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		<title>SMEs Run SAP – Myth 4: SAP is not Agile Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4th and last post on our SAP Myth busting series, this article intends to show how SMEs can meet their need for speed with SAP. A bigger business is a better business. It’s a common assumption, but it’s not strictly true. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have a number of advantages over their larger [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 4th and last post on our SAP Myth busting series, this article intends to show how SMEs can meet their need for speed with SAP.<span id="more-2720"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.clariba.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Picture3.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2773" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" title="Picture3" src="http://www.clariba.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Picture3-210x300.png" alt="" width="210" height="300" /></a>A bigger business is a better business. It’s a common assumption, but it’s not strictly true. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have a number of advantages over their larger counterparts. Their size is often their strength – it makes them agile. In fact, most SMEs we speak to pride themselves on this. They can respond faster to changes in the market and take advantage of new insight and opportunities faster than larger organizations.</p>
<p>To capitalize on their agility, SMEs need systems that play to this strength. Unfortunately, some SMEs get bogged down by manual processes. They rely on off-the-shelf software that doesn’t quite meet their needs and depend on spreadsheets for their business intelligence. All these things slow their businesses down and mean they’re more likely to miss opportunities. In this environment, executives often resort to making important decisions on a gut feeling rather than the latest data.</p>
<p>That’s why it’s always a surprise to hear an SME wondering if SAP software will slow them down. Maybe the perception is that SAP software is only for enterprise organizations, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s another business myth. Rather than slow these businesses down, SAP helps them become more agile and able to capitalize on opportunities faster.</p>
<p>Clariba has helped companies streamline their internal reporting processes, arriving in a particular case to an 80% reduction in the time it took to produce monthly internal reports. We also allow organizations reduce reliance on manual data, improving reporting accuracy, reducing errors and promoting decisions based on solid information rather than just gut feeling.</p>
<p>More importantly, we have the expertise to speed up the implementation process, so that your company can start enjoying the benefits of an SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence solutions in a short time frame. Furthermore, if you are worried about the impact the change will have over your employees, Clariba has best-in-class trainers, with years of experience, ready to help your employees make the transition from a spreadsheet based organization to the innovative and integrated information hub they will soon benefit from.</p>
<p>To finalize our blog series on SME´s Run SAP, watch the video <a href="http://bit.ly/J3my8A">SAP is right for SMEs</a> and contact us to discover how much SAP and Clariba can deliver to your company.</p>
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		<title>SMEs Run SAP – Myth 3: SAP is Too Complicated for Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 08:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog number 3 on our SAP Myth Busting Series. It intends to show how SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligece (BI)can take you on a simple route to real business benefits. We know that implementing new IT systems can be a daunting prospect for some businesses. They worry that it’ll interrupt their everyday activities, take time to deploy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blog number 3 on our SAP Myth Busting Series. It intends to show how SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligece (BI)can take you on a simple route to real business benefits.<span id="more-2714"></span></p>
<p>We know that implementing new IT systems can be a daunting prospect for some businesses. They worry that it’ll interrupt their everyday activities, take time to deploy and that staff will need time to get used to it. Similarly, when we talk to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) about SAP software, they’re often under the false impression that SAP software is too complex for a business of their size. While they agree it could help them, they’ve always assumed it’s built for large enterprises.</p>
<p>The complexity of SAP is yet another myth that vanishes when you start looking at hard facts. We often speak to SMEs and they’re looking for software that’s easy to run, install and use, and they want to see real-life examples to prove it. They want to see organisations like theirs that have been there and done it. Thankfully, for us, SAP has 88,000 SMEs that have been there and done it. You can see what some of them have achieved by <a href="http://www.sap.com/solutions/sme/customer-testimonals.epx">clicking here</a>, they’ve got the figures to prove that it doesn’t take long to deploy the software and see a return on investment.</p>
