Adoption of SaaS solutions has increased as companies look to streamline costs and processes. Companies looking to integrate fax with SAP application no longer have to choose among efficiency, cost or functionality. SAP customers can take advantage of fax as service without software or hardware, and without sacrificing security or SAP integration. 

Ovum has been following Oracle's Accelerate program over the last couple of years because they thought it was a smart strategy for penetrating the upper mid-market. Although Oracle developed Accelerate largely in response to slowing growth in its core large-enterprise market, the program seems prescient as the global business climate worsens. 

This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process. 

Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency. 

This paper discusses the idea that to survive in today’s business environment, companies must see, think, and act clearly. Only those with the visibility to act effectively and decisively emerge in a stronger competitive position. Read on to learn how the best-run businesses today need to focus on clarity and transparency. 

This white paper explains the different alternatives to open source data integration, and presents the visible and hidden costs of these alternatives, on several types of projects. 

Read this case study to learn how one company implemented an EDI system that harmonizes with their chosen business management software application to more efficiently fulfill trading partner requirements and business growth initiatives. 

Read this case study to learn how IBM Global Business Services leveraged its electronics and automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite for Alpine Electronics USA. 

In this expert podcast, Christopher Carter discusses why virtualization is important to SAP customers, digs into strategic issues related to virtualization in SAP environments, and explains which virtualization solutions are the least expensive and quickest to deploy. 

This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape. 

This paper is about using information management software from Business Objects, an SAP company, for SAP data migration projects, either for upgrades from one version of SAP to a newer one, or from other environments to SAP. 

Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.