Updated: Why this Well-Known Biotech Firm Deploys 17,000 iPads and iPhones
Enterprises at the AppNation conference detailed the ups and downs of deploying apps to both employees and customers. Eric Lai in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Healthcare, Mobile, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub [Jan. 13, 2012 08:50 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How Healthcare's Embrace of Mobility has Turned Dangerous
Embracing mobility as healthcare providers have done is a good thing. "Distracted doctoring" and "medical multitasking," however, are not. Eric Lai in Emerging Technologies, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Healthcare, Mobile, Ranting [Jan. 05, 2012 02:28 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Usability: Four Steps to Maximize your SAP Investment in 2012
Tackling the usability obstacle may be the solution to improving adoption rates, lowering headcount overhead, and increasing transactions. Learn four key steps to getting started with making SAP more usable for your business processes. Molly Maple in Best-Built Applications, CRM, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Mobile [Jan. 02, 2012 10:37 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

EHTEL Symposium 2011
Learning about the healthcare efforts in Europe by attending the EHTEL Symposium 2011 in Brussels. SAPforHealthcare in Healthcare, Life Sciences [Dec. 28, 2011 02:19 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mobile Healthcare Demo Pod at SAPPHIRE Now Beijing
SAPforHealthcare in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Mobile [Dec. 16, 2011 04:45 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mobilize your physicians with SAP
How SAP managed it to create an iPad app that exactly meets the needs of physicians during a ward round. Carolin Flesch in Healthcare, Mobile, SAP Research, SAP xApps [Dec. 09, 2011 12:47 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Achieving Healthcare Sustainability with SAP
How to achieve healthcare sustainability with SAP SAPforHealthcare in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Sustainability [Dec. 09, 2011 12:45 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Deploying a Mobile Strategy in Hospitals
The importance of mobile strategy in hospitals SAPforHealthcare in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Mobile [Dec. 09, 2011 12:44 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Information governance practices must help protect patient data
Understand how to apply information governance principles to patient data, including some details from recent guidance published by the Health Information and Quality Authority. Ina Felsheim in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Data Integration and Quality Management, Healthcare, Life Sciences [Oct. 25, 2011 08:48 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mobile and Social Strategies are Bringing Clean Drinking Water to Kenya
Find out how one "profit for purpose" company is using a mobile and social strategy to bring clean drinking water to Kenya. Sylvia Santelli in Green IT, Healthcare, Mobile, Social Media and Social Networks, Sustainability [Sep. 30, 2011 06:13 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Addressing HCP Spend Sunshine Act requirements with SAP CLM Contracts
Are you in the Lifesciences, Pharma, Health-Care industry and do you manage your contracts, Sourcing, procurement and Spend with SAP's Procurement suite SAP Sourcing, SAP CLM, SAP SRM, SAP Business Objects and spend performance Management, SAP MDM, then this blog will help you understand how to configure and comply with the Sunshine Act for HCP Spend. Tridip Chakraborthy in ERP, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Procurement and SRM [Sep. 29, 2011 02:53 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP for Healthcare at HIMSS AsiaPac: Bringing Mobility to Healthcare
This week, SAP for Healthcare is at HIMSS AsiaPac in Melbourne, Australia to show everyone SAP’s latest innovations in bringing mobility to healthcare. Martin Burger in Analytics, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Mobile [Sep. 17, 2011 10:11 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Accountable Care Organization/Mobile Health Readiness: Take Our Survey!
Take advantage of SAP's free ACO benchmarking survey to learn how your peers are approaching this strategy and see where your organization fits in its adoption. Anik Merchea in Healthcare, Mobile, SAP Research [Sep. 07, 2011 12:07 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Chart: Enterprises that are Deploying Android Smartphones & Tablets
Android rollouts by enterprises and schools are starting to emerge, finally. Here's a first attempt to compile them. Eric Lai in Higher Education, Healthcare, Defense, Mobile, Open Source [Sep. 06, 2011 01:40 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How Two SAP Mobile Health Apps Can Improve Patient Care (mHealth)
Empowering doctors and patients with mobile apps can dramatically improve patients' healthcare, whether they are in hospital or in the home, says SAP. Eric Lai in Best-Built Applications, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Mobile, SAP EcoHub [Sep. 01, 2011 11:53 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Accountable Care Organizations and Mobility: Working Together for Patient Empowerment
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will change the way healthcare works, and the latest healthcare mobility efforts will help make ACOs successful. As an offshoot of healthcare reform, ACOs mark a shift in the way treatment and healthcare is both delivered and reimbursed: ACOs will not only put greater accountability on the network of providers and physicians for the wellbeing of their patients, but will also reimburse them for performance (patient outcomes) versus volume of services delivered. Andy De in Analytics, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Mobile [Sep. 01, 2011 10:37 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – Mobility and reinventing processes
Mobility is challenging many traditional paradigms of computing and information exchange. In turn, it can unleash serious transformational forces within more traditional environments. Often this requires support of a more revolutionary data store model that can support the emerging solutions more dynamically. Businesses seeking to innovate should seriously look at existing process models and consider revolutionizing them with mobility for this could lead to significant advantages. Puneet Suppal in Healthcare, In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile, SAP NetWeaver Gateway, SAP SAPPHIRE [Jun. 09, 2011 11:50 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

