Abstract: As business data volumes expand, the biggest challenge for businesses is channeling reams of data into usable information that supports effective decision-making. Organizations that invest in the SAP
Netweaver Business Warehouse continuously seek new ways to leverage the power of all corporate data. Learn how some companies are deploying IBM Cognos business intelligence software in the SAP
NetWeaver environment.
PubDate: 6/23/2010 10:56:00 AM
Abstract: The SAP NetWeaver infrastructure and applications have long been critical information pillars for some of the world’s largest and most successful companies. This demo script from IBM shows how companies can use IBM Cognos 8 with their existing SAP NetWeaver infrastructures. It includes scenarios for finance, IT, and business users, and follows specific steps to demonstrate functionality designed for each type of user.
Abstract: Enterprises should consider collaboration as a core component of their IT infrastructure, and not simply as a set of tools that facilitate translation and communication. In this white paper, learn why SAP NetWeaver is the long-term integration platform of SAP; why business to business (B2B)integration is critical to SAP implementations; and how NetWeaver and SEEBURGER solve integration issues.
Abstract: SAP is using NetWeaver to reach to the shop floor by aggregating and presenting information to users, thus empowering them to improve manufacturing performance. It is also addressing concerns about the lack of standards for interoperability between various systems.
Abstract: The capabilities of SAP NetWeaver and its peer service-enabled platforms, which were originally transaction and integration platforms, have lately been expanded to include composition and business process-oriented capabilities, such as master data management and business process management.
Abstract: SAP's determination to become a service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications lingua franca evangelist through SAP NetWeaver might have been further shown by its recent willingness to acquire catalog and product content management (PCM) vendor A2i, knowing its inclination to acquire little when it comes to technology vendors. Apparently, there should be some compelling time-to-market urge to add PCM value within the master data management (MDM) realm.
Abstract: Extending the capabilities and value of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is a concern for users. To improve data use and fact-based decision making, and reduce stranded spreadsheets, SAP users can choose a business intelligence (BI) software solution such as IBM Cognos 8, with budgeting, planning, and forecasting functions. Find out more about how you can improve your business performance management content with BI.
Abstract: Business process management (BPM) is an attempt to provide a holistic view of a company’s workflows and automate processes. It provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. Learn more about SAP’s place in the BPM landscape and what its new BPM tool—NetWeaver BPM—can do to help you better manage your company.
Abstract: With SAP NetWeaver and the Enterprise Services Architecture, SAP will have delivered the blueprint for turning Web services from a concept into business reality of uniting hardware, information, and software platforms & applications.
Abstract: Managing growth is a monumental undertaking—and one that Valero Energy Corporation has mastered. But as one of the largest oil refinery companies in North America, with revenues exceeding $90 billion (USD), the company needed to find a way to fit new applications into its existing infrastructure in a quick and cost-effective manner. By switching to SAP’s NetWeaver platform, Valero saved $480,000 (USD) in the first month.
Abstract: This white paper is a transcript of an IBM White Glove Events on-demand webinar. In it, you’ll learn how Chevron improved business decision-making by extending SAP NetWeaver data and applications with IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management. Speakers include Daisy Woodhams, senior VI design architect at Chevron, and Sharon Maxon, global category analyst for the consumer packaged goods category at Chevron.
Abstract: SAP customers waiting for MDM to address data synchronization initiatives can be confident that, in the long term, SAP will likely address consolidation of product data for more purposes than a mere compliance to retailers’ mandates.
Abstract: The A2i acquisition will in the short term bring together two complementary e-commerce products that should help retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers manage and sell their products to other companies and customers on-line.
Abstract: As business applications' scope continues to expand, so does a propagation of data sources across the businesses and IT systems. Achieving consistent understanding of this scattered data has become a major hurdle to improved business processes, with redundancy, waste and a plethora of lost opportunities as a result.
Abstract: SAP purports that SAP MDM also lays the foundation for efficient and accurate exchange of cross-business information. Consumer products companies, for instance, can exchange timely product information with retail distributors, avoid costly inaccuracies, enhance merchandizing, and improve supply chain operations.
Abstract: Rapid changes in international markets—and mounting pressures to reduce costs and improve quality—make globalization a key issue for most organizations today. Worldwide company reorganizations, acquisitions, mergers, and spin-offs affect the structure of an enterprise, demanding immediate action. Globalization requires that companies enable core business processes on a global basis, while providing ease of use for local user communities.
Abstract: Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions. Based on best practices, performance management (PM) solutions help coordinate planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis, ad hoc queries, dashboarding, and scorecarding to support decision-making. Learn how PM solutions facilitate the flow of the right information to the right people at the right time.
Abstract: The willingness of private equity firms to divert precious capital to Demantra speaks well for the company but is also a strong vote in favor of CPFR.
Abstract: Demand-driven supply chains focus on pulling demand and maximizing effectiveness and profitability while traditional supply chains push products and create efficiencies. This difference is the key to improving all supply chain processes and generating significant cost savings and growth.