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SAP AG is the largest European software enterprise, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. SAP was founded in 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Germany. The acronym was later changed to stand for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications And Products in Data Processing") and since the 2005 annual general meeting the company's official name is just SAP AG.

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Maximize Profit, Reduce Sales Order Operating Costs, and Increase Customer Satisfaction
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Oct 16, 2008
The success of your sales organization depends on its ability to achieve perfect order management, and a gain in order performance can significantly improve profit margin. To achieve this, sales organizations must be equipped to be both efficient and effective in their actions to satisfy the customer.  The SAP® ERP application provides a complete and flexible sales order management solution that meets these requirements for organizations in all industries, of all sizes, and across all sales channels. The functionality facilitates the use of profitable sales and interaction channels, reduces administrative costs by automating sales order management, and ensures high customer satisfaction by delivering accurate and timely information to customers.
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From Millions To Billions With IT How Solar Energy Startup Powers Rapid Growth
By : SAP Published Date: Jul 01, 2008
Get the inside story on solar-energy startup Ausra’s meteoric rise to the billion-dollar mark. And learn how this technology innovator gained the confidence of mega-watt power companies like Pacific Gas and Electric to fuel its ambitious growth plans. Dr. David Mills, founder and chief scientist, and Robert E. Fishman, president and CEO, share their management techniques and “go fast plan” for taking as much as two years off a project’s schedule.
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Enabling Growth Through Mergers and Acquisitions - Executive Insights
By : SAP Published Date: Jun 13, 2008
Read this Executive Insight to learn the answers to the following questions: 1. How can you effectively grow your business through M&A?, 2. What challenges do you need to address?, 3. How can an integrated enterprise platform support the success of your M&A objectives?
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Supply Chain Risk Management for Wholesale Distribution Companies
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Jun 13, 2008
For wholesale distribution companies, supply chains are becoming increasingly global in scope while expanding in size and complexity. Forward-looking companies and supply chain professionals are focusing more energy on managing supply chain risk. Companies can implement risk management programs to identify and profile risk variables, quantify risk for business decision making, and implement IT solutions, leading to greater resilience and efficiency and improving the bottom line.
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Jet-Propelled Growth With IT How XOJET Quickly Became a High Flying Success
By : SAP Published Date: May 01, 2008
XOJET is growing nearly as fast as the Citation X aircraft that zip jetsetters to their destinations at nearly the speed of sound. This high-flying innovator is shaking up the $35 billion corporate jet travel market with a breakthrough value proposition designed to fuel stratospheric growth. In fact, it placed $2.5 billion worth of aircraft orders in 2007 and grew revenue by 80%.
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The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data Centers
By : Novell Published Date: Mar 31, 2008
In this white paper, consulting firm Realtech presents an example of a customer who realized high platform-related cost savings in a business-critical SAP landscape with high-availability requirements by moving to Linux.
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SAP Winning the War for Talent in the High-Tech Industry
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Mar 28, 2008
Increasingly, human capital management (HCM) is becoming a priority for high-tech senior executives. The workforce, they realize, is not only a source of competitive differentiation, but also the key to accomplishing a number of strategic goals, such as product and service innovation and process improvements as well as new channel development. This SAP Executive Insight addresses the specific challenges HR organizations in high-tech companies face today, the impact of these challenges on HR operations and what do best-run HR organizations do differently to achieve leading performance.
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Business Intelligence The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Mar 10, 2008
Business intelligence provides a spectrum of tools and solutions to support this aim. It’s the underlying technology behind more effective decision making. By helping align individual and departmental efforts with overall corporate strategies, it should lead to improved organizational results. Business intelligence tools are now affordable and accessible even for midsize companies – and even for the nontechnical business user. Now managers can use these products for sophisticated analysis of complex information to support their decision-making processes. They can combine data from a wide variety of sources and see an integrated, up-to-date, 360-degree view.
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Organizational Readiness
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Feb 26, 2008
This SAP executive insight Organizational Readiness ex¬plains the organizational readiness challenges that companies face. It describes – at a high level – how to establish a framework for success, how to meet overall objectives, and how to create an environment receptive to change and prepared for sustainability.
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Creating Business Value with Communication-Enabled CRM Processes
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 14, 2008
Read about how SAP Business Communications Management and SAP Customer Relationship Management provide the technology foundation for communication-enabled business processes that result in simplified interactions inherent in marketing, sales, and service processes.
