Overview: Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

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A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations by SAP America Inc . May 01, 2008 - In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.

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Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value by SAP America Inc . October 2008 - Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.

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Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability - Dynamic Environments Expose Weaknesses in Traditional Approaches by SAP America Inc . June 01, 2008 - To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.

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Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence - Drive Efficiency And Growth With Integrated Solutions by SAP America Inc . June 01, 2008 - The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.

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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.

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Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations: Sales Opportunity Blueprinting by SAP America Inc . April 27, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.

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Beyond the Basics: Cost-Cutting Tips & Tricks From the Experts by SAP America Inc . March 16, 2009 - The provisions of the recent stimulus package can actually reduce your debt service. Want to get expert advice on staying lean and increasing your financial leverage? Learn more about this and other options for cutting costs and boosting your profits in this online event sponsored by SAP.

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Brand Management - Leveraging the Power of Integrated Marketing by SAP America Inc . February 2008 - The evolution of consumer marketing causes everyone to think in new ways. Instead of reaching consumers through traditional media, Internet, product placement and word of mouth are good alternatives. Check out this paper for more information about integrated brand management.

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Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America Inc . June 01, 2008 - This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

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Business Intelligence: Putting Information to Work by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.

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Collateral Damage: What the Crisis in the Credit Markets Means for Everyone Else by SAP America Inc . October 01, 2008 - Given the dramatic events in the capital markets, everyone is wondering what will happen next - and what the implications are for the wider economy. This paper will discuss challenges facing companies and how to respond.

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Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services by SAP America Inc . June 30, 2008 - Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.

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Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation by SAP America Inc . January 2006 - This paper explains business strategies, trends, and issues related to enterprise resource planning, financial management, operations management, and human capital management that drive the consideration of ESA.

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Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond by SAP America Inc . February 2008 - Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO.

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Enterprise Risk Management: Keeping People, Assets, and the Environment Safe by SAP America Inc . November 12, 2008 - Find out why operational risk management is a rising priority for monitoring disparate and disconnected efforts in safety, environmental compliance, and asset use to provide better enterprisewide control and management accountability. Making substantial efforts today will improve risk mitigation and create an enduring competitive advantage.

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Financial Performance Management: Optimize Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP® solutions for enterprise performance management, cover the full life cycle of financial management and put you in control of performance.

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Get Closer To Your Best Customers: A Shift In Customer Strategies In A Time Of Crisis by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - The extraordinary circumstances of the current economic crisis have changed the operating rules for companies of every size, in every industry. Companies now face a unique opportunity to reexamine traditional business practices and make much-needed changes - changes that will help them survive the downturn and flourish with the inevitable up...

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance For Life Sciences Companies by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational,
financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.

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Growing Your Business: Creative Strategies for Tough Times by SAP America Inc . March 16, 2009 - Position yourself for the re-bound during this slow economy. Join our panel of experts to discuss this important topic and to get some creative strategies for capitalizing on an economy in distress - and competitors in retreat. Gain insights on what you need to do to have your business thrive, no matter what the financial climate.

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Guide to Better Decision-Making for Your SMB Through IT by SAP America Inc . June 2008 - Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions.

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Hitting the Moving Target of Operational Excellence: Identifying and Obtaining the Information Needed for Continued Success by SAP America Inc . May 2007 - This white paper presents IDC’s framework for implementing operational excellence (opex) and helps the reader move toward an effective op ex implementation while avoiding potential pitfalls.

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How SMBs Can Use IT to Stay Afloat in Today’s Turbulent Economic Waters by SAP America Inc . August 07, 2009 - Please join us in welcoming industry experts Ray Boggs, Vice President, SMB Research at IDC, along with Merle Sandler, Research Manager, SMB Research IDC, as they discuss the changing role that technology can play in helping SMBs survive, if not thrive in challenging economic times.

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Improving Intercompany Reconciliation For A Faster Close: Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects

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Investlink Taps Business Objects for Fast, Flexible, and Scalable Reporting by SAP America Inc . October 12, 2009 - Find out how Investlink used SAP BusinessObjects tools to enable third-party administrators who work with investment advisors and plan sponsors to build and change statements on an ad hoc basis.

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Managing Risk in Perilous Times. Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery by SAP America Inc . July 15, 2009 - Examine lessons learned from the current financial crisis in this EIU report. The report proposes ten practical lessons that could help address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment, and management.

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Managing Risk In Perilous Times: Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.

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Managing Risk through Financial Processes: Embedding Governance, Risk and Compliance by SAP America Inc . November 01, 2008 - To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged
the importance of cost and efficiency..

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Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.

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Maximizing the Value of Economic Stimulus Funds by SAP America Inc . June 05, 2009 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a dramatic action designed to quickly stimulate an economic recovery in the United States. This SAP Executive Insight examines some of the major challenges agencies face with respect to this stimulus plan. It describes how governments can transform their organization to devote more resources..

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Measuring The Business Value of IT by SAP America Inc . September 2006 - Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users.

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Organizational Readiness Challenges Companies Like Yours Face by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - This SAP executive insight "Organizational Readiness" explains the organizational readiness challenges that companies face.

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Protecting and Nurturing Your Brand: Maintain and Grow Brand Value in a Time of Crisis by SAP America Inc . June 05, 2009 - There are many elements that impact a company's brand. Concentrating on a select few lets you control financial investment while maximizing the returned benefit. This SAP Executive Insight focuses on efforts that target a key set of brand-related opportunities and describes how companies can strengthen brand value even in a recession.

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Reduce Compliance Costs with an Integrated Program of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) by SAP America Inc . November 2006 - Learn how an integrated program of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) can reduce compliance costs, build valuable stakeholder trust and increase transparency for improved decision making and opportunity awareness.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Key to Continuous Demand Satisfaction by SAP America Inc . March 2007 - Find out how leading companies are designing their sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes to continuously monitor and meet customer demand.

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SAP Provides a Central Hub for Managing Interfaces & Web Services for Largest NA Oil Refining Co. by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging.

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Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - This paper reviews the forces that affect the professional services market today, defines and explains the main pillars of service delivery innovation, and reviews the benefits firms derive from service delivery innovation.

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Support Global Expansion with Trade and Financial Compliance by SAP America Inc . November 05, 2009 - The SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for Brazil (SAP BusinessObjects Nota Fiscal Eletronica) application helps companies that do business in Brazil meet digital invoice regulations. The application enables automated, certified, and secure communication with government systems at the state and federal level.

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The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its
accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls

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The Profitability Perspective: How Automated Reporting Drives Better Decisions by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...

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The Renewed Finance Function - Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.

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The Superstar CFO - Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role by SAP America Inc . May 2007 - Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.

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The Two Faces of Risk by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Traditional approaches to risk management emphasize mitigation, focusing on
the readily apparent risks facing a company in the areas of security, privacy,
credit, regulatory, technology, fraud and more. These threats are, of course, important and must be addressed.

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Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demands by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.

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