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- All aboard! Amtrak talent initiative
- Are there clouds in your future?
- Astellas reinforces the foundation
- Drilling Deep with SAP HANA®
- Free up IT
- Getting started with SAP Simple Finance
- How to effectively deploy SAP HANA
- SAP CFO Luka Mucic
- SAP Insider Profiles: City Government of Buenos Aires
- The next revolution in analytics
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All aboard! Amtrak talent initiative gathers steam
Find out how iconic railway company Amtrak fast-tracked its hiring and talent management processes by strategically implementing multiple SuccessFactors solutions. Faced with steadily growing ridership and the need to make 2,500 new hires per year, the company drew upon SuccessFactors’ talent and workforce analytics solutions to streamline its processes, improve talent, and invest in its workforce.
Are there clouds in your future? Choosing your SAP ERP HCM and SuccessFactors strategy
It is becoming abundantly clear that cloud computing has a future in many enterprises. Organizations are already moving their processes and transactions to the cloud to save time, money, and resource efforts. The promise of the cloud is irrefutable: faster deployments, predictability of costs, less reliance on in-house IT, and functionality that meets the needs of the next generation of HR management initiatives.
Astellas reinforces the foundation: SAP upgrade as a launching pad for new business initiatives
Since implementing SAP ERP in 2006, the timing for an ERP upgrade just never seemed right for the Americas division of global pharmaceutical firm Astellas. Despite the pressing goal of standardizing on a single SAP platform across its global regions, there were always other IT projects under way, such as adding functionality to the existing system, opening new geographies, or integrating newly acquired companies onto the IT platform.
Drilling Deep with SAP HANA®
Since its founding in 2008, Houston-based Pacific Drilling has become a premier ultradeepwater drilling contractor in the oil and natural gas industry, growing aggressively to about 1,200 employees. It also owns four technologically advanced drillships (with another four being built) that operate in some of the most remote locations in the world. However, the company wasn’t able to track performance at the desired level, and its SAP ERP system was overdue for an upgrade. The combination of these two factors pointed in one direction: toward SAP HANA™. SAP HANA’s in-memory computing capabilities could help Pacific Drilling achieve its aggressive goals for performance tracking and management. And timing the move to SAP HANA with an overall SAP ERP upgrade could help provide that efficient approach. With assistance from Deloitte's network of member firms, the company did both—implemented SAP HANA and upgraded its ERP system—within an aggressive timeline.
Free up IT and focus on new business innovation - Shifting application management to the cloud can help reduce costs and increase efficiency
Cloud computing, though simple in concept, holds tremendous potential for addressing some of the most complex business challenges today. As a tool that can free up IT resources and allow organizations to concentrate more on business innovation, cloud computing offers a path to results that matter. Ultimately, shifting to the cloud can help reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Getting started with SAP Simple Finance - The reality behind three misconceptions about the SAP HANA-based application
SAP® Simple Finance, a set of solutions backed by SAP HANA® and able to be deployed in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, offers cohesive, real-time financial insights as well as the ability to pull those insights from systems beyond an organization’s central financial system into a web-enabled user interface, SAP Fiori®. Understanding some simple truths about SAP® Simple Finance is a key first step for organizations seeking to unlock new insights and new value.
How to effectively deploy SAP HANA in modern landscapes: Development methods that are iterative, flexible, and fast
The traditional way of software delivery is being replaced by methods that are flexible, iterative, and fast. SAP HANA® and it’s powerful in-memory capabilities are perfectly positioned for this new technology landscape, offering organizations an opportunity to put in place solutions that fit their unique requirements as they pursue critical business goals. But putting in place SAP HANA in a meaningful way requires essential guidance. In the course of implementing SAP HANA and using agile development methods with customers, Deloitte has uncovered seven key tips you can leverage to help achieve targeted results.
SAP CFO Luka Mucic: Driving insight with in-memory technology
With the growing interconnectivity and complexity of global business, CFOs and the finance organization are increasingly expected to act as their company’s nerve center and navigator, communicating and collaborating with a wide range of business partners, each of which brings its own issues, systems, and ways of doing business. New finance tools using cloud computing and in-memory database technology can help finance leaders simplify their operating environment, and access and deliver data in real time. In this discussion with Deloitte’s John Steele, Luka Mucic, CFO and chief operating officer of SAP SE, offers insights from his experience helping organizations migrate to new finance systems based on SAP HANA®, the in-memory data platform.
SAP Insider Profiles: City Government of Buenos Aires better serves its citizens
In the Buenos Aires area, the Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (GCBA) serves about 13 million citizens and maintains hundreds of thousands of objects—from tree to roads. To do that, GCBA handles hundreds of thousands of documents—from claims forms to contractor files. To better manage its information challenge, GCBA leaders decided they needed a new, more integrated system. The solution? SAP® ERP functionality customized to fit the unique needs of the city. The benefits of the transformation have included improved response to citizen requests and more transparent budgeting.
The next revolution in analytics: SAP S/4HANA - Reshape business processes on the fly with real-time insight
The word “analytics” often conjures images of after-the-fact investigations — big-picture analyses that can provide insight for strategic planning and smarter decision making in the future. Many people view analytics as a tool that makes them wiser in a holistic way, but don’t see how it can be applied to routine, daily tasks. With the right solutions and applications, however, analytics capabilities can provide insights instantly during specific but commonplace business processes — whether it’s something like producing a sales quote or making everyday procurement decisions.
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- All aboard! Amtrak talent initiative
- Are there clouds in your future?
- Astellas reinforces the foundation
- Drilling Deep with SAP HANA®
- Free up IT
- Getting started with SAP Simple Finance
- How to effectively deploy SAP HANA
- SAP CFO Luka Mucic
- SAP Insider Profiles: City Government of Buenos Aires
- The next revolution in analytics
- Browse additional SAP pages