SAP

Since last year, SAP Support has been a major part of the news - first with SAP announcing Enterprise Support, the market’s reaction to a rise in support cost - from 17% to 22%, a critical reception from customers, the SAP response of rolling back the support price in DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), the emergence of service partners who ‘supposedly’ offer AMC (Annual Maintenance Contract) equivalents to SAP customers, and more recently the erstwhile rumors in the market about Siemens planning to cancel their Annual Maintenance Contract with SAP and the trend which could begin if this had come true.

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Posted by Shiraz Mishra at 08:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

SAP is dealing with various challenges since HY2 2008. In the last few years, I have not seen a more difficult time for the company. The way I look at it, this can be the wake-up call the world’s largest ‘business software provider’ requires to maintain its leadership in the coming years.

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In the part 1 of this blog (http://www.infosysblogs.com/sap/2009/09/why_need_profitability_analysi.html#more), we discussed few of the pain points that business are facing today. Moving ahead let’s see how would profitability analysis help solve them and how can such a solution be implemented.

Consider a scenario where your company creates profitability report for its products, product lines, customers, channels and geography; or any combination thereof. You as a sales manager sort the customers based on their profitability and know the most profitable and least profitable customers. You treat your most profitable customers best. You also analyze the unprofitable customers and devise plan either to make them profitable or divest them. You have information about the customer-product profitability and clearly know which products to focus for maximizing the company’s profit.

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First of all my apologies to friends who were following this blog, it took me a while to post the second part … there has been a lot of interest in EPM and I’ve been kept busy.

So, starting with where we left in the first part (http://www.infosysblogs.com/sap/2009/08/enterprise_performance_managem.html#more). There are a few broad areas that EPM covers at the strategic and operational levels – Strategy Management; Business Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting; Financial Consolidation; Profitability Management; Management Reporting & Analytics for your Business Functions (e.g. Supply Chain Performance Management).

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Posted by Rakhi Makad at 08:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

If this is true, then AccAD is your “goto” solution. Positioned as a complimentary offering to SAP Netweaver, SAP’s Accelerated Application delivery (ACCAD), is a standalone application. It can be leveraged as an enabler for SAP's global central system strategy e.g., Central Portal as single central access point for end-users worldwide.

Access via AccAD is significantly fast than direct access over WAN. This is true for limited bandwidth and longer latencies.

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