VA Hospital Spurs Change Through Data Transparency
The Kansas City VA data embarrassment highlights the case for businesses to conduct thorough root cause analysis as a part of their information governance programs. Learn key steps to follow in conducting your own root cause analysis. Ina Felsheim in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Process Management, Data Integration and Quality Management, Healthcare [Jun. 01, 2011 10:40 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP for Healthcare gets Stamp from Global Authority on Standards for Interoperability
SAP sucessfully participated in the European Connectathon 2011 at Pisa Bettina Lieske in Healthcare, Interoperability, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture [Apr. 26, 2011 02:26 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The time was ripe
There are new enterprise services for SAP Patient Management with ECC 6.0 Enhancement Package 5. Bettina Lieske in Healthcare, Interoperability, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture [Apr. 19, 2011 06:44 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

What CIOs Think About Enterprise Mobility...(webinar)
This post is a blatant ad for an all-day virtual event on mobility put up by Sybase and SAP on Wednesday, April 20th. And a cute toddler pic (I couldn't find a cat one). Eric Lai in Enterprise Architecture, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Mobile, Webinars [Apr. 18, 2011 10:07 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Four out of 5 Doctors Buying iPads this Year, Says Study?! Nope.
Doctors love their iPads, it appears. But the true interest may be about half as high as one CNBC article implied. It's still impressive, though. Eric Lai in Emerging Technologies, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Mobile, SAP Developer Network [Mar. 29, 2011 10:30 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HR projects are now becoming tougher and more satisfying
The increased importance of SAP HR in many organizations means tougher but even more satisfying projects. Bernhard Escherich in Business Process Expert, ERP, Healthcare, Human Capital Management, Utilities Industry [Feb. 15, 2011 07:40 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

90% of Enterprise IT Managers Deploying New Mobile Apps This Year (Survey, Charts)
Here's more proof that 2011 will prove to be the Year of the Mobile Enterprise App. Eric Lai in Beyond SAP, Healthcare, Insurance, Mobile, Organizational Change Management [Jan. 12, 2011 04:04 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP StreamWork and the healthcare challenge
SAP StreamWork supports interesting use cases to overcome the healthcare challenge. Bernhard Escherich in Insurance, Healthcare, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies [Jan. 09, 2011 03:13 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Enhanced GLN Functionality Guides now Available on the SAP Service Marketplace for Healthcare
SAP's support of GLNs and GTINs may be one of our best-kept secrets (at least, outside Retail and Consumer Products). The fact is, SAP has supported GLNs and GTIN since 2006, and the functionality has been in core ECC since ECC 6.0 EHP2. In addition, SAP supports Traceability in the SAP Auto-ID Enterprise application. 2010 is the year of the “GLN Sunrise,“ whereby healthcare trading partners voluntarily will begin transacting business using the Global Location Number (GLN) in lieu of individual location codes and account numbers. The first step is the use of Ship-to GLNs on Purchase Order (850), Order Acknowledgement (855), Advanced Shipment Notification (856), and Invoice (810) EDI transactions. GLNs on EDI transactions for Rebates and Chargebacks (844, 845, and 867) are being addressed in the SAP Solution for Rebates and Chargebacks by Vistex. Jonathan Arck in Public Sector, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Wholesale Distribution [Jan. 06, 2011 06:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – Mind your Process
As we look to deploying new technologies and pressing forward with new implementations of software-provided functionality, let us take a moment and re-acquaint ourselves with a basic prinicple: Process First. Yes, in the excitement of getting to the next frontier, we often miss this important step. This is true whether it is in the context of macro issues, such as Healthcare, that are important to us as a society or whether it is the question of Enterprise Mobility, or In-Memory Analytics, or the latest CRM functionality. Puneet Suppal in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, Healthcare, Mobile [Jan. 04, 2011 03:46 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HR in 2011: some predictions
2011 will become a very interesting year for SAP HR. Here are some predictions. Bernhard Escherich in Healthcare, ERP, Human Capital Management, In-Memory Business Data Management [Jan. 04, 2011 05:19 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Documentation is a part of everybody’s life not just SAP professions.
I saw some posters of how health care use documentation. Made me think about documentation in general. This is very similar to how we use documentation in Process Integration. Daniel Graversen in SAP Process Integration (PI), Healthcare [Sep. 27, 2010 04:38 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

