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Overview: SAP's vision is for companies of all sizes to become best-run businesses. Best-run businesses transform rigid value chains into dynamic business networks of customers, partners, and suppliers.
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A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations by SAP AG
. May 01, 2008 - In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
A New Mandate for IT by SAP AG
. April 01, 2007 - Learn more about the changing role of IT in business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives.
Aberdeen Report: The Advanced Sourcing & Negotiation Benchmark Report by SAP AG
. January 01, 2007 - Enterprises that employ advanced sourcing strategies are positively impacting product development cycles and building stronger supplier relationships by making better, more informed decisions. Get the details in the results of this Aberdeen Group survey.
Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value by SAP AG
. October 18, 2008 - Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.
Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence - Drive Efficiency And Growth With Integrated Solutions by SAP AG
. June 01, 2008 - The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.
Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence: Drive Efficiency and Growth with Integrated Solutions by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency.
Achieving Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.
Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.
Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations by SAP AG
. June 01, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations: Sales Opportunity Blueprinting by SAP AG
. April 27, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.
Beyond Boundaries: A New Role for Finance in Driving Business Collaboration by SAP AG
. June 01, 2008 - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
Beyond Supply Chain Visibility: Response Management Is the Key by SAP AG
. September 17, 2008 - Supply chain visibility ranks as one of the top two application focus areas for companies as part of their supply chain technology investment plans. Supply chain executives view visibility as the main goal for supply chain executives within supply chain initiatives. Read this paper for more.
Brand Management - Leveraging the Power of Integrated Marketing by SAP AG
. February 01, 2008 - The evolution of consumer marketing causes everyone to think in new ways. Instead of reaching consumers through traditional media, Internet, product placement and word of mouth are good alternatives. Check out this paper for more information about integrated brand management.
Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP AG
. June 01, 2008 - This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Business Agility as Growth Enabler: How Can Midsize Firms Manage Change in an Increasingly Demanding World? by SAP AG
. August 01, 2007 - Your company's ability to meet changing customer requirements and drive revenue growth in a continually changing environment is essential. This whitepaper examines the related issues of growth and flexibility from a number of perspectives.
Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business (SMB) by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.
Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.
Business Intelligence: Putting Information to Work by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.
Business Network Transformation: Rethinking Relationships in a Global Economy by SAP AG
. January 01, 2008 - The ability to operate effectively in business networks, be they coordinated or collaborative, is critical to sustaining competitive advantage in a commoditizing global economy. By focusing on their unique core capabilities, business network participants spend less on duplication and more on innovation, resulting in higher degrees of..
BusinessWeek Research: Talent Management - The New Business Imperative by SAP AG
. August 01, 2007 - Read this report to discover the views of senior human resource (HR) and information technology (IT) executives and CEOs at large and midsize companies about the talent shortage and how workforce planning can help executives address this coming crisis.
Channel Sales Management: New Applications for High-Tech Vendors by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - Channel management is a pressing issue for high-tech manufacturers that sell through partners. IDC believes that companies that leverage channels partners should begin to integrate channel management into broader corporate infrastructure applications that include the supply chain and potentially PLM applications.
Clearing the Way for Faster, Smarter Decisions: Instant, Accurate Information Drives Competitive Edge by SAP AG
. December 17, 2007 - This paper examines how you can gain reliable, accessible information
from efficient, integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions will lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position.
Co-Marketing with Channel Partners: Expand Your Marketing Reach with Channel Marketing Funds by SAP AG
. September 17, 2008 - As organizations seek new ways to increase brand awareness and generate demand in more complex market environments, there has been a renewed interest in co-marketing programs. This paper provides techniques to achieve this.
Collateral Damage: What the Crisis in the Credit Markets Means for Everyone Else by SAP AG
. October 01, 2008 - Given the dramatic events in the capital markets, everyone is wondering what will happen next - and what the implications are for the wider economy. This paper will discuss challenges facing companies and how to respond.
Countdown to Copenhagen: Government, business and the battle against climate change by SAP AG
. July 21, 2009 - Government, business and the battle against climate change is an EIU report that investigates the current regulatory outlook within key regions of the world.
