<p>As technology evolves, so too must your IT strategies. SAP users are finding that upgrades, migrations, and re-platforming efforts are playing a key role in reducing their costs. Read this exclusive paper to learn how you can ensure that your IT managers remain flexible and prepared to make changes to SAP software at the drop of a hat.</p> 

New innovations are changing the role procurement plays within the enterprise. This paper discusses how SAP Procurement Solutions deliver a technology platform that  empower procurement organizations with strategic differentiation and innovation. 

Download this white paper to discover how to unlock the full potential of your core operational systems and what to look for in your app development platform. 

Download the Open Group Service-Oriented Architecture reference architecture. 

This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

This guide from Sybase is full of examples of mCommerce at work. The benefits range from speeding up economies to life-changing improvements. For merchants, operators and banks, the new channel offers another way to grow business and revenues while meeting the financial needs of customers. 

What's the difference between agent and agentless backup for virtual environments? Learn how admins can simplify backup for mixed and virtual environments with agentless backup in this resource. Explore the pros and cons of both methods, and discover how admins can integrate the two techniques for the best of both worlds. 

Given that Sybase ASE can now be deployed as the foundation for SAP Business Suite and BW implementations (in addition to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2), the information is relevant to SAP customers installing a new instance of SAP or looking to migrate their existing SAP installation to a different database. 

Read this paper to learn why an all-Internet Protocol (IP)-based contact center solution such as the SAP Business Communication Management (BCM) is attractive to administrators seeking to lower call costs, reduce hardware needs, and improve the operational performance of multiple centers and communication channels. 

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 for a discussion of the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best‐practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy. 

In this white paper, we introduce geographic data services and discuss how they are employed in both operational and analytical business applications. The paper also reviews analytical techniques applied across many types of organizations and examines a number of industry-specific usage scenarios.