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When Lexmark International, Inc. wanted to centralize activities to better manage its financial tax liability, the global printing and imaging company set its sights on updating its legacy ERP system.

In the slightly more than three years since it deployed SAP® ERP Financials throughout its global entities, Lexmark has increased value to its customers as a result of more streamlined business processes and improved reporting, including improved tax reporting and compliance. 

In this session, attendees will learn how Lexmark's Finance, Tax, and IT organizations worked together to address the key issues with their international roll-out in Latin America, EMEA and APAC. The session will also shed light on other considerations that were made as Lexmark implemented a transaction tax engine to ensure that its financial applications deliver payment accurately and meet compliance requirements. 

The session will also cover:

• How IT and Finance at Lexmark worked together effectively to take a consolidated approach to financial compliance 

• How decreasing complexity and consolidating financial systems eliminated the manual burdens of IT by, minimized risk, and increased agility 

• Lessons learned through Lexmark's implementation and integration of its SAP financial applications to a tax engine 

Join Verdantis to learn how to improve master data quality without outside help. Companies with robust processes can manage this challenge themselves with the right combination of tools and embedded in-house knowledge. In this webinar, we’ll cover how to: 

• Standardize, normalize, attribute, rationalize, and enrich your data using embedded knowledge 

• Improve material, product, customer, vendor, and services master data with a secure, Saas deployed solution 

• Leverage this solution that uses Artificial Intelligence-based and Learn-by-Example-based technologies to optimize SAP NetWeaver® MDM, SAP® SRM, SCM, MM, and SAP PLM 

The data management challenges each organization faces are unique in their priority and severity. Therefore the structure and composition of a data organization is one of the major success factors for establishing a successful and sustainable data program. 

View this webcast, featuring a leading healthcare provider, to learn about: 

* The developmental stages of a data organization 

* The models and the choices for establishing the right structure to the organization 

* The process for selecting the team members that will produce high-performance business results

Join Reliant Energy and Worksoft Inc., an SAP® partner, to learn how Reliant is deploying company-wide automated testing with easy-to-use tools that can be quickly deployed, require no coding, and deliver a re-usable test library. By implementing Worksoft Certify® and Worksoft Business Process Procedure®, Reliant can build and execute automated tests in a fraction of the time – with better coverage and substantial cost savings. And learn how Reliant, a leading retail energy provider with more than 1.5 million customers, is supporting governance requirements with a Center of Competency that engages a broad user base of business and functional analysts. 

Register today to hear how Reliant is: 

• Achieving Process and Cost Efficiency Across an SAP, Java, HTML, and .Net Landscape 

• Leveraging Re-usable Test Cases to Increase Productivity and Ensure Business Process Quality 

• Participating in a highly regulated, competitive industry which demands high quality systems and an agile response to changes 

• Keeping Pace with Business by Accelerating Process Validation Prior to Production Release 

A lack of production volume visibility in hydrocarbon supply chains can often be problematic. For greater visibility, from well head monitoring through the allocation process and ultimately to revenue and regulatory reporting systems, SAP has released SAP Upstream Operations Management as the core application for a global solution. The application is integrated with other SAP products to provide interoperability across systems and processes and visibility into upstream operations, maintenance, engineering, and planning. 

Join us to learn more about SAP Upstream Operations Management and hear a discussion on the following topics: 

• Strategy and vision for Upstream O&G 

• SAP Upstream Operations Management role in day-to-day operations 

• SAP Upstream Operations Management as a Global Solution 

Right now, customers are considering leaving your business. Do you know why? Do you know their names? If you did, would you know what to do right now to retain them? 

This scenario should give every business leader pause for reflection. 

This is just one of hundreds of possible scenarios where applying predictive analytics can help you get in front of specific events that are about to unfold. 

Whether you want to retain high risk customers, spot narrow windows of opportunity to generate sales or avoid unforeseen operating costs, predictive analysis allows you to act before it happens. 

Join Charles Gadalla, Director, Advanced Analytics Solution Management SAP BusinessObjects, as he demonstrates how  predictive analytics can be easily integrated into the business applications you already use every day in order to alert you to upcoming risks and opportunities.

Where can Quality and EHS Management solutions best work with your SAP® systems to improve risk management, reporting and quality control? 

In this webinar, we take a detailed look at four key scenarios for integrating automated Quality and EHS Management Solutions with your SAP applications. This session introduces some ideal technologies for Quality and EHS to complement your SAP systems, along with tips and advice for creating visibility into your organization’s quality management and EHS risk through the SAP solutions you have in place now. 

This session will specifically cover these four key scenarios: 

• SAP ERP HCM linked to Quality and EHS injury/illness reporting 

• SAP ERP linked to Quality Nonconformance and Corrective Action 

• SAP CRM linked to Risk-based Complaint Handling in Quality Management 

• SAP NetWeaver® MDM linked to Quality and EHS Taxonomies 

Workplace safety is foundational to operational excellence. Yet many organizations struggle to improve safety performance and prevent costly incidents that can harm people and the environment, and interrupt production. Attend this webinar to learn how fast-growing manufacturer Pelican Products uses SAP solutions to enable a standardized incident management process, prevent incidents, and share best practices for improvement across the organization. 

Join us for this case-study presentation to learn more about: 

• How Pelican Products implemented a new incident process in 90 days 

• The business case for improving incident management 

• Best practices, lessons learned, and business results 

• SAP’s strategy and solution offering for EHS management 

Hear from Pelican Products on their real-world experience in implementing SAP EHS Management, and how you can apply that in your organization to improve safety, reduce costs, and control operational risks. 

The last few years we have seen several transformations in the business world, externally and internally. Constantly changing market conditions combined with the ubiquity of internet and the influx of mobile devices in workplaces, CIOs are under pressure to deliver more value to their business. The end result analytics has become a key investment for organizations. 

In this session, you will understand the importance of a clear, well-articulated Analytics strategy. We will explore critical success factors for developing and delivering a comprehensive Analytics strategy.   In this webinar, you will learn: 

• Best-practice approaches to executing this plan enterprise-wide including guidelines to define and run a successful BI competency center 

• Key recommendations to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and organize cross-functionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome 

• Repeatable frameworks that engage and bring together the priorities of both CIOs and business executives to address organizational challenges 

When you register for this event, you'll also get access to an online assessment tool to help you prioritize the highest value initiatives in your organization.  You'll walk away with a custom report with recommendations on where to begin your BI project.

Whether you've already invested in SAP HANA® or you're considering investing in it, you'll want to learn how you can optimize the performance of this cutting-edge technology with the right infrastructure. In this webcast EMC's Senior SAP Infrastructure Architect Christoph Streubert will outline how changes in your IT infrastructure can improve the performance and ROI with SAP HANA while enhancing data protection. 

Topics covered in the presentation will include: 

• Setting the foundation to integrate SAP HANA into your SAP® landscape 

• A look at how EMC's SAP-certified solutions can help optimize SAP HANA 

• Strategies to ensure data persistence and business continuity 

After the presentation, Christoph will answer questions from attendees as time allows. 

Explore concepts, factors, and techniques for attaining operational efficiencies, improved staff utilization, and cost reduction through the use of labor tracking. This webinar will cover the high-level value proposition for labor tracking (with or without the use of SAP® EWM) in SAP ERP. We will also introduce the Peak-Catalyst solution for labor tracking in SAP ERP.

Key Learning Points:  

• Understand key benefits of labor tracking within your supply chain 

• Introduction of the Peak-Catalyst labor tracking solution 

• Opportunities related to variable compensation of your warehouse workforce 

• Lessons from real-life labor tracking implementations

Most enterprises place a heavy reliance on Microsoft Excel as a planning and collaboration tool throughout all of the stages in a project's lifecycle. During this webinar we'll explore alternative approaches that provide greater control and data integrity, while stimulating cooperation between all stakeholders involved in project portfolio management. PG&E's Dave Amos will share his vision for implementing a world class Long-term Planning solution. 

Attend this webinar to learn more about: 

• Project estimating and budgeting strategies 

• Methods for improving resource management 

• Tips for accelerating EPPM adoption 

Featured applications: SAP Business Suite, SAP Portfolio and Project Management (PPM), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and HANA. 

Join Steve Lucas, EVP SAP Database & Technology, and Partha Chakraborty, VP & SAP Leader Europe, IBM Global Business Services as they discuss SAP HANA, show how IBM is a complete partner for SAP customers and provide answers to key questions. 

SAP HANA is one of the hottest topics within the SAP community. Since the announcement of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, many companies have started to evaluate if and how their business can benefit. SAP HANA is not just an in-memory database, it also lowers the TCO of the SAP landscape. Mr. Lucas will highlight the enormous potential this technology provides through the transformation and innovation of business processes. 

To maintain and grow their markets, while keeping ahead of the competition, businesses are transforming themselves into globally integrated, agile enterprises. Key drivers such as Cloud, Analytics, Mobility and Social Media are important factors in this transformation. The combination of robust systems with In-Memory technology provides the platform to ensure businesses are fully able to exploit these new technologies and opportunities. Just as important is working with the right partner on the journey. Mr. Chakraborty will showcase why IBM is unique in offering an end-to end solution for SAP Customers - Strategy and Transformation Consulting, Infrastructure and Technology skills and services combined with world-class Infrastructure. 

Joining the conversation to provide a global analyst perspective is Frank Niemann, Principal Consultant - Software & SaaS Markets, Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) GmbH. Mr. Niemann will share his view on: 

• the market perception of SAP HANA 

• drivers and obstacles 

• market development considering in-memory data analysis and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA 

Organizations are spending millions of dollars on Security and breaches to this day still continue. Companies respond to attacks in departmental silos, but attackers don't think that way. Learn how correlating events, alarms and alerts across the domains of IT, Physical and Plant Security are essential for the true prevention of fraud, theft, sabotage and terrorist attacks. 

There is a quiet revolution underway where enterprises are starting to combine the oversight of the IT Security and Physical Security functions into one organization. AlertEnterprise is the first, and only solution to deliver this capability in a single unified platform. The business processes extend across HR functions – Onboarding / Offboarding, simplify compliance management functions and automate audit report filings. Additionally the combined solution reduces upfront risk, eliminates silos and works across the entire organization. 

By attending this webinar session you will learn how: 

• Organizations are spending a lot of money on Security and Compliance – Breaches Still Continue 

• Organizations are really addressing only one-third of the problem 

• Hear from experts on how eliminating organizational silos reduces risk, minimizes functional overlap and enhances security 

• Real-life examples will be used to illustrate scenarios 

• AlertEnterprise complements SAP, particularly for Regulated and Asset-Intensive Industries 

Join us for an in-depth Webinar on rapid database migration of SAP Business Suite to SAP HANA to learn how you can leverage a modular, pre-integrated approach to quickly power SAP Business Suite with this powerful in-memory platform – delivering fast time-to-value while lowering cost and time hurdles. 

For people looking to "test the water" as a first step, this rapid migration, along with the SAP HANA Operational Reporting rapid-deployment solution, can be leveraged in a model that brings zero disruption to your production systems, while delivering real-time operational reporting on SAP HANA in five weeks or less. 

The ability to predict outcomes within your business is the new normal.  Imagine having the ability to drive increased production and lower maintenance cost by eliminating unplanned downtime for critical machines.  

Or, provide improved patient care thereby contributing to lower health care costs by predicting critical patient events.  You can even increase sales and loyalty by predicting the buying patterns of your customers.   

These are just a few of the capabilities that in-memory predictive analytics solution provides.  Come hear details about a specific initiative including a live analytics demo and review of the required architecture. 

With more knowledgeable and sophisticated buyers than ever before, the dynamic between buyers and vendors has fundamentally shifted – making it more difficult than ever to acquire and retain customers. So, how can you more effectively identify and convert the best new prospects for your products and services? Could you be selling more to your current base of customers? What can you do to better retain your customers? 

Join us for an interactive discussion on the key challenges inhibiting sales and marketing success through your CRM -- and best practices for overcoming them to generate better results. 

In this session, featuring a customer case study, you will see how you can: 

• Improve prospecting results through better targeting 

• Uncover new opportunities in existing accounts for greater share-of-wallet 

• Enhance customer relationships to drive increased retention

• Increase sales utilization and knowledge for improved productivity 

Discover how SAP customers are saving time and costs, and boosting customer satisfaction and order processing productivity by automating fax and email orders into SAP. 

The webinar will cover how automated order processing can help SAP customers address growing order volumes without adding headcount, as well as: 

• Process fax orders with the same efficiency and accuracy as EDI 

• Reduce fax order processing time up to 90% 

• Bring visibility, control and accessibility to every order processed 

• Replace multiple point-to-point systems with a single platform 

Learn how you can increase IT agility, reliability, and performance and reduce TCO when you virtualize your SAP® environment with VMware. We will discuss best practices and the tangible benefits customers have achieved since replatforming and virtualizing their SAP environments. 

During this webinar, you will learn:

• How the path to the software-defined datacenter is transforming the way SAP customers run their workloads 

• The steps to achieve faster time to service, enhanced business continuity and improved SAP service levels through virtualization 

• Specific customer success stories and the benefits customers have realized since replatforming and virtualizing their SAP environments 

• Getting started: how to assess, create and adopt a replatforming and virtualization strategy for your organization 

• Answers to your questions during live Q&A with our SAP and VMware experts 

SAP NetWeaver® BW powered by SAP HANA® has helped hundreds of companies supercharge their data warehouseS for better performance and led to dramatic improvements in the speed at which decisions get made across the company. 

However, for many companies with an investment in SAP NetWeaver BW today (or who may be pondering such an investment in the future) questions still remain in terms of what they can expect if they move to SAP HANA as the new in-memory database powering their SAP® data warehouse. 

Join us for this webinar in which leading experts from SAP along with Gopal Krishnamurthy from Visual BI address the most common questions asked in the market today about this powerful data warehouse combination and provide best practices in terms of how to build the business case often needed to move forward with such an investment. 

As databases grow from terabyte to petabyte size, a new kind of platform is required to keep up. SAP has made radical innovations to support extremely large databases with our latest release of SAP Sybase IQ. 

During this Webinar you’ll learn: 

• How SAP Sybase IQ makes it simpler and more cost-effective for companies to get new insights from massive amounts of data 

• How businesses can use SAP Sybase IQ to extend the power of analytics across the entire enterprise 

• How the latest release of SAP Sybase IQ transforms the way companies can use knowledge from data-driven analytics to compete and win 

Join us to see how you can tap into all of your valuable data at the speed of business with the latest release of SAP Sybase IQ – supporting extreme-scale data warehouses and Big Data analytics. 

Purdue University is a leading academic institution with more than 70,000 students. It is a leader in IT technology innovation, demanding high performance from all of its IT efforts, and boasting the largest cyber research infrastructure in the nation. 

