New Industry-Focused SAP Learning Hub Webinar Series from SAP Education-...
Join us for a free Oil & Gas + Utilities focused Webinar: Introducing the ALL NEW SAP Learning Hub, Your On Demand Learning Platform from SAP. SAP Learning Hub offers a public cloud environment...
View ArticleIt's Right Around the Corner.......
Much like the change that is taking hold of our industry, the TA Cook EMEA SAP for Utilities Conference is just around the corner. The conference, taking place April 8-10 in Mannheim Germany will...
View ArticleMeet the SAP Experts for Convergent Invoicing in Mannheim
Do you want to expand your service offerings beyond traditional metered services to include a variety of new offerings and include all these newservices on a single combined invoice? Now you can...
View ArticleHow Franco-African Energy Companies Can Increase Visibility by Improving...
Why transitioning to an integrated IT infrastructure is the way forward for energy companies in French-speaking Africa The Energy industry faces a number of challenges in the midst of changing...
View ArticleDigital Investments can Enhance Transparency in East Africa
How Technology Can Enhance Financial Transparency in East Africa East African businesses have a new means of battling corruption – digital technologies that can enhance transparency and ensure...
View ArticleVideo demo showing map-based process execution
The video demonstrates the process efficiences that an asset maintenance worker can gain by using an SAP enterprise asset management system that is natively geo-enabled to allow for map-based process...
View ArticleLove Your Data!
You may think that data is a boring and irrelevant topic for your company? Then let’s imagine for one minute the following situation. You are working for a grid operator, and let’s assume that you...
View ArticleSAP Asset Management to Support the Need for Water Water Everywhere -
A couple of facts about water - Humans are 60% Water - After 3 days without water your life is jeopardized - 71% of Earth is covered with Water. So it seems that we would be very concerned about the...
View ArticleDesign Thinking @ SAP Conference for Utilities in Mannheim
Dear Utilities Community,As you might know the EMEA SAP conference for Utilities is taking place 8-10th of April in Mannheim.This year’s motto is “Developing the Future Thinking Utility”. Take the...
View ArticleMulti-Channel Customer Engagement with SAP - learn more from SAP experts at...
Digital channels for interaction with end-consumers like web and mobile are becoming more and more important in today’s world, especially with increasing use of smart phones and tablets. In that...
View ArticleSocial media - a double edged sword for Utilities!
Just recently, I noticed a couple of similar social media posts by friends. They echoed the same sentiment - extreme irritation at bad customer service by a large airline, which is notorious for its...
View ArticleCan education of consumers support energy efficiency programs in Africa. YES !
Can education of consumers support energy efficiency programs in Africa. YES ! Earth hour 2014 certainly highlighted that just 1 hour of energy saving cane make a huge difference.Imagine the long...
View ArticleOptimized Sales Processes and Energy Procurement with SAP EPM and SAP PCU
Deregulation of the Utilities Industry created as well Opportunities and Challenges for the Utilities companies arising from the inherent competition that deregulation fosters. Especially Energy...
View ArticleThe Business Case for SAP HANA for Utilities
"SAP HANA is faster than standard databases and can process an incredible amount of data in real time.” This might be what you already heard about SAP HANA. But how does this translate into tangible...
View ArticleTop 50 People in Power in SADC, East & West Africa
For my African Power Utility colleagues some great contacts. See where the real powerbase in energy utilities lies. Who's who in Africa. Links to reports built by Spintelligent (a leading utility...
View ArticleTesting some of the new features in SAP CRM EhP1, EhP2 and EhP3
As described in my blog post SAP CRM EhP3 Upgrade I recently performed a upgrade of a customer system from SAP CRM 7.0 EhP0 to SAP CRM 7.0 EhP3. In this blog I want to collect the configuration step...
View ArticleMeet SAP experts for SAP HANA Live for Utilities and SAP AMI in Mannheim
On the SAP Conference for Utilities in Mannheim, you have the chance to meet experts from the IS-U development department at SAP. You can inform yourself about actual topics:IS-U on HANASAP HANA Live...
View ArticleThe Utilities Check Cockpit (UCC) and the Check Repository in the process...
In my previous blog (Testing some of the new features in SAP CRM EhP1, EhP2 and EhP3) I explored some of the general features delivered with SAP CRM EhP1, EhP2 andEhP3. In contrast to that I'll explore...
View ArticleTout Feu tout Flamme : Se faire voir dans le secteur des hydrocarbures : 3...
Les acteurs franco-africains du secteur des hydrocarbures devraient sérieusement envisager d'améliorer la visibilité sur leur chaîne logistique L'Afrique connaît actuellement un boom de sa production...
View ArticleSAP Delivers Multichannel Foundation, Example Apps and Free Training!
· Dear Utilities Community, At the SAP Utility Conference in Mannheim, I spoke about our Multichannel Foundation solution which is in ramp-up now and available later this summer. Customers have...
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