What is HR Renewal? HR Renewal is part of SAP's HR core renovation program, which is aimed to boost productivity of HR Professionals and increase HR efficiency. This program shows SAP's commitment i...

The traditional management approaches and culture of insurance companies have been conservative and relatively unchanged over the past few decades. A paradigm shift is now underway, with leading insur...

Every organization, be it a publicly traded company, a private for-profit company, a non-profit organization, a government agency, or a quasi-governmental entity, has strategic goals. At minimum, the ...

I have been engaged with SAP and non-SAP customers for the past year assisting them to assess the design that fits them best, On-Premise, Cloud or Hybrid. There is increased awareness amongst customer...

The three most common methods of calculating Return on Investment (ROI) are net present value (NPV), rate of return (yield), and payback period (break-even analysis). Cost of Capital An understandin...

... expensive, and requires top management support. To gain that support, senior management must recognize the value of data integration and understand that the reasons for it are to support basic org...

In the SAP Travel management Portal, it is possible to maintain a list of employees for whom you need to manage trips and expense reports. This is most frequently used where a Travel administrator ent...

With the arrival of the new WebDynpro ABAP-based Employee Self-Service solutions, many companies are ready to use the new features and improved look and feel offered in Enhancement Packs 5 and 6. Howe...

There have been a number of proposals presented to understand this topic. However, most have been provided by software vendors touting their wares. To truly arrive at an software-agnostic ROI value, I...

When working directly with customers and prospects alike, I've always been surprised on their rationale for deploying an analytics capability. Most have the underlying desire to see the results of the...

Quantifying the value of data is an extremely difficult proposition. Invariably, it becomes an impracticality to determine the intrinsic value of a specific piece of data, often resulting in either th...

A quick search on any of the main HR websites, blogs, or latest research reports will tell you that 2013 is predicted to be a year of change.  Workforce trends are showing signs of a rebounding e...

Here at EPI-USE Labs, we love Hibernate. We love how it abstracts away the underlying database and presents us with a familiar object model. We love how it allows us to traverse the object graph throu...

Many technologies follow the predictable path of moving from the military to industry to consumers. As they continue down this path and become more pervasive, the technology becomes less expensive, ea...

As promised, here is the second installment for 2012 Year End Processing. Here are some more quick tips for you to take into consideration to ensure your year end goes smoothly. SAP YE newsletter...

As an SAP HCM and Payroll Professional, you may be already thinking about Year End 2012 Processing.     It is recommended to start with the YE2012 process as early as September, but no later...

I hear this from almost every new SAP HCM customer that I talk to. They have spent a time and money, and yet don't understand why adoption rates are so low for their HCM Reporting solution. In truth, ...

s the former sole author for the SAP “Classic” Outsourcing integration product development, I have spent years observing what clients are looking for and need.  At the same time observing and doc...

When I first started learning SAP back in 1989 it was a cutting edge technology providing a brand-new technical edge to businesses (mainly in Europe) – integrated enterprise software. This was innovat...

Scenario: you have been asked to review some existing eLearning and make recommendations for improvement. Where do you start? How do you organize your thoughts? Here are some suggestions.   &...