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Everyone is a Technology Company according to Gartner
We are entering a new digital industry economy where everyone will be a technology company. How will you lead your organization to compete in this digital world?Over the course of the next six weeks,...
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The evolving scope of business intelligence - TDWI
The term "business intelligence" (BI) has been around for quite some time. A few years ago I think that most people would have agreed fairly well on the scope of BI and what it was. For better or...
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Dirty Little Secrets of Your System Integrator – Why Companies Still Go Over...
We continue to read about companies blowing their IT enabled transformation budgets and schedules. At least one new study comes out each year showing that 30-60 percent of all large projects exceed the...
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Can the Cloud, ITIL and ITSM Coexist?
Can cloud computing and the traditional IT service management (ITSM) framework, based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), play well together? Is this a legitimate debate or a simple distraction?
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Unleashing the Cloud with Enterprise Mobility
As the demand for access to information anytime and anywhere only continues to grow within businesses, many are turning to not one, but rather two solutions, to fulfill their needs: mobile and cloud....
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Governance in the Cloud and the role of IT
The debate of the role of IT in the Cloud landscape has been ongoing for some time. My view is that IT has a role to play, but it is not the same role that it plays today. IT is required to manage the...
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ERP, The Next Generation: The Final Frontier?
One of the hallmarks of “next generation” ERP is the ability to customize without customisations. Sound like a contradiction? Not really. Customization versus Configuration and Tailoring Different...
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Digital Success: Playing the middle against both ends
Digital success requires playing the organizational middle against opposing ends of achieving growth and cost reduction. Organizations can change significantly as they move between these two ends. It...
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Why Mobile and In-Memory are the new differentiators in Performance Management
Having had the pick of the plethora of independent vendors that used to populate the Enterprise Performance Management space, the three mega-vendors, IBM, Oracle and SAP, have all made acquisitions to...
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Consumer Products Enterprises Go Mobile
It has become the norm instead of the exception – companies are using mobile devices to run just about every business process. They are leveraging mobile to support sales staff from wherever they are,...
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Don't Have A Mobile App For That? Chances Are BYOA-Savvy Employees Already Do
Let’s face it: We love our mobile devices and smartphones. Approximately 90% of us have these handy devices within reach 24 hours a day and check them as often as 30 times a day – every day. Because...
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SAP Business Objects 4.1 rolls out with fixes, tighter Sap Bw integration
The new SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 business intelligence suite that SAP announced last week helps shore up some of the flaws in the 4.0 release, while adding new functions for tighter integration with SAP...
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"What if the data tells you something you don't like?" Three potential big...
Big data is on the verge of hitting the big time, but there are traps that lay in wait for the unwary. Big data is likely to quickly become big business. The ability to isolate the nuggets of insight...
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Use Data to Support Arguments, Not Arguments to Support Data
The concept of “better-informed” decisions is distinctly different than the concept of “better” decisions – the former is generally a choice, whereas the latter often results from an action....
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The Wide Range of Different Big Data Technologies
Many of the latest big data technologies are developed by big data startups from around the world that have found a way to deal with the vast amounts of data. They have developed disruptive big data...
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How a distributor created a clearer view of profitability
Animal Health International, a distributor of roughly 75,000 animal health and food products, managed their charge backs and promotional campaigns using the SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks application by...
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"What's an accountant without a spreadsheet?"
A lot of the innovation that we are driving in the various solutions in the SAP Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) suite is centered on the user interface in order to provide a better quality...
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Thrown to the wolves? Learning Solution Manager
As a complete novice with SAP and a new member of our Basis Team, I found myself thrust into the center of everything by being give the overall ownership of our Solution Manager implementation. First...
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Get ahead; Build your 2030 Finance capabilities today
2030 is not that far off – just 18 more year -ends and budgeting cycles away – and we can already see some of these predictions coming to bear so what PWC suggests is more a continuation of current...
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Filling The Gaps In Performance Management
Strategic planning is about setting a course for where stakeholders want the organization to head and describing in detail what needs to happen to get there. This involves some well-defined processes...
