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    1. Fleshing out a mobility strategy

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      Embarking on an SAP mobility strategy requires some technical decisions to be made early on. Here Danielle Cullen explores the key focus areas for SAP customers. The first stage in embarking on any SAP mobility strategy is to determine the what, where, who, how and why. (Read Full Article)

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    2. Manage System Configuration on Work Center Solution Manager 7.1

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      Manage System Configuration on Work Center Solution Manager 7.1 This article contains a step by step technical guide and explanation how to Manage, system configuration on work center Solution Manager 7.1 (Read Full Article)

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    3. The Executive’s Role in an ERP Implementation

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      The Executive’s Role in an ERP Implementation There is no such thing as ERP success without leadership and governance from the executive level. As much as some C-suiters would like to defer involvement in and responsibility for an ERP implementation to their IT department or some other functional area, it is absolutely critical that executive sponsorship is vocal, clear and consistent from day one of the ERP project for without this kind of visible executive buy-in, ERP failure is a very likely outcome. (Read Full Article)

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    1. SAP Proves It's Not Boring By Hiring This Woman With A Colorful Past

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      SAP Proves It's Not Boring By Hiring This Woman With A Colorful Past Looks like Julie Roehm, the marketing executive infamously fired from Walmart in 2006, has been hired as SAP's new marketing vice president. Roehm was let go from Walmart over accusations that she had an affair with one of her employees, reports AllThingsD. Walmart also accused her of submitting expenses to Walmart for trips taken with the employee. (Read Full Article)

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    2. Kevin Gilroy to Lead Channel Business at SAP

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      SAP has appointed Kevin Gilroy to lead Global Indirect Channels. Reporting directly to Eric Duffaut, president of Global Ecosystem & Channels, Gilroy is tasked with accelerating global indirect revenue through key SAP partners and developing new business opportunities by extending both the SAP channel partner ecosystem and alternate channels. (Read Full Article)

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    3. The Awful Economy Is Really Going To Hurt SAP, Says BofA

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      The Awful Economy Is Really Going To Hurt SAP, Says BofA SAP's hot new software, HANA, has been a relative flop, said BofA Analyst Chandra Sriraman this morning. HANA was hailed as groundbreaking when it was introduced about a year ago. It sits in a computer's memory so it literally runs while the computer processes transactions. There's just one problem: No one is buying it. (Read Full Article)

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    1. Back in the Saddle Again: Getting Your ERP Implementation Back on Track

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      Back in the Saddle Again: Getting Your ERP Implementation Back on Track Unfortunately, ERP implementations still aren’t any easier than they were 15 years ago when I started in the ERP world. Despite the enterprise software industry’s best intentions to mitigate risk with cloud ERP systems, implementation accelerators, and other tools, ERP failure rates are still high and most projects still take more time and money than expected. For example, our 2012 ERP Report, which will be released next week, shows that nearly half (44-percent) of all ERP implementations fail to deliver at least half of their expected business benefits. (Read Full Article)

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    2. ABAP Trilemma

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      ABAP Trilemma The ABAP development triangle is a model that describes the trilemma of ABAP development. Three constraints - Performance, Security, Design - are discussed in this blog. The idea of the ABAP development triangle originates from the Project Management Triangle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Triangle). (Read Full Article)

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    3. The Value of Choosing an Independent Consultant

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      The Value of Choosing an Independent Consultant One of the most frequently asked questions we at Panorama Consulting hear from our clients is, “What is the value of engaging an independent consulting firm to manage our ERP implementation?” After all, the VARs and ERP vendors themselves should know their own software better than anyone, so who better to manage the implementation phase of the ERP project . . . right? Wrong. The answer and the reason lie in the fact that a successful ERP implementation is much more about carefully blueprinting and strategically optimizing the client’s business processes than it is about configuring the software. Simply stated, the key to ERP success — and the cornerstone to Panorama’s service offering — is to approach the implementation from the point of view that the client’s business processes should drive how the ERP software is configured, not the other way around. (Read Full Article)

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