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SAP HANA best suited for solving ERP performance issues

SAP expert Tony De Thomasis lays out a plan for companies looking to deploy SAP HANA. Continue Reading
SAP NetWeaver BI training tutorial

SAP BI (business intelligence) can help decision makers get better data, quicker. This SearchSAP.com guide explains how and why business intelligence (BI) is used -- providing expert advice, decision-making analysis, case studies and business ... Continue Reading
Part 1: Architecture of Visual Composer BI Kit

Get inside Visual Composer and its functionality within NetWeaver and for composite applications. Continue Reading
Part 5: MDM for the Java Developer

This is part five of the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5. Continue Reading
Part 4: The OS/DB Product Availability Matrix for MDM 5.5 SP4

This is the fourth section for the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5. Continue Reading

Part 2: MDM Components and Modules

This is part two of the SearchSAP.com crash course series SAP MDM 5.5: A QuickStart Guide. Continue Reading
Part 3: MDM Architecture: How components fit into the MDM ecosystem

This is the third part of the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5. Continue Reading
Part 7: Migrating MDM Configuration

This is part seven of the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5. Continue Reading
Part 6: Tips and Tools for the MDM Administrator

This is part 6 of SearchSAP.com's Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5. Continue Reading
Part 1: Select and Install MDM Components

This is part one of the SearchSAP.com crash course series SAP MDM 5.5: A QuickStart Guide. Continue Reading
SAP MDM 5.5: A QuickStart Guide

This edition of SAP Crash Course offers Java developers and MDM administrators a how-to on Master Data Management (MDM). Learn about MDM components, installation, maintenance, tips and tools for installing and running SAP MDM. Continue Reading

SAP BW Guide: Open Hub Service

Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open Service Hub. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ... Continue Reading
Chapter of the month -- August 2005

In honor of the lazy dog days of August, SearchSAP.com's offering you an exclusive resource for improving your business warehouse (BW). This month, save time and increase BW reporting efficiency with SearchSAP.com's feature chapter from ... Continue Reading
SAP BW training tutorial

SAP's Business Information Warehouse (BW) is a comprehensive business intelligence product centered around a data warehouse that is optimized for SAP's R/3 environment. This SearchSAP.com guide will explain how and why SAP BW is used by providing ... Continue Reading

Keys to mastering the 5 main SaaS ERP subscription models

Realizing the SaaS promise of cheaper, more flexible and scalable ERP is only possible if you know how to keep usage-based, ...

Discover the best cloud ERP software for your company

Explore the leading cloud ERP software and vendors currently on the market to make this complex decision-making process just a ...

Smart manufacturing technology can leave old systems behind

Smart technology like IIoT is changing the way manufacturers operate, but they face issues with older unconnected systems. Should...

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The real Oracle cloud strategy that may work vs. AWS and Azure

Oracle's database software is at the heart of its efforts to move users to its cloud. And that strategy might work, despite ...

Why to give third-party Oracle database monitoring tools a try

Oracle DBAs can use features in Oracle Enterprise Manager under database licenses. But third-party tools may aid efforts to ...

DataScience.com set to drive Oracle cloud analytics efforts

Oracle's cloud strategy includes machine learning jobs that differ from the usual SQL analytics. The company is turning to its ...

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Data companies vie to fill spots in AWS cloud data lineup

Third-party players looking to join Amazon Web Services' cloud data lineup tout hedges against cloud lock-in. The vendors must ...

FaunaDB distributed cloud database hunts transactional NoSQL

Startup Fauna has built a "relational NoSQL" database for distributed transaction processing. Data consistency and speedy builds ...

HR makes major strides toward improving employee engagement

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A look at the AWS hardware update that fuels its A1 instances

In case you missed the reveal of AWS' A1 instance type at re:Invent, the updated hardware that underpins these VMs could have a ...

DynamoDB pricing option makes it a go-to for serverless apps

DynamoDB had its drawbacks, but the addition of on-demand billing and ACID transactions makes it a solid database option for ...

AWS enterprise strategy targets industry verticals

AWS could soon add services specialized for industries such as healthcare and finance. It might be lucrative, but not everyone ...

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5 self-service BI best practices for larger organizations

Self-service analytics programs can streamline the BI process by allowing users access to data, but scaling out to thousands of ...

Tips for creating curated data sets for self-service BI users

Data curation initiatives can help streamline BI processes by reducing the amount of time users spend locating and preparing data...

What the Tableau Hyper engine does and how it was developed

Tableau's new Hyper data engine is designed to boost processing speeds in its BI and data visualization software. Making it work ...

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Microsoft adds CRM for nonprofits to Dynamics 365 lineup

CRM for nonprofits, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Nonprofit Accelerator, helps nonprofit organizations take advantage of ...

8 tips for getting rich mystery shopping survey data

Mystery shopping data is only as good as the overall strategy for collecting it and setting up realistic customer experiences. ...

Mystery shopping software key to CX management

Businesses use mystery shopping platforms, comment cards, brand reputation management and more to identify customer pain points ...

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Which is the best ECM application for your business?

Examine the top commercial and open source ECM software to help you determine which product is best for your organization.

SharePoint features elevate Microsoft DMS in market

With new SharePoint features, Microsoft sets its sights on the document management space, which it has historically left to other...

Payless ShoeSource switches digital asset management tools

A new DAM tool from Cloudinary helps the shoe seller get ready for the holiday shopping rush by automating the management of ...

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Boomerang employees drive interest in offboarding tools

Boomerang employees, workers who leave a company and later return, are leading HR departments to seek out offboarding tools that ...

6 HR vendors make Glassdoor's Best Places to Work

HR tech vendors make tools designed to improve a company's employee experience. So, it makes sense that a handful should appear ...

Ideas to curb bad candidate experience, including a free tool

Your hiring efforts should monitor job applicant resentment, which happens when candidates feel spurned by a company's ...