M2M News Weekly - August 4, 2010
This is an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices that I read each week. I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article. I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market. Kevin Benedict in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Healthcare, Mobile [Aug. 05, 2010 05:39 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

M2M News Weekly - July 14, 2010
This is a list of the best articles, videos and blogs I found this week on the topic of M2M (machine-to-machine) or embedded mobile devices. I am particularly looking for strategy and market growth numbers in these articles. Kevin Benedict in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Healthcare, Mobile, Utilities Industry [Jul. 14, 2010 03:30 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Healthcare in China - exciting opportunities
HIMSS 2010 APAC took place in Beijing, and SAP participated together with IBM and Panasonic. Read more about healthcare activities in China! Martin Burger in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Public Sector [Jul. 13, 2010 12:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Brazil's NF-e - some reasons for implementing
Foreign consultants studying Brazil's mandatory GRC-NF-e. Kevin Benedict has a great idea of NF-e integrated in the whole EDI scenario. Alexandre Carvalho in ABAP, Automotive, ERP, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Healthcare, Integration and Certification, Oil and Gas [Jun. 21, 2010 06:19 PM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

Business Architecture for Healthcare
Community-based approach to create a business architecture for the healthcare industry Peter Klement in Business Process Expert, Community Projects, Healthcare, Service-Oriented Architecture [Jun. 01, 2010 10:31 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

MDM Quick Starter: Aggregate Physician Spend
New MDM Quick Starter package facilitates a single view on physician master data to ensure consolidated reporting, s.th. which accommodates for an imminent requirement from the U.S government. Markus Ganser in CRM, ERP, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Master Data Management (MDM), Procurement and SRM, Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) [May. 17, 2010 01:31 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SOA is not dead - it is everywhere
As I am leaving SAP after more than 10 years to join one of SAP biggest partners, I thought I would leave my last footprint, and share a visualisation of how I explained the avantages of using service oriented architectures to people who have no technical background. Bart de Witte in Healthcare, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture [May. 06, 2010 11:40 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

MEAPs, Thick Clients and Mobile Chain of Custody Applications
This is a case study about implementing mobile solutions in difficult environments. Kevin Benedict in Business Process Expert, SAP EcoHub, RFID, Professional Services, Procurement and SRM, Mobile, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Co-Innovation Lab, Travel and Logistics Services [May. 05, 2010 03:13 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Top Ten ePM trends for Next Decade - #3
Wow, truly how SAP is thinking on the direction for ePM, Industry Analytics was identified the core direction by SAP, my next blog in the blog series for ePM trends…. Muthu Ranganathan in Analytics, Banking, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Process Expert, Enterprise Performance Management, Healthcare, Public Sector [Apr. 27, 2010 10:04 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Time to take SDN Collaboration to NEXT Level?
So how do you rate collaboration on SDN in the present form? On the scale of 1-5, I personally would not rate it more than 3. It is a huge community and still growing and I am proud to be part of it. But.... Agrawal Vikash in Manufacturing, Ranting, Retail, RFID, Ruby, Run SAP, SAP Business One, SAP Business Suite, SAP Business Workflow, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP Education, Python, Public Sector, Professional Services, Master Data Management (MDM), Mill Products and Mining, Mobile, Oil and Gas, Open Source, Organizational Change Management, Partnership, Perl, PHP, Postalsoft, Procurement and SRM, Product Lifecycle Management, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, SAP MaxDB and liveCache, Standards, Sustainability, Travel and Logistics Services, Universal Worklist, University Alliances Message Board, Utilities Industry, Virtual Worlds and 3D Web, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Webinars, Wholesale Distribution, Software Support and Maintenance, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Network TV, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Research, SAP SAPPHIRE [Apr. 26, 2010 09:55 AM | 16 Comments | Permalink]

