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    How to Accelerate SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning Implementation
    Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a critical process in every organization to drive results and performance. In this blog, I describe how using a template-based implementation approach with our extended planning and analysis accelerator (xP&A) will accelerate any SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for planning …
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    There’s a Culture Shift Happening in Medical Device Manufacturing. Are CISOs Ready?
    There’s a fundamental security sea change happening in the medical device world. Driven by the increasing threats of cyber attacks, corporate competition, and the ever-growing need to protect the massive volumes of valuable patient data, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are rethinking how they defend against these evolving challenges.…
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    Verkada Breach Highlights Importance of End-to-End IoT Ecosystem Security
    The recent Verkada breach, initially reported to Bloomberg by the hacking group known as Advanced Persistent Threat 69420, is yet another recent example of the vulnerabilities inherent in our increasingly connected world. With estimates as high as 1 trillion connected devices by 2025, it is inevitable that every organization will have exposure through IoT devices, and they must carefully consider…
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    Low Friction Information Governance with Microsoft
    Information is at the core of every informed business action or decision. To provide value and avoid unnecessary risk, such as a lawsuit, to an organization, information must be captured, shared, accessed, stored and disposed of following a governed lifecycle to avoid misinformation, inefficiencies and breach of legal or regulatory requirements. The following challenges are common among…
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    Change in Hyperion Support: Upgrade or Move to the Cloud?
    Many organizations that have implemented Oracle Hyperion version 11.1.X may be aware that some (or many) of their Hyperion application components will need to be upgraded by the end of 2021. In this blog, we summarize the Hyperion components for which Oracle will reduce support, a change which may assist organizations in prioritizing their short-term technology initiatives. Which Hyperion…
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    Bots are Better: Improving SAP Compliance Testing Processes…and More
    In this two-part series, we explore how organizations can leverage robotic process automation (RPA) and other automation techniques for IT Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing within SAP environments. Today, we review the business need for RPA. Part 2 covers advancements and future use-cases for RPA-based solutions. Robotic Process Automation (RPA), when deployed correctly, can significantly expedite…
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    Infrastructure as Code
    In today’s world, applications are developed, updated and deployed within weeks. To keep up such a pace and ensure that the applications perform as expected at scale, it is important that the underlying infrastructure can also be provisioned and scaled as needed with minimal effort. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a concept that helps organizations achieve that flexibility.  Where…
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    Why Now is the Best Time to Move to HANA 2.0 - Part 1: The Advantages
    In this two-part series, we explore the factors organizations should consider before making the decision to upgrade to SAP HANA 2.0. In Part 1, we review what can be gained from the move. Part 2 will cover the migration itself.  With a new release of SAP HANA on the horizon, many of our customers have been faced with pressure to upgrade their existing HANA 1.0 systems to a…
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    Tech Leaders Rephrase the Conversation to Proactively Detect Sensitive Data and Apply Controls
    In the technology world, it’s common to hear leaders talk about the three-legged stool to success: people, process and technology. But we often see CISOs and CIOs – tasked with protecting sensitive organizational data – focus most of their attention on the latter, not giving enough attention to the people and process pieces of the puzzle. Protecting data is hardly a new…
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    Why Now is the Best Time to Move to HANA 2.0 - Part 2: The Migration
    In this two-part series, we explore the factors organizations should consider before making the decision to upgrade to SAP HANA 2.0. In Part 1, we reviewed what can be gained from the move. Today, Part 2 covers the migration itself.  Despite the deprecation, SAP HANA 2.0 retains support for XS Classic development objects, including use of the _SYS_REPO user and _SYS_BIC…
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