SAP articles
51 tutorials, cross-tagged with 17 SAP modules.
SAP, Android, and the Enterprise
The Android mobile operating system has been an immense success in the consumer world, but has not caught on as well in the enterprise world. Although Android smartphones captured a majority of the sm...
How SAP is trying to retain its top deck
SAP AG, whose shares are trading at the highest level in 11 years, will extend a stock-based compensation program to all workers as it gets closer to overtaking Siemens AG (SIE) as the most valuable G...
SAP HANA Strategies for Your Database and Application Portfolios
SAP's embrace and exaltation of its newfound "database" mojo has certainly been exciting from an SAP product and HANA marketing point of view. This week's major database announcements were top...
3 Sensible Alternatives to Custom SAP EAM Development
As part of the focus on EAM-related topics this month, Bob Pennington, a long-time ASUG Community Facilitator for the ASUG EAM team, writes about the business benefits of being apart of the EAM commun...
SAP expands employee and board member participation in Company`s success
* SAP Announces New Long Term Incentive Plans * €500 Million Planned for Employee Participation Plan Through 2015 * SAP Expands Share Matching Plan SAP has implemented two new share-based compensation...
Is there any help out there? What should I do next? Help From Other Sources
Here we will cover the help that is available from other sources, including: Consulting Companies, SAPPHIRE and other SAP Events, ASUG, and this website. Consulting Companies One of SAP's key str...
Is there any help out there? What should I do next? 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...
How much does it cost? What will it take to implement it?
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...
BizTalk Adapter is important for SAP
The BizTalk Utilities Adapter for SAP provides integration between SAP and BizTalk Server 2002. The aim of the Adapter is to reduce the complexity and implementation time when integrating a SAP System...
SAP R/3 Testing - Lessons Learned -
Are you in the midst of an SAP R/3 upgrade or implementing SAP R/3 from scratch? Are you prepared to perform all the activities and tasks that are concomitant with the various SAP testing phases? The...
Topmost7 Reasons SAP Projects Fail
Here's a scary statistic. According to four prominent research firms, only around 20% of all IT projects are finished in a timely manner. By "timely" the researchers mean without loss of quality o...
Gate Methodology
Everyone has heard the horror stories of cost overruns on SAP programmes. While there are a few factors which are outside the control of the programme managers (e.g. business change, funding withdrawn...
Critical Success point for a SAP Program
Match the program objectives with the business objectives. Don't allow a situation where the programs' objectives are different to the companies business objectives. For example, if the busin...
SAP Implementation Risks
Summary: Drawing from experiences at large ERP implementations the author reviews 15 common risks threatening the success of most ERP implementations. Suggestions are provided to mitigate the effects...
What is the? SAP FI Module - Introduction
The SAP FI Module has the capability of meeting all the accounting and financial needs of an organization. It is within this module that Financial Managers as well as other Managers within your busine...
SAP Modules Overview
In the past when people were discussing SAP, the conversation very quickly boiled down to modules, for example: SAP training courses were structured along SAP module lines so that you would attend...
Challenges in Customer relationship management
Tools and workflows can be complex to implement, especially for large enterprises. Previously these tools were generally limited to contact management: monitoring and recording interactions and commun...
SAP and Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture
Service-oriented architecture moves the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) landscape toward software-based and web services-based business activities. This move increases adaptability, flexibility, op...
Business and markets
SAP is the world's largest business software company and the third-largest independent software provider in terms of revenues (as of 2007). It operates in three geographic regions – EMEA, which re...
Milestones technical solutions
In 1973, the SAP R/1 solution was launched. Six years later, in 1979, SAP launched SAP R/2. In 1981, SAP brought a completely re-designed solution to market. With the change from R/2 to R/3 in 1992, S...