Würzburg, February 6, 2012 – What new capabilities does SAP Solution Manager 7.1 offer? And how can organizations add content to its new usage analyses to their best advantage? (These two questions were the primary focus of the 15th SAP-IBIS Conference, held at Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg...

Würzburg (Germany) and Toulouse (France), October 19th, 2011 - IBIS Prof. Thome AG and Cameleon Software announced today an implementation partnership for Cameleon Cloud CPQ for SAP Business ByDesign in the German market. The solution will be implemented by the German provider of SAP Business...

IBIS Prof. Thome Helps Companies Tap the Potential of SAP Solution Manager - IBIS Prof. Thome and SAP AG have signed a cooperation agreement in which SAP gains supplementary content from IBIS Prof. Thome for optimizing business processes via SAP® Solution Manager. Being made available for customers...

hsp, a consultancy for holistic enterprise development, has opted for a new solution for Customer Relationship Management (CRM). SAP Business ByDesign will help support their Campaign Management and Lead-to-Opportunity processes. IBIS Prof. Thome has been tasked with implementing the consultancy's...

... are performed manually. State-of-the-art ERP systems offer a number of options for different payment transactions, like check or cash payments and money transfers. Plus, payment runs can be implemented to enter these transactions automatically or manually. Automatic entry limits the user's...

... are called up from other systems via remote function call (RFC) or application link enabling (ALE). When the proportion of externally accessed transactions is high, this indicates that the degree of openness to external systems is too great and the landscape comparatively complex. In this case,...

... are assigned directly to G/L or material accounts without reference to a purchase order. Procurement transactions are therefore documented in Accounting but not in Logistics. This greatly increases the risk of payables being created and paid for services that are not performed, or of incoming...

... are assigned to the "$TMP" class. These temporary objects are created directly in the production system. This results in inconsistencies between development and production systems. There is also a significant risk of transactions and reports being deleted during a release upgrade....

... are not processed via material master records. Normally, these orders are assigned to cost center, sales or project accounts. But if material master records are not used, G/L accounts are not assigned and debited automatically. To reduce potential errors and ensure that purchase orders are...

These particular processes happen rarely and require relatively long prep and processing times. If an organization has a large number of these, it should check process relevancy, redundancy and efficiency. Make a huge dent in TCO by reducing seldom used processes. Sometimes, though, seldom or...

... in SAP systems are not used. Sometimes it's smart to have custom developments, like customer transactions -- say, when your SAP release doesn't offer a standard version for functions you need. But custom developments become a problem when they cease to contribute positively to business...

... also enter 80 percent of all vendor invoices. Based on the relatively low number of "power" users, we can deduce that there is a large proportion of occasional users who enter invoices only sporadically. Reasons for this might be that work is distributed among several employees or...

To accelerate its SAP system upgrade and reduce costs, Philip Morris in Russia opted for RBE Plus solutions. IBIS's RBE Plus is able to analyze a live system automatically and efficiently. So why risk manual analysis? Precisely this logic moved decision-makers at Philip Morris to enlist Metron's...

...for company-specific data analysis. Queries are frequently used to extract ad hoc information; but they require that users know exactly what data is stored in the system. A high number of company-specific queries indicates that data supply is obstructed and decision-makers are not receiving the...

...are entered and settled in the MM module. The remaining 61% are processed mainly in the FI module, without logistics involvement. Items procured in this way are documented in accounting only. And so, valuable information about the type of goods and services procured is lost. What's more, legally...

...are executed by only one user. This means just one user has specific knowledge concerning each of these transactions. It's true that very limited authorization is granted for particularly sensitive transactions; but in this case limitation is intentional to protect data. However, employee...

...to examine the runtime errors that occurred in an SAP system. Each runtime error disrupts and slows down processes, which is why a stable SAP system is so vital to seamless process flow. Just checking the number of times dump analyses are conducted in a month reveals a great deal about your SAP...

