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		<title>Best SAP Content of 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each month in 2009, SAP presented a set of white papers and research reports designed to give all of us a wealth of practical knowledge about business and technology issues that support our client's organization's key business objectives.


	
	
	
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Each month in 2009, SAP presented a set of white papers and research reports designed to give all of us a wealth of practical knowledge about business and technology issues that support our client&#8217;s organization&#8217;s key business objectives.</p>
<p>This collection of documents are really useful, not only allowing us to gain insights from industry experts, but by also explaining how to get more out of SAP solutions and services. The papers also discuss <a title="SAP Best Practices" href="http://saplab.org/category/best-practices/">best practices</a>, lessons learned, and the subjects that matter most to the businesses. Topics include:</p>
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<li> Making faster and better decisions and sustaining growth through IT</li>
<li> Business agility and organizational readiness</li>
<li> Supply chain, sales and marketing, and human capital management strategies</li>
<li> Operational excellence and end-user performance</li>
<li> Improving customer relationships and creating superior client experience</li>
<li> And much more.</li>
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<p>Beginning today, all of these valuable resources are available at the Best SAP Content of 2009 resource page. But you can also download them directly from SAP&#8217;s website here in SAPLAB.org. Please look at the descriptions and links below:</p>
<p>Forrester evaluates four methods you can use to measure the business value of IT. Learn how you can account for more than simple financial metrics like ROI, IRR, or NPV. See how you can capture valuable, intangible benefits like revenue potential, strategic fit, and improved customer satisfaction.</p>
<div id="download"><a title="Download Measuring the Business Value of IT" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2456" target="_blank">Measuring the Business Value of IT (approx. 500 KBytes)</a></div>
<div>White paper discussing the importance of business intelligence (BI) to midmarket  organizations and how it helps organizations improve their operating  efficiencies and effectiveness</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2452" target="_blank">Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations (approx. 1.5 MBytes)</a></div>
<div>Read this white paper from CFO Research Services, which examines why and how chief financial offers are looking to create &#8220;highly integrated&#8221; organizations by moving from standalone spreadsheets to integrated planning, budgeting, and forecasting systems</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download A Complete View of the Enterprise" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2450" target="_blank">A Complete View of the Enterprise (approx. 2 MBytes)</a></div>
<div>Discover how managing the talent supply chain can help professional services providers realize a competitive advantage. Explore the market trends driving the need for talent management and the business practices that support the talent supply chain.</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2454" target="_blank">Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage (approx. 100 KBytes)</a></div>
<div>As the sheer amount of information available for Business Intelligence (BI) applications has grown, and the sophistication of BI capabilities has accelerated, organizations are striving to improve time-to-information for business users. Data storage and retrieval decisions have started to be made based on cost rather than fulfilling a business need, and this has led to compromises that impact business performance.</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download Data Management for Business Intelligence" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2453" target="_blank">Data Management for Business Intelligence (approx. 900 KBytes)</a></div>
<div>Learn how to make better decisions through IT: Efficiency is at the heart of your business goals—whether it is efficient operations, customer interactions, financial transactions, or human resources support. If your company is operating efficiently, you make faster, smarter decisions, respond quickly to market changes, reduce costs, and consistently meet performance standards.</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2451" target="_blank">A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT (approx. 2.5 MBytes)</a></div>
<div>Need to optimize your risk management program? Strategic risk management is crucial because of increased regulatory pressures, stakeholder pressures, the impact on capital costs, the personal effect of corporate risk, and the effect of the Internet of quickening the pace of dealing with risk factors.</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download The Two Faces of Risk: Cultivating Risk Intelligence for Competitive Advantage" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2459" target="_blank">The Two Faces of Risk: Cultivating Risk Intelligence for Competitive Advantage (approx. 400 KBytes)</a></div>
<div>This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2455" target="_blank">Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset (approx. 800 KBytes)</a></div>
<div>The war for talent is intensifying. In the developed countries of the world, businesses are finding it increasingly tough to recruit and retain skilled employees. Read what the Economist Intelligence Unit discovered by interviewing over 900 global executives on the topic of talent.</div>
<div><a title="Download Talent Wars: The Struggle for Tomorrow's Workforce" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2458" target="_blank">Talent Wars: The Struggle for Tomorrow&#8217;s Workforce (approx. 200 KBytes)</a></div>
<div>This Aberdeen report serves as a roadmap for companies that are attempting to match environmental and social stewardship to clear, actionable, and measurable improvements to their bottom lines.</div>
<div id="download"><a title="Download The ROI of Sustainability: Making the Business Case" href="http://www.sap.com/fm/redirect.asp?id=2457" target="_blank">The ROI of Sustainability: Making the Business Case (approx. 600 KBytes)</a></div>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.sap.com/" target="_blank">SAP</a><span style="color: #ffffff;">6VX4QNQPY67F</span></p>



	
	
	
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		<title>Best Practices for SAP Netweaver Portal 7.0</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This official Performance Best Practices guide for SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0 provides a practical as well as conceptual information to help customers improve portal performance. The guide encompasses a variety of portal-related areas, including configuration guidelines for the server and the client, portal runtime aspects, navigation topics, the Portal Content Directory, as well as hardware [...]


	
	
	
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<p>To access the SAP official page for this topic on SDN &#8211; <a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/f0f1358d-0812-2c10-b58c-c7bdd7a0cdce" title="Best Practices for SAP Netweaver Portal 7.0" target="_blank">Click Here</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s your opportunity to get it in PDF, just click on the download link below.</p>
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