White papers related to "SAP Netweaver"
Extending the capabilities and value of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is a concern for users. To improve data use and fact-based decision making, and reduce stranded spreadsheets, SAP users can choose a business intelligence (BI) software solution such as IBM Cognos 8, with budgeting, planning, and forecasting functions. Find out more about how you can improve your business performance management content with BI.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Balanced Scorecard, Budgeting, Financial Planning, and Analysis, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management and Analysis, Data Warehouse, Decision Making, Forcasting and Planning, Product Data Management (PDM), IBM
The SAP NetWeaver infrastructure and applications have long been critical information pillars for some of the world?s largest and most successful companies. This demo script from IBM shows how companies can use IBM Cognos 8 with their existing SAP NetWeaver infrastructures. It includes scenarios for finance, IT, and business users, and follows specific steps to demonstrate functionality designed for each type of user.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Intelligence (BI), IBM
As business data volumes expand, the biggest challenge for businesses is channeling reams of data into usable information that supports effective decision-making. Organizations that invest in the SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse continuously seek new ways to leverage the power of all corporate data. Learn how some companies are deploying IBM Cognos business intelligence software in the SAP NetWeaver environment.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehouse, IBM
Managing growth is a monumental undertaking?and one that Valero Energy Corporation has mastered. But as one of the largest oil refinery companies in North America, with revenues exceeding $90 billion (USD), the company needed to find a way to fit new applications into its existing infrastructure in a quick and cost-effective manner. By switching to SAP?s NetWeaver platform, Valero saved $480,000 (USD) in the first month.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management and Analysis, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), IT Asset Management (ITAM), IT Infrastructure, IT Monitoring and Management, Networking, Outsourcing, Process Control (HMI-SCADA), SAP, Finance and Insurance, Information, Manufacturing
IT investment continues to grow, as do the solutions that are funded by it. So far, this growth has contributed more to complexity than simplification. Standardizing on enterprise solutions can help companies manage this complexity and focus on their number-one priority: enabling business intelligence (BI). The use cases presented in this whitepaper highlight ways that your company can benefit from standardization.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management and Analysis, SAP
Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance?including accurately predicting margins. Find out about solutions that offer support for enterprise pricing and contract management.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Contract Management, SAP
It?s not easy for manufacturing companies to improve operating efficiency while responding to market changes. Improving productivity across business processes requires visibility, speed, and automation. The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can tailor SAP manufacturing software to your needs and roll it out quickly?and, it can be adapted to changing requirements. Find out how it can grow with your company.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Best Practices, Business Process Management, Change Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Inventory Management, Lean/Flow Manufacturing, Manufacturing Management, SAP
Outsourcing and global competition are forcing companies to transform their supply chains from linear processes into adaptive networks. Communities of customer-centric, demand-driven companies must share knowledge in order to adapt to changing markets, and respond to shorter life cycles. Discover how supply chain management (SCM) solutions can help your company create a truly adaptive and collaborative supply network.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), Collaborative Planning and Scheduling (CPS), Demand Management, International Trade Logistics (ITL), Outsourcing, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain Optimization, Trading Partner Management, SAP
Traditionally, utilities have leveraged robust meter, network, and customer service infrastructures. These technologies served the needs of largely regulated energy and utility markets characterized by price regulations, easy access to energy resources, and sufficient infrastructure capacity. There are few examples of 'old' technologies that make such a compelling argument against replacement. All that?s about to change.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), SAP, Utilities
Business process management (BPM) is an attempt to provide a holistic view of a company?s workflows and automate processes. It provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. Learn more about SAP?s place in the BPM landscape and what its new BPM tool?NetWeaver BPM?can do to help you better manage your company.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Business Process Automation, Business Process Management, Project and Process Management, SAP
Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions. Based on best practices, performance management (PM) solutions help coordinate planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis, ad hoc queries, dashboarding, and scorecarding to support decision-making. Learn how PM solutions facilitate the flow of the right information to the right people at the right time.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Intelligence (BI), Business Performance Management (BPM), End-User Query and Reporting, IBM
This white paper is a transcript of an IBM White Glove Events on-demand webinar. In it, you?ll learn how Chevron improved business decision-making by extending SAP NetWeaver data and applications with IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management. Speakers include Daisy Woodhams, senior VI design architect at Chevron, and Sharon Maxon, global category analyst for the consumer packaged goods category at Chevron.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehouse, IBM
Enterprises should consider collaboration as a core component of their IT infrastructure, and not simply as a set of tools that facilitate translation and communication. In this white paper, learn why SAP NetWeaver is the long-term integration platform of SAP; why business to business (B2B)integration is critical to SAP implementations; and how NetWeaver and SEEBURGER solve integration issues.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), SEEBURGER
Rapid changes in international markets?and mounting pressures to reduce costs and improve quality?make globalization a key issue for most organizations today. Worldwide company reorganizations, acquisitions, mergers, and spin-offs affect the structure of an enterprise, demanding immediate action. Globalization requires that companies enable core business processes on a global basis, while providing ease of use for local user communities.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Currency Conversion, Localization, Standards, Translation, Translation and Localization, SAP
One of the riskiest moves company stakeholders can make is to acquire and merge with another company or to divest themselves of company assets. Despite the best of intentions, many mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures produce results far below expectations. Learn why failure happens, and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
Related to SAP Netweaver: Business Process Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Change Management, Practices and Business Issues, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), SAP