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insiderPROFILES Evan J. Albright After acquiring a US-based company, GILSA, a Mexico-based dairy manufacturer and distributor, committed itself to ensure smooth business process integration — internally and for longstanding retailers and customers — by building a flexible data system to serve its growing, global customer base. CIO Mauricio Castillo shares how the company was able to keep these new customers operating in a business-as-usual manner.
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insiderPROFILES Salim Ali, Vice President of Enterprise Solution Marketing for SAP, describes a new customer experience for users who expect to have information at their fingertips anytime, anywhere. SAP customers now have a new way to collaborate, innovate, address challenges, and discover and evaluate solutions and services — with SAP partners and peers across the SAP ecosystem.
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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.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine SAP and Partners: VMware, Sun Microsystems, and Citrix Systems, Inc.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine SAP and Partners: VMware, Intel Corporation, Novell, Inc., Red Hat, TExperts, Citrix Systems, Inc., and Sun Microsystems
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine John Parker With the global focus on energy alternatives, Sharp Electronics Corporation saw a big growth opportunity for its Sharp Solar Energy Solutions Group. With its solar portal project, Sharp wanted a new scalable online ordering system that would streamline orders, reduce processing time, and seamlessly integrate data with its back-end SAP ERP system.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Evan J. Albright Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is gearing up to open a new hospital that will likely increase its size to about twice its current operations — and double the inventory that it must track. To replace the outdated system it was using to monitor roughly 10,000 pieces of equipment across more than 50 locations, BCM chose to become a ramp-up customer for SAP NetWeaver Mobile 7.1 and implement a new system for tracking inventory more easily and accurately.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Davin Wilfrid During your implementation project, is it best to customize your software to fit your existing business processes or to change your processes to fit the new system? Endeca Technologies chose a unique combined approach for its 22-week SAP ERP 6.0 implementation -- and kept customization to a minimum while at the same time reducing financial close time by 30%, supporting revenue growth with no additional hires, and improving the accuracy of expense management.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Raghavendra Subbarao Does your IT team fully understand why composite applications can help the business — and how to create these innovative and adaptive applications? This article shares the personal experiences of an early adopter of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, sheds light on the cost vs. benefit of using the solution’s modeling capabilities, and points out pitfalls to avoid in your own implementations.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Joshua Greenbaum In this economy, the face-to-face interactions, training, guidance, and advice found at trade shows and events for the SAP community are actually more important than ever. Joshua Greenbaum shares his post-SAPPHIRE musings and explores some surprising trends in who is attending — and why. With budgets and IT decision making under such close scrutiny, what is the impact on attendees’ interactions with fellow customers and the broader SAP community?
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