When Purdue decided to implement a converged infrastructure to support its SAP(r) environment and provide a robust back-up and recovery solution for their two business data centers, it didn’t have to look further than HP Converged Infrastructure. 

By implementing HP Converged Infrastructure, learn how Purdue significantly decreased backup and recovery times, shrunk their physical footprint, and positioned their IT environment for cloud computing. 

To meet rapid market changes, Banks need to modernize their core banking systems in a cost effective, and risk free manner, as well as cost take outs and customer centric plays. This webinar will share how you can ensure real return on investment in a complex transformation and will offer you a glimpse into new concepts and capabilities, such as banking services on a cloud. 

You will learn how to identify the quick wins and drive appropriate governance to deliver projects on time and within budget. This will be a good opportunity to hear how IBM and SAP have been working with clients across the globe with successful transformation journeys. 

How can you transform your industry with ‘”real” real-time insight? 

Join us to hear Ed Toben, former global CIO of Colgate-Palmolive, explain how his company answered this important question. 

Toben will take you through Colgate-Palmolive’s journey with the SAP HANA platform, from discussions with SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner to implementation. He’ll detail how Colgate-Palmolive is changing the game by fundamentally transforming established industry processes – like planning, reporting, and analysis – to gain a competitive edge. 

Discover the innovative SAP HANA platform for in-memory computing with co-presenter Reza Soudagar, senior director of database and technology marketing for lines of business and industries at SAP. 

Register to learn how the power of SAP HANA can help you innovate, rethink your business processes, and achieve operational excellence. 

In a recent Forrester research paper, commissioned by SAP, Forrester surveyed IT decision makers from organizations in a variety of global locations to illustrate the theme, “Information Modeling Is Key to Achieving Business and Information Agility.” 

The findings are quite compelling:  all too often enterprise’s information is still an unmanaged asset — businesses can’t find consistent information, and IT struggles under the resulting weight of project delays and ballooning storage costs.   

Some of the key findings in this research:

• A correlation may exist between higher EIM maturity and superior business performance. 

• It’s not just your grandfather’s data warehouse anymore. 

• Agile EIM is one of the key challenges facing enterprises today. 

• The real trick is in the balance between IT controls and flexibility. 

• One can have their cake and eat it too with a unified approach to information modeling. 

Please join Boris Evelson, Vice President, Principal Analyst from Forrester as he presents the finding from this research paper and addresses some ‘best practices’. 

Following Boris’ presentation, we will be joined by Matt Creason, Director, Global Enterprise Information Management and Architecture at SAP who will demonstrate how SAP Sybase PowerDesigner can help you manage these challenges and implement an integrated EIM strategy.

The power of foresight at your fingertips!

SAP has yet again changed the game in business analytics. With SAP Predictive Analytics, SAP is bringing the future into focus for anyone willing to see it. The art and science of performing sophisticated predictive analysis is now within reach to the business leader and seasoned statistician alike.

Join SAP’s Sr. Director of Analytics, Mike Watschke as he discusses: 

• What makes the SAP Predictive Analytics solution both unique and a value-add to your business. 

• Industry and line of business use cases that can be working for you in a matter of days.

• How SAP’s in-memory, real-time technology enables greater predictive insight.

• How customers have used Predictive Analysis to:

- Achieve 80% faster budgeting cycles

- Make real-time cancer screening a reality

- Predict accurate sales forecasting across multiple fiscal quarters

Mike will also provide a live product demonstration which will illustrate the ease at which this product can be incorporated into your daily business activities, as well the engaging visual experience it creates.

According to Forrester, 91% of organizations cite data security as a critical or high priority and allocate, on average, 16% of their security technology budgets to this area. Yet, many lack adequate solutions for protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and valuable intellectual property against data loss. Insiders ? employees and business partners ? are the biggest source of breaches, whether intentional or accidental. 

Join Forrester and SEEBURGER as they share the findings from Forrester’s latest research and discuss strategies to secure your company data. Register today to learn: 

• What strategies companies are implementing to keep their data secure 

• The significant but often hidden threat presented by insiders

• Data security “hot spots,” including file transfers and mobile devices 

• New technologies for protecting the security of your data from insider breaches 

With the growth of unstructured data, file transfers present a big gap in data security for many organizations. If you’re still relying on FTP servers, ad hoc emails and drop-box servers, files may be flying across your organization daily under the radar of any centralized security or governance. A new strategy, Managed File Transfer, can help you ensure that the right data gets to the right person every time – and help you prove it to auditors. 

The practice of implementing Data Governance initiatives has grown in recent years to assist organizations in dealing with the volume and complexities of data in today’s environments.  But creating the policies and procedures is only the beginning of solving actual problems.  Organizations need the right tools to implement, track and manage data inconsistencies to drive to improved data quality.

Please join our guest speaker, David Loshin, president of Knowledge Integrity, Inc., a recognized thought leader and industry expert in the areas of data governance, master data management, and business intelligence. David is a prolific author regarding BI best practices, and has written numerous books and papers on BI and data quality. 

Following David’s presentation, we will be joined by Matt Creason, Global Center of Excellence and Michael Briles, Solution Manager from SAP.  They will be presenting and demonstrating SAP Sybase PowerDesigner and SAP Information Steward.

David Loshin, president of Knowledge Integrity, Inc, (www.knowledge-integrity.com), is a recognized thought leader and expert consultant in the areas of data governance, data quality, master data management, and business intelligence. David is a prolific author regarding BI best practices, via the expert channel at www.b-eye-network.com and numerous books and papers on BI and data quality. His book, "Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide" (June 2003) has been hailed as a resource allowing readers to "gain an understanding of business intelligence, business management disciplines, data warehousing, and how all of the pieces work together." His book, "Master Data Management," has been endorsed by data management industry leaders, and his valuable MDM insights can be reviewed at www.mdmbook.com.

Join us for an informative Webinar to break down the results of Deloitte’s most recent CFO Signals™ quarterly survey. We’ll discuss key issues for chief financial officers, investment priorities, and transformations that organizations are making to succeed in a continuingly uncertain future. 

In the Webinar, led by John Steele, principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and Elizabeth Milne, Marketing Director of Finance Solutions at SAP, we’ll examine the following: 

• Top challenges that finance organizations face today and which high-impact risks worry CFOs the most 

• Ripple effects of the European crisis concerns and recent US elections. 

• Discuss the effects of mobility, social business, and customer data on CFO technology strategy 

• Which information technology trends will most reshape business in the next five years? 

• How performance, spending, and hiring are expected to change? 

Every organization must deal with users that need exceptional access for legitimate business reasons that violate policies such as segregation of duties controls. Whether it’s someone being able to request a bonus and approve a bonus in SAP® HR or someone that can issue a purchase order to a vendor in Ariba and pay an invoice to that same vendor in SAP, maintaining access risks is a daily occurrence that needs to happen so the business can meet its operational and reporting objectives. 

Regardless of the reason for maintaining an access risk, segregation of duties controls for financial reporting compliance requires mitigation monitoring of access risks across users and applications. For most organizations it’s a complex, manual and labor intensive task consisting of numerous batch data extracts of user access and transaction data that is then delivered in multiple reports to the business for correlation and analysis. 

Organizations need a better approach for access risk mitigation, one that: 

• Provides automation to quickly and consistently interrogate across thousands or hundreds of thousands of transactions to detect segregation of duties issues (100% coverage) 

• Correlates segregation of duties transactions to the users that are conducting them 

• Enables filtering criteria to rule out false-positive access risks 

• Delivers exception reporting data for review by process owners in a business friendly context and in a timely fashion 

• Streamlines audit preparation and reporting 

• Reduces the burden and cost of segregation of duties control testing and exception reporting 

Please attend this webinar to hear James Roeske, CEO and co-founder of Customer Advisory Group, and Susan Stapleton, VP Customer Advisory at Greenlight discuss the challenges and new approaches for the process of mitigating access risks. 

A great customer experience builds brand awareness, empowers self-service, attracts and retains customers, and promotes sales – but how do you deliver an effective customer experience with SAP® technology? With the right strategy, expertise, and some of the things you’re already doing, you’ll be delighting your customers in no time! 

Join Wayne Semisch and SAP Mentor Pete Lagana as they show you how an effective Voice of the Customer initiative will help you transform your technology into a customer-centric tool, and make it easy for your customers to do business with you.  By attending, you learn:

• What defines a Voice of the Customer initiative

• How to transform SAP into engaging customer tools

• The ROI behind a focus on customer experience

• How to break findings into delivery — and build customer adoption BEFORE go-live

Operating in 180 markets, Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan's and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tanqueray and Guinness. Diageo trades in approximately 180 markets and has offices in 80 countries, and the company has manufacturing facilities across the globe including Great Britain, Ireland, United States, Canada, Spain, Italy, Africa, Latin America, Australia, India and the Caribbean. 

Learn how Diageo positioned SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization by SmartOps as a critical component of its transformational supply chain planning program – Project Globe. 

The session will include insights into their journey thus far including: 

• Enterprise Inventory Optimization Process design - its importance in ensuring the application would integrate seamlessly with other newly established processes 

• Benefits – how SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization can be used to ring-fence inventory and customer service benefits from other completing supply chain initiatives 

• Fixing the Mix – ensuring that an SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization implementation is viewed as inventory management rather than inventory reduction 

• Lessons learned from the implementation 

Change is the one constant for electronic invoicing and tax policies in Latin America and Europe. In 2013, Brazil’s SEFAZ, Mexico’s SAT, and the European Union through directive 2010/45/EG have launched new legislation that affects every multi-national IT and Finance executive. Non-compliance places your organization at risk for customer collection issues, delayed shipments, large fines and criminal penalties as it is considered a form of tax evasion. 

Whether you are managing Orders To Cash, Procure To Pay, SAP® GRC or SAP Financials, these changes affect your day to day operations and your SAP ERP configuration. 

Leave this session with a full understanding of: 

• 2013 updates to legislation in Latin America and Europe and their effect on SAP ERP 

-- New EU eInvoicing Directive - Jan 2013 

-- Brazil Nota Fiscal 

-- Mexico CFDI 

• Key differences between eInvoicing in Latin America vs. the EU and the US 

• Business Impact of eInvoicing on IT, Logistics, and Finance 

• Top 5 lessons for success when implementing electronic invoicing in the EU and Latin America 

SAP® Information Interchange OnDemand provides B2B communication through a managed service that combines a content engine and a package of partner-specific messaging profiles. SAP Information Interchange OnDemand improves on existing B2B communication strategies by replacing costly point-to-point, map-based integration scenarios with a more comprehensive solution that allows companies to rapidly deploy, test, and implement B2B integration scenarios with their business partners. Taking advantage of SAP Information Interchange OnDemand’s benefits by building integration scenarios from scratch, or attempting to adapt existing functionality, are both costly and time consuming. 

• This session will discuss how utilizing pre-configured integration scenarios while deploying SAP Information Interchange OnDemand can reduce time to business value and quickly connect you to your entire Trading Partner Network. 

• This session with also discuss how a purpose-built, integrated solution will optimize performance, increase flexibility, and augment long-term maintainability for your B2B communication strategy. 

In today’s data-driven business environment, many companies are asking: How do I turn data into actionable insights faster? What's a smarter way to manage data across multiple environments? How do I simplify my technology landscape? 

Join us for a Webinar on February 20, 2013, to learn how SAP is innovating and redefining data management strategies to help customers optimize business scenarios to deliver the highest value to customers. IDC’s Henry Morris and SAP’s Si-Mohamed Said will lead a discussion on: 

• How an IDC-SAP survey revealed the business and IT impact of information delays and operational complexities in managing transactional and analytical information 

• How SAP is helping customers drive innovation and performance with the next generation platform SAP HANA® 

• How SAP is bringing you a new choice with the SAP® Business Suite now powered by SAP HANA – providing an integrated family of business applications that captures and analyzes transactional data in real time on a single in-memory platform, SAP HANA 

• How businesses can start deriving new business and IT value with smarter business innovations, faster business processes and simpler business interactions 

Improving order management is critical for businesses trying to stay competitive and manage growing order volumes without adding staff. Electronic processing is a proven solution for companies receiving sales orders via fax or email, but understanding your options — whether implementing point-to-point applications or choosing a single unified solution that goes beyond fax and email — is a key step to getting the most bottom-line value out of automated order processing. 

This webinar discussion outlines specific ways that businesses can improve management of their orders by leveraging one platform to automate sales orders into SAP® to: 

• Improve OTC cycle and reduce processing time/costs at least 40% 

• Turn fax and email into an EDI-like process 

• Go beyond OCR with intelligent capture and teaching functionality 

• Prioritize and automatically convert fax and email orders to IDoc 

• Gain 100% throughput for visibility and control into every order 

In addition to exploring the different levels of automation and critical challenges to overcome, you will learn from real-life customers who have leveraged one platform integrated with SAP solutions to automate sales orders, reduce costs, and stay competitive in an ever-evolving marketplace. 

The Coca-Cola Company was recently recognized as the winner of the SAP and ASUG Information Governance “IGgie” award due to its innovation and leadership in defining and leveraging data management metrics to show and continually improve the business value of governing information. 

With a “2020 Vision” to more than double the number of servings sold to over three billion per day, the importance of delivering high quality master data sustained by a holistic and effective information governance program has increased dramatically. As a result of focused information governance efforts over the past several years, Coca-Cola’s Central Data Management shared services organization has achieved these amazing results: 

• Implemented new technology and processes to quantify, report and steward data quality, service level performance, operating efficiency and effectiveness, internal control compliance and client satisfaction.

• Consistently met and exceeded agreed client service levels for change request turnaround time for past four years.

• Consistently improved client satisfaction scores for the past three years. 

• Delivered over $2.5MM in productivity value for Customer and Material data maintenance over the past three years. 

• Established a foundational set of common data management metrics to potentially enable industry wide benchmarking. 

No matter your industry or business size, every organization deals with risk and uncertainty. Effective management of that risk and uncertainty across an organization is what market leaders do to change uncertainty into opportunity. A unified approach to managing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), supported by the right technology, can enable organizations to proactively balance risk and opportunity while lowering costs and saving time. 

Join SAP and Deloitte for a webinar featuring Southern California Edison (SCE), and learn how they are benefitting from a comprehensive, unified GRC strategy. Hear how SCE's GRC program has evolved, and how the SAP solutions for GRC have enabled them to meet their enterprise risk management goals. Learn how they were able to build the business case for automation and supporting technology, benefits that are now being realized throughout the business and their plans for the future. 