CRM without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth by SAP AG
. April 01, 2007 - This white paper describes the concept of “CRM without compromise,” elucidating how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to gain a competitive advantage and profitable growth.
Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) Application: Maximize Service Profitability by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - The SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application maximizes the value from each customer by keeping profitable customers loyal, decreasing service costs by increasing efficiency, and increasing service revenue.
Data Management for Business Intelligence by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - This report investigates the strategies, capabilities, and supporting technologies that Best-in-Class companies are employing to alleviate the pressure to accelerate the delivery of actionable information within their enterprises.
Data Quality: A Survival Guide For Marketing by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
Delivering Customer Value: Innovative Approaches to Maintain Competitive Success by SAP AG
. July 01, 2007 - This paper explores the concepts of sales growth in relation to understanding who your customers are, connecting a go-to-market strategy with technology, and using technology to sharpen internal practices.
Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation by SAP AG
. January 01, 2006 - This paper explains business strategies, trends, and issues related to enterprise resource planning, financial management, operations management, and human capital management that drive the consideration of ESA.
Do More with Less: Merging Enterprise Applications with Desktop Tools by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - This report explores feedback from over 150 survey respondents on the convergence of enterprise applications with desktop tools, and the role it plays in providing visibility to enterprise data, improving communication, and facilitating real-time decision-making.
Driving Your Channel Business: Leverage Information Technology to Improve Partner Relationships and Boost Channel Performance by SAP AG
. September 17, 2008 - This white paper discusses key channel business trends, highlights the complexities and challenges of different channel models.
Enabling Organic Growth by SAP AG
. September 17, 2008 - Discover why organic growth is the means to achieving continuous, profitable growth, and find out how your company can address some of the most common challenges in the quest to achieve it.
Enabling The Lean Enterprise: A Three-Tiered Approach to Improving Your Operations by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized
corporate management mode to a hybrid model - recognizing that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient
and effective. Read this whitepaper to learn a three-tiered approach to improving your operations.
Ensuring Successful Manufacturing Execution in the Fabless Semiconductor Model by SAP AG
. September 17, 2008 - The number of semiconductor companies adopting a fabless manufacturing model continues to increase. And to thrive in this highly competitive market, the fabless company must produce the best product designs for its intended
market. This SAP Executive Insight examines the growing trend toward the fabless manufacturing model.
Enterprise Contract Management for Life Sciences: Integrating Contract Creation, Administration, and Execution by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins.
Get Closer To Your Best Customers: A Shift In Customer Strategies In A Time Of Crisis by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - The extraordinary circumstances of the current economic crisis have changed the operating rules for companies of every size, in every industry. Companies now face a unique opportunity to reexamine traditional business practices and make much-needed changes - changes that will help them survive the downturn and flourish with the inevitable up...
Getting Value from Industry Best Practices the High-Tech Supply Chain Challenge by SAP AG
. September 18, 2008 - Supply chain operations play a vital role in the success of any consumer or high-tech original equipment manufacturer (OEM). This SAP Executive Insight examines how the adoption of industry best practices can add value to your organization.
Giving Service Companies a Fast Start by SAP AG
. March 10, 2009 - Learn how the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can provide service companies like yours with a software solution that helps you respond quickly to customers' expectations of high-quality, differentiated services to help you maintain services relationships - with predictable costs, and low total cost of ownership.
Global ERP Functionality Delivered: The Delivery Difference between Products and Vendors Explained by SAP AG
. September 17, 2008 - Enterprises looking to compete in a global marketplace must be able to comply with international financial and legal requirements-they must be able to think globally but at the same time act (and comply) locally.
Growth And Complexity: The Challenges Ahead For Midsize Manufacturers by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
Guide to Better Decision-Making for Your SMB Through IT by SAP AG
. June 09, 2008 - Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions.
High-Tech Industries: The Supply Chain Executive's Strategic Agenda by SAP AG
. September 18, 2008 - This paper explores the concerns and process roadmap of supply chain executives in high-tech industries.