<p>In the last few years, the number of SMEs implementing SAP software has tripled. That’s partly down to the fact that it’s easy to use and install, but also because it delivers all the benefits that SMEs are led to believe are just for the big boys. It’s not usually very long before they’ve automated previously manual processes, gained greater insight into their business and generated significant cost savings.</p>
<p>Clariba can help you unleash the potential of your SME, with the right business intelligence solution for your company, no matter how you are running it now. Our solutions based on SAP BusinessObjects technology and the expertise of our consultants will help you implement faster so you can enjoy the benefits quicker. We are also experts in end user training, to make sure that your employees will make the best of their new BI tool.</p>
<p>Still think SAP might be too complicated for you? <a href="http://bit.ly/HTlW9b">watch this SAP Video</a> and think again!</p>
<p>If you are an SME and want to know more about Clariba and SAP BusinessObjects Solutions, get in contact with us.</p>
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		<title>Clariba Webinar – Exxova MyBI Mobile: Movilidad para su Negocio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obtenga la posibilidad de tomar decisiones a cualquier momento visualizando los datos de su empresa desde su dispositivo móvil con Exxova MyBI Asista a nuestro Webinar (en Castellano) 16 de Mayo de 11.00 a 12:00 (CET GMT+1:00) REGISTRESE AQUÍ &#160; Muchas empresas han realizado importantes inversiones en el desarrollo de sus soluciones de Business Intelligence. En el caso de SAP BW y [...]]]></description>
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<p>Obtenga la posibilidad de tomar decisiones a cualquier momento visualizando los datos de su empresa desde su dispositivo móvil con Exxova MyBI</p>
<p><strong>Asista a nuestro Webinar (en Castellano) 16 de Mayo de 11.00 a 12:00 (CET GMT+1:00)</strong></p>
<h3><span style="color: #99cc00;"><a href="https://attendmyevent.com/Invite.aspx?code=601318">REGISTRESE AQUÍ</a></span></h3>
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<p><span id="more-2744"></span>Muchas empresas han realizado importantes inversiones en el desarrollo de sus soluciones de Business Intelligence. En el caso de SAP BW y BusinessObjects, dichas empresas han acumulado cientos de informes utilizando herramientas como Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence y Dashboards (Xcelsius) de SAP, realizando además grandes esfuerzos para establecer un modelo de seguridad y suponiendo todo ello, una inversión considerable. La percepción actual del mercado es que los dispositivos móviles actuales, no pueden manejar el análisis de datos de la misma manera en que lo hacen las soluciones de BI avanzadas y maduras de hoy en día, por lo que los negocios tienden a modificar sus procesos y contenidos para la movilidad.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, la aplicación MyBI Mobile permite a las compañías aprovechar sus inversiones anteriores. Con ella el usuario puede acceder al contenido crucial de toda la empresa en cualquier lugar, en cualquier momento y sin ninguna modificación importante en el contenido o la plataforma existentes. Los usuarios pueden imprimir, cambiar, actualizar y hacer todo el trabajo que realizan actualmente en el sistema BI de la empresa a través de un dispositivo móvil, facilitando la acogida por parte de los usuarios.</p>
<p>Le invitamos a invertir una hora de tu tiempo para conocer esta solución y verla en acción en nuestro webinar MyBI. La agenda del evento es:</p>
<ul>
<li>Introducción</li>
<li>Características principales de Exxova MyBI Mobile</li>
<li>Beneficios principales de Exxova MyBI Mobile</li>
<li>Demo</li>
<li>Preguntas y respuestas</li>
</ul>
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<h3><a href="https://attendmyevent.com/Invite.aspx?code=601318">REGISTRESE AQUÍ</a></h3>
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<p>Para obtener más información <a href="http://www.clariba.com/solutions/by-application/exxova-mybi-mobile.php" target="blank">visite nuestro sitio web</a>.</p>
<p>Saludos Cordiales,</p>
<p><strong>Lorena Laborda</strong><br />
Business Development Manager – Clariba EU</p>
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		<title>Clariba Webinar – Decision Making goes Mobile with Exxova MyBI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for a way to access your company data from your mobile device? With Exxova MyBI, you can! Attend our Webinar (in English) on the 15th of May from 11.00 &#8211; 12:00 (UAE &#8211; GMT +4:00). REGISTER HERE Currently, organizations have made significant investments in developing their Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. In the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.clariba.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/spread.png"><img title="spread" src="http://www.clariba.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/spread.png" alt="" width="529" height="24" /></a><a href="http://www.clariba.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Picture1.jpg"><br />
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<p>Are you looking for a way to access your company data from your mobile device? With Exxova MyBI, you can!</p>
<p><strong>Attend our Webinar (in English) on the 15th of May from 11.00 &#8211; 12:00 (UAE &#8211; GMT +4:00)</strong><strong>.</strong></p>
<h3><strong><span style="color: #99cc00;"><a href="https://attendmyevent.com/Invite.aspx?code=601325">REGISTER HERE<span id="more-2738"></span></a></span></strong></h3>