By attending this webinar you will learn: 

• How SCE is leveraging the latest release of SAP Access Control, SAP Process Control, and SAP Risk Management to support their GRC program 

• Leading practice recommendations for building a comprehensive GRC strategy 

• How the SAP Solutions for GRC enable you to effectively manage risk, controls, and compliance 

All too often, HCM professionals are tasked with reviewing an overwhelming number of HCM reports. To be successful, your organization must quickly identify day-to-day issues in HCM policy compliance, process compliance and HCM data quality. Identifying issues in areas related to HCM master data, payroll, time management and benefits can be as challenging as finding a “needle in a haystack”.

Attend our webinar and learn how you can focus your time on issue resolution instead of wasting valuable time finding issues. How? By leveraging intelligent software that is easy to set up and use and can discover and track the issues for you. The Accenture Audit and Compliance suite (AACT) for HCM provides organizations with an all-in-one workbench right inside your SAP® ERP system. You will hear how Roche uses AACT in its day-to-day operations to accelerate and automate HCM data and process reporting.  Learn how to use this all-in-one workbench to effectively manage the complex nature of HR and Payroll.

In this webinar, find out how to:

• Virtually eliminate the need for any custom ABAP™ reports for HR/Payroll

• Conduct fast and agile operational and audit reporting for PA, OM, Payroll, Time Management, Security, and Travel and Expense Management 

• Move toward a single, centralized, and proactive HR/Payroll dashboard

Today’s enterprises generate large volumes of HR documents and correspondence for employees and managers. These correspondences are integral to the overall business processes; however, all too often they are manual and complicated – which increase workloads and introduce risks. 

Accenture Software for HCM has met the above challenge with AQDB (Accenture Quick Document Builder). In this webinar you will learn how AQDB enables organizations to cost-efficiently automate correspondences in their SAP® ERP HCM system. You will hear a customer’s success story – specifically how SAP AG uses AQDB in their day-to-day operations to accelerate, automate and standardize the process of correspondence generation. 

Additionally, in this webinar, learn how SAP and Microsoft Word can be easily integrated to automate HR document creation, and how your enterprise can: 

• Easily and quickly create any type of document template (hundreds of types including employment verification letters, employment contracts, bonus letters, total reward letters, etc.) 

• Empower your SAP solution to generate completed documents by leveraging your Microsoft Word templates 

• Generate documents in bulk, through ESS/MSS, email distribution, or ad hoc, and in the format that best suits the activity 

• View created documents at the employee level, right inside your SAP ERP HCM system 

By making information more accessible and understandable, you can run your business more efficiently and at a lower cost than ever before.

See how ARI is transforming fleet management with SAP HANA

Join us on December 20, 2012, to hear how Automotive Resources International (ARI), a global fleet management company, is leveraging SAP HANA to tackle the challenges of Big Data, drive operational excellence, and improve customer satisfaction.

If you're a manufacturer who "batch manages" materials and production or process orders, the need for accurate supply chain monitoring is critical to protecting your brand, your customers, and your customer relationships. But ensuring the end-to-end traceability of many products and consumables can be a struggle, at best.

Attend a one-hour Webcast on December 6, 2012, to learn how your company can achieve real-time visibility into batched materials purchased, consumed, manufactured, and distributed.

You’ll learn how to:

• Minimize the impact of product recalls on your customers and their customers
• Support product issue investigations and perform root cause analysis and recalls
• Get a complete view of the global-batch network by connecting with multiple sources of batch where-used data
• Enhance data quality by managing broken traceability links across systems
• Track and trace individually identified objects, both inside and outside your company
• Comply with legal reporting timelines
• Minimize cost and corporate risk exposure in case of recalls

We hope you’ll join us to learn how your organization can achieve supply chain operational excellence.

With all the preconfigured database server offerings that combine hardware and software into a single system from a single vendor, the appeal of such simplicity in installation and configuration is obvious. However, a factory database configuration may not always be the appropriate choice.

In this webinar, Carl Olofson from IDC will discuss the decision process involved in choosing between a single system configuration, and an open system configuration managed and controlled by the IT organization. The following considerations will be examined:

• Configuration simplicity vs. flexibility
• Consolidation of database functions on a single RDBMS vs. choosing the right RDBMS for each job
• Low cost of entry vs. low cost of exit

Register today to learn what database system configuration is best suited for your organization.

The revolution has begun! Mobile-empowered, digitally connected and socially networked consumers have forever changed the rules of customer engagement. Since it’s all about real-time, isn’t it about time that your company stay relevant to your customers with the latest advanced technologies?

Learn how SAP 360 Customer helps you to gain a true 360º view of your customers and engage with customers 1:1 – in context and in real-time – to create a differentiating customer experience while driving operational excellence.

Join SAP and Paul Greenberg to learn how to meet the needs of today’s:

• Marketing professional: Unprecedented customer insight for quick and timely reaction, greater customer influence through contextual offers and promotions that are relevant and personalized, and a positive customer experience that strengthens relationships and loyalty

• Sales professional: Big data control that transforms selling from “tactical” to “strategic”, a deep understanding of customer needs from social and enterprise-wide customer data not previously available, and sales activity prioritization that proactively avoids sales cycle disruption

• Service professional: Knowledge-based historical customer insight from past transactions and interactions to create contextual-based strategic service opportunities, deliver consistent customer service across all interaction channels, and empower your customer service department to collaborate and solve customer issues faster and better

Should you, could you implement SAP(r) Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)? This Webinar from Peak-Catalyst is designed for companies considering implementing SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) who need to understand how to overcome common business, technical and organizational challenges. Learn about the recommended project phase components, key project milestones, as well as the latest features and functionality available within SAP EWM ----including new enhancements that will be available with EWM 9.0. In this webinar, we will compare and contrast SAP EWM and SAP WM and learn the key criteria to use when deciding to deploy SAP EWM.

This webinar will cover 5 ways SAP EWM solves real-world business challenges including:

• Mobilizing the Warehouse with EWM
• Picking Productivity and Efficiency
• Inventory/Working Capital Reductions
• Labor Utilization
• Improved Customer Service

Get an update on the latest enhanced features of EWM including:

• Yard Management
• Value Added Services
• Production Supply / Receiving
• Task Interleaving
• Slotting & Rearrangement
• Monitoring & Analytics

Experience what’s possible with Duet Enterprise. See the growing range of solutions built by partners on top of Duet Enterprise. Find out how you can quickly roll-out a range of scenarios - from hiring manager portals to purchase requisitions to buyer management dashboards with certified solutions and pre-built templates from SAP partners. Discover how these solutions can help you quickly expand the range of scenarios for SAP and Microsoft integration and get most out of your IT investments. See how Ironwood Pharmaceutical shortened time to value with myCompensation from Cordis - a ready-to-use benefit administration solution with an intuitive user interface that enables users to view, compare and select employee benefit packages.

At this event you will learn:

1. How to make most out of your investments in SAP and Microsoft
2. What are the best value scenarios for SAP and SharePoint integration
3. How Ironwood improved benefit administration process with myCompensation solution from SAP partner Cordis
4. How to get started with Duet Enterprise and SAP NetWeaver Gateway

“What do I get?” is usually the second question if you answer , “How much does this cost?”

Join David Loshin, author of “The Practitioner’s Guide to Data Quality and Improvement” and industry expert in Master Data Management and Information value space; William McKnight, Widely acknowledged as a practical Strategist and Lead Enterprise Information Architect whose projects have received multiple best practices awards, as they share their answers to the second most popular questions facing practitioners and executives alike.

Real-world business cases from customers will be the focus of this informative, best-practices session. Issues to be addressed:

• Cost without Value = Zero Budget
• Clear Value without Clear Costs = Zero Budget
• Value Goals & Objectives = Measurement and Success
• Leveraging Partners for Value Definition - How Close is too Close?

In this webinar, you will get to know the five-point strategy that will help you transform your Procure-to-Pay Process.

Some of the key highlights of this webinar are:

• An insight on the hype around the closed-loop procurement process
• Procure-to-Pay should be considered as one single process
• Importance of cooperation between Finance and Procurement teams
• End-to-end process know-how
• Importance of consolidation

Understanding the business impact of new technologies is a core responsibility for many SAP® client operational and management roles, particularly when game-changing innovation will significantly impact their operational, financial, competitive and strategic missions. A breakthrough computing category called “expert integrated systems” marks a leap forward in how SAP clients will think about, and interact with, their IT environments.

During this webinar, learn what an expert integrated system is, and how IBM’s PureSystems fundamentally change the experience and economics of SAP IT, helping clients:
• Cut months off deployment times
• Dramatically speed time to value
• Lower risk and costs
• Enter the SAP cloud

This session will also cover the IBM entry cloud configuration for SAP solutions on the way that PureFlex provides an easy first step into implementing a self-managed SAP environment within a cloud.

Need to streamline your tedious, manual extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes? You aren’t alone. Learn why RapidDecision, a business intelligence solution provider, chose SAP Data Services to standardize its growing real-time data warehouse requirements.

Join RapidDecision and SAP to learn how SAP Data Services:

• Delivers trusted data – from the source data to end user reports – with lineage analysis tools
• Simplifies ETL documentation by providing automated documentation and self-service delivery
• Can consolidate hundreds of custom coded modules into a zero-code base solution

As the pace of business continues to grow exponentially, the technology needed to support both the speed of business and the flood of data must grow and change as well. To take advantage of the opportunities as they arise, businesses will adopt strategies that enable a real-time business model.

Join Carl Olofson, Research VP, IDC and Dan Lahl, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, SAP for an in-depth session about how SAP is innovating and redefining data management strategies and learn:

• Why there is a growing emphasis on real-time processing as the key to success in the business world, regardless of business or industry
• Why IDC recommends a real-time data management platform for both operational applications and analytic workloads to deliver consistent, reliable data
• Why this platform will be based on in-memory database technology that can handle the platform's speed and variety requirements

Integrating SAP® into SharePoint is easier than ever with Duet® Enterprise. See how you can develop an app in SharePoint in 15 minutes. Discover how easy it is to develop solutions customized to the needs of your business so that you can respond to changes in your business environment faster and more efficient. Learn how to get started with Duet Enterprise and SAP NetWeaver® Gateway, what are the best ways to plan your project, and how to ensure its success. We have pulled together best practices, tips and tricks and lessons learned from the most successful Duet Enterprise implementations. Dial in and get ready for the step-by-step guide to implementing Duet Enterprise. You will learn:

1. What Duet Enterprise makes possible
2. The anatomy of Duet Enterprise
3. Live demo: develop an app in SharePoint in 15 mins
4. Best practices and lessons learned

Join most experienced SAP experts to learn about the best value end-to-end scenarios for integrating SAP into SharePpoint.

On October 1st, SAP completed its acquisition of Ariba – the #1 Business Network and Spend Management Solutions provider. We are very excited to share with our customers our joint vision for the future of networked commerce, and what the immediate and longer term opportunities will be for SAP customers to benefit from our new capabilities.

Register for this webinar to learn:

• How will the acquisition affect SAP customers in the immediate term?
• What are the longer term opportunities in store for SAP customers?
• How will the acquisition affect native Ariba customers?
• What role will the SAP HANA platform have in driving performance of the Ariba network?
• How quickly will this acquisition help SAP customers move their collaborative commerce to the cloud?

IT systems now reach all parts of the enterprise, and there are benefits to making enterprise data available wherever transactions happen: point-of-sale systems, mobile devices, satellite offices and special-purpose systems. Delivering secure, high-performance, data-rich applications in these demanding environments requires the right data management software.

SAP® Sybase® SQL Anywhere® is a suite of database management and data synchronization technologies designed specifically for remote and mobile environments. It supports the unwired enterprise by enabling line-of-business applications in remote locations. On everything from enterprise handhelds and smartphones to desktops and servers, SQL Anywhere's self-management capabilities make it ideal for use in low-administration or zero-administration environments.

Attend this webcast on SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere to learn about:
• Architecture and use cases
• How to integrate remote and mobile data with the enterprise
• How SQL Anywhere fits into SAP’s Real-Time Data Platform Strategy with SAP HANA® and SAP Sybase IQ

All too often, HCM professionals are tasked with reviewing an overwhelming number of HCM reports. Whether these reports are custom ABAP™ or “vanilla,” they often do not properly support the HR professional or help their organization achieve high performance.

To be successful, your organization must quickly identify day-to-day issues in HCM policy compliance, process compliance and HCM data quality.  Identifying issues in areas related to HCM master data, payroll, time management and benefits can be as challenging as finding a “needle in a haystack.” What if you could focus your time on issue resolution instead of wasting valuable time finding problems? Want to know how? By leveraging intelligent software that is easy to set up and use, and can discover and track the issues for you.

The Accenture Audit and Compliance suite for HCM provides organizations with an all-in-one workbench right inside your SAP® ERP system.  Find out how to:

• Virtually eliminate the need for any custom ABAP™ reports for HR/Payroll
• Conduct fast and agile operational and audit reporting for PA, OM, Payroll, Time Management, Security, and Travel and Expense Management
• Move towards a single, centralized, and proactive HR/Payroll dashboard

If your company is receiving sales orders by fax or email, you want to be able to process them electronically. But what’s the right solution? Is it a mix of stand-alone applications for imaging, workflow and archiving? Or an all-in-one platform that goes beyond fax and email?

Attend this webinar to learn how Kärcher North America, a global leader in the production of cleaning equipment and pressure washers, leveraged Esker to improve productivity, reduce costs and enhance customer service through sales order automation.

This webinar outlines key considerations for integrating fax-to-order and email-to-order automation with SAP solutions. Join us to learn how you can:

• Treat fax and email orders like EDI
• Reduce order processing time and costs by at least 40%
• Prioritize and automatically convert fax and email orders to IDoc
• Make orders accessible through SAP interfaces
• Get started simply by taking paper out of the process

You’ll also hear about the results Kärcher, as well as other SAP customer worldwide have achieved such as managing growing order volumes at current staffing levels, reducing infrastructure costs, and increased competitiveness. Don’t miss this opportunity to take the next step toward completing your vision of electronic order processing!

HCM outsourcing company Zalaris extended the self-service functionality in MSS by introducing SAP e-forms for the Hiring, Termination, Organizational Change and Sick Leave processes.
In this webinar you will hear how Zalaris deployed e-forms to deliver self-service functionality to their outsourcing customers, achieving better customer satisfaction, improved data quality and more efficient operations in their service centers.

You will discover how Zalaris:
- Solved the challenges of standardizing processes across countries using the same e-form
- Improved HR data quality
- Improved service center efficiency
- Paved the way for wider use of e-forms for more HCM processes, countries and customers

SAP® System Copy is time consuming and labor intensive, but you've got to do it to protect and extend your SAP investment. How can you easily automate the system copy process so that it's faster, easier and more consistent?

Sign up for our webinar on October 2nd to learn how, with end-to-end automation, you can make this regular task repeatable, reportable and auditable—all without the need for additional hardware or software.

