The SAP Business and Technology Review

Coming to Terms with Measurable Benefits
by Kristine Erickson

Governance, Risk, Compliance — and Reward
by Joshua Greenbaum

One of GRC’s most dramatic benef its comes from measuring and monetizing the risk profile of companies as they work to manage risk in increasingly complex business environments.

Why SAP Support Can’t Be an Afterthought
by Adolf Allesch

Two key shifts in the SAP product suite are behind a more robust approach to SAP post-go-live support: SAP’s mandates around SAP Solution Manager and SAP NetWeaver integration with SAP ECC.

SOA Success: Is Your Organization a Business Process Enterprise?
by Puneet Suppal

For organizations to succeed in their enterprise SOA journey, they need to prepare themselves, as a whole, for a change in direction — a transformation of the people, skills, and culture that support your business processes.

Colgate-Palmolive Takes Control of Global IT with SAP RPM
by Evan J. Albright

With Colgate-Palmolive increasingly sharing IT project resources around the world, they set out to improve the way they plan, monitor, and measure global IT resources and turned to an SAP application that enables companies to inventory and track resources, skills, and budgets. The result: improved project planning, management, and reporting as well as reduced IT support costs.

The “Atlantic” Crossing: SAP & IBM Join Forces to Create a Rich Collaboration Environment
by Evan J. Albright

SAP and IBM are planning for the initial release of a product that will bring SAP functionality to IBM Lotus Notes 8 users. Codenamed “Atlantic,” this offering will allow business users to access data from SAP systems directly through Lotus Notes — benefiting thousands of shared SAP and IBM Lotus customers around the world.

How to Pitch an SAP NetWeaver Upgrade to Management
by Sheri Hinton and Khalil Nasrallah

Knowing that an SAP NetWeaver upgrade is vital to your company’s success and future growth, how do you convince your executive management to put the wheels in motion? Here are some best practices to help you make a case for your next upgrade.

Master Data Management: Bringing Clarity to Your Company with SAP NetWeaver MDM

5 Key Learnings for Teams that Manage SAP Technology and Infrastructure

Solving the Data Sharing Problem: Implement an External-Facing Portal for Suppliers and Customers
by Mayur Khera

For many enterprises, collaborating and sharing data with external business partners remains a key challenge. Learn how SAP NetWeaver offers a powerful portal technology that can help get key business information to your external users in a single site that is clean, flat, easy, and fast.

PacifiCorp Harnesses the Power of an Extensible Data Model
by John Parker

PacifiCorp’s IT team needed more efficient ways to manage the mass amounts of data the utility company collects, analyzes, and reports to meet regulatory requirements. The result was a sophisticated data model that uses SAP systems to integrate the utility’s costs, compliance, and profitability data. With this new reporting system, PacifiCorp reduced reporting time for key financial data from 5 days to 1 day, improved data quality and integrity, and achieved greater visibility into business data.

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