Secure Tracking and Tracing using GS1 and SAP OER - Leverage GS1 EPCIS in Healthcare – EPISODE II
In my last blog entry I described what GS1 is, what GS1 does, and what standards GS1 provides. In this one I will show what it looks like in the real word. Stefan Weigand in Business Process Expert, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Healthcare, Life Sciences, RFID [Apr. 21, 2010 05:09 AM | 2 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

Lifting the Veil: Assuring the Quality of Partner Products
Creating a win-win situation for customers with the SAP Partner Program based on the example of the Vistex partnership in Wholesale Distribution and other industries. Magnus Meier in Application Lifecycle Management, Consumer Products, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Partnership, Retail, Wholesale Distribution, SAP EcoHub [Apr. 08, 2010 07:17 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BI for Healthcare: Revenue Cycle Management
My thoughts on how business intelligence can help healthcare organizations with revenue cycle management Dan Everett in Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Performance Management, Healthcare [Mar. 26, 2010 07:10 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Support for Brazilian e-Invoicing - Nota Fiscal Electronica (NF-e)
This article describes the new Brazilian e-Invoicing requirements and announces an SAP/Crossgate solution for supporting the Nota Fiscal Electronica. Kevin Benedict in Aerospace and Defense, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Professional Services, Retail, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, CRM, Defense, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 12, 2010 07:54 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Using SAP Patient Management's Enterprise Services with Google Desktop Gadget.
In this blog I describe how to combine SAP's Enterprise Services for healthcare, SAP's Process Integration, Google Desktop Gadgets and open standards. Bart de Witte in Healthcare, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture [Mar. 09, 2010 10:01 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

6 Mega-Trends in Healthcare
During the last 12 months I have been intensively analyzing the healthcare market, and defined some mega trends that will influence the healthcare it sector during the next 5 years. Bart de Witte in Healthcare [Mar. 03, 2010 01:15 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

SAP® Information Interchange - SAP's New EDI Solution
This article explores the new SAP Information Interchange hub, announced last week, for supporting EDI and B2B requirements. Kevin Benedict in Aerospace and Defense, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Professional Services, Retail, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Mill Products and Mining, Master Data Management (MDM), Manufacturing, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Life Sciences, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 01, 2010 07:54 AM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Makes Decisive Move in EDI
SAP makes big move in the EDI/B2B space by announcing the SAP Information Interchange solution and enhanced relationship with Crossgate. Kevin Benedict in Aerospace and Defense, Procurement and SRM, Public Sector, Retail, SAP Business One, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Solution Manager, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Utilities Industry, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Integration and Certification, Life Sciences, Wholesale Distribution [Feb. 23, 2010 07:01 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Global Trade Management - Position Management Without TEW
Position Management (PM), one of GTM functionalities used to be required to use Trading Execution Workbench (TEW), but now it's not. This blog tells you how to use PM without TEW. Nobuhiro Kusumoto in ABAP, Retail, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Industrial Machinery and Components, Healthcare, ERP, Enhancement Packages, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Expert, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Wholesale Distribution [Feb. 11, 2010 01:12 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Google Voice and SAP Project Management
These are tough trying economic times, when Institutes/Universities and Implementing partner are saving costs on communication fronts, we as SAP professionals need to collaborate everyday for quick and faster solutions. Vinod Kumar in Public Sector, Professional Services, Higher Education, Healthcare [Feb. 05, 2010 05:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How to avoid classic SAP Mobile solution mistakes.
There are many mobile solutions available that allow access to SAP applications but most are limited by online/offline capability,type of mobile device support or specific application they can integrate to. This blog entry is to share my experience with other business-process SAP users that are contemplating a mobile solution in 2010 NM2_Consulting in ABAP, Utilities Industry, Travel and Logistics Services, RFID, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Mobile, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Healthcare, ERP, Emerging Technologies, SAP EcoHub, Chemicals, Wholesale Distribution [Jan. 31, 2010 01:39 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]