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Top 10 Reasons Why Using SAP Workflow are the Sensible Choice for your AP Process

Based on Dolphin’s many years of helping customers with the most efficient and flexible improvements to their SAP business processes, we’ve gained insight as to what works best in the SAP environment. Here are  the Top 10 Reasons why the … Continue reading

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Why is legacy decommissioning so important?

Simply put, Legacy Decommissioning improves efficiency and lowers total cost of ownership of an IT infrastructure. Conversely, keeping legacy systems alive translates to high costs for IT in terms of maintenance for hardware and software. Plus, it requires skillsets to … Continue reading

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Dynamic Discounting for Accounts Payable

Many suppliers are willing to agree to discounts in exchange for earlier payment of their invoices. But for scores of companies, the financial supply chain is just not equipped to take advantage of the opportunity—missing out on early pay discounts … Continue reading

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Are you Ready for an Audit?

When the IRS or other tax and regulatory agencies call, are you ready? There was a time in the SAP world that being “audit ready” meant implementing SAP DART before archiving. But for many companies, being audit data ready means … Continue reading

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SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA): Are the benefits worth the cost?

In a searchSAP.com story, editor Courtney Bjorlin reports that many users are upset about the cost of improving SAP NetWeaver BW performance with its BW Accelerator. In the article, Dolphin’s CEO Werner Hopf offers insight into how to assess your … Continue reading

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What’s Wrong with this Data?

To compete, managers at all levels are acutely aware that they must make smarter decisions and quickly take action. However, many lack the insight they need to make key decisions and are depending on hope that they have made the … Continue reading

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A Risk is a Risk is a Risk

What’s risk? Wikipedia defines risk as ‘the expected value of one or more results of one or more future events’. Technically, the value of those results may be positive or negative; general usage tends to focus only on potential harm that … Continue reading

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Information Lifecycle Management – Defined

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is the practice of strategically managing the data within your organization—including determining where it is stored, how quickly it can be accessed, how it is tracked, and how long it must be retained. With a well-planned … Continue reading

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Whatever Happened to the Paperless Society?

Interesting article this month in Financial Executives magazine on “Whatever Happened to the Paperless Society?” Predicted in 1978, we clearly are not there, yet the case for going paperless offers a long list of benefits most of which will result … Continue reading

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Accounts Payable is Going “Lean and Green”

Expect the Accounts Payable process to run lean and green. It should diagnose bottlenecks in seconds, generate minimal waste and keep vendors and partners happy with fast inquiry response and timely payments. Dolphin makes lean-and-green a reality with an SAP-certified … Continue reading

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