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Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Jan 02, 2008
Small and midsize companies live in an aggressively competitive world. Information can be one of the most powerful competitive tools available, or it can bog your company down. Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions. Small and midsize companies that successfully negotiate these parameters for information visibility—quality, quantity, and timeliness—derive benefits in three critical strategic areas of business decision-making.
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How Do I Drive Value Through a Value Network?
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008
Supply chains are becoming value networks. How do companies design value networks to gain competitive advantage? What are the best practices? And, what determines value? In this Report, we share answers to these questions to help you drive greater value for your company.
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Stages of Transformation: The Demand-Driven Journey Begins With the End
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 01, 2008
Organizations are transforming traditional supply chains into outside-in, demand-driven value networks that coordinate customer demand (outside) back into the organization (in) to maximize customer value. But the journey is not the same for everyone. Each industry faces its own Moment of Truth challenges, dictated by what drives the industry, the industry-specific characteristics of demand, and the organization's state of readiness.
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SAP for Consumer Products: Enabling You to Take the Direct Road to Success
By : SAP Published Date: Dec 18, 2007
As CPG and retailing move rapidly toward a demand-driven future, it’s vital to keep in mind that accurate forecasting will be your key to superior performance –– and that the data driving your forecast and your response starts at the store. DSD companies can gain a clear edge with a seamless system, because information from the field is immediately reflected throughout your company, with no data inconsistencies, mismatches or latency.
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High-Tech Industries: The Supply Chain Executive's Strategic Agenda
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Dec 12, 2007
50% of 146 high-tech companies regard supply chain management as a customer service differentiator, market strategy differentiator, or as a profit center – while the rest view supply chain as a cost center. This Sector Insight explores the concerns and process roadmap of supply chain executive in high-tech industries.

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Minimizing the Burden of PCI Compliance: A New Approach to Credit Card Encryption
By : Paymetric Published Date: Dec 05, 2007
This paper describes a new approach to managing encrypted data that significantly strengthens an organization's security posture, while minimizing the cost and effort of PCI compliance. Read this white paper and find out more about how to comply with PCI compliance requirements.
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How General Mills Transformed Its Business With SAP
By : SAP Published Date: Nov 20, 2007
Learn how General Mills Inc. sought and engaged SAP Custom Development to enable mass status change in their existing mySAP Product Lifecycle Management application, and thus to help them modify their product specifications in the most efficient, effective, and reliable way.
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Human Capital Management for the Public Sector
By : SAP Published Date: Oct 29, 2007
Discover how public sector agencies are shifting the focus in HR departments from transactional activities to performance with strategic human capital management. SAP solutions support this initiative, helping streamline processes, reduce costs, and optimize finite personnel resources.
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Corporate Performance Management
By : SAP Published Date: Sep 24, 2007
Read how SAP solutions for performance management help you improve corporate performance by aligning strategy with the actions required to achieve it. You can consolidate financial and non-financial information to gain insight into the factors that drive business success.
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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management
By : SAP Published Date: Sep 24, 2007
Consider how life sciences manufacturers can deal effectively with dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, and rapid product innovation. Addressing compliance management, integration, and data utilization will help improve responsiveness and performance.
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How to Plan for an SAP ERP Upgrade
By : SAP Published Date: Sep 01, 2007
Learn why customers are chosing SAP ERP 6.0, the different upgrade scenerios and best practices.
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Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability
By : SAP Mill Processing Published Date: Jul 30, 2007
This paper reviews the forces that affect the professional services market today, defines and explains the main pillars of service delivery innovation, and reviews the benefits firms derive from service delivery innovation. It concludes by listing key operating and financial metrics that can measure the value created for firms when they commit their strategies to ongoing service delivery innovation.
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How to Simplify Integration with Your SAP Solutions
By : Cast Iron Systems Published Date: Jul 17, 2007
Traditionally companies had only two choices for integrating SAP solutions, complex and expensive platforms like EAI or write custom code. Integration Appliances offer companies a third option, one that dramatically simplifies and accelerates SAP integration by using a “configuration, not coding” approach to rapidly connect SAP applications with a wide variety of applications, without burdening specialist resources.
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IDC: In the Enterprise Long Tail, Will IT Matter?
By : SAP Published Date: Jun 29, 2007
Read how a firms key business and IT priorities and their experience with acquiring, implementing, and support of SAP solutions influences business. Learn about the challenges and opportunities for SMBs, and the IDCs framework for SMBs to bridge their strategic goals with day-to-day operational activities.
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High Availability: Is it Sufficient for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?
By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences.  This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of them.
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