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Pick of the bunch for Finance from Sapphirenow 2013
It was a memorable SAPPHIRENOW last week with everyone - SAP executives and managers; partners and most importantly customers, confident that strategy of in-memory; mobile and cloud was proving to be a remarkable success that was delivering success after success that everyone was happy to share and celebrate. The keynotes were awesome as ever; but here's my pick of the Finance sessions that I witnessed over the three days of the event.
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Sapphire Now 2013 report card
I'm awarding SAP high marks for clarifying HANA options and a passing grade for talking about a modern user interface badged Fiori. Not approved for graduation? The cloud platform story.
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SAP Fiori Simplifies The Enterprise Software Experience With Consumer-Style Apps
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The way people work, consume content and experience technology to get things done is changing at a rapid pace, and there is a growing expectation and demand in the workplace for consumer-friendly experiences when using technology to accomplish tasks.
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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Release to Customers
Just before the SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP announced the Release to Customer (RTC) of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, Edge BI 4.1 and Crystal Server 2013. Here are the highlights.
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SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite
SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight "consumer-friendly" applications that can run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices, on Wednesday at the Sapphire conference in Orlando.
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Make No Mistake: Mobilisation Will Transform Business
The Mobilisation Opportunity is Bigger Than Ever. Mobile technology is transforming business—way beyond company email on our smartphones. Mobile’s next phase promises new and exciting business opportunities that challenge our notions of what’s possible.
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The Mobile Device Is The Electronic Swiss Army Knife
Mobile devices have come a long way from the brick phones of the 70s and 80s. The brick phones existed for a single task - to make calls. You can think of them as a butter knife. It’s great for spreading butter or the occasional cheese dip, but not much else.
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Software Made Simple
With SAP Rapid Deployment solutions, customers can simplify and speed up deployments. A new “solution configurator” will give them even more choice in the process, says Bernd Welz, head of Solution & Knowledge Packaging at SAP.
A Lego set is a good analogy: It includes a box, which shows what you can assemble from the pieces inside; the pieces themselves; and step-by-step instructions. In this analogy, RDS product descriptions are the ‘box’ containing the Lego set; SAP software represents the Lego pieces inside; and automated configuration content, test scripts, and enablement material are the ‘directions.’ Also, like some Lego kits, RDS solutions are modular, giving customers flexibility to combine several packages and add custom elements. We call this assemble-to-order.
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Barnstone, SAP extend mobile management capability in Africa
“I think more now than ever before we are seeing how innovative use of technology is having such a significant impact in business and the partner ecosystem in Africa,” said Desmond Nair, Director for Ecosystem and Channels, SAP Africa.
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SAP offers small businesses more visibility, control With SAP Business One version for Sap Hana ...
SAP today announced the SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA, the first business management solution for small business. The version of SAP Business One running on HANA, will offer the complete small business essentials in one single user interface, helping users operate their businesses from end-to-end - from operational to strategic level and with improved visibility and control.
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Want to hear more about the future capabilities of SAP Solution Manager?
A webinar on April 3rd is planned where Evan Stoddard will describe the future functionality of SAP Solution Manager. The presentation will highlight the planned innovations, as well as the long-term strategy and direction for SAP Solution Manager. Significant enhancements are planned in the areas of "run SAP like a factory" and “build SAP like a factory”, covering solution documentation and implementation, root cause analysis and monitoring for SAP HANA, cloud and mobile, extended business process analytics, job control, and management dashboards.
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Introducing The SAP Mobile Academy
Part of the SAP Community Network, the SAP Mobile Academy is an online community for SAP mobile technology users, such as developers, IT administrators, and mobile project leads, to share resources to optimise the adoption of SAP mobile solutions including SAP Afaria and SAP Mobile Platform.
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Ovum Report Reveals SAP’s Mobile BI Strengths, Weaknesses
How do you like them Apples? For SAP, apparently, it’s quite a lot. When it comes to mobile BI software on iOS-enabled devices, SAP outshines the competition, according to a recent report by Ovum’s Fredrik Tunvall. But that affinity for Apple comes at a price.
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SAP User Group: 'It's a shame' Sapphire cancelled in Europe
SAP announced last week that instead of its Sapphire event in Madrid, it would have a ‘renewed focus on dedicated customer-centric events’ for its strategy in 2013. SAP is planning to expand its SAP Forum events in order to compensate for the loss of Sapphire.
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Four tips to overcome four common challenges to implement Sap Hana
CIOs that imbed analytics in their companies generate 1.6% more revenue (source: IBM) than industry peers. This significant value creation is possible because these leading companies are able to exploit the large volumes of data their employees require to make smarter, timely decisions.
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Standard Bank and SAP Bring Mobile Banking to Over Half a Million "Flip-Phone" Customers
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SAP has announced that Standard Bank has been successful in introducing its new AccessBanking offering in South Africa, aimed at meeting the banking needs of the previously "unbanked." This includes the AccessAccount, a transactional banking account based on SAP® Mobile Platform.
"This innovative banking project is radically affecting the lives of thousands people for the better," said Pfungwa Serima, CEO, SAP Africa. "This is a truly innovative project that underpins SAP's vision to make the world run better and improve people's lives.
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Benchmarking Insights: Enterprise-Grade Mobile Innovation
Most companies believe mobile technologies can give them a competitive advantage, yet too many of them struggle to turn a mobile vision into business reality.
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SAP Africa announces start-up forum winners
The African chapter of the SAP Startup Focus Program, was a chance for the company to demonstrate its support for African entrepreneurs, as well as showcase the diverse capabilities of the SAP HANA platform
The winning start-ups will commence with the Accelerator phase with a two-day bootcamp session in three week' time in Johannesburg to fast-track them on the way to building their own HANA-based prototypes.
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TMT Predictions 2013 South Africa
Deloitte South Africa launched its TMT Predictions for 2013 this week. With a success rate of over 82% in 2012, Deloitte’s TMT Predictions have become one of the Technology, Media and Telecommunication industry’s most eagerly awaited research publications.
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SAP to Acquire Ticket-Web
By enhancing SAP Business Suite software, the SAP Business ByDesign solution and the SAP Business One application with club and stadium management functionality, SAP could offer robust ERP solutions tailored specifically for management of sports and events.
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What SAP Customers Can Expect from SAP Sales Reps in 2013
SAP execs are making fundamental changes to the customer-sales rep relationship. But will customers embrace SAP’s latest approach?
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SAP Sweetens Hana Deal With Free Sybase Database
The most obvious sign of this admission is a dual-database deal whereby SAP is including the Sybase ASE transactional database -- meaning it's a free add-on -- when customers license SAP Business Suite Powered by Hana. SAP executives explained the offer in a follow-up interview with InformationWeek last week. "Customers could choose to deploy ASE or Hana in whatever mix of configurations they want," explained Prakash Darji, SAP's global VP for data warehouse solutions & SAP Hana platform.
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SAP ports its Business Suite to HANA
SAP's flagship Business Suite ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is now able to run on top of the vendor's HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
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SAP adds MaxAttention support option for custom apps
SAP is now offering its MaxAttention support service to companies with software that was designed and built by SAP's custom development organisation, in a move that caters to customers with complicated environments and also stands to capture additional, lucrative maintenance revenue.
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