In this webinar, we'll show you:
• How we can help you automate your process right away
• How the cloud can save you up to 90 percent in time and overhead
• How automation has benefited our customers

Testing SAP®  and other packaged enterprise is fundamentally different from testing custom developed applications. Therefore, the overall approach, starting points and success criteria used for automating the testing of SAP are entirely different from those used for testing custom developed applications.

Join Kari Colombo of Kimberly Clark Corporation (KCC) as she discusses how the company approached automating the testing of SAP at KCC to improve its quality assurance efforts. Attendees will benefit from real-world lessons learned and best practices for:

- Identifying the appropriate areas for improvement
- Building a business case for automation
- Approaching vendor selection
- Implementation approaches
- Achieving quick wins and long-term success

Learn how a global engineering company is using Duet Enterprise to reduce the cycle times of core financial processes. In this webinar, you’ll learn how easy it is to integrate SAP workflows into Microsoft SharePoint with Duet Enterprise’s out-of-the-box capabilities.

Legacy B2B systems that connect companies with customers, suppliers, partners, and financial institutions have become increasingly complex and resource draining. With growth, consolidations, mergers and acquisitions, these often outdated systems need to be modernized to ensure your business stays ahead of the competition.

Join us for a free webinar to learn how L&T Infotech together with SEEBURGER have helped SAP® users, like you, to efficiently consolidate and simultaneously modernize their current B2B and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) applications to one central platform.

You’ll learn the criteria a large technology distributor considered to successfully consolidate and modernize their B2B/FTP landscape across the globe, including:

• Comprehensive functionality for B2B, MFT and EAI
• True operational transparency
• Performance with scalability for future growth
• Risk-free automated and preconfigured migration tools
• Ease of use
• Tried and tested performance and best practices

Leading analyst firms place the success rate for MDM initiatives at 50%, and data governance isn’t any different. Why? With a wide variety in the outcomes for data governance initiatives, success is largely based on the expectations an organization sets when measuring the challenge.

Please join our expert panel for this lively, interactive discussion. Learn how to:

• Measure your organizational readiness for governance
• Set expectations
• Gauge success with key metrics and methods
• Choose technologies that best support governance policies and strategy

Aaron Zornes, chief research officer at the MDM Institute, will frame the challenges facing data governance projects to set the stage for DATUM president and co-founder Will Crump and Tina Tang, director of solution marketing at SAP, to provide a full view of the solution cycle and associated technologies that will best position you for a highly successful data governance initiative.

Today’s enterprises generate large volumes of documents and correspondence for their employees and managers using data from their SAP® ERP HCM system. These activities, which are often manual, increase the workload on busy HR professionals. Our experiences have taught us that it can be difficult to balance costs while maintaining the flexibility required for HR document creation. By cost-efficiently automating correspondence to employees and managers, enterprises save both the HR department and IT department’s valuable time and resources. Find out how Accenture Quick Document Builder can help your enterprise:

• Easily and quickly create any type of document template (hundreds of types including employment verification letters, employment contracts, bonus letters, total reward letters, etc.)
• Empower your SAP solution to generate completed documents by leveraging your Microsoft Word templates
• Generate documents in bulk, through ESS/MSS, email distribution, or ad hoc and in the format that best suits the activity
• View created documents at the employee level, right inside your SAP ERP HCM system

For many companies, accounts payable operations lack the visibility and control to prevent lengthy invoice cycle times and inevitably fall victim to complicated, expensive manual processes.  That was the case with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a member of the Boehringer Ingelheim group, which is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies.  The organization adopted document automation technology for a more strategic processing approach and experienced dramatic results:

• Non-discrepancy invoices processed in 6 days – down from 18
• Discrepancy invoices processed in 12 days – down from 32 
• 94% of invoices received electronically – up from 0%
• 55% of paper invoices are “touchless” or automatically posted in SAP®

SAP® Partner, ReadSoft, whose AP automation solution has SAP®-certified integration, invites you to attend a live webinar featuring John Benson, Boehringer Ingelheim’s Senior Principal Software Engineer.  Learn firsthand from John how the company’s invoice automation strategy inside SAP® enabled electronic invoice processing across its AP operation and complete visibility into its AP process.

Join Oxford Economics Editorial Director Debra D’Agostino as she shares the findings of a new research study that uncovers how companies are transforming their processes, organizational structures and technology platforms to drive innovation and growth. Debra will talk about how mobility, social media, cloud computing, big data and analytics are helping companies transform their cultures—and their IT departments—to put innovation at the heart of everything they do.

Gloucestershire County Council extended ESS and MSS functionality by introducing SAP e-forms for Employee Overtime Claims and then Joiners, Movers and Leaver processes. In this webinar you will hear how Gloucestershire County Council deployed simple e-forms to deliver fast ROI and very complex forms to deliver tailored solutions for intricate forms processes.

You will discover how Gloucestershire County Council:

• Reduced management and administration overhead
• Improved HR data quality
• Reduced overpayments to staff
• Delivered positive Return On Investment within 8 months

IT systems now reach all parts of the enterprise, and there are benefits to making enterprise data available wherever transactions happen: point-of-sale systems, mobile devices, satellite offices and special-purpose systems. Delivering secure, high-performance, data-rich applications in these demanding environments requires the right data management software.

SAP® Sybase® SQL Anywhere® is a suite of database management and data synchronization technologies designed specifically for remote and mobile environments. It supports the unwired enterprise by enabling line-of-business applications in remote locations. On everything from enterprise handhelds and smartphones to desktops and servers, SQL Anywhere's self-management capabilities make it ideal for use in low-administration or zero-administration environments.

Attend this webcast on SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere to learn about:
• Architecture and use cases
• How to integrate remote and mobile data with the enterprise
• How SQL Anywhere fits into SAP’s Real-Time Data Platform Strategy with SAP HANA® and SAP Sybase IQ

It’s that time of year when budgets and goals are submitted for 2013. In response to requests by partners, SAPinsider will host this webinar to provide insight into the highest impact marketing programs available in 2013. By attending you’ll be entered in a drawing to receive a $5,000 credit toward any new partner program executed in 2012!

SAPinsider offers an array of opportunities to help you generate quality leads, showcase your thought leadership, and promote your solution or brand in the coming year. Learn how you can leverage a mix of targeted events, editorial opportunities, white paper pushes, turnkey webinars, list rental, and custom research to help you reach your sales and marketing goals.

After watching this webinar you’ll understand why partners like BackOffice, Esker, Winshuttle, Deloitte, Panaya, IBM, HP, Z Option, PwC, Seeburger, EMC, and Ernst & Young, turn to SAPinsider to reach new qualified prospects and to keep their brands out in front of thousands of SAP® customers.

Last year SAPinsider connected SAP partners with:
• 10,000+ attendees at our conferences and seminars
• 35,000+ leads through our white paper, webinar, and list rental programs
• 125,000+ readers who depend on our magazines to guide buying decisions

Whether you are a veteran of the SAP ecosystem or you are trying to make a name for yourself in a new market, SAPinsider has programs to fit your goals and budget.

You’ve heard the debates, read the tweets, and listened to competitor FUD. Now it’s time to start having a productive conversation with people who can give you the right information, guidance, and real-world examples.

Join Steve Lucas, Executive Vice President and General Manager, SAP Database & Technology, and Vijay Vijayasankar, Head of SAP Forward Engineering, IBM Global Business Services, as they discuss the SAP HANA platform. They’ll answer key questions that continue to surface and dispel the mystery that surrounds this game-changing technology.

As a real-time platform for analytics and applications, you’ll learn how SAP HANA simplifies the IT stack. Hear about its powerful features including significant processing speed, the ability to handle “Big Data,” predictive capabilities, and text-mining capabilities.

• Find out why Steve says SAP HANA does not replace the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) component.

• Learn how Vijay works with SAP and the SAP HANA team to make IBM clients run better.

In the world of “adapt or die,” Deloitte has thrived on innovations that keep users linked to mission-critical data through mobile analytics. Using the SAP HANA® platform with SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence solutions, Deloitte has harnessed big data by empowering super users with all the data discovery and visualization they need. In a business entirely focused on customers and employees, Deloitte has woven technology into the very fabric of the company.

It’s time to make your organization more social. What do we mean by the Social Enterprise? Basically, it refers to an organization where people speak frequently and collaborate effectively with others inside and outside enabled by technology. The Social Enterprise encourages more employees to become involved in collecting information, as well as decision making, based on analytics. Join Don Tapscott, one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology, and learn his top secrets.

Whether you work in utilities, oil & gas, telecommunications or other asset-intensive industries, have you defined a winning enterprise mobility strategy? Whether you’re designing apps for aging field service workers or smartphone-savvy new college grads, industry-leading companies are charting mobile roadmaps that engage the user – increasingly mobile first and desktop second.

In this webinar moderated by Roland Gonzalez, Senior Director of Industry Product Marketing for Mobile, you will hear from mobile industry veterans JP Finnell, Head of Mobile Strategy and Kim Obermair, Head of Mobile Industry Solutions, how CIOs in asset-intensive industries are defining mobile strategies that co-opt consumer innovation and apply it to their enterprise to boost productivity and transform engagement with customers. Join this interactive webinar and learn how use cases innovated inside and outside your industry can become game changers – or quick hits.

Topics for this webinar:

• How to bridge the Mobile 1.0 “extend the enterprise” and Mobile 2.0 “transform the enterprise” gap.
• Framework you can use as a tool to enhance your mobile use cases in context of your industry.
• Visualize use case examples along the industry transformation and Line-of-Business extension continuum.
• Industry impact of Business to Consumer (B2C) use case examples such as loyalty management.
• Industry applicability for Field worker of the future, ranging from asset installation through to asset decommission.
• Accelerate choice of mobile options by leveraging platform capabilities and the app ecosystem in your industry.

Featuring a LIVE DEMONSTRATION of SAP HANA® in the cloud running against 2 BILLION records

Join Phil Shelley, CTO of Sears and Frank Dravis, Utopia’s director, SAP HANA global sales, for an in-depth session to learn how a cloud-based offering can speed deployment time and alleviate capacity constraints efficiently and transparently.

The lightning fast speed of the SAP HANA platform enables you to create insights faster, speeding the decision making process by accelerating key business processes with rapid analysis and reporting. You can avoid some of the costs of hardware installation and staff training that comes along with new technology, by choosing SAP HANA in the cloud.

Register now to gain valuable information on:

• How Sears uses the cloud to obviate capital planning concerns, account for Opex/Capex budget issues, ensure capacity is quickly made available as demand changes, and maintain security through a private cloud.

• Why a cloud-based solution becomes even more compelling for those deploying a combined Hadoop/SAP HANA architecture. Hadoop helps tame the Big Data challenge through Map-reduce technology and commodity-cluster hardware.

Automation can cut accounts payable operational and admin costs by 40 to 60 percent. But in today’s complex business environment, deploying a solution for all of your users and systems can be a huge challenge. Join us for this live webinar to explore the productivity, savings and consolidation benefits of automated accounts payable processing with workflow logic that resides outside the SAP system. You’ll learn ways to extend efficient and consistent invoice approval processing beyond the walls of your office and the bounds of your ERP environment, giving every participant anywhere in the organization access to one easy-to-use tool.

Find out how you can:

• Deploy AP workflow automation for multiple systems, including SAP instances and other enterprise applications
• Make AP data available to your SAP system and other databases automatically
• Support and simplify shared services setup
• Reduce invoice processing time by at least 50% and invoice filing by up to 100%
• Bring visibility and control to every invoice processed

Plus, learn about the advantages of AP automation as a cloud service using the SaaS model for fast deployment at low cost with flexibility to fit your organization’s specific processing requirements.

The damage from poor data quality can seep into every corner of your business, undermining the performance of your technology and sabotaging attempts to improve your processes.

Because data quality is such a central issue, we’ve taken the rare step of inviting three high-profile SAP customers – Sysco, ConAgra Foods and Graybar – to join this lively SAPInsider Webinar.

On our agenda:
• Why data quality is so important
• How data quality challenges differ by industry
• Where the responsibility for data quality lies
• The value of data as a corporate asset
• Ensuring data integrity

Whether it’s operations, reporting, or overall decision-making, you simply can’t escape the repercussions of poor data quality. You need to take action – and this Webinar is a perfect start.

Learn how Belgian Railways (SNCB-NMBS), a railway company that provides transportation for over 200 million travelers a year, and ships 60 million tons of freight per year, is leveraging enterprise content management solutions to manage all forms of content in multiple business processes.

This session will provide valuable insights into the key business drivers for this transformation at the Belgian Railways which is now bridging the gap between business documents and business processes for multiple groups within Belgian Railways including Maintenance, Purchasing, Production, HR, AP, Facilities Management, Call Centers, etc.

Please join this webinar to gain a deeper understanding of the steps within the selection process, implementation, lessons learned, and key successes achieved.

Improving order management is critical for businesses trying to stay competitive and manage growing order volumes without adding staff. Electronic processing is a proven solution for companies receiving sales orders via fax or email, but understanding your options — whether implementing point-to-point applications or choosing a single unified solution that goes beyond fax and email — is a key step to getting the most bottom-line value out of automated order processing.

This webinar discussion outlines specific ways that businesses can improve management of their orders by leveraging one platform to automate sales orders into SAP® to:

• Improve OTC cycle and reduce processing time/costs at least 40%
• Turn fax and email into an EDI-like process
• Go beyond OCR with intelligent capture and teaching functionality
• Prioritize and automatically convert fax and email orders to IDoc
• Gain 100% throughput for visibility and control into every order

In addition to exploring the different levels of automation and critical challenges to overcome, you will learn from real-life customers who have leveraged one platform integrated with SAP solutions to automate sales orders, reduce costs, and stay competitive in an ever-evolving marketplace.

Big data tops the 2012 list of market and technology trends affecting businesses today. It's no surprise, then, that the promises of SAP HANA®, the alluring super-fast in-memory computing platform, have piqued the attention of global business and IT leaders. But we're left with many questions. Is it in-memory computing? Is it an analysis tool? Does it replace existing BI and analytic investments?

This webinar offers candid answers and deep insights into these and other important considerations as you evaluate this cutting-edge technology.

Register for this webinar to find out exactly what makes SAP HANA so powerful and how it compares to other technologies. Hear real examples of how SAP HANA helps businesses improve critical processes and can affect your bottom line. You'll also walk away from this webinar with in-depth explanations to the following questions:

• How does SAP HANA complement, and does it replace, existing reporting and analysis solutions?
• Can SAP HANA be used with both SAP® and non-SAP systems?
• How can you determine the true cost of SAP HANA — beyond the product license?
• What is the time frame for getting SAP HANA up and running?
• How do I prepare my business users for the game-changing capabilities of SAP HANA?

How do I turn data into actionable insights faster?

