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White Papers
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Stepping Up to The Cloud: Managing Changes and Migration for Mid-sized Business
Many executives are reaching the cost-effective limits of their existing software and systems. Critical decisions need to be made about the future of their business IT, and therefore about their company’s ability to compete and thrive. This white paper looks at both the strategic benefits and the strategic challenges of moving to Cloud and SaaS for mid-sized businesses.
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3 Best Practices to Leverage SAP Innovations Quickly and Effectively
Business executives generally hold IT professionals accountable for innovation, execution, and growth. By following three best practices you can simplify your next SAP project and create a sustainable platform to promote growth and properly manage this type of innovation.
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6 Mistakes Companies Are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them
Are you working with too much information, or too little insight? Find out six common mistakes that companies make and how the use of business intelligence solutions can help you avoid them. Unlock the value of your company’s data and use it to drive new insights that can significantly improve your business – and build trust and collaboration at all levels, both inside and outside the business.
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A Roadmap to Data Migration Success
Many significant business initiatives and large IT projects depend upon a successful data migration. Your goal is to minimize as much of your risk as possible through effective planning and scoping. This white paper provides insight into what issues are unique to data migration projects and to offer advice on how to best approach them.
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Analytic Business Processes: The Third Generation
This paper explores emerging analytic business processes that go beyond gathering and analyzing data.
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Case Studies
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Evergreen Solar Case Study
Read this case study to find out how Evergreen Solar’s rapid implementation of the mySAP Business Suite supported their global expansion and eased their regulatory compliance issues.
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FreshDirect: Improving Operating Effectiveness with SAP BusinessObjects Solutions
FreshDirect found it very challenging to get operational insights from its information systems. In order to improve, it was critical to FreshDirect that they select a BI technology that allows the company to measure and report on operational metrics across departmental applications without requiring the building of IT-intensive data marts. With this requirement as one of the key selection criteria, the company evaluated multiple vendors. Download this case study to learn more.
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Hunter Manufacturing Case Study
Find out why Hunter Manufacturing breathes more easily since replacing legacy systems with SAP solutions for industrial manufacturers. Hunter is now on track to continue its rapid growth unabated with streamlined business processes, improved efficiency, and a solid foundation.
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Polyglass USA Case Study
Read this case study to learn how the fast-track implementation of the SAP All-in-One Solution helped Polyglass USA cut waste, improve efficiency, expand capacity, and win competitive battles – and see if it can help your company too!
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SourceMedia Gains Insight into Customer Data with BusinessObjects
In existence for more than 170 years, SourceMedia has accumulated an enormous amount of customer information. The challenge is to manage and exploit this information. With 25 disparate data systems, the company had no way of aggregating and correlating data to get a complete picture across different product lines and customer types. SourceMedia couldn’t tell who was doing what business across its advertising, subscription, or software products, nor could it determine what relationships existed between parent companies and subsidiaries.
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Webcasts
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Analyze and Present Data-How Business Intelligence Solutions from SAP Can Help
Part three in this webcast series covers how analyzing and presenting data can help make business intelligence power your system or your business more effectively. Learn how to take this data and filter the most important information to be able to make sound decisions that can help grow and power your business to be more effective.
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Getting Data You Can Trust, How Business Intelligence Solutions from SAP Can Help
Part two of this webcast series analyzes how companies struggle with data quality for a couple of different reasons. Some are people driven and others are system driven. Watch the following webcast to hear Todd Rowe explain how important it is to find data you can trust to make more informed and better decisions to guide your business.
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Investing in Innovation Gartner On-Demand Webcast
In this Gartner webcast, we'll explore how in today’s marketplace, creating sustainable growth requires you to constantly innovate. Innovations—in both product features and service delivery—are increasingly important as a means to differentiate yourself from the competition. Either you invest in innovations or risk losing market share to a competitor.
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Reduce Costs and Increase Agility for SAP Applications with VMware and Novell
Many companies rely on SAP applications for their business needs. One of the problems has traditionally been that as new applications are added, new servers need to be added, which increase cost and reduces application and business agility.
