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Wal-Mart and Supply Chain Financing Require EDI
This article discusses a recent Wall Street Journal article on Wal-Mart's Supply Chain Financing initiative and how EDI/B2B connectivity is required to make it work well. Kevin Benedict in Banking, Shared Service Center, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, RFID, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, ERP, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Expert, Wholesale Distribution [Nov. 17, 2009 07:15 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Unicode Character and SAP Standard Interfaces based on RFC
Communication between Unicode-Systems and None-Unicode Systems when using SAP Standard Interfaces based on RFC. Martin Vierling in ABAP, Procurement and SRM, Partnership, Healthcare, ERP, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, Banking, Application Server, Retail [Nov. 11, 2009 08:43 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Missed SAP TechEd 2009? Get 130+ sessions with Virtual SAP TechEd
If you missed out on the education and networking opportunities from SAP TechEd 2009 event, consider getting the next best alternative: Virtual SAP TechEd now available at 20% discount till December 31, 2009. Siva Darivemula in ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Product Lifecycle Management, Master Data Management (MDM), Interoperability, Integration and Certification, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Enterprise Performance Management, EcoHub, CRM, Business Suite 7, Business Process Management, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Banking, Automotive, Application Server, SAP TechEd [Nov. 05, 2009 01:27 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Insurance Innovation (Promises...promises)
On the 28th of October in Sydney, SAP hosted an innovation lunch for executives from the Australian Insurance industry. Central to the discussions was a talk by Reg Price, author or the book "Reliability Rules" the ground breaking manual for using Promises Management to keep customers, build your brand and grow your business. Paul Garrity in Banking, Business Process Management, CRM [Nov. 02, 2009 05:12 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP World Tour 2009 is here
With engaging speakers like Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice and many topics of interest to the SAP Community, SAP World Tour 2009 events offer unique insights and peer networking benefits for SAP customers. Siva Darivemula in Enterprise Performance Management, EcoHub, Business Suite 7, Banking, ERP, International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), Manufacturing [Aug. 24, 2009 12:28 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Functional Scope of Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager
This blog describes the functional scope of Business Process Monitoring as well as usual target groups and the integration possibilities with other SAP tools. This should make the decision easier if you should get started and how to get started with Business Process Monitoring. Volker von Gloeden in Business Process Expert, Retail, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, CRM, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Suite 7, Banking, SAP TechEd, SAP Solution Manager, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Run SAP, Procurement and SRM, ERP, Business Process Management, Utilities Industry [Jul. 23, 2009 08:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The Money or Your Life - Some Reflections About Lifetime Value (LTV)
Maximizing customer Lifetime Value (LTV) is considered to be the ultimate measure for optimal customer relationship management (CRM). In this blog I discuss the challenges and basics of LTV modeling. Shuki Idan in , CRM, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Banking, Analytics [Jul. 02, 2009 08:05 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

IFRA integrated Finance and Risk Architecture
IFRA, why not a lot of banks are not buying in ? Eric Berettoni in Banking [Jun. 23, 2009 09:15 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

General Ledger and performaces
General Ledger and performances, volume and speed. Eric Berettoni in Banking [Jun. 22, 2009 07:49 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Why PlaNet Finance
Today, 2.6 billion people live below the poverty line, surviving on less than 2 dollars a day. Microfinance is an innovative way to fight against this abject poverty by offering financial services to poor populations that are excluded from the banking system, in order to help them develop their activity and increase their revenue. Sarah Corne in Banking, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, SAP Developer Network, Sustainability [Jun. 17, 2009 04:08 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

