SAP articles
33 tutorials, cross-tagged with 17 SAP modules.
The Hybrid Service Delivery Model
The hybrid model uses selective outsourcing as a strategy to achieve the twin benefits of continuous quality improvement and cost management. In a selective outsourcing arrangement, a process , like F...
Outsourcing Of Data Center Operations Gains Acceptability
While enterprise has consolidated IT into GDC's the GDC's themselves are treated as cost centers. They are under conflicting pressures - to improve service levels while continuously lowering o...
Frameworks For Governance Of IT Service Delivery become available
Enabling this trend is the wide acceptance of process standards such as ITIL/ ITSM, security standards such asBS7799. Combining "independent audit-ability" and global best practice, these standards pr...
IT Moves Into Supplier - Consumer Relationship Within Enterprise
With IT being the transaction and process backbone of enterprise, there is a sharp focus on measurement of service quality. Both service providers and service consumers push service quality measureme...
Maturing Of Enterprise IT Consolidation
Global enterprise has gone through an aggressive consolidation of equipment centers and IT management. The current model of managing production services is "Follow the Sun". The implementation is ty...
Production Services' In Global Enterprise
Production services are subject to contrary pressures of continuously increasing scope and complexity AND continuously shrinking budgets. Developments within the enterprise and in governance models no...
SAP a Multinational Corporation
SAP AG is a multinational software development and consulting corporation, which provides enterprise software applications and support to businesses of all sizes globally. Headquartered in Walldorf, G...
SAP - Help From Other Sources
1. Consulting Companies One of SAP's key strategies has been to develop partnerships with the Consulting Companies. This has contributed enormously to the widespread adoption of SAP due to the fac...
SAP - Help From SAP AG
There is a ton of help available out there - depending on your companies budget and culture – to help you along your journey beginning with your strategy and ending up when you reach that hallowed (an...
SAP - Its Cost
There is a defining moment in the journey of all companies on the road to SAP nirvana. This moment comes just after the company has concluded that it want's SAP, it needs SAP, it's gotta have...
SAP - Who is it made for?
We have all heard about the large (and very large) companies who have implemented (or are still busy implementing) SAP R/3. But SAP is gaining acceptance by smaller companies too.There are many reason...
SAP AG Corporate Overview
3rd - SAP is the 3rd largest software company in the world 30,000 - Total number of people employed by SAP 5,400 - Number of programmers employed by SAP $7.024 billion - FY03 Revenue $1.077 million -...
Who and/or what is SAP? How popular is it?
SAP the company was founded in Germany in 1972 by five ex-IBM engineers. In case you're ever asked, SAP stands for Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung which - translated to En...