Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WHITE PAPER - Learn how to use standard features of Solaris 10, Containers and Zones and ZFS to optimize your SAP data centre, virtualize your infrastructure and drive down cost and raise flexibility.
Posted: October 13, 2008 | Published: October 7, 2008


Topics:  ERP | High Availability | SAP (Product) | Security | Storage Systems | Systems Management | Training

WHITE PAPER - Security and compliance issue will continue to dominate IT initiations as long as valuable on customer, employees, patients and business financials is exchanged and stored.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Data Security | Enterprise | IT Infrastructure | SAP (Product) | Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - For businesses running SAP solutions, manual processing of customer order and billing documents limits their ability to improve order-to-cash performance. Learn about technology that reduces processing time, costs, and DSO while maintaining accuracy.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Document Management | Order Management Systems | Sales Force Automation | Sales Orders | SAP (Product) | Workflow Software

WHITE PAPER - Improving business performance is a goal that cannot be realized without mutual cooperation and alignment between business and IT.
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Published: September 25, 2008


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Systems | Data Warehouses | ERP | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explains how Performance Management and ERP are both unique capabilities and a winning combination and how to generate the most value from a Performance Management framework.
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Published: September 25, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management Software | ERP | Reporting Software | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - In this paper learn how the SAPCustomer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application maximizes the value from each customer by keeping profitable customers loyal, decreasing service costs by increasing efficiency, and increasing service revenue.
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Benefits | Contract Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | CRM | Customer Service | Marketing | Sales | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper identify the challenges that SAP customers face by granting emergency access privileges within their enterprise, and detail the existing solutions fall effectively managing and auditing user information during emergency access sessions.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Access Control | Information Management | Information Security | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will examine the access control challenges faced by IT and reveal the many advantages of automated user provisioning for SAP solutions.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Access Control | Endpoint Security | Password Authentication Protocol | Password Management | Passwords | SAP (Product) | Workflow Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will examine the monitoring challenges faced by finance departments and reveal the many advantages of real-time transaction monitoring for SAP.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Financial Services | Fraud Protection | IT Infrastructure | SAP (Product) | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - It is essential that SAP applications and network infrastructures be considered together as a "application infrastructure" that supports strategic business objectives. This paper examines the challenges associated with SAP application delivery
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Load Balancing | Productivity | SAP (Product) | Security | Server Management | SSL | Switching | TCP | User Experience

WHITE PAPER - It is essential that SAP applications and network infrastructures be considered together as a common "application infrastructure" that supports strategic business objectives. This paper examines the challenges associated with SAP application delive
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Network Architectures | Network Configuration Management | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses how your IT group can prepare for and participate in mergers and acquisitions. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) business initiatives help to maximize the deals value, minimize risk, and speed time to benefit after the deal is signed.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Business Process Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | CRM | Financial Management | Human Resources Services | Mergers and Acquisitions | Performance Testing | SAP (Product) | Supplier Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper-one of four function-specific papers-is based on the IT responses and follow-up interviews with technology executives who participated in the 2008 Economist Intelligence Unit operational excellence survey sponsored by SAP.
Posted: September 16, 2008 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Customer Satisfaction | Financial Management | Inventory Management | Marketing | Operational Support Systems | Sales | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Banks, utilities, retailers, and the like are taking advantage of incoming calls and Web visits to make offers to existing customers. In this paper learn how with real-time offer management applications, can help leverage customer information.
Posted: September 16, 2008 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  Call Center Management | Change Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Customer Satisfaction | Data Management | Real Time Operating Systems | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores some of the key issues in managing changes across 5 system SAP landscapes, discusses current manual methods of managing these changes, and looks at the value of change control technology in these situations.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Parallel Processing | Project Management | Risk Management | SAP (Product)