WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn about Rational® Functional Tester, an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .Net, Java™, HTML, Siebel and SAP applications, and lets you record reliable and robust scripts that can be played back to validate new builds of a test application.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Functional Testing | Linux | Operating Systems | SAP (Product) | Systems Management | Systems Software | Systems Testing | Testing | Windows

PRODUCT DEMO - This demo shows how IBM Rational Functional Tester can be used to create test automation scripts to validate the functionality of an SAP system. The script generation capability of Functional Tester produces a re-usable test that can be run against all subsequent builds or releases of the SAP system.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Systems | Functional Testing | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | SAP (Product) | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | Systems Testing

WHITE PAPER - Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | ERP | ERP Software | IT Management | IT Services | IT Systems | SAP (Product) | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - This paper considers the business advantages of moving to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model for improving business operations, and to better meet the challenges of growth, competition and regulatory compliance faced by small-to-midsize businesses.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: February 14, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Cloud Computing | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | SAP (Product) | SMBs

ANALYST REPORT - After a year of silence surrounding SAP’s newest Enterprise Resource Planning solution, SAP Business ByDesign is back. Read this Aberdeen Group paper for an analyst’s review of the product, including insights on the product’s price, functionality, and versatility.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: May 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Environment | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Structures | CIOs | Decision Support Systems | Economic Environment | Global Economy | Globalization | SAP (Product)

EBOOK - It's getting more and more difficult for SAP customers to contain the costs of supply chain management. This eBook looks at the technologies and techniques that SAP customers are using to optimize their sourcing processes and to make their supply chains as efficient as possible.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Distribution | Distribution Centers | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Automation | Supply Chain Collaboration | Supply Chain Event Management | Supply Chain Execution | Supply Chain Intelligence | Supply Chain Management | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes a comprehensive set of best practices that allow mid-market enterprise SAP customers to appropriately configure and use HP management software to monitor, manage, and operate an SAP® environment.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: January 30, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | SAP (Product) | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Discover best practices for deploying a 250-user/250-GB three-tiered SAP ERP landscape in an HP BladeSystem c3000 blade enclosure with HP ProLiant BL460c blade servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 4400 disk array, and an Ultrium 448c tape blade with HP Data Protector software.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | SAP (Product) | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Appliances | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WEBCAST - This webcast explores the benefits and drawbacks of buying business intelligence (BI) solutions from enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, and shares survey results that reveal whether or not customers who have gone down the sole-sourcing path are happy with their decision.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Service Providers | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | ERP | Market Research | SAP (Product) | Vendor Selection | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Datamonitor surveyed 100 SAP customers to understand the implications of sole-sourcing. Read the survey findings and learn the trends and behaviors associated with sole-sourcing BI from ERP vendors.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business IT Alignment | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | Reporting Software | SAP (Product) | Surveys

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team.
Posted: September 15, 2009 | Published: September 15, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Customer Service | ERP | Manufacturing | ROI | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Management | Transportation Management | Warehouse Management Software

WEBCAST - This webcast provides a complete overview of application lifecycle management (ALM) and discusses how SAP's integrated and open approach to ALM can accelerate innovation, ensure business continuity, reduce risk and lower TCO.
Posted: September 15, 2009 | Premiered: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Application Monitoring | Application Security | Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | SAP (Product) | Secure Application Development | Software Implementation | Software Quality Assurance | TCO

VIDEO - This videocast takes a close look at what companies should consider before embarking on an SAP virtualization project, including costs, skills, data center and hardware requirements.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Premiered: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | SAP (Product) | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Software Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO

VIDEO - In this videocast, learn how SAP customers are getting started with virtualization technology, and find out what needs to be considered in terms of hardware, staffing and SAP modules.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Premiered: September 9, 2009


Topics:  SAP (Product) | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Software Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO