Market Insights

The number of solutions available from SAP and their broader partner ecosystem is more than most SAPinsiders have the time to learn about or understand, let alone implement. To help provide the information you need on why the topics that these solutions address are important, SAPinsider’s skilled team of analysts and editors interview organizations to learn more about the solutions they offer and the business challenges they address. These articles explain current trends around these topics, how vendors are addressing them, and what you can do to prepare your own organization.

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    Drive Finance Automation with Continuous Innovation Culture

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    By Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, SAPinsider   Digital transformation often starts with financial automation. Finance and accounting teams that embrace a “culture of continuous innovation,” are well-positioned to drive process optimization in support of financial automation adoption.  Key Takeaways: Organizations are adopting financial automation to manage increased complexities and demand facing today’s finance function  End-to-end financial process automation adoption is now a critical component of engaging a finance/accounting workforce…...…

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    Future-Proof Remote Finance Teams with Automation

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    By Riz Ahmed, Chief Research Officer, SAPinsider and Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, SAPinsider  With remote teams on the rise, many organizations face difficulties finding a more secure and efficient way to manage end-to-end finance workflows in concert with SAP ERP source systems. Finance and accounting professionals have long relied on spreadsheets for the majority of…...…

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    Experiencing Your SAP S/4HANA Future

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    By Robert Holland, VP and Research Director, SAPinsider For those deploying SAP S/4HANA, one of the most important requirements they must fulfill is educating business users and executives on SAP S/4HANA features. While this can be partially achieved by attending webinars, demonstrations, and listening to what other customers have to say, it is still difficult…

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    Deliver Competitive Advantage via Cloud-Based SAP Workloads

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    By Alex Soto, Editor, SAPinsider Organizations today are transitioning their SAP workloads to the cloud to achieve greater flexibility and scalability. Benefits of this move include increased efficiency, improved productivity beyond the initial transition, and the ability to deploy applications more rapidly than on-premise infrastructure supports. While the underlying thread that enables successful cloud adoption…

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    How SAP S/4HANA and Cloud Move Midmarket Visibility Forward

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Increasing the breadth and scope of business visibility has become a critical priority for most organizations as markets and working environments remain in flux. Our recent SAPinsider research on SAP S/4HANA and Central Finance found that visibility was the largest challenge and source of investment in 2021. Over half (53%) of our survey respondents in…

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    Strategies to Thwart Ransomware and Supply Chain Attacks

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    Today, enterprises are confronting a myriad of cyberthreats. Two of the most destructive are ransomware and software supply chain attacks. Ransomware attacks have soared over the last couple of years, and that trend has only accelerated. In fact, ransomware attacks have increased 57% since the beginning of this year, and the average number of companies…

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    Trintech and Planful Partnership

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    by Ogo Nwanyanwu, SAPinsider, Research Director, Financial Management & Technology   Trintech and Planful Announce Strategic Global Partnership Trintech, a financial close automation software company, and Planful, a cloud financial planning & analysis (FP&A) software company, recently announced a strategic global partnership. The agreement provides mid-sized organizations with integrated, automation solutions for end-to-end finance and accounting processes.    Grant Halloran, CEO of Planful, comments on the opportunity with Trintech, “This…

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    What is Critical to SAP S/4HANA Success?

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    By Robert Holland, VP and Research Director, SAPinsider Nearly half of those moving to SAP S/4HANA have indicated that they are planning on performing a system conversion, but is a new implementation a possibility they hadn’t considered? Any transition to SAP S/4HANA involves understanding how and where you are doing to deploy the solution. Choices…

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    How SAP Customers are Accelerating ROI and Innovation in the Cloud

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    Over the last few years, SAP customers are migrating more and more business processes and data to the cloud. This transition requires that companies navigate some critical decision points and add specific skills and experience to their arsenal. In this interview with Frank Powell, President, Managecore we discuss some of the reasons why SAP customers…

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    Putting the Pieces Together

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    While the deadline for organizations to migrate to SAP S/4HANA is not until 2027, many SAP customers have already migrated or plan to migrate in the coming years. According to SAPinsider research the uptick in activity is driven by several factors including the need to reengineer business processes and address poor configurations as well as…