MASTER project - Compliance Facilitator
SOA brings flexibility and agility to the business in order to address new market opportunities. In the cloudiness of those new business processes, entrepreneurs, in addition to prove their businesses are lucrative, will have to prove that their businesses are sustainable. MASTER will facilitate this demonstration. Emmanuel Pigout in Banking, Service-Oriented Architecture, Security, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Research, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Public Sector, International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), Identity Management, Healthcare, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Sustainability [May. 19, 2009 07:19 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Spring is here and so is SAPPHIRE '09
SAP and ASUG continue to co-locate the two events, SAPPHIRE & ASUG in one location. The event will take place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida from May 12th to 14th (May 11th is a ASUG only conference day and is a pre-conference day for SAPPHIRE. SAP will also be hosting a virtual online event that provides a glimpse into Sapphire called "INSIGHTS from SAPPHIRE". The virtual event, available to SAP customers, analysts, bloggers, & press, will be online on Monday, May 11th and run through May 15th. Hansen Lieu in CRM, Retail, Public Sector, Oil and Gas, Mining and Metal, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Industrial Machinery and Components, Higher Education, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Banking, Aerospace and Defense, SAP SAPPHIRE [May. 07, 2009 01:15 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP CRM and Social Web- Use SAP CRM to Leverage Social Networks for Enhancing the Customer Experience & Viral Marketing
This post is a part of the series of blog posts to discuss the impact of Social Web (aka web2.0/social media) on CRM applications. It showcases, via a demo video, how CRM and Social networking sites can be mashed-up to enhance customer experiences. Ashish Chatterjee in CRM, Analytics, Banking, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Management, Emerging Technologies, Retail [May. 05, 2009 01:42 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

MI Bank is cool! - Part 2
Few days ago, extending the concept of the Post Processing Office in Banking Services to an MI 7.1 environment, I published a weblog concerning the mobilization of SAP Banking Services. In this second part I would like to extend the concept with additional assumptions based on an eSOA infrastructure. Ludovic Fernandez in Banking, Enterprise Service Community, Mobile [Apr. 14, 2009 03:58 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

MI Bank is cool!
Recently, it was my birthday and I was thinking about the present I could receive before blowing out the candles when suddenly I said, "MI Bank is cool!". So then, I decided to share with you few assumptions concerning the combination of Post Processing Office, Mobile Infrastructure 7.1 and Banking Services. Ludovic Fernandez in Mobile, Banking [Apr. 11, 2009 05:16 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

A Standard is a Standard is a....
When is a standard a standard. Besides the fact, that there is a formal question regarding ownership and acceptance there is one interesting aspect this blog is going to address: How much completion and definition does a standard need to be a standard. Oliver Kling in Banking, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, Community Projects, Interoperability, Open Source, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards [Mar. 27, 2009 07:37 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN): Defining the Service Landcape
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is defining a banking enterprise application landscape for SOA. David Frankel in Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Interoperability, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards [Mar. 26, 2009 12:51 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Updated and Popular Documentation on SAP Help Portal
Find out about the most recent updates on the Help Portal and what is the most popular documentation currently. Tara Callaghan in Banking, Business Objects, Retail, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Mar. 09, 2009 06:33 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Implementations in the Current Economic Landscape
What aspects of SAP implementations will become more crucial in the current economic environment or, conversely, less important? Will focus and priorities change at all? Will the ensuing global downturn simply serve to reinforce critical delivery points that seem less crucial amidst less stressful times? Dan Jackson in Banking, Business Process Expert [Mar. 04, 2009 06:46 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Tokenization as a means of securing credit card numbers
Securing payment card numbers is essential in order to maintain compliance with the PCI DSS standards. Native payment card number encryption functionality in most of SAP's products. However, tokenization can provide an additional level of security of payment card numbers, help diminish PCI DSS scope on SAP's applications and even remove payment card numbers from your SAP application databases completely. Eric Bushman in ABAP, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP SAPPHIRE, SAP TechEd, Service-Oriented Architecture, Utilities Industry, Wholesale Distribution, Retail, Public Sector, Professional Services, Banking, Business Solutions, Chemicals, Consumer Products, CRM, ERP, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Healthcare, Master Data Management (MDM), EcoHub [Jan. 02, 2009 11:58 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

III. Enterprise Service Bus in Banking SOA Architecture
Viewpoint on how an ESB fits as building block of a Banking SOA strategy Thomas Obermeyer in Banking, Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture [Dec. 31, 2008 02:52 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