What's the best way to manage data across multiple environments?

How do I simplify my technology landscape?

If these are the types of questions keeping you up at night in today’s data-driven business environment, you can’t afford to miss this Webinar event.

Join Carl Olofson, Research Vice President at IDC, and Dan Lahl, Senior Director of Product Marketing at SAP, for an in-depth session to learn how SAP is innovating and redefining data management strategies to help customers unlock the power of real-time OLTP and analytics. Find out how you can use data to transform your business and serve your customers like never before.

Register now to gain valuable information on:

• How SAP is helping customers drive innovation and performance with its real-time data platform
• How SAP is bringing you a better choice for your SAP environment by optimizing SAP Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise for SAP ERP and SAP Business Suite
• How organizations are optimizing decision cycles and customer insights with real-time business intelligence solutions powered by in-memory technology
• Why top industry analyst firm IDC has ranked SAP the fastest-growing vendor in the relational database systems market - and what that means for you

In this webinar, firstly, learn how TMVW is increasing collaboration among its employees using workspaces within Duet Enterprise. TMVW is a large utility company that manages water production, distribution, and retail as well as sewage and road management for approximately 500,000 customers. Developed jointly by SAP and Microsoft, Duet Enterprise combines the collaboration and productivity supported by Microsoft SharePoint with the business data and business processing functionality of SAP applications.

You will also learn about how Capgemini, our global partner systems integrator, worked with TMVW to implement Duet Enterprise, which resolved key business issues for TMVW.You’ll learn how TMVW is extending the reach of Duet Enterprise to:

• Get the right data to employees in the format they want
• Link unstructured and structured data
• Integrate different content management systems
• Pull together SAP and non-SAP information

As the adoption of SAP HANA® increases, the requirement to understand the technology supporting SAP HANA is more important than ever. HP AppSystem is a premier partner for SAP HANA. The HP AppSystem for SAP HANA portfolio is designed to support customer requirements from small entry-level or pilot systems, to large scalable and highly available SAP HANA systems. Learn more about HP’s solution, including the lifecycle approach to design, build, implement, and support SAP HANA.

Anglian Water delivers huge efficiency savings by using e-forms to automate work order management for its field workers.

Join this event to learn how the Anglian Water has reduced cycle times from days to minutes using SAP e-forms (including SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and Arch Forms Lifecycle Manager). As a result, the company delivers huge efficiency savings, better data quality, and improved service-level compliance.

You’ll also learn how Anglian Water is introducing Sybase Unwired Platform, together with SAP e-forms, to deliver a robust mobile solution with a user-friendly interface.

The key to a successful business intelligence (BI) program is to have the right BI strategy in place. An effective BI approach benefits both IT and the core business by enabling your decision makers to gather the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market. Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions, is turning its supply chain data into consumable information – making analytics a foundational strength to its business.

A solid, well-communicated business intelligence strategy is more than just a good idea. It’s crucial to maximizing ROI, reaching KPIs, and identifying metrics that actually mean something. Take the next step in your journey to a solid BI strategy. In this live Webcast, you will:

• Find out how Celestica is using analytics, not only to benefit its own business, but to benefit its strategic customers
• Learn best practice approaches, including guidelines to define and run a successful BI program
• Hear key recommendations for gaining senior executive support that can help mandate change and cross-functional organization for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome
• Have an opportunity to ask our presenters questions

SAP NetWeaver® BW powered by the SAP HANA® platform will dramatically supercharge the performance and scalability of the SAP NetWeaver BW component and reduce costs with simplified administration and streamlined landscape.

In this webinar, you will hear directly from SAP on the capabilities of SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA and how you will benefit from a fully in-memory-enabled enterprise data warehouse. In addition to supercharging your business warehouse applications for unprecedented performance, SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA will also offer greater flexibility in business warehouse modeling and reduce overall maintenance costs associated with running and administering SAP NetWeaver BW. All of this is achieved without disrupting your current SAP NetWeaver BW application because running SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA involves only a technical database migration. Every SAP NetWeaver BW object and process will function the same way after the migration to SAP HANA, but much faster and simpler.

Let’s face it – if you focused less on HR application management, you could redirect those resources to making HR more valuable and strategic, contributing to employee productivity – and your organization’s bottom line.

An HR application management service can help make HR more valuable – maintaining and upgrading your SAP® ERP HCM system to keep it current and compliant – freeing your HR team to focus less on managing systems, and more on empowering people.

NGA maintains a dedicated, multi-skilled, multilingual team of experts that can optimize all the technical tasks of your SAP ERP HCM system. In fact, our Application Management Services (AMS) team will take care of every aspect of managing your HR system, including corrective, adaptive, and maintenance activities, on a regular basis.

With AMS, we’ll help raise your HR system performance while managing costs. And because we stay in close contact with SAP ERP HCM application developments as they happen, you’ll be current and compliant at all times.

With the release of SAP NetWeaver BW Powered by SAP HANA, SAP's vision for in-memory computing reaches a new plateau.

SAP HANA is SAP's remarkable in-memory appliance, capable of processing vast amounts of data at breathtaking speeds. For users of SAP NetWeaver BW, the implications of running their enterprise data warehouse on SAP HANA are enormous:

• Supercharged data warehouse with dramatically improved performance
• Simplified administration and a streamlined IT landscape
• Better access to all information for a more productive workforce
• Innovation without disruption

Learn all about SAP HANA powered data warehousing in this SAPinsider Webcast, including best practices learned from the experiences of our early adopters.

Master Data Management (MDM), and Data Governance are among the most widely adopted IT strategies in recent years. And with good reason. Both are fundamental to key business objectives: a 360-degree view of customers, products, suppliers, regulatory reporting and compliance, and the overall goal of employing data as an enterprise asset.

Please join this SAPInsider Webcast, featuring Aaron Zornes, chief research officer at the MDM Institute, and Tina Tang, director of solution marketing at SAP. Together they’ll explore how MDM and Data Governance could affect your organization and possibly your career:

• The convergence of MDM and Data Governance into Master Data Governance (MDG).
• How MDG reduces the price of poor data visibility: lower revenue and customer service, uncontrolled costs, lack of regulatory compliance.
• How MDG will look during the next three to five years
• How MDG will impact your business transformation strategies – and your career.
• How a leading pharmaceutical firm fully installed and configured its SAP MDG solution in less than two days.

Duet Enterprise, a product developed jointly by SAP and Microsoft, combines the collaboration and productivity supported by Microsoft SharePoint with the business data and business processing functionality of SAP applications.

Learn how you can empower your employees by providing all necessary information in the familiar environment of Microsoft SharePoint and Office. Find out how you can view, schedule, and run SAP reports from SharePoint. Finding a list of sales orders, quotations or open purchase orders is now is easier than ever thanks to Duet Enterprise.

SAP® BusinessObjects™ reporting and analytics solutions offer a wide array of tools to make better business decisions through clear and effective reports and dashboards. The effectiveness and validity of the analytics typically depends on the design and development of the back-end data sources before the analytics process begins. The new in memory processing solution from SAP HANA® provides real-time “big data” availability while giving the analytics a high level of performance that ensures a successful SAP BusinessObjects solution. In this webinar, you will learn how to connect various reporting and analytic tools to back-end SAP HANA data sources to take advantage of real-time in memory data processing. The ability to connect SAP HANA through the usage of proven tools is imperative in providing business critical information by taking advantage of next generation technology.

In this webinar, we will cover several scenarios where automated Quality and EHS Management Solutions integrate with SAP® applications. These scenarios represent the key areas where Quality and EHS solutions are a complementary layer to an organization’s SAP implementation. In addition, we will look at the most ideal technologies for integrating Quality and EHS with SAP, and best practices for creating visibility into Quality and EHS through SAP.

We will cover these four key scenarios:
• SAP ERP HCM, linked to Quality and EHS injury/illness reporting
• SAP ERP, linked to Quality Nonconformance and Corrective Action
• SAP CRM, linked to Risk-based Complaint Handling in Quality Management
• SAP NetWeaver® MDM, linked to Quality and EHS data fields

Attend this webcast and hear best practices for automating your organization’s spreadsheet processes within SAP General Ledger and SAP's sub ledgers as well as other specific SAP modules. Walk through Isuzu North America Corporation's real-world experiences and learn how the company underwent such an automation project. Hear firsthand what pain points and challenges the company experienced with regards to its spreadsheet environment and how these challenges were overcome using Global Software’s spreadsheet automation tools.

Find out how to leverage existing SAP reports in Excel and eliminate the need to rekey, download, and export data.  Find out what functionality exists to empower your users to develop reports tailored to your organization’s unique needs in a timely fashion without heavy reliance on IT, gaining increased time savings, increased departmental analysis, increased efficiency and timeliness of budgeting process, and better visibility of financial (and any other departmental) data across the entire organization, as well as enhanced spreadsheet security. Understand what seamless integration functionality exists between Microsoft Excel and the SAP environment by way of graphical user face automation tools and custom requests for comments (RFCs).

Highlights:
• Populate spreadsheets with 'live' balances and descriptions from SAP to Microsoft® Excel
• More timely report running and full drill-down capability within specific SAP modules such as FICO,
PCA, COOR, COPA, COSA, New GL and Special Ledgers.
• Drill-down dynamically from the spreadsheets to the lowest level of detail in SAP

Service and outsourcing company SERCO extended the reach of its SAP HCM solution globally to over 40,000 employees using SAP e-forms — SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and Arch Forms Lifecycle Manager. In this webinar, you’ll hear first-hand from SERCO about how they selected and implemented e-forms, and what key lessons they learned along the way.

You’ll learn how SERCO:

• Completed the design, build, test, and delivery to production of 11 forms in less than 3 weeks
• Trained all users within 6 working days via 2 classroom-based training courses
• Paved the way for wider user of SAP across the enterprise, including in Finance and Procurement functions

Imbedded within SAP® HANA standalone is a series of OLAP style components that aids in the creation of multi-dimensional analytic models based on SAP HANA in-memory columnar based tables. This content is the starting point for connecting SAP® BusinessObjects™ 4.0 Universes, Reports, OLAP tools, Dashboards and Exploration Views to SAP HANA data. In this webinar, you will hear directly from an experienced SAP HANA modeler about the various options for modeling data within SAP HANA.

GRC is a comprehensive term describing the organizational approach covering Governance, Risk and Compliance activities. Companies continue to struggle to reduce efforts when testing for control exceptions, detecting and correcting problems after the fact, having inconsistent risk definitions and a decentralized risk repository (Excel spreadsheets) and more importantly, little ability to predict, prevent, or manage risks. This is why it is very important to create both short- and long-term goals when planning and rolling out long-term risk and control monitoring strategies.

Join us for a discussion on how to define a long-term roadmap leveraging SAP® BusinessObjects(tm) GRC 10.0 technology. Hear how leading companies are improving Risk Management and Control Monitoring processes, and about their strategic roadmap with GRC solutions.

Attend this webcast for a discussion around:
• Defining a long-term roadmap to manage compliance initiatives
• Recommendations for planning your GRC initiatives (non-technology and technology-based)
• Defining the most efficient path to upgrade GRC solutions to version 10.0
• Define how SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management, SAP BusinessObjects Process Control and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control solutions intersect in your GRC roadmap and deployment plans

SAP HANA® is SAP's exciting new in-memory processing solution designed to address large data volumes in real-time, and SAP® BusinessObjectsTM Data Services is SAP's unified data integration and data quality solution. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services is also the only solution for loading non-SAP data into SAP HANA. In this webinar, you'll learn best practices on using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to cleanse, standardize, and match data as it is loading into SAP HANA. We will also discuss data quality and why it is crucial to for organizations to focus on creating better data from big data.

Is your manager asking you how to get more out of your SAP investment? Do you have an answer?

Join us to understand how to enhance the functionality of the SAP ECC HCM product. Use a specially developed HR Accelerator tool to make complex and costly processes (such as transferring data between systems, modeling payroll changes, executing queries or writing programs, validating and auditing data) run quicker and with less data errors savings your company $$ and allowing you to leverage the investment your company made.

Increase the value of the HR solution to the organization by increasing the ROI and translating data into actionable information in real-time. Take action now!

Duet Enterprise, a product developed jointly by SAP and Microsoft, combines the collaboration and productivity supported by Microsoft SharePoint with the business data and business processing functionality of SAP applications.

Join us for this webinar to learn how Daiichi, a global pharmaceutical company, is using Duet Enterprise to optimize its purchasing processes throughout the company. In addition, find out how Daiichi is extending the reach of Duet Enterprise to streamline other business processes and the advantages and lessons learned from these implementations.

 If your company is receiving sales orders by fax or email, you want to be able to process them electronically. But what’s the right solution? Is it a mix of stand-alone applications for imaging, workflow and archiving? Or an all-in-one platform that goes beyond fax and email?

This new webinar outlines key considerations for integrating fax-to-order and email-to-order automation with SAP® solutions. Join us to learn how you can:

• Treat fax and email orders like EDI
• Reduce order processing time and costs by at least 40%
• Prioritize and automatically convert fax and email orders to IDoc
• Make orders accessible through SAP interfaces
• Get started simply by taking paper out of the process

You’ll get an overview of different automation levels and critical success factors. Plus, learn from real-life case studies and results that other businesses running SAP have achieved. Don’t miss this opportunity to take the next step toward completing your vision of electronic order processing!

Business intelligence (BI) has been a top CIO investment priority for four years running. The return from BI can exceed the cost of the entire IT budget—for example, a dashboard worth more than $200 million. Yet many companies don’t realize the return and some experience total failure of the BI initiative. Join SAP for this session to interactively learn how to build a sound BI strategy that ensures success.

An effective BI approach benefits IT and line-of-business teams alike, from aligning business partners and formalizing business needs to removing limitations from a department’s focus. After our session, you will understand the importance of a clear, well-articulated BI strategy. We will explore critical success factors for developing and delivering a comprehensive BI strategy that identifies a shared set of goals and delivers planned results. You will also gain access to our online assessment tool and prioritize the highest value initiatives in your organization. You’ll walk away with a custom report with recommendations on where to begin your BI project.

In this Webinar, you will learn:

• Best-practice approaches to executing this plan enterprise-wide including guidelines to define and run a successful BI competency center
• Key recommendations to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and organize cross-functionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome
• Repeatable frameworks that engage and bring together the priorities of both CIOs and business executives to address organizational challenges

Companies looking to combine the collaboration and productivity supported by Microsoft SharePoint with the business data and business processing functionality of SAP® applications can now turn to Duet® Enterprise, a product developed jointly by SAP and Microsoft.

In this webinar, learn how Omnicell, a leading provider of comprehensive, technologically advanced solutions, is using Duet Enterprise to meet the need for centralized and easily accessible customer data while enabling employees to increase efficiency and spend more time on activities that have a direct impact on the bottom line.

