SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Kristine Erickson
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Joshua Greenbaum
Surrounded by hardware companies that have entered the software business, SAP faces these questions: Does an enterprise software vendor have to be a hardware vendor too? Is offering just applications enough for long-term viability?
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Q&A with Steve Merry and Vincent Vloemans
As a big multinational corporation with millions of transactions daily across its global business, Sara Lee Corporation must bridge disparate data sources to deliver quality business intelligence. CIO Steve Merry and Global Director of Information Management Vincent Vloemans discuss the company's decision to pilot SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, allowing executives to test out fast, intuitive information delivery across the
company's vast data pool with the ease and familiarity of a Web search.
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Keith Burgess and Simon Glass, IBM
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Dietmar Giljohann and Marion Augenstein
What happens when industry competitors join forces to come up with some shared, standard services-based processes? Procter & Gamble shares its experience working with other companies to streamline order, shipping, and billing systems -- work that eventually led to a new composite application: the Sales Order Cockpit. This is the power of Enterprise Services Community (ES Community) groups, where customers and SAP partners identify services to drive functional and technical improvements.
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
SAP and Partners: VMware, Sun Microsystems, and Citrix Systems, Inc.
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Chris Maxcer
Where most companies tend to shy away from combined upgrade projects, Hospira responded to its increasing global operations by combining two separate SAP ERP upgrades simultaneously with a Unicode conversion and an enhancement package implementation. Here, Hospira shares its success with an aggressive upgrade approach, and how this strategy can, with proper planning, shave project timelines and costs, as well as achieve more efficient upgrades.
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Brad Ferguson
Every business needs clear insight into who its customers are and what they are buying. See how moving to a new business intelligence environment and implementing SAP BusinessObjects solutions helped one company better manage and analyze its customer data to make smarter business decisions and demonstrate positive ROI in both sales and operations.
SAP NetWeaver Magazine
Evan J. Albright
Hear how an early adopter of SAP NetWeaver integrated a solution around SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP NetWeaver Portal, and other SAP software under an incredibly tight timeline. As a ramp-up customer, the organization learned many valuable lessons that still apply to strategies around SAP NetWeaver technology upgrades today.