intelligent Automation in Finance examines how leaders are choreographing their success in the dance between technology vision and business pragmatism. Combined with the FP&A elements of our Deploying SAP S/4HANA research, some interesting…

  5. Inside Verizon’s Transformation

    Published: 08/May/2023

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Verizon recently underwent a significant transformation, aligning its corporate structure and modernizing technologies. Following her keynote speech at SAPinsider Vegas 2023, Verizon Global Technology Solutions’ Jane Connell, SVP and CIO of Corporate Systems, gave an exclusive interview to SAPinsider. Connell addressed how she made her company’s transformation a success, the tough decisions she and the…

  6. Tap into the Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Analytics for SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 07/August/2018

    Reading time: 5 mins

    In today’s digital economy, an organization’s most valuable asset is data. As new technologies emerge — artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, advanced analytics, and blockchain — companies must also evolve their business to keep pace. Hear how SAP Analytics for SAP S/4HANA can help organizations transition to smarter processes and discover new innovations to truly become…

  7. Building Teams image SAP Commerce Cloud

    Leveraging Data Connection Gateways to Harness Full Value from Analytics Investments

    Published: 23/July/2021

    Reading time: 7 mins

    By Kumar Singh, Research Director, Automation & Analytics, SAPinsider   The critical role of analytics in digital transformation Organizations today are rapidly evolving into mathematical corporations, driven by analytics and technology. Fueled by an explosion in data, they are making strategic as well as day-to-day decisions based on insights generated by this data. Hence, it…

  8. Dell and the Agile Data Mart

    Published: 15/December/2016

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Businesses of all sizes are feeling pressure from the ever-increasing data volumes they’re expected to handle. The growth in data often leads to “analysis paralysis” – the inability for organizations to determine just what data to trust or how to act on it. This was a prominent challenge at Dell, where reporting teams spent an…

  9. Panning for Golden Insights in Your Data Lakes

    Published: 20/December/2016

    Reading time: 3 mins

    While a data lake provides an economical storage option for information, it is not without its set backs. As data volumes continue to grow, it becomes more and more difficult to decipher the insights hidden within. Organizations must perform data discovery and exploratory analysis, in conjunction with analytic applications, to glean true value from their…

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    Helping “Data-Rich, Insight-Blind” Organizations Make Sense of Their Complex SAP Systems

    Published: 16/October/2020

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Bas Kamphuis, General Manager of Magnitude Software shares how he is leading the Magnitude Productivity business, capitalizing on the digital revolution by defining and executing the company’s global strategy in the SAP ecosystem, driving product definition and the product roadmap, and growing revenue and market share via a customer-oriented culture and strategic partnerships. In this…