In addition, discover how partnering with Fujitsu has enhanced the use and results of Duet Enterprise, and the impact that this partnership is having on future plans for business process improvements at Omnicell.

Master data management plays an important role in every successful information governance initiative. The question is, how does that play out in the real world? How can you bring together the right people, policies, and technology? Our expert panel will address this question, and many more. Including yours.

In this live Webinar, you’ll learn about:

• How Data Governance and MDM can improve your business effectiveness
• Intel’s Master Data program, and their successes since implementation
• What’s new in SAP’s portfolio of market-leading MDM solutions

Legacy B2B systems that connect companies with customers, suppliers, partners, financial institutions, and others can be a tangled web. With growth, consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions, these often outdated systems are increasingly complex and resource draining.

There is a much better way.

This free webinar will reveal how SAP® users like you can efficiently consolidate and simultaneously modernize your current B2B and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) applications to one central platform. And, it is risk free.

You'll learn the criteria Magna International considered to successfully consolidate and modernize its B2B/FTP landscape, including:

• Comprehensive functionality for B2B, MFT, and EAI
• True operational transparency
• Performance with scalability for future growth
• Risk-free, automated, and preconfigured migration tools
• Ease of use
• Tried-and-tested performance and best practices

Take a step up to efficient, effective, money-saving B2B.

Nearly 9,000 companies are already using this technology to help them streamline and stay ahead of the competitive curve, risk free.

Join us for a lively and information-rich Webcast that explores SAP® Product Lifecycle Management and the new 3D visual modeling environment from SAP.

Examine how the combination of visualization capabilities and the SAP Business Suite can help you optimize business processes in order to turn ideas into viable products, faster.

Gain insights from case studies, and see how to:

• Stay competitive by enabling integrated product development processes that align product definition and production ramp-up – and reduce your time to profit.
• Gain full visibility and control over product data and documents, engineering changes, and costs, along the value chain.
• Provide visualized product, asset and business information across the full value chain to increase speed to market and accelerate product revenues through communication and collaboration efficiency and throughout the organization.
• Improve design decision processes by combining visual and business information in one holistic visual product or asset record.

Transforming your SAP® applications through the adoption of virtualization and cloud technologies paves the way for an agile IT infrastructure while reducing infrastructure costs, improving operational efficiency, maximizing performance, and reducing risk to your business. In this interactive session, EMC, SAP, VMware, and our partner CSC will share their experience in deploying a virtualized SAP environment on BizCloud, CSC's private cloud offering based on VCE  Vblock.

A panel including SAP, EMC, and VMware will address key concerns or questions from attendees about a virtualized SAP deployment. Customer engagement profiles will be reviewed to provide insight to attendees who share similar organizational and technology challenges.

This session illustrates the customer value of the preferred three-way collaboration between SAP, EMC, and VMware leveraging virtualization and cloud technologies to transform SAP landscapes.

Attendees will learn:

• To mitigate risk, implement best practices, and use a phased approach to transform your SAP landscape
• From practitioners who work with SAP customers to virtualize their landscapes
• To accelerate the journey to your SAP cloud

At the end of the day, business executives generally hold IT professionals accountable for innovation, execution, and growth. SAP can help customers meet these demands with three best practices that will:

• Help you simplify your next SAP project
• Create a sustainable platform to promote growth
• Manage innovation

Attend this webinar to learn the keys to implementation success and to receive Ross Wainwright’s Executive Article: "3 Best Practices to Leverage SAP Innovations Quickly and Effectively". We’ll review the three best practices and highlight current SAP customers who have successfully employed them to speed implementation time, increase time to value, and reduce risk. Discover how to gain accelerated time to value with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and SAP Rapid Deployment solutions (RDS) and ensure project success with Governance.

Have you been challenged to reduce your investment in inventory and improve cash flow while maintaining or improving customer-service levels? Is your supply chain complex, with inventory in various states of completion at multiple locations globally? Are stock-outs or obsolete-inventory write-offs too common in your business? Join this SAPinsider Webinar featuring ConAgra Foods, Inc. to learn how leading companies are addressing these supply-chain challenges to improve performance.

ConAgra Foods, one of North America's leading packaged-food companies, has been on a supply-chain- transformation journey over the past few years. In its journey toward sustainable working-capital reductions and a demand-driven supply chain, ConAgra is leveraging the SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization application by SmartOps. Attend this Webinar and learn firsthand how ConAgra has leveraged technology to:

• Reduce inventory costs
• Improve customer satisfaction
• Improve capacity planning and adherence to schedule in manufacturing
• Reduce expediting costs in transportation
• Improve productivity through automation of manual processes

Please register for this Webinar to learn how SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization helps organizations such as yours achieve supply-chain operational excellence.

Please join Cisco for a Webinar on the industry’s leading SAP-Certified solution for BWA. This webinar will provide a technical introduction and business discussion on why organizations have selected Cisco as the ‘go to partner’ to host their critical SAP Business Intelligence applications.

Webinar Agenda:

• Introduction to Cisco’s BWA Appliance Solution
• Important benefits of Cisco Intelligent Automation for SAP BWA
• Managing service levels to ensure SAP BWA performance
• Lowering TCO for the SAP BWA Appliance
• Scalability, reliability and performance for BWA
• ROI of replacing legacy, outdated BWA systems with Cisco’s leading platform

Fax is a necessary evil. The business demands it, but maintaining fax infrastructure can be a constant headache and a never-ending expense. For more and more SAP® users, the cloud is the answer.
Join us for the webinar to discover how a cloud fax service can help you:

• Reduce infrastructure costs and unbudgeted spending
• Deploy reliable faxing for the entire organization quickly, at low cost
• Simplify your SAP solution landscape
• Free-up IT resources for core business activities
• Implement faxing as part of an SAP application rollout or upgrade
• Support fax in a virtualized environment

Attend to see how cloud fax works and what it has done for SAP customers like Brady Corporation, who saved $100,000 in infrastructure costs. Plus, find out how cloud services can lay a foundation for process improvement beyond fax with OCR, data capture, document routing, workflow and other capabilities.

If you’re upgrading from a legacy fax system, replacing an unsupported system, adopting the latest SAP solution, or just looking to reduce IT overhead, a cloud fax service may be the perfect solution for you.

insiderRESEARCH recently surveyed SAP ERP customers to determine how they manage their access risk. The survey revealed that SAP customers are serious about protecting their critical applications from access risk. However it also revealed that the process of establishing and maintaining a comprehensive program for doing so, presents a great challenge for many customers.

Attend this webinar to learn more about the survey results, and hear how BNSF Railway, operator of one of the largest railroad networks in North America, is minimizing access risk in their SAP environment with the right mix of time, talent, tools, and teamwork. Hear how they have they have automated the enforcement of access policies and implemented preventative controls with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control.

Social media, interactive web applications, a variety of devices. These are some of the experiences customers are integrating with their SAP® applications to extend the reach of their data to more users using SAP NetWeaver® Gateway. Join us for this webinar to:

• Learn about SAP NetWeaver Gateway and its capabilities
• Discover how University of Mississippi is using SAP NetWeaver Gateway to enable easy access to backend applications for internal and external users
• Learn about project best practices and the required skills for a successful implementation
• Get information on product roadmap, next steps and access to the trial version

Did you know you can fully automate the sending of invoices and still deliver to customers by postal mail?

It's true! No matter how many of your company's customers are ready for electronic invoices and how many still want paper, you can make invoicing 100% automated on your end. You can completely bypass the mailroom, even if you need to bundle terms & conditions or other billing documents together with invoices.

Catch this live webinar and learn how easily you can automate accounts receivable to:

• Do away with mailroom processing of invoices in your company
• Cut AR invoicing costs by at least 40% and eliminate manual handling
• Deliver invoices faster to get paid sooner
• Gain visibility to monitor invoice processing and resolve billing disputes
• Make it easy for customers to go electronic when they're ready

Join us for this Webinar and learn how Lubrizol, a specialty-chemicals company for transportation, industrial, construction, and consumer markets is growing its business by improving sales and marketing efficiencies.

You will hear how Lubrizol changed to a modular implementation strategy and rolled out sales-force automation to boost the capabilities of its sales teams and streamline customer interactions. Lubrizol plans more activities, opportunities, and campaign management to evaluate marketing campaigns better, generate quality leads, and manage the opportunity pipeline.

The benefits Lubrizol realized from these improvements include:

• More immediate value for the business customer
• Manage sales pipeline more effectively while in
growth mode
• Ability to segment prospects and market in a targeted, proactive way

This session offers best practices for utilizing spreadsheet automation processes around the SAP General Ledger and sub-ledgers within your SAP environment, along with the real-world automation strategies leveraged by Tate & Lyle. Learn how to ensure seamless integration between Microsoft Excel and your SAP environment through SAP GUI automation and custom Remote Function Calls (RFCs). Explore the top automation challenges faced by Tate & Lyle, including the need to address static spreadsheets and static account balances when there is a need to access critical dynamic data. Gain insight into the Microsoft Excel-based business processes Tate & Lyle are automating via SAP solutions, including month-end reporting, account analysis, financial budgeting, and report distribution/publishing.

Highlights:

•   Populate spreadsheets with ‘live' balances and descriptions
from SAP to Microsoft® Excel
•  More timely report running and full drill-down capability
within specific SAP modules such as FI, CO, PCA, COOR, COPA, COSA, New GL and Special Ledgers.
•  Drill-down dynamically from the spreadsheets to the lowest
level of detail in SAP

Today, it is virtually impossible to separate a business from the applications it runs. SAP offers a broad range of software to help you manage your applications in the midst of ongoing change – cost-effectively and with low risk.

Managing the lifecycle of an application is as important as the application itself. You can design applications to fit the needs of your environment, manage testing to achieve high quality, and monitor applications after implementation to help optimize ongoing performance.

Join SAP for a special customer briefing featuring Florida Crystals Corporation to learn how they are leveraging SAP solutions for their Quality & Risk Management for Application Lifecycle Management strategy.

In today’s economic environment executives are striving to “Predict the Unpredictable”. A recent Forrester study explored the total economic impact of SAP EPM solutions as organizations need to manage their future success and find ways to better understand their business in today’s moving landscape. Simply, our clients want to enable themselves to make right decisions based on the right information at the right time.

Accenture’s Advanced Enterprise Performance Management solutions help to add more value to a company’s environment and foster better business outcomes by bridging the gap between strategy and execution. The SAP BusinessObjects EPM toolset with BPC at its core, helps our clients to unlock the keys to a truly integrated finance process from planning and forecasting to consolidation and measuring success of actuals in a closed loop.

Join this session to learn how Accenture approaches EPM projects and hear about lessons learned from our experience. Our panel of expert is excited to field your questions.

Join us in this webcast and learn how FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., one of the nation's largest electric generation suppliers, providing competitively priced generation to more than 1.5 million residential and business customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan and Illinois is leveraging SAP CRM.

You will hear how FirstEnergy was looking to improve the quality and efficiency of their customer interactions and improve their marketing and sales processes to generate quality leads and manage opportunity pipeline. They are now providing a 360 degree view of the customer across interaction center and sales.

The benefits FirstEnergy Solutions has achieved include:

• Manual processes replaced by standardized best-practice CRM business processes
• 360 degree view of the customer across interaction center and sales
• Ability to manage sales pipeline more effectively while in growth mode
• Ability to segment prospects and market in a targeted, proactive way

Are you curious how are Early Adopters gaining competitive advantages with In-memory technology? How can you analyze business operations enterprise-wide, based on large volumes and varieties of detailed data in real-time? What opportunities can be exploited when your organization starts the move away from 30-year old disk-based data base technology? Join SAP and IBM for an interactive discussion on SAP HANA and real-time analytics.

SAP and IBM have come to market with SAP HANA to enable organizations to enhance and accelerate business performance by reacting quicker – making smarter decisions faster with real-time analytics. SAP HANA is being adopted by forward-thinking firms to analyze business operations based on large volumes/varieties of detailed data in real-time, as it happens. In addition to real-time analytics, SAP is also delivering a new class of real-time applications, powered by SAP HANA platform leveraging IBM’s System x solutions.

During this session, you will learn:

• How to enable real-time analytics for high-value operational data
•About practical application through business scenarios and new purpose-built applications
• More about IBM service offerings and sample use cases
• About System x Workload Optimized Solutions for SAP HANA with Intel Xeon processors with XS to XL configurations

The benefits of cloud technologies are appealing — but the risks are also high. Virtualizing mission-critical applications can introduce performance, security, availability, and complexity management complications. 

This webinar hosted by PEAK Technologies, Zebra Technologies and Motorola will explore new state-of-the-art solution developments for barcode labeling printing and mobility solutions for your SAP® supply chain to allow your organization to develop a scalable, real-time, efficient, and optimized technology infrastructure.

Attendees will be able to take a brand new approach to their enterprise label printing challenges with an easy to use, quick to deploy, seamlessly integrated labeling solution tailor-made for the SAP environment. From confirmation-of-action to compliance labeling, the PEAK Technologies solution featuring Zebra Technologies printers designed for use with your SAP supply chain system makes your barcode printers and internal staff more productive than ever before.

In addition, the webinar will cover various factors that affect the performance of SAP ITSmobile including hardware, software, configuration, device settings, and more. PEAK will also introduce the PEAK ITSmobile Accelerator known as PIX and discuss how speeds approaching terminal emulation are now possible when using SAP ITSmobile.

Attendees will also be able to receive real-world answers to common questions about SAP barcode label printing and ITSmobile that have been collected from several recent large SAP supply chain enterprise printing and mobile data collection deployments.

Key Learning Points:

• Tips for taking a brand new approach to solving your enterprise label printing challenges
• What are the key similarities and differences between the different methods of approaching barcode label printing from your SAP system?
• Evaluate new approaches to SAP enterprise label printing to save your company time, resources and money
• Understand ITSmobile performance factors and introduce a revolutionary new solution to maximize ITSmobile performance
• New solution developments for mobilizing the role-based worker outside the four walls of the supply chain
• Discover the latest printing and mobile computing solutions from Zebra and Motorola

Poor data will only ever lead you to one accurate decision: that it’s time to improve your enterprise information management solution. Eliminate your data quality problems now, and you’ll reduce the risk of propagating bad data down the road.