How IT Can Help Companies Make Better, Faster Decisions by SAP AG
. October 30, 2009 - IT management in small and medium companies can and must understand the information needs and language of their business colleagues within the organization. IT managers must show business managers how IT can enable them to meet and exceed their departmental goals.
Integrated Contract Life-Cycle Management: Automate Processes, Reduce Over-Payments, Improve Productivity by SAP AG
. June 05, 2009 - Combining SAP ERP with SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and
Chargebacks provides a complete contract management solution. With this solution, you will increase market share, capture business intelligence, reduce overpayments and duplicate claims, improve compliance, and increase productivity.
Intelligent Merchandising: Creating a Unique Shopping Experience, Part 1 by SAP AG
. May 01, 2007 - Learn how you can how you can hook customers with fresh, unusual and relevant shopping experiences. Drive customer loyalty by training, empowering and providing employees with the technical tools to capture the nuances of customer behavior.
Intelligent Merchandising: Creating a Unique Shopping Experience, Part 2 by SAP AG
. August 01, 2007 - Anticipating customer needs is a better predictor of success than just responding to what customers say they want. Read this white paper to learn how you can create a unique customer experience by anticipating customers' lifestyle needs and demands.
Intelligent Merchandising: Creating a Unique Shopping Experience, Part 3 by SAP AG
. August 01, 2007 - The amount of customer information available grows every day. Learn why it is critical for you to analyze and understand customer information in order to draw meaningful conclusions about consumer lifestyles, buying habits and shopping behaviors.
Learning from BPM Leaders: Benefits, Prerequisites and the Impact of Successful BPM Initiatives by SAP AG
. June 05, 2009 - The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those that do BPM right reap the ultimate reward of business innovation: competitive advantage.
Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage by SAP AG
. January 01, 2007 - This paper identifies the market trends driving the need for an integrated talent supply chain and describes the internal inefficiencies professional services firms must overcome to optimize their talent supply chains.
Managing Risk in Perilous Times. Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery by SAP AG
. July 15, 2009 - Examine lessons learned from the current financial crisis in this EIU report. The report proposes ten practical lessons that could help address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment, and management.
Managing Risk In Perilous Times: Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.
Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance by SAP AG
. December 28, 2007 - This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
Operational Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.
Operational Excellence: The New Lever of Profitability and Competitive Advantage by SAP AG
. January 01, 2009 - The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.
Product Environmental Footprint And Ecolabeling: An Approach For Both Environmental Responsibility And Profits by SAP AG
. September 25, 2009 - Business interest in environmental footprinting stemmed originally from an understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and complexities, and this remains an important driver. However, with growing public concern over environmental issues, environmental footprinting has grown in importance to many businesses.
Protecting and Nurturing Your Brand: Maintain and Grow Brand Value in a Time of Crisis by SAP AG
. June 05, 2009 - There are many elements that impact a company's brand. Concentrating on a select few lets you control financial investment while maximizing the returned benefit. This SAP Executive Insight focuses on efforts that target a key set of brand-related opportunities and describes how companies can strengthen brand value even in a recession.
Ready Access to Real-Time Data Helps Small Businesses Thrive by SAP AG
. February 01, 2008 - Today there is new and affordable technology that enables small businesses to access current data from any location, respond quickly to change, and thrive in a volatile business environment. A good example of this technology is the
SAP® Business One application. Read this white paper to learn more!
Responding Quickly to Changing Markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - This paper examines how to tap into the potential of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands.
Retail Today: Understand Customers, Anticipate Needs, and Inspire Loyalty by SAP AG
. December 01, 2007 - Read how the software and tools SAP provides can help retailers succeed today by understanding their customers, anticipating their needs, and inspiring their loyalty as long-term customers by meeting those needs as they arise.
Running and Optimizing IT: A Best Practice Approach by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - The results of this survey show that the highest priorities are focused not on
technology but on the ability of IT to deliver services that provide value for customers and end users.
SAP Provides a Central Hub for Managing Interfaces & Web Services for Largest NA Oil Refining Co. by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging.
SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services: One Product For Data Quality and Data Integration by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.