<p>Currently, organizations have made significant investments in developing their Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. In the case of SAP BW and BusinessObjects, business and IT organizations have amassed hundreds of reports using tools such as Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and Dashboards (Xcelsius) from SAP. Additionally, significant efforts have been used to establish an enterprise security model. These combined efforts represent a considerable investment.</p>
<p>The existing market perception is that the current mobile devices cannot manage the heavy lifting of the data analytics comparable to today’s advanced and mature BI solutions, so businesses tends to modify their processes and content to adapt to mobile tools.</p>
<p>However, Exxova´s MyBI mobile app allows companies to leverage their previous investments. With it users can instantly access Enterprise wide content at crucial decision points at any location at any time without any major modification to any existing content. Users can print, change, update, and do all of the work that they currently perform on the enterprise system through a mobile device, increasing end user adoption.</p>
<p>We invite you to invest an hour of your time to get to know this solution and see it in action in our MyBI webinar. The agenda for the event is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Introduction</li>
<li>Main features of Exxova´s MyBI mobile</li>
<li>Main benefits of Exxova´s MyBI mobile</li>
<li>Demo</li>
<li>Questions and answers</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><a href="https://attendmyevent.com/Invite.aspx?code=601325">REGISTER HERE</a></strong></h3>
<p>For More information about Exxova MyBI <a href="http://www.clariba.com/solutions/by-application/exxova-mybi-mobile.php">visit our website.</a></p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p><strong>Xavier Marigó</strong><br />
Sales Manager – Clariba ME</p>
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		<title>SMEs Run SAP – Myth 2: SAP is Too Expensive for Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on our series of blogs on Myths that surround SAP, this second one intends to show how spending can be the best way to save. A popular piece of received wisdom is that you have to speculate to accumulate, or, in simple terms, you&#8217;ve got to spend money to make money. Most businesses know that you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Continuing on our series of blogs on Myths that surround SAP, this second one intends to show how spending can be the best way to save.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.clariba.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Picture2.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2771" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" title="Invest to Save" src="http://www.clariba.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Picture2-229x300.png" alt="" width="229" height="300" /></a>A popular piece of received wisdom is that you have to speculate to accumulate, or, in simple terms, you&#8217;ve got to spend money to make money. Most businesses know that you can’t just throw money at a problem. However, they also recognise that carefully planned purchases can pay dividends.</p>
<p>Clariba works with many small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and we know how important every financial decision is to them. That’s why it’s important that we can demonstrate the value of what we do. Most of the businesses we talk to know SAP software can help them reduce costs. However, some of them have been under the impression that the software is only available to enterprise organisations with big budgets. These businesses risk missing out.</p>
<p>We get to break the good news that SAP is an affordable option for SMEs. In fact, SAP has around 88,000 SME customers to prove it. These businesses are not only reducing costs with SAP, they’re also boosting profitability. In most cases, that translates into a quick return on investment. As a result, we find that most of the SMEs we talk to conclude that they can’t afford not to deploy SAP software.</p>
<p>Whats more, Clariba´s solutions based on SAP BusinessObjects have helped small and medium sized business to:</p>
<ul>
<li>automate distribution process of reports to users</li>
<li>improve management performance with reporting, query &amp; analysis, and data integration</li>
<li>optimize customer support resources</li>
<li>improve campaign effectiveness</li>
<li>enhance data quality and compliance</li>
</ul>
<p>We also have available our range of pre-packaged solutions called FastTrack. They are accessible and quick to deploy, which means your company can start enjoying the benefits of a top technology tool in a short time frame. Read more about our solutions <a href="http://www.clariba.com/solutions/">here.</a></p>
<p>Here is what one of our SME clients has to say about one of our FastTrack solutions: “With Clariba’ FastTrack for Siebel CRM solution we are now able to better analyze data, segment customers, measure the ROI of our marketing initiatives and provide a rolled-up sales forecast. This capability allows us to be more competitive, offer better service to customers and provide a faster response to changing market conditions.”</p>
<p>Executive VP of Client Operations at Picis &#8211;  <a href="http://www.clariba.com/customer/hightech-software.php">read the whole story here</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you still think SAP is too expensive for you, watch <a href="http://bit.ly/HHJzhm">THIS VIDEO</a> and.. think again!</p>
<p>Is your company an SME?  Contact us to  know more about how to benefit from SAP Solutions</p>
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