In this joint Webcast, Bill Rojas, EIM Solution Marketing Director from SAP and Frank Dravis, Strategic Programs Director from Utopia will explain how SAP® BusinessObjects Information(TM) Steward fundamentally improves collaboration among data analysts, data stewards, and IT developers – and helps enterprises better understand, analyze, and fix the trustworthiness of their data. The session will cover:

• The importance of SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) strategies and information governance
• The people in your organization that will use and benefit from the solution
• The vision and mission of SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward
• Real-world examples of how the solution is used within data management operations, from data migration to integration

Hosted by SAPinsider, featuring McKnight Consulting Group, The Information Difference, sponsored by Zynapse

In this webinar Andy Hayler discusses how data governance, data quality and master data management (MDM) fit together. He will share key points of the market research in this area that were developed by his firm, The Information Difference. Andy will also discuss some real-life case studies of projects where companies have exploited their ERP infrastructure by extending this base to achieve business benefits from harmonized, high quality master data.

In continuation, William McKnight will elaborate over how companies today are codifying efforts to focus on master sets for materials, parts, products, supplier and other subjects, to gain efficiencies and direct or indirect bottom-line company improvement to the manufacturing organizations in particular. He will further discuss what MDM is, how it is architected into information management environments, and how to outline the business case.

The webinar, in short, will walk you through the following key-points:

• Are data governance, MDM and data quality being run in concert, or as disconnected initiatives?
• To what extent are these initiatives based on a business case, and to what extent are monetary benefits captured?
• What do companies find are the key benefits of data governance and how much effort and cost is being invested in these activities?
• Critical steps in a manufacturing MDM implementation

In this live Webcast, hosted by SAPinsider, SAP® expert Mindy Fiorentino explains how to keep your books current, your financial information compliant, and most importantly, your focus where it belongs: on growing your business.

Volatile markets. Fickle business needs. Unprecedented scrutiny on margins. To succeed in this environment, you need to turn on a dime. And if your spreadsheets aren’t flexible enough to move with your business, they’ll break – costing you time, money, and opportunities. Learn how United Pipe and Supply, Rock Bottom Restaurants, and other small and midsize businesses have used SAP BusinessObjects(TM) Edge Planning and Consolidation to:

• View consolidated financial results and planning data across multiple business segments and/or subsidiaries
• Improve agility to quickly model new business scenarios
• Reduce training time and increase productivity
• Reduce cycle time through collaboration in a unified landscape
• Streamline the process of creating and approving plans, budgets, and forecasts
• Align plans with strategic goals via top-down and bottom-up budgeting
• Reduce maintenance, simplify deployment, and improve data

Hosted by SAPinsider, sponsored by SAP

SAP NetWeaver® BW powered by the SAP HANA™ platform will dramatically supercharge the performance and scalability of the SAP NetWeaver BW component and reduce costs with simplified administration and streamlined landscape.

In this Webinar, you will hear directly from SAP specialists on the capabilities of SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA and how you will benefit from a fully in-memory-enabled enterprise data warehouse. With SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, you now have new, innovative, and exciting possibilities for taking your SAP NetWeaver BW systems to the next level of performance.

In addition to supercharging your business warehouse applications for unprecedented performance, SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA will also offer greater flexibility in business warehouse modeling and reduce overall maintenance costs associated with running and administering SAP NetWeaver BW. And all of this without disrupting your current SAP NetWeaver BW application since running SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA involves only a technical database migration. Every SAP NetWeaver BW object and process will function the same way after the migration to SAP HANA, but much faster and simpler.

By attending this Webinar, you will have an opportunity to:

• Learn the in-memory innovations delivered with SAP NetWeaver BW on top of SAP HANA
• View a demonstration of SAP NetWeaver BW running on HANA
• Understand the differences between SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator (SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator) and SAP NetWeaver BW running on SAP HANA
• Learn how to get nominated for the ramp-up process

Hosted by SAPinsider, sponsored by SAP

CEMEX, the world's largest building materials supplier and third largest cement producer, will explain why it chose SAP® CRM and the results it achieved. CEMEX, the 2011 Gartner CRM Excellence Award Winner, had its sights set on becoming the world's most efficient and profitable building-solutions company. With SAP CRM, CEMEX wanted to enable rapid growth through a stable single global platform and create global value to increase operational efficiency through innovation and collaboration.

In this session, you will learn how CEMEX implemented a single business process solution platform with ready-to-execute software that enabled industry-rich innovative business processes. As a result, CEMEX has realized a 30% jump in delivered products from 2009 to 2010, a statistic they attribute to both the software (SAP CRM) and CEMEX's seamless implementation.

Find out how CEMEX used SAP CRM to:

• Enable rapid growth through a stable single global platform
• reate global value to increase operational efficiency through innovation and collaboration
• Realize a 30% jump in delivered products from 2009 to 2010

Join Rob Quinn, Chief Information Officer at International Rectifier Corporation (IR), a pioneer and world leader in advanced power management technology, as he describes how IR leveraged SAP Safeguarding to map their complex business requirements to SAP capabilities in order to solve performance issues and help their SAP implementation go live without incident.

International Rectifier chose SAP Safeguarding in order to solve show stopping performance issues and mitigate risks during their SAP implementation. With the assistance of a dedicated SAP technical quality manager and SAP Active Global Support proactive services, they were able to go live successfully with no disruption to the business operation.

Please join us to learn how SAP Safeguarding can help you manage the technical risk associated with your implementation and upgrade projects as well as help you adapt and optimize efficient IT operation processes to help you avoid the complications and risks that occur during productive operations in a complex and heterogeneous IT landscape.

Organizations the world over are searching for ways to achieve better Supply Chain efficiencies. Increasing pressure on operating margins, rising fuel costs, uncertainty in the marketplace and increasing demands from customers for greater transportation efficiency are forcing manufacturers and shippers to look for an integrated Transportation Management Solution which provides greater accuracy, speed, and flexibility to manage all the processes and helps build long-term relationships with their partners.

Join Cognizant and SAP for an interactive discussion on the capabilities of SAP® TM 8.0 and how Collaboration between Shipper and Carriers - both at an information-sharing level and at a transactional level - is significantly improved by Cognizant’s Carrier Collaboration Portal (CCP) built on SAP TM 8.0 platform.

Learn how SAP TM 8.0 powered with the Carrier Collaboration Portal from Cognizant enables companies like yours to:
• plan, consolidate, dispatch, rate and optimize shipments while considering real-world constraints
• leverage Collaboration capabilities of CCP to –
-- enable automate validation of carrier invoices and match them against existing contracts as well as workflow enabled handling of unplanned charges,
-- enable carriers to respond electronically to tenders
-- manage the freight claim process for Shortages and damages of goods during transportation

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 4.0 solutions provide comprehensive functionality that can help you deliver integrated, accurate, and timely data - both structured and unstructured - across your enterprise. Learn how these solutions can help you capture, move, and integrate your data; cleanse, enrich, and identify potential duplicate entries; and profile, assess, and monitor the quality of your data over time.

In this session you will learn how to:

• Apply new Data Quality constructs and profiling with Information Steward
• Drive data governance by using Information Steward to create, maintain and own the rules for data quality to shift the ownership from IT
• Manage, qualify, and structure unstructured data with the new Text Data Processing transforms
• Use enhanced validation available in Data Services 4.0 including: multiple rules per column, complex rules across multiple columns, and integration with business driven rules from Information Steward

See how EIM 4.0 benefits organizations by:

• Providing trustworthy data with automated correction and standardization functions
• Helping consolidate all types of data assets from all source systems
• Creating a single version of the truth across the enterprise that provides accurate, complete, and timely information

SAP users are sending large files every day using various methods, both inside and outside your company. Think about master data and product descriptions, customer lists, payroll data, or quarterly financial reports.

A lot of this data would expose your company to hard costs and reputation damage if it were misdirected, stolen, late or lost. And your current systems — such as FTP servers and email systems — can’t fully protect you. How can you always know when your file was sent and received, when and by whom – and prove it to yourself and your auditors?

Managed File Transfer (MFT) automates and secures the end-to-end management of data transfers — from provisioning through transmission, ensuring guaranteed delivery — across your business and outside your business. It removes risk, improves compliance, and brings large-file transfers under your control and oversight.

You’ll learn:

• Why 81% of senior IT managers ranked MFT as their #1 planned improvement for B2B integration
• MFT’s three compliance pillars: encrypt, track and trace
• How MFT protects large EDI and B2B file exchanges sent inside and outside SAP
• How MFT enforces business policy, security and governance
• Why you should replace FTP with MFT solutions - plus three tips for a successful transition

Join this webinar to find out about the range of options available to deliver business information and applications to any user, through any interface and on any device in order to increase business users’ productivity.

During this session you will learn about :

- Best practices of making the choice for the user interface in the SAP systems - for the right application and process.

- Latest innovations from SAP and its partners in the area of content and collaboration, including new features and functionalities for SAP NetWeaver Portal, enterprise workspaces, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and other solutions.

If your company is receiving sales orders by fax or email, you want to be able to process them electronically. But what’s the right solution? Is it a mix of stand-alone applications for imaging, workflow and archiving? Or an all-in-one platform that goes beyond fax and email?

This new webinar outlines key considerations for integrating fax-to-order and email-to-order automation with SAP solutions. Join us to learn how you can:

• Treat fax and email orders like EDI
• Reduce order processing time and costs by at least 40%
• Prioritize and automatically convert fax and email orders to IDoc
• Make orders accessible through SAP interfaces
• Get started simply by taking paper out of the process

You’ll get an overview of different automation levels and critical success factors. Plus, learn from real-life case studies and results that other businesses running SAP have achieved. Don’t miss this opportunity to take the next step toward completing your vision of electronic order processing!

Not too long ago, developers needed to have specialized training and knowledge in order to create applications connecting to SAP systems. Now-a-days, this process is easier than ever thanks to SAP NetWeaver Gateway. Supported by industry standards like OData and REST, SAP NetWeaver Gateway empowers developers – SAP and non-SAP – to develop applications that solve specific business needs, in a matter of days.

Join us for this webinar to:

• Discover how SAP NetWeaver Gateway helps companies connect a variety of user experiences such as social networks, collaboration tools, interactive web applications and mobile devices to SAP applications bringing the power of business systems to the user work context
• See a demo showing how front end applications can be built in minutes connecting to SAP software using REST and OData market standards
• Learn about the architecture and technical implementation considerations
• See customers examples and get insights into creative solutions developed by partners
• Find out how to get access to the trial version of SAP NetWeaver Gateway

The Information Design Tool in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 is a new modeling tool for the semantic layer that enables you to manipulate metadata from relational and OLAP sources, and to create and deploy SAP universes. Classic universe features have been redeveloped and incorporated in the Information Design Tool in the new release.

With the release of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0, we all want to be able to utilize the new features, but some of those new features require that you convert existing universes or build new universes to the new 4.0 format. This webinar will specifically highlight the differences between the classic Universe Design Tool format (UNV) and the new Information Design Tool format (UNX) and explain the benefits you will receive from migrating to this new format. During the webinar a universe will be developed within the Information Design Tool showing the development process and highlighting changes between the two tools.

In this session you will learn how to:

• Create connections to data sources
• Extract tables and joins to build a relational schema called a data foundation
• Share resources to allow multiple designers to work on the same resources concurrently
• Publish a universe which compiles the business layer, the data foundation and the connections into a single universe file (UNX)
• Create security profiles to define user access to universe data and meta data

 See how the Information Design Tool benefits organizations by:

• Providing a single development environment for BI Solutions and Data Federation jobs for multi source universe data access
• Leveraging common security and administration
• Providing consistency and heterogeneous access across all sources
• Federating better prompt management

Today, it is virtually impossible to separate a business from the applications it runs. SAP offers a broad range of software to help you manage your applications in the midst of ongoing change – cost-effectively and with low risk.

Managing the lifecycle of an application is as important as the application itself. You can design applications to fit the needs of your environment, manage testing to achieve high quality, and monitor applications after implementation to help optimize ongoing performance.

Join SAP for a special customer briefing featuring Levi’s to learn how they are leveraging SAP solutions for their Quality & Risk Management for Application Lifecycle Management strategy.

With Duet Enterprise, IT departments can extend the reach of their company's SAP systems through Microsoft SharePoint. Duet Enterprise, a product jointly developed by SAP and Microsoft, combines the collaboration and productivity supported by Microsoft SharePoint with the business data and business processing functionality of SAP applications.

Join us for this webinar to learn how to leverage your architecture to provide intersystem interoperability, enable a rapid approach for solution development and ultimately, maximize the value of your IT investments in both, SAP and Microsoft.

There are exciting new developments in the world of electronic forms for SAP customers. Organizations using SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe have seen significant process improvements, cost savings, better compliance, and more satisfied end users. Now SAP, together with Arch and Adobe offer new capabilities to expand the power of these enterprise forms.

This webinar includes a presentation by OCS Group and other customer examples and demos so you can see the power of SAP's vision for e-forms everywhere in action. Attendees will learn:

· How customers leverage electronic forms to address specific business needs
· Best practices to develop, deploy and manage SAP-based electronic forms
· Extending electronic forms to any mobile device
· Enterprise-wide features like forms versioning, auditing, escalation handling, reporting and analytics

Whether you are experienced with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe or are just starting with your forms strategy this webinar is for you.

Duet Enterprise, a product jointly developed by SAP and Microsoft, combines the collaboration and productivity supported by Microsoft SharePoint with the business data and business processing functionality of SAP applications.

Join us for this webinar where you will discover how Duet Enterprise enables interoperability between SAP and Microsoft and what that can mean to your business in terms of productivity, agility and growth. In addition, get practical tips based on real customer experiences and gain insights into some of the innovative solutions that partners have recently developed.

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is an industry-leading reporting and analytics tool that enables you to quickly and easily connect, report on, and analyze data using familiar and proven methods, as well as gain new and unique insights into your data. Web Intelligence may be the biggest transformation in the whole 4.0 release. Learn how the product has been completely reworked and has a whole new look and feel when it comes to developing and viewing reports.

• Providing an end-to-end self-service experience covering a range of users
• Delivering interoperability that goes beyond traditional Webi scenarios
• Allowing broad access to data and content
• Significantly improving productivity and usability
• Providing a best-in-class integration with SAP BW

Today, it is virtually impossible to separate a business from the applications it runs. SAP offers a broad range of software to help you manage your applications in the midst of ongoing change – cost-effectively and with low risk.

Managing the lifecycle of an application is as important as the application itself. You can design applications to fit the needs of your environment, manage testing to achieve high quality, and monitor applications after implementation to help optimize ongoing performance.

Join SAP for a special customer briefing featuring Maxim… to learn how they are leveraging SAP solutions for their Quality & Risk Management for Application Lifecycle Management strategy

SAP customers benefit from solid security and efficiency for exchanging data inside SAP. But when data goes outside SAP, there’s often a risk — particularly if it involves large files or unstructured data.

Critical or sensitive data like this is traversing inside and outside your company all the time. A manager downloads a customer list or material master data from SAP, exports it to Excel and emails the spreadsheet to a partner. Finance compiles and sends preliminary quarterly financial data to outside legal counsel. Sales assembles and sends periodic bulk reports to trading partners.

