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Modernisation of IT: Are we building applications to support the business?
Opinions on deploying NetWeaver Gateway
Enterprise Agile: extending the agile process outside development
Lean ERP: What It is and How to Make It Work
Sap Soa Tools – Web Services best practices in Sap Ce 7.x platform
How to Get the Most Out of ABAP and Java in the Context of SAP Technology: Part 1
SAP Launches New Service Offerings with Aim to Be “Trusted Partner”
Next generation Sap Crm has arrived
Five Reasons Why Business Process Reengineering Should Happen Before Your ERP Implementation
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Articles in category: Enterprise Architecture
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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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Enabling IT Innovation in the Life Science Arena
The tension between IT and the business exists in nearly all vertical markets, and while some tension can be healthy, it seems particularly acute in life sciences organisations. In a recent interview with Jim Winburn, expounded on a few of the most pressing challenges-to-innovation that Clinical Research Organisations and life science companies in general, face in their application delivery initiatives.
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The Role of Consultants in ERP Implementations
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Unless you have a very specific goal in mind, “success” and “failure” can be pretty nebulous terms. In many situations, the contrast between success and failure is black and white but when it comes to an ERP implementation, the vast number of key performance indicators (KPIs) can make this assessment both time-consuming and hard to understand.
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Making Sense of an ERP Failure
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In December we wrote about the inadequate leadership and mismanagement that led to the $1B U.S. Air Force ERP failure. Surely, poor communication and dishonesty were at fault but what else can be said about this IT disaster? As with any ERP failure, disaster can be traced back to a number of early warning signs.
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John Deere’s Advice for using HANA
Deere’s Derek Dyer helps fellow ASUG members as they grapple with the critical business and IT questions surrounding the HANA platform.
According to Dyer, there’s a number of opportunities that HANA can provide for example, the ability to simulate financial closing in minutes as opposed to weeks; intelligent self-service mobile options for users; predictive maintenance and real-time analytics on Deere equipment. And, as Dyer pointed out, don’t forget about the potential for the simplification of Deere’s IT stack.
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SAP Launches New Service Offerings with Aim to Be “Trusted Partner”
In mature SAP shops, the question for several years now has been: How can we get more value from our SAP investment? SAP has new services it claims will help.
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Next generation Sap Crm has arrived
In a week where the SAP CRM world has taken a significant step forward, I knew I had to write something.
I was actually re-reading Steffen Schwark's blog - A consolidated application architecture based on SAP HANA - whilst at the same time thinking about how SAP CRM architecture has been blown apart. I think the way I reconcile the two is that there is a technical way that you can think about how SAP CRM fits together. The following is more of a business view of how the SAP CRM solution can be created and used.
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Five Reasons Why Business Process Reengineering Should Happen Before Your ERP Implementation
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You come across it all the time. You read it on the ERP vendor websites, you hear it from ERP software sales reps, and you see it in proposals: “Don’t worry about business process reengineering – our ERP software will tell you how your processes should work.”
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Lean ERP: What It is and How to Make It Work
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ERP implementations more often than not run counter-intuitive to lean concepts. While lean and Six Sigma cultures focus on reducing waste and non-value-add activities, most ERP implementations are bloated with inefficiencies and cost overruns.
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Enterprise Agile: extending the agile process outside development
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I previously wrote about Enterprise Agile, not because I just want to put the "enterprise" moniker in front of everything, but because I think there are some fundamental challenges in moving to agile software development practices within enterprises, as opposed to startups. This follow-up post is triggered by the following comment on my previous article about this subject: Where we are struggling as an organization is the whole enterprise adopting agile. Sales and marketing expect each release to have a "big splash". Services hates the rapid iterations since they have a waterfall mindset where you accept a new release every 6 months and spent time chewing on it. I would love some pointers on resources that help move these parts of the value chain to agile.
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Modernisation of IT: Are we building applications to support the business?
During an interview with a top-notch exec he discussed how transforming a huge investment in existing IT infrastructure into a new dynamic, extensible and agile platform that would propel the business forward - not hold it back. This guy is busy figuring out how to keep a Boeing 777 up in the air while simultaneously re-fitting aircraft to make it best-in-class.
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Thoughts on Enterprise Architecture and Project Management
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The current economic and employment environments notwithstanding, things still look pretty good for project managers. They are being kept on, and are still getting hired, because organizations are still ultra-cautious about spending money and getting critical projects completed as near to planned time and budget as possible. Salaries for PMs are continuing to be solid as well.
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Opinions on deploying NetWeaver Gateway
Local or Remote? Integrated or Stand-alone? Those are the questions when it comes to deploying NetWeaver Gateway. This blog proposes one answer. However the real answer is "it depends".
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Sap Soa Tools – Web Services best practices in Sap Ce 7.x platform
SAP NetWeaver platform enables SAP Enterprise Services Oriented Architecture (eSOA), an open standard architectural approach based on SOA concepts to provide streamline, highly integrated Web Services for SAP and non SAP integration.
Sometimes, SAP customers do not understand SAP eSOA capabilities due to lack of understandings about modeling, design and implementation of enterprise services. Read through to understand capabilities of SOA and their usage in SAP NetWeaver landscape in an enterprise.
Following are SAP Composition Environment components used to enable SOA capabilities in an enterprise.
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How to Get the Most Out of ABAP and Java in the Context of SAP Technology: Part 1
Is ABAP better than Java? Or is Java better than ABAP? This first article in a two-part series shows you that it isn't a question of which development language is better; the choice depends on the situation, and sometimes the answer is both. This article offers three questions to consider at the start of your decision-making process, and then looks at a scenario in which ABAP is the best option. (Read Full Article)
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Enhancements Packs and NetWeaver Versioning – Clarifying the Relationships
In the SAP world, each Enhancement Pack is inextricably linked to the SAP NetWeaver stack upon it runs. But if you look solely at the version numbers, you will be forgiven if you run into confusion. Here's the inside scoop.
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