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Six Common Mistakes Companies Make and How to Avoid Them Using Business Intelligence
Part one of this webcast series takes a look at a number of different companies who are working in unsettled times with this economy and have to make business decisions, some correct and some incorrect. However, six common mistakes keep reoccurring. Watch the following webcast to learn about the common mistakes companies make and how to avoid them to improve your business and how to come out of the economic down turn better and stronger than your competition.
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Product Literature
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TEC Product Certification Report
SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI can be an ideal solution for midsize and small organizations. With a strong combination of BI and business performance functionality, it is a powerful tool that enables midsize and small companies to address their BI needs.
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Research Reports
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Aberdeen Group: Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
When the economy slows, many businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs in order to weather the downturn. While such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions – opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition.
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Access Management: Efficiency, Confidence and Control
Download this Aberdeen Group research report to learn how top performers protect access to information assets at lower cost while staying on top of compliance. See clearly. Think clearly. Act clearly. Gain real-time visibility of information – to help ensure a compliant business, better manage resources, and reduce the expense of meeting governance requirements.
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Answering the Call: Emerging Best Practices in Consumer Mobile
In 2000, when it was clear that the internet boom was beginning to lose steam and venture capitalists and entrepreneurs alike were looking for the next “next thing,” it was clear that thing would be mobile. However, it was also clear that mobile was by no means ready for center stage. Ten years later, its time has finally come.
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BI For the CPG Industry: Supply Chain Visibility Drives Performance
Competing in an industry that sorely needs the business visibility and analytical capability that BI tools deliver, consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are becoming more mature and sophisticated in their information management strategy.
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Business Answers at Your Fingertips: The Real-Time Value of BI
Today’s business decision maker is challenged by a multi-dimensional and continually evolving competitive environment. In one dimension, the evolution of technology and subsequent acceleration of information flow have created an environment that handsomely rewards timely generation of business insight. In another dimension, the volume, disparity, and overall complexity of that information is expanding at an alarming rate.
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Technology Briefs
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Comprehensive Business Solutions for Midsize Companies
SAP All-in-One solutions are proven business solutions that provide broad business process coverage and deep industry specific functionality, enabling you to optimize all aspects of your business using the best practices of industry leaders.
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Creating Affordable, Flexible Solutions for Faster Value
The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program enables you to configure a solution online, obtain an estimate of costs, and implement the solution quickly and cost-effectively. It delivers rapid time to value and lets you tailor the solution to meet your changing needs, protecting your long-term investment.
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Giving Manufacturing Companies a Fast Start
It’s not easy to improve operating efficiency while responding to constant changes in the market. SAP Business All-in-One solutions give midsize manufacturing companies a fast start with preconfigured software designed specifically for current needs, yet capable of supporting future growth.
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Giving Service Companies a Fast Start
As a service provider, you need to provide value to your clients efficiently and cost-effectively. The SAP Business All-in-One solution supports use of the best practices in the services industry, and the fast-start program helps you to implement it quickly.
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Giving Trade Companies a Fast Start
As a wholesale distributor, you need to stand out from your competition while improving your own efficiency. SAP Business All-in-One solutions give midsize trade companies a fast start with preconfigured software designed specifically for current needs, yet capable of supporting future growth.
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Product Demos
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SAP Business All-in-One Solution Demo
SAP Business All-in-One is a business management solution that's highly configurable and has the flexibility to scale and adapt as your business grows. Watch the demo now.
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Videos
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5-Minute Data Migration Solution Demo
Data migration projects are renowned for running over time and over budget. But data migration no longer has to be a high-risk proposition – if you have the right methodology, tools, and people in place. View this 5-minute demo to witness our new data migration solution in action, and learn how you can move data with confidence – while limiting disruption to your business.
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Clear Customer Stories Collection - Interactive Customer Video
Get clear. Get smart. Get ahead. Find out how other businesses have used SAP solutions to increase visibility, gain insight, streamline operations, and drive growth and profitability. The Clear Customer Experience Collection lets you interactively experience customer success stories and even submit a success story of your own.
