The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

The new normal is no longer new in finance, according to SAP’s Martin Narachewski. The years since the economic crisis introduced omnipresent volatility, increased focus on risk, constantly changing regulatory requirements and other hardships that have become facts of life. (more…)

Is American manufacturing dead? Has the good ‘ol US of A become a land full of pencil pushers and burger-flippers? These questions continue to haunt many different industries and businesses in this age of outsourcing. (more…)

The SAP HANA platform will soon take flight as part of the SAP for Aerospace & Defense solution portfolio’s latest expansion, the company announced Wednesday. (more…)

Last week an eight story garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed killing nearly 400 people with many still missing. The New York Times is calling it “one of the  worst manufacturing disasters in history.” (more…)

The business world is ripe for an e-learning explosion as the number of qualified experts can’t keep pace with innovations like mobile, cloud, and Big-Data. (more…)

As I previously mentioned, the new Forums format at SAPPHIRE NOW is a big deal this year. Featuring “must-see” content for specific industries and lines of business (LoB) in a new one-day community format, Forums are designed to enhance your experience in Orlando. (more…)

According to Forrester, 66% to 90% of B2B corporate buying cycles are completed before sales is engaged and only 3% of sales interactions are considered worthwhile by prospects. (more…)

Considering that 71 percent of IT leaders see mobile as transformational[1] and that 80 percent of the Fortune 500 are already planning on implementing mobile apps[2], there is immense opportunity to build a mobile apps business with an increasingly engaged and invested customer audience. (more…)

Responsibility for the M2M/IOT solution at SAP makes Suhas Uliyar a busy man. Last week he was immersed in the buzz at the Mobile World Congress (MWC); before, he was on the road at other trade shows and conferences. (more…)

“Cities are like human beings,” SAP’s Judith Magyar wrote from Mobile World Congress Wednesday. “Each individual person, or city, is unique and special in its own way.”

So when a city has problems, the solutions provider must find what works for that particular municipality. (more…)