Are You Fully Utilizing Your SAP® Investment?
You've invested in SAP® R/3® and SAP BW® - Are you still challenged with creating information that is easily interpreted and acceptable for decision-making?
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SAP® R/3® Security
This article is the first in a two-part series regarding SAP® R/3® Security. This discussion is an overview of R/3 Security concepts; its history and implications. In later discussions, we will look at the latest SAP security initiatives.
System-wide security is a key asset of your organization; therefore it is paramount to develop company-wide security policies and procedures covering all aspects within your distributed data infrastructure. In this article, we will look at the elements of SAP® R/3® Security; their history and concepts. In the last article of this series, we will examine where SAP security is headed in the near future.
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Data Quality First
Trustworthy information is based on trustworthy data. And in order to better serve customers, increase profitability and revenue growth, improve operations, comply with government regulations and reporting equirements, and make better decisions—organizations need to access, integrate, and analyze data from a variety of sources. For this to be effective, the data must be accurate. In fact, the reliability of analysis is directly related to the quality of the underlying data. This is simply common sense and is reflected in one of the best-known adages of the computer industry: "garbage in, garbage out."
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Business Objects Rapid Marts for SAP® R/3
Along with the 10 essential steps for building data marts/data warehouses on SAP® R/3 data, read about prepackaged data warehouse solutions for faster, higher ROI.
SAP R/3 provides a set of highly integrated software modules that perform common business functions such as enterprise resource planning (ERP). The data within these modules will be essential for underpinning your business intelligence (BI) projects, but the flexible, sophisticated, and transactional nature of SAP R/3 makes this very challenging.
ERP systems like SAP R/3 are designed for managing transactions not for supporting query, reporting, and analysis. Analyzing data directly from the underlying SAP R/3 tables is complex, limited, and far from user-friendly. Industry experts agree that data warehousing is the best approach.
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