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SAP Consulting Keeps Company on the Winning Track by Developing a Clear Road Map for an Extensive SAP NetWeaver Project

Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Basel, Switzerland) is a world leader in crop protection and the high-value commercial seeds market. Challenged by an overly complex and costly IT landscape, the company chose SAP Consulting to help develop a road map for adopting the SAP NetWeaver platform - the foundation for enterprise...

Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Clear, SAP Consulting, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

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SAP Consulting Guides the Business Process Changes, Then Helps Implement the Tools to Make Them Work

Founded in 1969, SI Corporation develops and markets innovative polypropylene-based products used for flooring, construction materials, soil stabilization processes, home furnishings, and filtration systems. The company wanted to replace outdated, nonintegrated legacy systems. The challenge was to speed up financial closings and find the right implementation partner. As a solution...

Tags: Business Process, Financial, SAP AG, Tool, SAP Consulting, Hardware Upgrade, Construction, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Hardware, Finance, Business Operations

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SAP Consulting Creates an Enterprise Services Architecture Road Map, a Synchronized Plan for the Evolution of Business Processes and Information Technology for Degussa

Degussa, a multinational chemicals company wanted to evolve the heterogeneous IT infrastructure used by Degussa's disparate business units to provide more efficiency while still maintaining the flexibility to sustain innovation. The company used SAP Consulting to create a road map to streamline the order-to-cash process in a division with two...

Tags: Business Process, Information Technology, SAP AG, SAP Consulting, Engineering, Strategy, Operational Planning, Management, Business Operations

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Additional Resources

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...

Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-20

News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV? HP...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., PC, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value

While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Enterprise Advocates launches; Targets IT buyers

A band of analysts and industry experts have formed Enterprise Advocates, an advisory group geared to the buy side of the information technology equation. The group, which includes ZDNet's Dennis Howlett and Oliver Marks, is a timely addition to the tech buying equation. In addition to Howlett...

Tags: Roster, Information Technology, Webinar, Analyst, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

ERP > EERPYour insight is appreciated in shining a light on the comparison of ERP goals and accomplishments w/ what's touted of Social Business Design. ERP mindsets combined with the social nature of learning is [in my opinion] what will be required for success. What Tim Harmon of...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise 2.0, ERP, Social Business Design

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

SAP and SME's: an update

I've just returned from spending a day immersed in SAP at a London hotel with European and South African SME customers, channel partners and the Business ByDesign team. It's been fascinating. While the focus was on ByDesign, I met with All-In-One customers. It provided a useful...

Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Customer, SAP AG, McDermott, Smb/Sme, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-11

6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors

GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

JD Edwards certification woes

Andy Klee takes a stern look at JD Edwards certification: I'm here to tell you that the JDE certification program is on life support. It barely exists. JDE employees cannot be certified, and neither can JDE clients. Only business partners are eligible to take certification exams. ...

Tags: Certification, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Andy Klee, EBS Certification, JDE World, JDE Customer, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

When Consultancies Feel the Pain of Recession

Customer base I wonder if what sort of granularity they can break this into to determine what is going on. If this consultant company is closely linked to SAP, then wouldn't the backlash that hit SAP also be present here? SAP dropped a lot of customers last year...

Tags: Outsourcing, recession, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

ERP sales are falling: here's one reason

I'm on a small project that is typical of many: "I have a modest sized business but our complexities are no different to the Big Boys. Help." So off we trot so see if there's a solution that comes vaguely close to an 80% fit. As a 'day job sometimes'...

Tags: Solution, Oracle Corp., ERP, Microsoft Corp., ERP Sale, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Outsourcing, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-04

SAP: cautious optimism going forward

SAP: cautious optimism going forwardSAP: cautious optimism going forwardSAP is not the only one with an interest in explaining the value of enterprise support. Consultants also have an interest, and a role to play. And SAP would do well to better leverage its army of consultants in that...

Tags: SAP AG, cautious optimism

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

SAP revenues slump, in line with analyst expectations, bottom line up

SAP has revealed its Q2 2009 numbers and as widely predicted, top line software revenues are off 40%, down from €898 million in 2008 to €543 million this time around. Software services, support and maintenance was also off, 5% from €2,061 million to €1,953 million. That left total revenues down...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-29

ERP forms flow: coexistense for the short term?

ERP forms flow: coexistense for the short term?What is your question/position?I know that Apollo Consulting in San Francisco TRAINS buyers/users of SAP Business One to edit/create/update forms and documents. That is part of the payment these companies make including research and identification. It certainly is NOT...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft Windows, Apollo Consulting, Windows Folk, IT Staff, ERP

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Your implementation is killing us

When I think about the enterprise apps landscape, it seems almost impossible to get away from MISO's addiction to multi-million dollar implementations. Those days are gone and yet financial analysts seem obsessed with the notion that somehow, some day they will return. Oracle continues to wow the...

Tags: Implementation, SAP AG, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-13