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. 

<p>This case study outlines exactly how Callaway Golf created and managed three distinct platform landscapes for each of their deployed SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. Read more inside to see how this strategy led them to eventually have the capabilities to virtualize SAP productions.</p> 

<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> 

Read this white paper to find 10 cost areas that can be reduced by automation in SAP ERP software enabling businesses to abide by the recent trend to “do more with less”. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

<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> 

SAP first unveiled Business ByDesign, its SaaS ERP application suite aimed at midsize companies, four years ago. Now, it is considered a viable SaaS product worthy of consideration at the highest level. This paper looks at Business ByDesign and predicts its possible path in the future, as well as current use cases, including increased visibility. 

Do you ever wonder how potential buyers view the strategic approaches and tactics you commonly use to entice them? In this Webcast, KnowledgeStorm and SiriusDecisions present the results of a new research study that examine the efficacy of demand creation. 

Read this white paper to understand the importance of master data governance (MDG) in addition to the use of ERP software for workflow processes that can help you anticipate potential issues.