3 Reasons How 2020 May Have Killed Your IT Roadmap for 2021 and Beyond
2020 presented challenges that have affected all of us personally and professionally in profound ways. While COVID-19 has been well documented from a personal and economic perspective, the impact COVID-19 has had on a company’s business, and IT models have not received the attention it deserves.
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How Cloud Impacts on Enterprise Technical Debt
Over many years there have been a number of high profile mergers/ de-mergers, acquisitions and consolidations. In each case one of the key drivers for the move was cited as synergies, translating into cost reduction, particularly in core systems.
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The Cloud Awakens….Best of Breed Strikes Back!
Cloud computing is not a new concept; people have been talking seriously about the cloud for several years. However, as with all technology paradigm shifts, adoption takes time. Until recently cloud solutions were utilized more for one off applications by small to medium sized business (SMB), or used as quick easy places to host a proof of concept or stand up a development box.
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12 Business Intelligence Predictions Shaping 2017
We are seeing many predictions lists in articles, newsletters and social media by thought leaders, social media influencers and vendors on predicting the future. Attempting to predict is considered by many to be akin to finding the proverbial 'unicorn' or something that is impossible to find or achieve.
Read More7 Reasons Why S/4 HANA Does Not Replace SAP BW
With S/4HANA, SAP launched a new ERP product promising significant simplifications to the IT side of executing business processes. Going by some of the sales and marketing messages SAP has sent out during the last few months, customers implementing S/4HANA would have a unique opportunity to heavily cut into their SAP BW investments, to the point that they no longer need SAP BW (or any other data warehouse solution) at all to cover their reporting any analytic requirements.
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What is the Future of Data Warehousing – And how does BW/4HANA fit in?
Many of the larger companies I have worked with or discussed with my colleagues have made some progress on their way to Enterprise Data Warehousing. Hardly anyone, however, has actually completed an implementation of the one single point of truth, integrating all relevant structured data and analysis in one place.
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Getting Ready for Next Gen Data Warehousing - BW/4 HANA and Beyond
It wasn't a long time ago at an SAP conference in 2013 that an impromptu discussion with fellow attendees resulted in a lengthy and interesting debate on the impact of HANA will have on SAP’s Business Warehouse (BW). The discussion was initially centered around whether BW has any future in the Business Intelligence (BI) landscape that will be driven by HANA. We drilled into the pros and cons of a packaged EDW solution (like BW) vs. classic custom-built data warehouse solution on HANA.
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Top 8 BI Trends That Are Going to Make Waves in 2018
Thinking of 2018, there is quite a buzz about the new trends that are going to dominate the Business Intelligence (BI) market-space. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Visualization, Self-Service BI, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ……… we have heard a lot about these technologies, but which ones will make waves in 2018?
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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. What’s the Point?
As Cloud computing becomes more efficient, secure and cost-effective, it continues to remain a top priority for all CIOs. Data warehousing in the Cloud is no exception to this scenario. As data content grows exponentially, businesses must be able to harness the power of data and transform it into business value.
Read MoreSAP’s Simplified Data Model Represents a Paradigm Shift for SAP Trade Management Architecture (4.0 FP03)
SAP Trade Management is an Integrated, holistic Trade Management solution that enables a coordinated business process for field sales to create account-specified plans aimed at maximizing profitability that fully integrates with S&OP, Supply Chain Management, Finance, etc.
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SAP Trade Management – Features and Migration to new release (TMAC 4.0 FP03)
SAP Trade Management is an integrated, holistic Trade Management solution that enables a coordinated business process for field sales to create account-specified plans aimed at maximizing profitability that fully integrates with S&OP, Supply Chain Management, Finance, etc.
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