Welcome to SAPinsider Webinars

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

SAP® systems are mission critical for many organizations. And IT executives are always looking to reduce the total cost of maintaining these systems. Attend this Webinar and hear firsthand how Color Spot Nurseries is actively reducing its TCO. By incorporating third-party support into its IT strategy, Color Spot Nurseries is enhancing the value of its stable, robust SAP system.

Lessons Learned:

• Color Spot’s SAP strategy and roadmap
• Key drivers behind Color Spot’s interest in third-party support
• Evaluation and assessment performed before finalizing its support strategy
• Color Spot’s experience to-date and recommendations for other SAP licensees

Learn how you can optimize your SAP total cost of maintenance and run your mission-critical applications for years to come.

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.