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 Fresh Look at SAP's Software as a Service (SaaS) Solution by SAP America Inc . May 22, 2009 - Take take a fresh look at SAP's Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. Read this Aberdeen Analyst Insight by Cindy Jutras and learn why she is convinced that SAP Business ByDesign is real.

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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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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.

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Acxiom Deploys Business Intelligence for Best-of-Breed Solutions by SAP America Inc . October 13, 2009 - Find out how Acxiom, specializing in providing customer and information management solutions for companies around the world, uses SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to transform consumer data into actionable BI.

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Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.

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Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer's Guide to ERP versus Best of Breed Decisions by SAP America Inc . September 2008 - Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.

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Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business (SMB) by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.

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Distributors Gain Control of Destiny with Integrated Solutions Based on Best Practices by SAP America Inc . August 07, 2009 - This IDC report examines the key challenges facing distribution companies as the rules of the game change under the twin forces of globalization and industry consolidation.

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Early Lean Adopters Embrace Technology by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.

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End User Performance - Building and Maintaining ROI by SAP America Inc . January 2006 - In this white paper, explore how organizations are achieving strong returns on investment on their information technologie endeavors and investments by emphasizing user performance.

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Enterprise Contract Management for Life Sciences: Integrating Contract Creation, Administration, and Execution by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins.

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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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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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Giving Service Companies a Fast Start: SAP All-in-One Fast Start Program by SAP America Inc . March 10, 2009 - Learn how the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can provide service companies like yours with a software solution that helps you respond quickly to customers' expectations of high-quality, differentiated services to help you maintain services relationships – with predictable costs, and low total cost of ownership.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management: Realizing the Value Of Cross-Enterprise Solutions by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise GRC solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.

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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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Implementable Best Practices Speed Chemical Industry SAP ERP Deployments by SAP America Inc . August 07, 2009 - Read ARC's view on how SAP's best practices and SAP Business All-in-One solutions for chemicals ensure rapid deployment with low risk for small and midsize companies.

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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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Integrated Contract Life-Cycle Management: Automate Processes, Reduce Over-Payments, Improve Productivity by SAP America Inc . June 05, 2009 - Combining SAP ERP with SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and
Chargebacks provides a complete contract management solution. With this solution, you will increase market share, capture business intelligence, reduce overpayments and duplicate claims, improve compliance, and increase productivity.

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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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Meeting Standards for Revenue Recognition by SAP America Inc . August 07, 2009 - Discover the benefits of using SAP ERP to meet reporting standards for revenue recognition in the high-tech industry. Learn how you can use this reliable, flexible, and automated solution to integrate sales orders and contracts with revenue schedules, even for complicated multi-element sales arrangements.

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Operational Excellence: The New Lever of Profitability and Competitive Advantage by SAP America Inc . January 01, 2009 - The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.

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Overall Approach To Data Quality ROI by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative.

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Process Manufacturing Companies Going Global: GTM Challenges and Solutions by SAP America Inc . July 01, 2009 - This paper focuses on Global Trade Management (GTM) trends in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, with an emphasis on the challenges and solutions for Global Trade Compliance (GTC).

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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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Reaping The Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - The need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow as executives demand critical information to seize opportunities faster than competitors and to address potential problems in the making. But increasingly, it is not just C-level executives and upper management who need access to business intelligence.

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Reducing Costs with Efficient Operations: A Fast Track to More Working Capital by SAP America Inc . July 01, 2007 - Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated
processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary
overtime, and a host of other cost factors.

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Sales Order Management Solutions: Perfect Order Fulfillment for Wholesale Distributors by SAP America Inc . August 07, 2009 - In today's wholesale distribution business climate, order management is crucial to corporate success. Read how the right software support can introduce superior end-to-end order management performance into your organization to make the critical difference.

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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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SAP Solutions for SMBs: Making Better Decisions by Gaining Reliable Information from Integrated IT Systems by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - Gain access to accurate information and visibility across your small to mid-sized company from efficient integrated IT systems - and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions.

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SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services: One Product For Data Quality and Data Integration by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.

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SAP® Support of the Healthecare Supply Chain's Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and Drive Business Value by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study.

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Spend Analytics: A Foundation for Procurement Performance Management by SAP America Inc . October 08, 2008 - Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.

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Taking Control of Your Business: Growing Profitably in the Professional Services Market by SAP America Inc . January 01, 2006 - This paper details how professional services firms can grow and thrive in a difficult market by enhancing project visibility, maximizing resource utilization, improving operational efficiency, and successfully acquiring more customers.

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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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Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk by SAP America Inc . January 2006 - Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management.

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Using Master Data in Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc . March 2007 - This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process.

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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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Why Midsize Companies Need Business Intelligence Solutions In This Uncertain Global Economy by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Without a business intelligence information infrastructure in place, midsize companies are more likely to exceed budgets, miss deadlines, improve performance of one department at the expense of the overall business, and reward employees for actions that do not improve performance.

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