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Confidential document shows SAP licensing confusion
SAP customers have made it no secret they believe the vendor's software licensing and pricing is far too complex, and a top company leader recently made a public pledge that things are changing for the...
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Herding Chaotic Spreadsheets
Surprisingly, after more than a decade working with business intelligence (BI), I still hear customers complain about spreadsheets proliferation and the information chaos they create. Yes, even after...
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Application PaaS "Value Engineering" with an ERP
ERP Enterprises have spent heavily on their ERP systems over the last couple of years and many are now considering implementing application PaaS solutions in order to extract real value from the...
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Five Benefits of Mobile ERP Expense Reporting
The manual process of expense reporting is a thing of the past. In its place stands ERP software with mobile functionality that facilitates efficient and accurate expense reporting via smartphones and...
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Are Your Analytics Short-Sighted?
We’ve all heard the old management phrase, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” but the reality is far more complicated than that. It isn’t practical or economically feasible to measure...
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Barnstone, SAP extend mobile management capability in Africa
“I think more now than ever before we are seeing how innovative use of technology is having such a significant impact in business and the partner ecosystem in Africa,” said Desmond Nair, Director for...
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The Massive M2M Business Opportunity for Telcos
Telcos are sitting on a gold mine of core capabilities and assets, critical for M2M success. In addition to just network connectivity, they have outstanding expertise in large scale service delivery...
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Finance As Analytical Partner To The Business
Bloomberg says that the CFO’s role today has evolved well beyond traditional accounting and compliance and they are now expected to play a central role in crafting strategy and creating value for...
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Five Takeaways from the JPMorgan Chase PaaS Announcement
In one of the more eye-opening recent announcements in the world of enterprise cloud, JPMorgan Chase said last week that it has migrated nearly all of its internal .NET and Java applications to a PaaS...
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What BYOD really means for today's CIO
The Corporate CIO has been dealing with the impending threat of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for quite some time. Now that this trend has been around for a while we can really begin to unpack and...
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BI as Easy as "Search"
Lothar Burow likes simplicity. As the head of business intelligence at the Bayer Group, he wants every employee – not just the controlling experts – to be able to perform their own analyses. And this...
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Integrating ERP Systems Across Multiple Locations
Multisite ERP implementations are not at all unusual. Unless you work for a small, local company, chances are your business is spread across multiple locations. According to our 2013 ERP Report, 50% of...
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Ericsson and SAP Announce New Combination of Cloud-Based Machine-to-Machine...
In an effort to meet the growing demand for machine-to-machine technology, Ericsson and SAP AG have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based, machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and...
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How To Make Your Field Workforce Truly Mobile
From utility and telecommunications professionals, to engineers, retail associates and professional services, field service workers are more than just what you think of in terms of a typical cable...
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What do Fighter Pilots, Communists, and British Coal have to do with Clouds?
“What is are the biggest benefits of cloud computing?” you’re likely to get a couple top answers: reduced IT costs and increased business agility. But when you probe people beyond that, asking them,...
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Is your business being strangled by the information monster?
I often come across people frustrated by the amount of time they spend entering information into systems as opposed to time spent in front of customers. This leaves many to think that technology isn't...
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4 Rules of Innovation: What Nike And SAP Know
Recently Fast Company highlighted the top 50 most innovative companies of 2013, with Nike being identified as the most innovative. In an article that graced the cover of Fast Company’s magazine last...
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SAP Co-CEOs: 99% of Employees Approve
SAP Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe took second place in the list of “50 Highest Rated CEOs” put out by Glassdoor.com, nearly tying with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the top spot.
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The Mobile Device Is The Electronic Swiss Army Knife
Mobile devices have come a long way from the brick phones of the 70s and 80s. The brick phones existed for a single task - to make calls. You can think of them as a butter knife. It’s great for...
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What's In Your Business Network?
Business networks have come a long way since the first EDI messages were sent via telex before being converted into computer data. Today, electronic documents are exchanged securely over the Internet,...
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