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3 Tips for Solving Big Data Skills Shortage
More schools are creating data analytics programs, but many companies can't wait for help with their big data projects. Shortages of scarce skills usually create two things: higher salaries for the...
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Datatec points finger at SAP system for lower results
Implementation of an enterprise resource planning system is partly to blame for subdued results published by Datatec, the multinational IT group has said.
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Only 39 percent of IT projects successful? That's a good start
Another day, another survey announcing disconnect between IT and the business. A new report from Forrester shows high levels of dissatisfaction on both sides, and suggests more "integrated thinking" is...
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SAP refutes claims that Business ByDesign development will cease
Executive board member Vishal Sikka has denied that SAP is stopping development of Business ByDesign, a cloud-based ERP product for small to mid-sized businesses.“ByDesign is continuing, yes,” he said....
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How digital technologies are changing the way we work
Intelligent processes, enabled by digital technology, create a virtuous cycle of constant improvement fed by continuous feedback. And they are set to soon reinvent much of the way that businesses are...
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Making Better Business Decisions
Most companies have a number of enterprise systems, whether that's financial, human resources, payroll, warehouse management, customer service or any number of other transaction based software...
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Mobile BI Design Framework: Purpose
A rise in the use of mobile devices and applications has heightened the demand for enterprises to elevate their plans to deliver mobile business intelligence (BI) solutions. However, designing mobile...
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A Bi Self-Service Debate: Can Users Be Trusted?
At SAP TechEd in Amsterdam this week, I had a conversation with SAP mentor Steve Rumsby about BI self-service and user trust. You can get an idea of our discussion below, which echoes some other...
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What's an SAP Business ByDesign Customer to do?
Last month, SAP announced it would be cutting back on the development of its Business ByDesign cloud platform. Stuck with a solution that is no longer supported, many Business ByDesign customers are...
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5 Must-Have Mobile BI Features
The use of mobile business intelligence (BI) as a framework to enable faster, better-informed decision making continues to expand as the technology advances and more users become mobile ready. Whether...
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Fast track to process improvment with Sap Rds for Value Realization Management
This has now being used as the basis that underpins the SAP Rapid Deployment Solution for Value Realization Management that is based on the SAP Strategy Management solution. Using this, customers can...
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Enterprises Take Off Their Hadoop Training Wheels
The dirty little secret of Hadoop has been just how dull many of its tasks have been. By far the biggest use for Hadoop to date has been as a "poor person's ETL"—that is, a form of data integration, at...
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Your BICC Is the Glue that Holds Business and Technology Together
Abusiness intelligence competency center (BICC) is critical to the success of an organization’s analytics. They are chartered to align business-driven objectives with information, applications,...
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40 Percent Of IT Spending Is Outside CIO Control
The good news for CIOs — they still control about 60 percent of the average IT budget in a corporation. The bad news — they think they control 80 percent, according to a survey of member-based advisory...
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Solution Manager Project to watch in 2014
We started 2014 with a very exciting news, the SAP Solution Manager as a Managed Service is running in a project mode Worldwide and if you are interested in SAP Solution Manager or Application...
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How Much Does It Cost To Build An App?
One of (if not) the most prohibitive hurdle to developing your own app is cost. First off, you have to make a concrete calculation weighing anticipated business gains against the cost outlay for...
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What are your analytical priorities this year...?
Given the fact that we can now crunch billions of rows of data in microseconds, that anyone can just integrate diverse data sources at the push of a button without being a data ninja, and data...
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Enterprise Software: Suites Don't Always Win
The major enterprise software providers promote their pre-built integration as a selling point in capturing new business from existing clients. They argue that, rather than attempting to integrate...
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Eskom targets IT efficiencies
SA's power utility, Eskom, aims to wrap up its move to SAP in the next few years at the same time as it targets automation to improve efficiencies. CIO Sal Laher says the utility is busy with 100 key...
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Consulting 2.0 - what needs to change?
As enterprise solutions become easier to implement and use (or arguably consumerized) the days of using expensive consultants for long periods because of their "product knowledge" in my experience are...
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