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insiderPROFILES Ken Murphy, Senior Writer Siemens Industry, Inc. relies on a hefty list of checks and balances to make sure its 8,000 SAP ERP users are generating accurate financial reports. In 2009, when a reorganization brought several disparate business units together, Siemens was tasked with changing internal processes to meet compliance requirements while also simultaneously improving end-user productivity.
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insiderPROFILES Ken Murphy, Senior Writer With a non-integrated mainframe system housing disparate financial data across its seven distribution centers, Eby-Brown Co. knew that integrating this data across the enterprise was a key first step to gaining better insight into financial dealings. However, the lack of an end-to-end solution made reporting and analytics a challenge. To solve this issue, the company implemented SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.3 powered by SAP HANA.
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insiderPROFILES Ken Murphy, Senior Writer Fleet management company ARI manages the entire life cycle and operation of a fleet vehicle for its customers, from up-front specifications and acquisition through resale, which generates a tremendous amount of transactional data. To help ARI manipulate data to spot trends and develop proactive solutions to challenges the data might reveal, the company implemented SAP BusinessObjects Explorer with SAP HANA.
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insiderPROFILES Q&A with Sandy Yang, Functional Analyst at The Globe and Mail After implementing SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to create one version of the truth for its enormous customer database, The Globe and Mail experienced dramatic marketing benefits. So to increase its digital presence and online audience, the company naturally turned again to SAP — this time, to SAP HANA ONE, SAP’s cloud offering for customers who want to run SAP HANA.
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insiderPROFILES David Hannon, Senior Features Editor Users in the Americas division of pharmaceuticals firm Astellas were increasingly asking IT for more advanced analytics, but the company’s SAP infrastructure couldn’t support that level of analysis. Before IT could implement the analytics and other business-facing solutions the users wanted, the team had to perform a full technical upgrade, which included upgrading the database, servers, operating system, and core SAP system.
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insiderPROFILES Amanda McKeon, Assistant Editor SAP is now rolling out its in-memory computing platform SAP HANA to its core enterprise applications, SAP Business Suite, to help customers embed intelligence into transactions and allow for real-time planning and analysis scenarios. While SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA is still new to the market, many early adopters have already seen significant benefits from their investment.
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insiderPROFILES Q&A with Ruben Panizza, Global IT Director, Colgate-Palmolive In late 2011, Colgate-Palmolive implemented SAP HANA CO-PA Accelerator as a test project to enhance its profitability analysis reporting. With significant time savings on numerous brand profitability analysis processes, the company then decided to move its business warehouse and trade promotion management solutions onto the SAP HANA platform.
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insiderPROFILES Ken Murphy, Senior Writer When Grupo Modelo took the step to become a more process-oriented organization, a key objective was to make sure the business processes and rules were consistent company-wide. Standardizing organizational processes would give the brewer more insight into operations, but would also create challenges specifically related to risk management.
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insiderPROFILES David Hannon, Senior Features Editor When Lubrizol completed its initial SAP implementation, it didn’t include SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) in its list of applications. But when the company acquired Noveon in 2004, they gained an unexpected benefit — Noveon’s “culture of CRM” would improve how Lubrizol does business in the long term. Lubrizol has now deployed SAP CRM in one of its units, is rolling out the solution across the enterprise, and is taking the technology mobile.
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insiderPROFILES Lauren Bonneau, Managing Editor To ensure employees are properly trained, businesses must provide education through materials, in-person instruction, or online training, as well as make sure employees are up to date on certifications. For General Mills — a business that employs 39,000 people worldwide — this is a tall order. To standardize employee training in the supply chain area, the company implemented SAP Enterprise Learning and RegLearn from hyperCision.
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