Managing Orders with a 360 View in the SAP Environment

How you manage transactions says a lot about your company to its customers. Is it easy? Is it fast? Is it flexible?

However, sales order management is becoming increasingly complex with today’s highly diversified, and often decentralized, product divisions continually pushing out high volumes of sales orders.

Luckily, there are tools to help and inside this resource we’ll examine one such platform. Read on to discover an end-to-end order management solution that enables you to:

• Automate and modify sales orders regardless of how they are received
• Rapidly validate with your SAP database to proactively identify potential errors
• Intelligently launch, route and track expectation handling workflows
• And much more.

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Business Workflow: Top 10 Reasons For Using SAP Business Workflow Engine

SAP is the best-in-class ERP software – so why do organizations go with an external provider for their Accounts Payable needs? Much of it has to do with not realizing what SAP already has in terms of built-in features; companies that go with a third-party provider for AP functions are often double-paying, as they already own the SAP Business Workflow Engine as part of the ERP package.

In this white paper, discover ten major reasons to go with SAP-centric approaches to Accounts Payable, including:

• Maintaining a single system of record
• Keeping security and access protocol in check
• Avoiding incompatibility and/or duplication
• And more

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SAP Named a Global Power Seller in Banking Platform by Independent Research Firm

SAP NEWSBYTE - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has been positioned by Forrester Research Inc. as a Global Power Seller in its report, "Global Banking Platform Deals in 2012." In the evaluation, Forrester recognized 39 new named deals closed by SAP in seven regions, ranking SAP as a top vendor for new named deals and global power seller.

"Over the past year, SAP has significantly expanded its global footprint by enabling banking customers to innovate and streamline their core banking processes," said Falk Rieker, global head, Industry Business Unit Banking, SAP. "Intuitive solutions from SAP are supported by industry-specific knowledge and best practices in banking. The results of the Forrester report reflect the substantial investment we have made in this industry to help financial institutions around the world become more customer-centric across all channels, reduce cost and complexity and more easily manage regulatory and risk compliance."

Forrester evaluated nearly 1,900 banking platform deals submitted by 29 vendors against several criteria reflecting the firm's guidelines, including banking platform functionality, banking-specific functionality, new customers and new consideration of extended business and named wins. The top 10 vendors grew 24 percent for net new names in 2012. According to the report, "Six of the top 10 vendors grew their counted new named deals; SAP turned in the strongest performance, with deal growth in the 250 percent range. Even removing pure Sybase deals leaves SAP with triple-digit growth rates."

Financial services at SAP is growing rapidly, with a customer base of more than 5,700 financial customers, making it a valuable asset for collaboration and co-innovation. A major element of SAP's approach is both understanding the specifics of the industry and addressing the needs of different industry segments.

To learn more, visit the SAP for Banking page on sap.com and the SAP blog Banking View. For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

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Sap training Institute

Whoomp, there it is! What's up at the SAP Active Global Support Center?

Just about four more weeks and SAPPHIRE NOW will kick off big-time with a continental breakfast! My bad, picked the wrong line from the agenda. The real highlight of day one will of course be the keynote presentations by Bill McDermott (Co-CEO SAP) and Bob Calderoni (CEO, Ariba, Inc., and Member of Global Managing Board, SAP AG). Don't miss it!

Other than the short-time one-hit wonder by the Miami bass group Tag Team, SAP Support has been out there for more than 40 years - helping customers to run better. Therefore, in the course of day one I hope that you make sure to visit our SAP Active Global Support Center and/or the SAP MaxAttention Lounge. They are located directly next to each other within the Services & Support Area. There you'll also find the RDS and Services zones.Take the unique opportunity to talk to our experts and other customers to learn how to leverage SAP support services to help you execute on your innovation strategy.

As another highlight we will provide a live video link into the Mission Control Center in Newtown Square. SAP's control center approach is part of SAP's Premium Support Partnerships (SAP MaxAttention and SAP ActiveEmbedded) and will enable your business to achieve the most effective and efficient implementations and on-going operations possible. Check out my blog posting on the grand opening of the mission control center in Newtown Square if you want to learn more about the control center concepts.

Let me provide you some more details about the setup of the SAP Active Global Support Center & SAP MaxAttention Lounge at SAPPHIRE NOW. These are some of the highlights that we have in store for you:

• 32 demo sessions allowing customers to experience how we help customers execute on their innovation strategy
• 6 expert tables to deep dive into support specific topics
• 1 demo stand showcasing latest dashboards and screens on mobile devices
• 5 one-on-one meeting rooms for SAP MaxAttention customers
• Unlimited excitement and outstanding learning experience

The demo theatre sessions will cover topics such as Innovation Control Center, Operations Control Center, SAP Solution Manager on Hana, Business Scenario Recommendations tool for SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA, Business Function Prediction Tool, and SAP Enterprise Support Academy. The expert tables will focus on SAP Innovation Control Center, SAP Operation Control Center, Build SAP like a factory, Run SAP like a factory, SAP Enterprise Support, and SAP Solution Manager.

SAP's Growth Story Remains Intact Despite Asia-Pac Softness

Software corporation SAP AG (SAP) released its preliminary financial results for Q1 2013 on April 19, and reported an ~8% y-o-y growth in non-IFRS revenues, to €3,636 million (~$4.8 billion). The company’s revenues have now grown for 13 consecutive quarters. Software and cloud subscriptions revenues grew almost 25% y-o-y, to €824 million (~$1.1 billion). The highlight of the quarter was continued performance of SAP HANA, which more than tripled revenues y-o-y, to €86 million (~$112 million).

The company also maintained its operating margins at ~25% while operating profits grew 8% to €901 million. Its success in growing its revenues across geographies such as the Americas and Europe while its competitors struggle is suggestive of it gaining market share there. The company reported revenue growth from all geographies except Asia-Pacific and Japan. Here we take a look at the driving factors behind its performance and our expectations in the future.

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Infographic: The Relationship between C-suite and HR

Infographic: The Relationship between C-suite and HR

Infographic: The Relationship between C-suite and HR

According to a recent study, 80% of CEOs and CFOs want the head of HR to be a key player in their organization’s strategic planning, but only 38% report that this is currently the case.

So, how can you convince skeptical executives of the business value of HR?

Consult this informative infographic for a statistical look at the relationship between the C-suite and HR and learn more about executive expectations as well as key strategies that can help you prove the credibility of your HR department. Read on to get started.

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Single channel app dev is so 2012

Making the Case for Multichannel App Development: A CIO Imperative

Business in 2013 is unprecedented; it's fast, demanding and always-on. End users expect access to applications and services from anywhere and at any time. It no longer makes sense to develop an application for just one channel.

Check out this presentation transcript to explore the case for multichannel application development and learn about:

    * What channels you should target first
    * Executing multichannel app dev
    * And more

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