... are not active in the system. When valid user IDs are not used over an extended period, the risk of misuse increases. What's more, you may be paying license fees for users who rarely even logon to the system, or whose system use is merely rudimentary. This is why it's so important to examine...

... available are used by businesses. It stands to reason that businesses don't use the entire range of functions offered them; they use only what they need to meet their requirements. But using only a limited number of functions indicates unfulfilled standardization potential, as numerous...

...are modified or added to by businesses. Altering standard SAP tables seriously interferes with the SAP system and usually indicates the extent of customization. Changes to the standard tables often include the addition of Z and Y fields for company-specific programs. These fields are not...

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...have direct access to the database tables contained in their SAP systems. Too many users being privy to too much information poses a dire threat to confidentiality. Data protection is severely compromised when too many users are allowed unlimited access to critical information. What's...

SaaS - Software Model of the Future Würzburg, January 28, 2009: The future is all about providing state-of-the-art, flexible and more affordable software -- requirements already met by Software as a Service (SaaS), enabling companies to tap into new business capabilities. This is our assessment...

"Know Thyself" - The First Step to an Effective Upgrade: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Saves Time and Money with Reverse Business Engineering von John Parker

Strategies for Exploiting the SAP Solution Manager" by Derek Prior is the AMR Research Report from May 2008, recommending IBIS and RBE Plus for a successful project launch with the SAP Solution Manager.

Wurzburg / Abstatt, Mar 4, 2008: The IBIS Prof. Thome AG and SAP solution provider Steeb cooperate in the development of concepts for the introduction of new medium-sized solution SAP Business ByDesign. The two partners will jointly develop an industry-specific reference system for service...

Wuerzburg/New York. Yesterday in New York, SAP's worldwide introduction of its new product, SAP Business ByDesign, advertised under the code name A1S, was occasion for Prof. Dr. Rainer Thome's invitation to the event, as IBIS Prof. Thome AG is not only among the first pilot customers, but has also...

Wuerzburg/New York. In New York yesterday, Prof. Dr. Rainer Thome represented IBIS Prof. Thome AG, taking part in the official announcement of SAP's most recent small business software. The Wuerzburg research firm counts among the first pilot customers for the SAP Busi-ness ByDesign, and implements...

Wuerzburg - The Wuerzburg-based research and consulting company, IBIS Prof. Thome AG, went "on location" for the first time with their own booth at the ARIS ProcessWorld trade fair. In addition to the automatic integration of RBE Plus Analysis results to the SAP Solution Manager, successfully tried...

Wuerzburg/Germany. The RBE Plus Role Analyzer from IBIS Prof. Thome AG has been extended with user-specific analyses and enhanced with intelligent and prac- tical evaluations. By means of the new "RBE Plus User/Role Analysis" it is now pos-sible to investigate user activities, authorisations, and...

Wuerzburg/Germany. As of May 2006, cost and time investment for implementation and upgrade projects has been drastically reduced for SAP customers, when use of the SAP Solution Manager Version 4.0 is combined with RBE Plus analysis. This has been made possible by an XML interface which transfers...

Wuerzburg - Sept. 08, 2005 - IBIS Prof. Thome AG today announced it has deve- loped an efficient service which analyzes the SAP R/3 solution and writes the results to SAP Solution Manager: RBE Plus 2005.

Wuerzburg. Based on several years of close cooperation with SAP AG on the further development of the Reverse Business Engineer, IBIS Prof. Thome AG has earned the qualification of official "SAP Content Partner". IBIS's "RBE Plus 2005" offers the latest content, extended reporting tools and...

Wuerzburg/Walldorf. Gerhard Oswald, member of the board of directors of SAP AG, and Prof. Dr. Rainer Thome, chairman of the supervisory board of IBIS Prof. Thome AG, have agreed to expand the offerings of their Reverse Business Engineering (RBE) tool, which has been a joint development of SAP and...