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Articles in category: Business Objects
SAP users win bigger say in software development
Until two years ago, SAP users had to direct their software issues through special interest groups and a development request system that left much to be desired, according to Craig Dale, chief executive of the UK & Ireland SAP User Group.
"There was no real transparency. We didn't know what would happen — whether that development request would get accepted or would even get viewed," Dale said.
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Predictive analytics software: SAP or 'best-of-breed'?
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SAP makes a strong case for its new BusinessObjects Predictive Analytics software, but it's not a universal fit for all SAP shops, according to experts.
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SAP Redefines Enterprise Social Software With New Cloud Offerings
PALO ALTO, Calif. - October 31, 2012 - As companies catch on to the potential of enterprise social software to drive business results throughout the organization, vendors are competing to deliver the next evolution of solutions. With a pedigree of being a leading enterprise software vendor, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled its social strategy to transform how business people connect, engage and transact with customers, colleagues and partners. By infusing social and collaborative capabilities i
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African SAP User Group elects Ian Brown, Sal le Her and Andre Venter to the Board of Directors
The members of the African SAP User Group (AFSUG) have elected Ian Brown, Exxaro CIO; Sal le Her, Eskom CIO;...
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SAP's renewed focus on cloud services
Global business solutions leader SAP announced at Saphila 2012, Africa’s biggest SAP User Group conference, that the acquisition of Ariba into the SAP family has accelerated SAP’s cloud growth strategy. Several Saphila keynote sessions will be dedicated to showcasing innovative cloud technologies and highlighting their potential for making businesses run significantly better. Last week, SAP said in its Q3 earnings announcement that the company had raised to $4.3 billion its 2012 software revenue
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Saphila 2012: Stimulating innovation for best run business
Hosted by the African SAP User Group (AFSUG) and supported by SAP, Saphila 2012 kicks off today and will be...
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Saphila 2012: Stimulating innovation
Hosted by the African SAP User Group (AFSUG) and supported by SAP, Saphila 2012 kicks off today and will be showcasing an impressive line-up of local and international keynote speakers, including Valli Moosa, former Minister of Environment and Tourism; Robert Enslin, SAP President of Sales and a member of the SAP Global Managing Board; Franck Cohen, President of SAP EMEA; Oliver Bussmann, SAP Global CIO; as well as track athlete superstar, Oscar Pistorius. Saphila 2012, the largest biennial SAP
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Nashua Communications runs better with Sap Hana
Nashua Communications is proud to announce that it is the first organisation on the African continent to have successfully implemented SAP HANA. SAP HANA went live in July, and Nashua Communications has since experienced massive improvements in terms of rapidly accessing insight into its business. SAP is evolving its in-memory technology with SAP HANA, a flexible, multi-purpose, data source agnostic in-memory appliance.
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Mobile Analytic Dashboards
Mobile and Analytics were made for each other. Here's an overview of the key mobile and analytic statistics -- using a mobile dashboard
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Seven Rules for Dashboard Success
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While not every corporate executive understands what business intelligence truly is, every executive wants dashboards because they’re sexy and beautiful. They transform boring data into an attractive visualization. But how many executives know exactly what a dashboard is for and what it should be? Very few. It’s just like those hot trendy spring fashions that everyone wants to have but don’t exactly know why. To make things more complicated, every Jane, Jack, and Harry thinks they know how to build a dashboard or what it should look like..
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Zimkhita Buwa's - Key TakeAways from the Mastering SAP BI
Zimkhita Buwa shares here experiences of the Mastering SAP BI conference in Australia and provides an overview of experiences and highlights. Including the Zara iPad application..
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SAP Crystal Reports Go Mobile
Over 500,000 developers download SAP Crystal Solutions annually. What started as a time-saving tool 20 years ago has now become an integral feature in companies’ drive to understand their data.
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SAP Business One puts Henkel Kenya one step ahead
Henkel Kenya turned to SAP Business One to help modernise its operations and conform to the Henkel culture of innovation and participation. The introduction of SAP Business One has allowed Henkel Kenya to report, in real time, on all aspects of its operations, enabling informed decision-making, improved financial controls and enhanced materials requirements planning (MRP).
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SAP global leader visits CIDA, Pretoria
SAP AG, the world's leading provider of business software, announced that Sanjay Poonen, President and Corporate Officer of the Mobile Division for SAP AG, officially opened the SAP Laboratory at the CIDA ICT Academy Lyndhurst campus on 6 June 2012. SAP revealed that it has invested half a million rand towards the construction of the new ICT academy at the non-profit tertiary institution, which provides thousands of young graduates with free university education.
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SAP announces Africa's first global mentor
SAP Africa has announced Clint Vosloo as the first appointment to the global SAP Mentor Initiative on the African continent. This initiative identifies exceptional members of the global SAP partner network, recognising them as top influencers in their field of speciality. As part of an exclusive and engaged community of bloggers, consultants, and technical wizards, all SAP Mentors are nominated by SAP Community Network peers and selected by SAP for their hands-on expertise of SAP products or ser
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Building a foundation with SAP Data Services
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In this SAP Press book chapter excerpt, learn how to build a strong data foundation using the functionality in the SAP Data Services package.
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Do Finance professionals need to be experts in Microsoft Excel?
One thing I've noticed when walking through Finance departments is the sheer volume of Finance professionals using Excel...it has struck me that highly skilled Finance professionals focus more time extracting and manipulating data, rather than analysing data, spotting trends and providing advice.
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First demonstration of Planning and Consolidation on HANA
This is what created the big noise at Financials 2012 last week; over a billion records calculated in seconds with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation v 10.0 for Netweaver with SAP HANA - that's powerful!
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SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) on iPad in HTML5, product enhancement or lollipop?
Steve Lucas (General Manager Business Analytics and Technology at SAP) published a blog post with the title “Putting Mobile First and the New Business Intelligence Priorities”. His blog post contains a numerous of topics on mobile SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions including an overview slide of the strategy for 2012 which is displayed below. Though, there is one specific message that stands out.
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Object Orientation and Performance - Mission Impossible?
Why is developing in ABAP-OO so often perceived as being incompatible with high performance? Are there hard facts behind this belief, or is it just a convenient truth? (Read Full Article)
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The 7 virtues of self-service BI
As long as I've been in BI I heard two things: 1. Spreadsheets are the scum of the earth 2. The holy grail of reporting is self-service BI So why is it that these two topics always come up in discussions and how are they related? This blog tries to give some insights in the matter. (Read Full Article)
Custom Development - It's not all bad...
Okay - Custom Development is bad as a rule as COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) is meant to be best practice but I think it's got a bad wrap...
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Setting up an SVN Client to download code from SDN Code Exchange
This blog gives info about using one of the SVN clients (Tortoise) to download the code published in SDN Code Exchange.
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ASUG BusinessObjects SAP Integration Survey Results Webcast Summary
The ASUG BusinessObjects Strategic Special Interest Group for SAP Integration recently conducted an ASUG webcast covering SAP Integration with BusinessObjects Survey results, findings, and steps taken to address members' concerns including licensing, product name changes, and education.
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