SAPinsider PROFILES magazine recently talked with Davis Bennett, Vice President of the Solution Delivery Center at SAP Consulting North America, about how SAP’s Rapid Deployment Solutions are creating a whole new way of driving value for SAP customers. 

In this first issue of Business Applications Digest, find advice from industry insiders on mastering the five success factors for enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrades, choosing the best fit between 'best of breed' business intelligence (BI) and built-in ERP tools, and how to take advantage of the latest Software as a Service (SaaS) trends. 

In this brief video, learn how easy it is to extract customer data from source systems. The data will be cleansed and validated against SAP structures then migrated to ERP. 

The SAP Portal Content Management application allows you to integrate content into workflows and enterprise workspaces of the SAP NetWeaver Portal component. Watch this video demo to learn how the tool helps enhance employee communication and collaboration while streamlining the document management process. 

<p>In this complimentary webinar you will learn how Glenture’s BI Accelerator for SAP FI CO integrates SAP ERP data with the Microsoft BI stack to deliver an enriched, actionable and collaborative experience for the end user.</p> 

<div> <div> <p>Read this e-guide to gain an in-depth overview of SAP Business ByDesign including a case study on how a Dow subsidiary is leveraging this low cost Software as a Service (SaaS) ERP deployment model. Discover why more companies are turning to SaaS platforms as they design a more-flexible two-tier ERP strategy.</p> </div> </div> 

Read this white paper to learn how Newell Rubbermaid Inc. improved its use of the available-to-promise (ATP) functionality of the SAP enterprise resource planning (ER) application to better allocate inventory and determine what goods were available to customers, and create even greater supply chain efficiencies. 

<div> <div> <p>Software as a Service (SaaS) offers a low-cost, non-physical server platform alternative to on-premise application deployments. In this expert e-guide discover why small and midsize enterprises are attracted to the SaaS ERP and CRM deployment model and how SAP offers a range of products to cater to this need.</p> </div> </div> 

Read this case study to learn how a fax service enabled one manufacturing company to capture all fax orders in their existing SAP system transactions and track each by image and order number to facilitate better efficiency, increase productivity, and accommodate business growth. 

As Skins Compression Garments Pty. Ltd.'s business rapidly expanded, its information system was unable to keep up. Read this white paper to learn how Skins' implementation of the SAP Business One application has allowed the company to operate more smoothly and efficiently than ever. 

This paper reviews SAP's efforts over the last several years to expand and enhance its product lifecycle management (PLM) offerings. It describes their current PLM portfolio and how they bring their solutions to market. 

This product demo allows you to enter data about your current server environment and evaluate and determine the appropriate server sizing to meet ERP requirements.