SAP-Solution: Reporting

Agricultural machinery manufacturer Claas has introduced a uniform chart of accounts for all 30 companies. This allows accounting processes to be standardized and financial reporting to be aligned with the internal management income statement.

With BW on Hana, SAP offers a powerful basis for processing corporate data and, with Business Objects, a broad product portfolio for diverse application purposes. These tools claim to be "white eggs". But what happens when users need neither "white eggs" nor "wool", but only colorful balls? The answer: SAP BW Web Services.

In the course of digitization, companies are faced with the challenge: Where should they start? The majority assume that they first have to implement a whole range of new technologies. However, this is a mistake.

Until now, the effort required to update archived BW data was very high, because so-called stragglers could not be posted directly to nearline storage. This kept many BW users from archiving data.

Against the background of their experience with the introduction of double-entry accounting, decision-makers in the municipalities are still struggling with strategies for switching to the next generation of SAP software. What is the potential for e-government in S/4 Hana?

Do SAP service providers actually use SAP solutions themselves to map their business? This question was addressed by IA4SP's Applications Group in a study.