OAGi Planning New Version
OAGi is planning a major upgrade to its eBusiness standards to incorporate CCTS standards stack and other improvements designed to achieve cross-industry interoperability Mark Crawford in Aerospace and Defense, Oil and Gas, Mining and Metal, Manufacturing, Interoperability, Industrial Machinery and Components, Defense, Chemicals, Banking, Automotive, Standards [Dec. 30, 2008 05:58 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Business Object in SAP Banking Platform (i.e. Banking Services from SAP)
in this publication I will try to shed some light on what is exactly a business object in the SAP Banking platfrom and the way it should be considered in SOA driven projects. Nitzan Levi in ABAP, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, Service-Oriented Architecture [Dec. 23, 2008 07:43 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

A foreword
An introduction to Accounting in Banking ... Eric Berettoni in Banking [Dec. 22, 2008 09:17 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

II. SOA needs meaningful services – The provisioning platform
Banking Services 6.0 - The service provisioning platform. Thomas Obermeyer in Banking, Enterprise Service Community, Service-Oriented Architecture [Dec. 19, 2008 07:48 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Procure-to-Pay and AP Optimization Strategies in a Down Economy
This article describes current trends and strategies that CFOs are implementing to reduce costs associated with processing paper invoices, and to speed up the processing of invoices so early payment discounts can be captured. Kevin Benedict in Aerospace and Defense, SAP Developer Network, SAP Business Workflow, Retail, Oil and Gas, Mining and Metal, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Governance, Risk and Compliance, ERP, Defense, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Banking, Automotive, Utilities Industry [Dec. 16, 2008 01:51 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The recovery roadmap (1): after the surprise
The current financial crisis hits all corners of business and social life. This isn’t a surprise knowing magnitude and structure of this crisis. Two months after first business announcements, society gets more familiar with the expected change. The question in the main street is still the difference between natural and alternative reasoning. Paul Centen in Automotive, Banking, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Sustainability, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Public Sector [Nov. 21, 2008 04:03 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Insights on the Downturn
At a SAP-sponsored CEO-forum last week SAP colleagues had the opportunity to discuss actual business and to get insights from the participants. This event was cross-industry. Paul Centen in Aerospace and Defense, Higher Education, Industrial Machinery and Components, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Mining and Metal, Oil and Gas, Professional Services, Public Sector, Retail, Utilities Industry, Healthcare, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Analytics, Automotive, Banking, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Chemicals, Consumer Products, CRM, Defense, ERP, Wholesale Distribution [Nov. 19, 2008 02:31 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Business models and the financial crisis
Every day the financial crisis is the number one item in the news. Most messages are either “we are affected as well” or “we need support”. Almost none of current news articles describe the way to overcome within realistic scenarios. The national economies as well as the industries change their business models boundaries only marginal. This approach doesn’t suit to the type and size of the impact by the financial crisis. In parallel we “already knew” that our world is limited and we stress already sustainability in considerable dimensions. The recovery needs other business models and scenarios. Paul Centen in Automotive, Banking, Beyond SAP, Sustainability, Governance, Risk and Compliance [Nov. 12, 2008 03:02 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture in Banking
This blog is the first part of a series of four introducing the concepts and building blocks of a service oriented architecture in a banking environment. Part I. – Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture in the Banking Industry Part II – SOA needs meaningful services – The provisioning platform Part III – Enterprise Service Bus Part IV – SOA in practice – Banking Account Origination Thomas Obermeyer in Banking, Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture [Nov. 11, 2008 09:06 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

"Mission Type Architecture"
Architecture is an implicit and explicit execrcise. Explicit architecture management is well understood - how can one address the implicit aspect of a global architecture generated (as a by product) by writing individual software pieces? Oliver Kling in Banking, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Organizational Change Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards [Nov. 07, 2008 12:39 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Architecture as an emergent characteristic
Building a system one will end up having a system architecture, if one manages this actively by planing, designing and the like actively or not. If this is a true statement I am wondering if we have enough insight into the emergence of architectur evolvement. Oliver Kling in Banking, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards [Oct. 24, 2008 10:40 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Industry Recordings of TechEd 08 Berlin are now on air
Here comes your opportunity to replay the recordings of the sessions that we broadcasted form the Community Clubhouse at TechEd Berlin to the BPX Community. Check it out... Frauke Hassdenteufel in Banking, Business Process Expert, Chemicals, Sustainability, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Oil and Gas, SAP TechEd, Wholesale Distribution [Oct. 22, 2008 03:22 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

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