Dean realizes benefits including increased collaboration among the company's IT and Internal Audit departments, and cutting technology licensing and third-party audit costs by 50 percent.
Big data combined with current analytical capabilities puts us in control of backhoes relative to the shovels we dug with not long ago. The power we could and should have through these tools is great, but in many cases we fail to grasp the tools that are readily available to us.
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The consumer goods giant is partnering with a start-up technology company that specializes in intelligent business alerts and pre-packaged analytical applications.
The global brands company is now able to standardize its operational processes worldwide, including payments, confirmations, trade initiation, securities and more.
The acquisition is expected to establish SAP as a leading business network, adding cloud-based, business-to-business collaboration to its existing solutions.