This data would expose your company to hard costs and reputation damage if it were misdirected, stolen, late or lost. And your current systems — FTP servers and email — can’t fully protect you.

Secure Managed File Transfer (MFT) can prevent data leakage and its fallout. MFT automates and secures the end-to-end management of data transfers — from provisioning through transmission, ensuring guaranteed delivery — across your business and outside your business. So you can always know when your file was received, and by whom.

Over the past 20 years, the biggest challenges for business intelligence (BI) were stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Today, BI professionals realize that earlier-generation BI technologies, while still useful for more stable BI applications, fall short in the ever-changing world of business requirements.

In this live Webcast, Boris Evelson from Forrester Research explain how agility and flexibility in decision support is the new order of the day and represent BI's next big opportunity. Afterwards, SAP expert Dan Kearnan will talk about SAP HANA, the high-performance in-memory analytical appliance that helps companies:

• Analyze very large, non-aggregated data at unprecedented speed
• Gain amazing real-time insights across every business operation
• Respond faster to changing business-user requirements

In the early phases of the SAP application lifecycle, many organizations fail to develop strategies for handling the business critical documents generated by these new systems. However, printing problems can and do occur in the production SAP environment. This Webinar will discuss:

• The impact and reality of SAP-generated documents
• The unanticipated challenges of printing in the SAP environment
• Strategies for addressing these challenges

Drawing on experiences at Harley Davidson, the presenters will offer solutions to help organizations get maximum value from their SAP documents and systems.

Did you know you can fully automate the sending of invoices and still deliver to customers by postal mail?

It's true! No matter how many of your company's customers are ready for electronic invoices and how many still want paper, you can make invoicing 100% automated on your end. You can completely bypass the mailroom, even if you need to bundle terms & conditions or other billing documents together with invoices.

Catch this live webinar and learn how easily you can automate accounts receivable to:

• Do away with mailroom processing of invoices in your company
• Cut AR invoicing costs by at least 40% and eliminate manual handling
• Deliver invoices faster to get paid sooner
• Gain visibility to monitor invoice processing and resolve billing disputes
• Make it easy for customers to go electronic when they're ready

Don't miss this opportunity to see how you can integrate automated customer invoicing with your SAP solution and achieve your “quit paper” objectives!

What does business analytics (BA) have to do with hitting a ball with a stick? Join us for an overview of how business analytics plays a key role in our new baseball experience.

In the early innings of this Webcast, SAP expert Joe King will present the Baseball Experience tool and demonstrate the power of BA and how it creates deeper insights into stats, teams, players, and rivalries.

He'll finish by showing you how to use business intelligence to create a competitive advantage in your ever-changing business world, and answer the questions most organizations are asking:

- What is business intelligence?
- How has business intelligence worked in other companies?
- How can business intelligence help my organization?
- What are the risks, and how do I minimize them?

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise is a newly designed version of the Crystal Reports designer. The objectives of the SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise solution are to streamline the report creation process, provide significantly better support for the SAP BusinessObjects Semantic Layer, and take advantage of better connectivity to SAP BW. This webinar expands on these objectives and introduces you to additional new features you can use to leverage the SAP BusinessObjects platform in its Enterprise, Edge, or Crystal Reports Server form.

In this session you will learn:

• The key aspects of the new stream lined user interface and the new Common Semantic Layer
• The differences between Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Other key changes will be discussed including:

• Enhancements to the multi-lingual capabilities
• Enhanced OLAP capabilities
• The ability to subscribe to alerts
• The 64-bit architecture
• The Life Cycle Manager

See how Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0 benefits organizations by:

• Providing a streamlined interface which allows you to quickly deliver reports to your users with a reduced amount of effort
• Allowing you to create beautiful and compelling reports which leverage the new SAP BusinessObjects common semantic layer and improved connectivity to SAP BW
• Taking advantage of improvements across the platform to effectively deliver reports which allow your users to get the information they need, when they need it

In this presentation, you will learn how to  streamline financial data entry from Excel directly into SAP (using GLSU from Z Option) and then be able to immediately report on posted results (using GL Wand from Excel4apps), without ever leaving Excel!
  
Presentation Learning Objectives:

·          See how financial data can be uploaded into SAP using a flexible, configurable spreadsheet interface.

·          Learn how to automate monthly uploads like complex allocations, rebates, accruals, misc vendors, etc.

·          See how data can be extracted from SAP to Excel in real-time.

·          Experience the difference between static vs flexible ad-hoc reporting and analysis.

·          See how to accelerate month-end processing and error resolution.

With more than 250 operating companies in 60 countries and approximately 115,000 employees, Johnson & Johnson struggled with managing access and segregation of duties in a practical, scalable manner. Like many organizations large and small, the complexity of having many people and systems created many challenges.

Join SAP and Johnson & Johnson for this live, interactive Webinar. Hear from Johnson & Johnson executives as they tell the story of their global roll-out of the SAP BusinessObjects Access Control application to drive real and sustainable results back to the business. Learn how organizations are reducing access risk and lowering the cost of access-risk management with SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, including specifics about the latest release, version 10.0.

SAP customers today are evaluating how to move to virtualization confidently and improve daily operational efficiency—all while ensuring the highest levels of availability. Combining VMware® with EMC® cloud infrastructure reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of SAP applications and simplifies and accelerates SAP deployments. Today, with the latest generation of cloud technologies and leverage of global EMC and VMware partners, SAP customers can capitalize on the benefits of virtualization while reducing risk and unlocking the highest levels of value from their SAP application investments.

Haji Aref, Sr. Manager for SAP’s Technical Team with EMC Solutions Group will provide insight into the optimization of SAP on an EMC cloud infrastructure with VMware.

During this webcast you will learn why SAP Customers choose EMC and VMware to Run SAP Better:

• Reduce Infrastructure Costs with measurable results
• Maximize Performance and Efficiency
• Deploy SAP in Less Time
• Reduce Risk; Scale & Protect Applications Without Impact
• SAP Runs Better with an EMC Virtual Infrastructure

Mounting competitive pressures and dwindling internal resources are forcing IT organizations to do more with less. Standardizing data services on a common and unified information management foundation is a smart way to manage technology, resources, and time investments and to improve performance at the same time.

In this live Webinar hosted by SAPinsider, Hal Zesch will explain how standardized and optimized data services helped Valero leverage data better, run more efficiently, and improve its bottom line. Hear how SAP BusinessObjects helped the company:

• Manage exponential growth under a single platform
• Use quality data to improve business intelligence and reporting
• Make a quantum leap in their decision-making ability

Immediately following Hal’s talk, Kristin McMahon, Director of SAP’s Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Solutions Marketing, will outline the business benefits of standardizing on a single information management platform using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services 4.0.

Join Vishal Prasad, the IM Manager of Global Shared Service and Supply Chain, from Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices & Diagnostics (MD&D), as he discusses how Johnson & Johnson leveraged SAP Safeguarding as part of their Crossroads project. The project was a multi-year project to create the most effective combination of business processes, technology, and people to enable efficient global production and inventory management within the Medical Devices & Diagnostics sector.

J& J chose SAP Safeguarding in order to mitigate risks, and with the assistance of a dedicated SAP technical quality manager and SAP Active Global Support proactive services, they were able to go live successfully with minimum disruption to the business operation. Included in the session will also be an overview of SAP Safeguarding services from an SAP expert.

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, formerly known as Xcelsius, is a popular dashboarding tool that gives you instant access to information that you can quickly grasp and act upon. In this webinar, you'll learn about the tool's drag-and-drop design functions, which simplifies the creation of interactive visuals to enable faster, more informed decisions. We will also discuss features and enhancements in the 4.0 release that are focused on improving productivity and direct platform data connectivity, including new and updated support for universe queries and integration with the business intelligence (BI) platform.

In this session you will learn how to:

• Navigate the redesigned start page that is consistent with other BusinessObjects products
• Use the query panel and query browser selector for creating Universe-based queries and displaying a summary view of result objects, filters and prompts
• Use the query prompt selector component to automatically handle selection behavior
• Bind components directly to universe queries without binding to spreadsheet cells

See how SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 benefits organizations by:

• Tracking operations with interactive real-time ready dashboards for every user
• Sharing interactive insights across your business ecosystem with any and all users
• Optimizing successful decision making with scenario planning using what-if analysis capabilities

What’s the best way to get faxes into and out of your SAP system? To cut the costs and relieve the pain of maintaining fax hardware and software, more and more companies are looking to the cloud.

This webinar presents the advantages of fax as a cloud service to help you:

• Deploy reliable faxing for the entire organization quickly, at low cost
• Simplify your SAP solution landscape
• Free-up IT resources for core business activities
• Avoid unbudgeted spends to solve fax problems
• Implement faxing as part of an SAP application rollout or upgrade

You’ll see how cloud fax works and what it has done for SAP customers like Brady Corporation, who saved $100,000 in infrastructure costs. Plus, find out how cloud services can lay a foundation for process improvement beyond fax with OCR, data capture, document routing, workflow and other capabilities.

Before you choose a fax solution, catch this webinar and see why fax is moving to the cloud!

A panel of experts from EMC, SAP and VMware will discuss why choosing the right infrastructure is core to maximizing value and efficiency as SAP is deployed for OLTP, Data Warehouse and Content Management. This interactive format is intended to promote discussion with leading technology experts to understand the value of Virtualizing SAP landscapes with EMC and VMware.

Attendees will learn how the combination of VMware® with EMC® cloud infrastructure:

• Reduces the total cost of ownership of SAP applications.
• Simplifies and accelerates SAP deployments with increased flexibility.
• Provides scaling and protection of SAP applications without impact, and provides higher utilization at a reduced cost.

This discussion will focus on the challenges customers face with making technical and business decisions to virtualize their enterprise SAP applications!

Selling today requires more than following the process.

Collaborating efficiently, harnessing the collective genius of sales and providing your sales professionals with an easy-to-use solution are essential to consistently locking-down the win.  

Making every sales rep a sales hero has indeed been challenging. But it just got a lot easier with the new SAP Sales OnDemand.

Come learn how this new solution, designed from the ground-up for salespeople, is collaborative and easy-to-use, helping sales teams sell more effectively with a solution they will love to use.   The session will include a live demo, and information on how you can get started with your own free trial -- in just minutes.

Make everyone of your reps a sales hero - don’t miss this opportunity to learn about this new salesperson-centric solution from SAP!

A new study on Turning Pain into Productivity with Master Data Management published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE:HHS), shows that top performers in keeping their master data clean, accurate, and available were able to manage

• 5% increase in new products that met their time, volume and quality targets
• 18% reduction in raw material inventory levels
• 7% improvement in inventory turns achieved from ERP implementation
• 12% growth in profitability (operating margins) in the past 2 fiscal years
• 9% growth in product sales in the past 12 months

If you’re like most businesses, real-time business intelligence plays a bigger role in your IT strategy by the second. See how today’s mobile environment has unleashed a new world of interactive visualizations and user-experience enhancements. And learn how to leverage them to become a best-run business.

Howard Dresner will kick off this live expert panel Webcast by reviewing the highlights of his landmark “Dresner Advisory Services Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study,” including:

• Who will deploy mobile BI and which vendors will offer the most complete solutions
• Where mobile BI will be most popular
• When mobile BI will be deployed and how vendor solutions will evolve

Immediately following Howard’s talk we’ll open up the discussion to our experts—and to your questions. When you register, tell us what you’d like to hear the panel address.

One of the key challenges faced by organizations of any size and any industry is managing and analyzing the soaring quantity of data, and harnessing that information to improve the business. Traditional data warehouses simply cannot keep pace with today’s business requirements for fast and accurate analytical data.

Join speakers from SAP and Booz & Company for this special live Webinar to better understand how in-memory analytics can greatly enable organizations to:

• Improve decision making
• Gain richer insight
• Streamline IT landscapes with minimal disruptions to current IT environments

One of the key challenges faced by organizations of any size and any industry is managing and analyzing the soaring quantity of data, and harnessing that information to improve the business. Traditional data warehouses simply cannot keep pace with today’s business requirements for fast and accurate analytical data.

Join speakers from SAP and Booz & Company for this special live Webinar to better understand how in-memory analytics can greatly enable organizations to:

• Improve decision making
• Gain richer insight
• Streamline IT landscapes with minimal disruptions to current IT environments

Hosted by SAPinsider, sponsored by SAP

The second of this two-part Webinar series explains how enterprise information management (EIM) solutions ensure information governance at every step of the business process and support new initiatives while minimizing data-readiness costs. Find out what you have to gain by standardizing processes and drawing greater efficiency from your data management software. You’ll also hear how you can experience a worry-free data migration with any new solution implementation.


To establish the right IT strategy, organizations must standardize on a foundation of skills and reusable technologies to effectively support the information demands of their business. In this live Webinar hosted by SAPinsider, you’ll hear how Bio-Rad recognized the importance of standardizing on SAP BusinessObjects Data Services as its technology foundation to improve service delivery, reduce risks, and deliver trusted information for analytical and operational systems.

Find out how the company:

• Dealt with the information challenges of a fragmented and siloed ERP environment
• Built new data integration competencies
• Expanded its IT team’s ability to respond to the changing information requirements of the business

Hosted by SAPinsider, sponsored by SAP and Capgemini

The first of this two-part Webinar series explains how enterprise information management (EIM) solutions ensure information governance at every step of the business process and support new initiatives while minimizing data-readiness costs. Find out what you have to gain by standardizing processes and drawing greater efficiency from your data management software. You’ll also hear how you can experience a worry-free data migration with any new solution implementation.


There are issues involved with data migration but there are also tools and methods available to cope with them—to reduce the risk of data migration projects so that overruns are minimized and projects do not get delayed or cancelled. In this presentation, Philip Howard, research director at Bloor Research, will discuss these tools and methods not in a generic sense, but specifically in terms of what you should think about before you even start your data migration project and in the early stages of the project itself.

In this live Webinar you’ll:

• Hear statistics from Bloor Research’s 2011 survey of the data migration market which prove that the risk of migration projects can be reduced if addressed in an appropriate manner.
• Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Data Migration software drives successful data migration projects.
• Learn about Capgemini’s risk-mitigating approach based on a data migration-specific project methodology and SAP Best Practices for Data Migration software.

On March 23, SAP announced the availability of the latest release of its GRC solutions SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0. Providing the most comprehensive support for management, monitoring and analysis of enterprise risk and compliance activities, this single unified environment solution release has been enhanced to with enable your business to:

• Reduce costs by automating risk and compliance activities
• Prevent risk events and compliance violations through the use of continuous monitoring
• Create shareholder value by incorporating risk and compliance into strategy and planning

Attend this webinar to learn the Top 10 reasons how GRC 10.0 can enable your organization to proactively balance risk and compliance.