SAP® Customer Care and Billing Solutions for a Changed and Challenging Utility Environment by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - The customer care and billing functionality in SAP for Utilities provides billing for routine retail service and complex billing for commercial and industrial accounts, flat-rate billing for unmetered energy and nonenergy products.
SAP® Support of the Healthecare Supply Chain's Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and Drive Business Value by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study.
SAP® Business All-in-One Fast-Start Program: Creating Affordable, Flexible Solutions for Faster Value by SAP AG
. February 08, 2008 - 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.
Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability by SAP AG
. January 01, 2007 - This paper reviews the forces that affect the professional services market today, defines and explains the main pillars of service delivery innovation, and reviews the benefits firms derive from service delivery innovation.
Streamline Your Business, Accelerate Your Growth: Using an Affordable Application Built for Small Businesses by SAP AG
. October 26, 2009 - The SAP® Business One application offers a single, affordable way to manage
your entire business – from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations. Designed specifically for small businesses, it helps you streamline processes, act on timely information, and accelerate profitable growth.
Study Pinpoints Areas of Growth for After-Market Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - This study talks about top three trends such as outsourcing MRO, aging aircraft and lean impacting the MRO segment.
Taking Control of Your Business: Growing Profitably in the Professional Services Market by SAP AG
. January 01, 2006 - This paper details how professional services firms can grow and thrive in a difficult market by enhancing project visibility, maximizing resource utilization, improving operational efficiency, and successfully acquiring more customers.
The Challenge to Achieve Perfect Order Management by SAP AG
. January 23, 2009 - Superior order management can be a competitive edge across the board, improving customer satisfaction and retention as well as your bottom line and top line.
The Collaboration Advantage: Customer-Focused Partnerships In A Global Market by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - In order to better understand the opportunities, challenges, risks and rewards companies have seen from these types of agreements, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in March 2008, sponsored by SAP, which asked 516 senior executives how their business relationships are evolving.
The Fast-Payback SAP Projects for Saving Money in 2009: Detailed Data for Business Expense Projects by SAP AG
. June 24, 2009 - This Report, which summarizes detailed data from a field study conducted exclusively for AMR Research SAP Peer Forum clients, was written to help business audiences looking for every opportunity to reduce the total business expenses of their huge, existing investments in SAP.
The Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers by SAP AG
. February 01, 2007 - Discover the impact of Lean on consumer product manufacturers and gain key tips in implementing successful Lean initiatives across the enterprise.
The Profitability Perspective: How Automated Reporting Drives Better Decisions by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...
The Renewed Finance Function - Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.
The Responsive Supply Chain: Managing Market Events in the Consumer Goods Industry by SAP AG
. September 18, 2008 - This report focuses on the market events that impact demand. It explains the six market event categories that cannot be controlled but can be effectively managed if the right processes and technologies are in place.
The Role of ERP in Globalization by SAP AG
. September 18, 2008 - This whitepaper examines the role of ERP in Globalization in detail, outlining steps to improve current strategies to meet the changing face of the global business of today ...and tomorrow.
The Superstar CFO - Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role by SAP AG
. May 01, 2007 - Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
The Two Faces of Risk by SAP AG
. June 02, 2009 - Traditional approaches to risk management emphasize mitigation, focusing on
the readily apparent risks facing a company in the areas of security, privacy,
credit, regulatory, technology, fraud and more. These threats are, of course, important and must be addressed.
Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation by SAP AG
. January 01, 2006 - SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.
Under the Spotlight: The transition of environmental risk management by SAP AG
. June 05, 2009 - This EIU global research report, based on survey of 320 executives, discusses current challenges and the importance of managing environmental risks.
Using Market Influence to Grow Your Business: Collaborate with Partners and Win More Customers by SAP AG
. April 01, 2008 - This paper looks at ways in which an integrated information technology solution can help you keep on top of your chosen markets and sustain growth.
Using Master Data in Business Intelligence by SAP AG
. March 01, 2007 - This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process.
Using Talent Supply Chain Management to Overcome Challenges in the Professional Services Market by SAP AG
. January 01, 2007 - Discover how implementing an integrated talent supply chain management environment can help professional services providers enhance revenues by improving delivery performance and speeding client response.
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