SAPinsider and SAP Experts have assembled a two-part collection of articles written by industry experts at SAP and leading companies in the supply chain industry.

SAP Experts and SAPinsider has assembled eight popular pieces on how the requirements of new digital economy impact SAP finance professionals. 

SAPinsider assembled seven popular pieces from SAPinsider and SAP Experts for SAP administrators. These articles provide both strategic and tactical insights into how you can better manage, deploy, and support SAP technology and landscapes.

Find out how Microsoft leverages the SAP zero downtime option (ZDO) to reduce the downtime for SAP deployments substantially. Learn tips, lessons learned, and useful procedures that have shown results at Microsoft.

Gain valuable strategic and technical insight from thyssenkrupp’s recent SAP Fiori implementation. Learn how the company determined desired functionalities to cover business needs.

Review the migration of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s agency-wide ERP from government data centers to commercial cloud-based hosting: What worked, what didn’t work, what surprised, what disappointed.

Get practical tips from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) experience working collaboratively with its cloud service provider to craft workable incentive and disincentive structures for service-level agreement (SLA) enforcement that, over the last year, has routinely caught and processed a number of SLA “misses,” resulting in nearly $200,000 in service credits. Explore the key features in DOI’s SLA framework.

Gain valuable insight from Cintas’ experiences planning for its move to SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Learn how Cintas assessed technical implications of moving to SAP Solution Manager 7.2 to determine likely enhancements to its landscape.

Gain insight from Newcastle University’s recent implementation and migration from Oracle to SAP HANA. Learn how the migration was planned and organized, and the nuts and bolts of the implementation.

Learn lessons from Newcastle University's experience developing a system of annual patching in order to gain maximum value from SAP investments, prepare for the migration to SAP HANA, obtain full advantage of all new available functionality and bug fixes, ensure harmony between SAP systems, improve UX, and build a solid platform for future developments and patching.

Learn how Newell Brands took the steps necessary to meet the trends of today’s UX and evolve the employee user experience.  Get firsthand insight from Newell Brands on what went well and key challenges encountered.

Join SAP mentor and BI guru Tammy Powlas to learn how she drives maximum value from the SAP BusinessObjects BI and analytics tools at Fairfax Water, and how you can, too.

The face of analytics at C Spire has changed dramatically — from multiple IT-driven reports that users needed to sift through, to an invaluable resource for employees at all levels of the organization. Find out how C Spire built, deployed, and runs a successful self-service program.

Learn about Fairfax Water’s experience using SAP BusinessObjects Cloud and get firsthand feedback on the solution’s capabilities. You'll see how Fairfax Water determined project scope, goals, and objectives based on key elements of its overall BI strategy and road map.

Gain insight about both the preparation and outcome of Mead Johnson Nutrition’s recent migration to SAP HANA and SAP Sybase. Learn about TCO and RFP background, project timelines, and methodology.

Gain useful tips and tricks from Lockheed Martin’s success in leveraging SAP ONE Support Launchpad to access support tools and effectively administer its SAP solutions. Learn how the company leverages SAP BusinessObjects Lumira to provide important system data to management and support staff.

CSL Plasma recently divided its integrated SAP Data Services from the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform in order to provide additional features and capabilities in data management and to gain the ability to apply updates to analytics and enterprise information management components independently. Learn firsthand from CSL Plasma why the decision to separate SAP Data Services was made as as technical considerations.