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Clear I-Tour
Take a guided tour through the SAP portfolio of products for SMEs through three different value scenarios: to help you understand how SAP BusinessObjects Edge offers you insight; how SAP Business All-in-One delivers unmatched efficiency; and how SAP Business ByDesign enables new levels of flexibility. You need to see opportunity before you can seize it. The iTour shows you SAP can help you do both.
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How BI Software and Technology Can Help SMBs Sharpen Their Edge in Today's Competitive Environment
Watch this IDC iView video and learn how SMBs can use IT – including business intelligence and ERP – to stay viable in today’s economic climate. Find out about the important role that technology can play in helping SMBs survive and thrive in challenging times. And see how the economic downturn has affected SMBs worldwide.
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I-Tour for SAP Business Objects
In today’s complex business environment, even the smallest decisions can lead to big opportunities. How do you proactively ensure that your decisions are smart, strategic, and timely? Watch this interactive video and find out how SAP Business Objects can help you access business-wide information from a single source – and give you the visibility, insight, and agility you need to be a best-run business.
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Articles
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An IFRS Fable: The Company that Waited Too Long
Many U.S. companies are taking a wait-and-see stance and interpreting the switch from U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as a matter of compliance rather than an opportunity to become more globally competitive by improving key internal processes. Even with more than 100 countries already using IFRS, U.S. companies seem to be waiting for the government to declare a definitive date for their mandate of IFRS reporting before they even approach the transition.
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Becoming a Mobile Enterprise
Too many organizations are still thinking small about mobility, just extending a few processes to their road warriors. But all the pieces needed to turn an enterprise into a mobile force are now available, including powerful mobile operating systems, flexible mobile solutions, and end-user demand.
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How Financially Viable are Your Suppliers
It’s a near-daily occurrence: Companies of all sizes in all geographies are going out of business, which has a ripple effect both upstream and downstream. Learn in this AMR Research article, what you can do to monitor and minimize supplier risks.
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How to Turn Mobility Momentum into Real Business Value
The recent proliferation of mobile devices and mobile consumer apps has unleashed an unprecedented amount of interest and excitement among business and IT professionals. But with all this excitement comes a good deal of confusion and a host of questions about the future direction of enterprise mobility.
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Inside Edge Article featuring John Chen from SAP Insider
Mobility is sweeping across the enterprise. Consider a company like Kindred Healthcare, which has boosted the productivity of its rehabilitation therapists and the accuracy of its patient records through the use of mobile devices. Kindred Healthcare is not alone: The worldwide mobile worker population will reach 1.2 billion in 2013, predicts IDC, up from 1 billion workers today. Please read this article to find out more from John Chen, CEO, Sybase, An SAP Company.
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Smart Papers
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Analytics at the Speed of Business - Smart Paper
The rapid pace of business and the ever-growing amount of business data generated each day have given rise to a market landscape that offers narrow windows of opportunity and wide margins of error. To make sense of this massive data influx in real time and derive actionable results, companies must invest in a high-performance data foundation for real-time analytics.
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Analytics at the Speed of Business for Midsize Organizations, H2 2011 Edition
The rapid pace of business and the ever-growing amount of business data generated each day have given rise to a market landscape that offers narrow windows of opportunity and wide margins of error. To make sense of this massive data influx in real time and derive actionable results, midsize companies must invest in a high-performance data foundation for real-time analytics.
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Business Intelligence in the Cloud: Why Now is the Right Time for Midsize Businesses
In today’s business world, the ability to quickly analyze data and gain insight into that data is what allows midsize businesses to differentiate themselves and beat their competitors. This SmartPaper discusses how companies are achieving this success by turning to cloud solutions to support their business intelligence efforts.
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Empowering You to Govern Business Data - Smart Paper
To be competitive, large and midsize businesses must be able to access all types of data from throughout their organization, no matter which vendor’s technology or solution houses the information. Companies need to respond quickly and effectively to the influx of new data, as well as prepare for and meet anticipated factors such as federal or industry regulations governing information protection and control.
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Enabling Pervasive BI for Today’s Fast-Paced Workforce - Smart Paper
Today, more people with differing technical expertise are now requiring access to BI to do their jobs. This SmartPaper discusses why companies must enable pervasive BI to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced market.
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