1. Featured News

    1. SAP's Q4 better than expected: HANA, mobile sales responsible

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      SAP's Q4 better than expected: HANA, mobile sales responsible SAP said its fourth quarter results will come in better than expected as new initiatives such as HANA—the company’s in-memory analytics system—and mobile software showed solid progress. The enterprise applications software giant said revenue in the fourth quarter will check in at euro 4.5 million. Wall Street was looking for euro 4.47 billion. Software revenue was up 16 percent in the fourth quarter compared to a year ago and software related service sales were up 14 percent. (Read Full Article)

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    2. Attracting the right talent for your team

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      Attracting the right talent for your team In the face of stiff competition to secure the best SAP resources, a best practice talent attraction strategy might make all the difference, as Adrian Everett explains. As we move forward into the new financial year, it is no surprise that one of the key challenges for organisations undertaking SAP projects remains that of talent attraction. For those selling services, how do you grow without additional resources to sell? For those looking to lower overheads or increase revenues through improved efficiencies, how do you achieve this if SAP resources are already tied up on other projects? If you want to attract the right talent for your organisation, you need to ensure that your strategy meets the goals of your organisation. In this article, we explore the various avenues by which to attract talent, and ultimately to define a best practice process by which to attract the best SAP talent for your organisation. (Read Full Article)

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    3. The Road Ahead: Gartner's Outlook For 2012 And Beyond

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      The Road Ahead: Gartner's Outlook For 2012 And Beyond Gartner this morning unveiled its list of predictions for the IT sector for 2012 and beyond. If everything they say happens, the IT landscape is going to look a lot different than it does now. For one thing, the weather will be…cloudier. Gartner also expects that the bubble in social networking will burst by 2013, and they see off-shore manufacturing coming back home. (Or at least closer.) (Read Full Article)

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  2. Recently Added Articles

    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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  3. SAP Corporate News

    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

      Explore Business Insider SAP Corporate , Cloud

      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)

      Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Bill McDermott   SAP

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  1. Our Posts

    1. EOH acquires SCT and CoRoS Consulting

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      by Warren Eiserman (warrenei)

      EOH acquires SCT and CoRoS Consulting EOH, one of South Africa’s top three IT service providers and the largest enterprise applications provider in in the country, today announced the acquisition of SCT and CoRoS Consulting. The acquisitions complement EOH’s SAP capabilities and further allow EOH to enhance the spectrum of our offering to our customers. This addition to the EOH family makes us a 3500 strong person EOH team, enhancing our expertise, and underscores our philosophy of working with the best people the industry has to offer. (Read Full Article)

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    2. SAPortals platform growth in 2011

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      by Warren Eiserman (warrenei)

      SAPortals platform growth in 2011 SAPortals now receives over 1,500 unique visitors a month, while this might not seem a high figure, consider that some estimates put the total number of SAP consultants operating in South Africa at around 8,000. We would like to thank our partners for their continued support, and look forward to working within the broader SAP eco-system - bringing you succinct news and analysis from across the web. (Read Full Article)

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  2. Recent Project Management Articles

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

      Explore ERP Software Selection Strategic Enterprise Mangement , Change Management , Project Management

      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

      Explore SAP Network Blog ABAP , Project Management , Technology

      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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