SAP IAE Learning Flashcards

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What is SAP BTP

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SAP Business Technology Platform, an innovation platform optimized for SAP applications in the cloud. It brings together application development, data and analytics, integration, automation, and Al capabilities in one unified environment. You can create personalized experiences across business processes, build applications, analytics, and integrations faster. Delivering holistic planning across the enterprise and running mission-critical innovation with confidence also becomes easier - with everything running on major cloud infrastructure fully managed by SAP.

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What is SAP Signavio

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SAP Signavio is a business process management (BPM) suite that helps companies design, analyze, and improve business processes. It can also be used to manage process changes and monitor the success of process adjustments. The goal of using SAP Signavio is to make business processes more flexible, resilient, efficient, transparent, and cost-saving.

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What is SAP Datasphere

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SAP Datasphere is a data service that provides access to business data for data professionals. It’s built on SAP BTP and is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. SAP Datasphere allows organizations to deliver data to consumers with business context and logic intact.

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What is a Data Lake?

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A data lake is a centralized repository designed to store, process, and secure large amounts of structured, semistructured, and unstructured data. It can store data in its native format and process any variety of it, ignoring size limits.

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What is a Data Warehouse

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A data warehouse is a system that stores data from multiple sources in one place. It’s used for reporting and analysis, and can store both current and historical data. Data warehouses can store a variety of data, including database tables, Excel sheets, XML files, and webpages.

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What is an In-Memory Database

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An in-memory database is a purpose-built database that relies primarily on internal memory for data storage. It enables minimal response times by eliminating the need to access standard disk drives (SSDs).

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Value of Cloud vs OnPrem

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The main advantages of the cloud computing model are: Cost efficiency. Since the cloud service provider covers all costs connected with the servers’ maintenance and management, their clients may save up the funds they would otherwise spend on on-prem data centers.

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What is SAP Business Objects

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SAP BusinessObjects (BO) is a suite of tools for business intelligence (BI) platforms that allows users to analyze data, create visual reports, and perform analysis. It’s designed to make reporting and analysis simple for business users, without the need for assistance from data analysts.

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What is Lean IX

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LeanIX provides a 360° overview of all your applications, business capabilities, and IT components so you can gain control of your expanding IT landscape and create roadmaps for major transformation initiatives.

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What are the top Lean IX Use Cases

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  • Application Portfolio Management
  • Technology Risk and Compliance
  • Architecture and Roadmap Planning
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What is Taulia

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Taulia is a financial technology company that offers working capital management solutions for businesses

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What is SAP BRIM

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SAP BRIM, or Billing and Revenue Innovation Management, is a cloud-based application that helps companies manage their revenue management processes. It’s used to manage high-volume billing environments that require flexible product configuration and a faster time-to-market.

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What are the key features of SAP BRIM

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  • Consolidated invoicing processes
  • Flexible charging models
  • Usage event management
  • Business model design
  • Contract and order management
  • Receivables and payables
  • Financial customer care
  • Personalized offers
  • Real-time pricing
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What is SAP ISBN?

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SAP Intelligent Spend and Business Network (ISBN) is a collaborative platform that allows for the sharing of processes and information across multiple businesses to create a sustainable supply chain. The platform acts as a digital marketplace that connects buyers with suppliers, logistics providers, and other partners, allowing them to automate and share procurement processes. These processes include purchasing, inventory management, quality management, and planning.

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What is a Clean Core concept

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SAP Clean Core is a framework and method for making SAP S/4HANA Cloud more modern, flexible, and cloud-compliant. It involves integrating and extending the cloud to achieve optimal master data quality and refined governance. A clean core also allows customers to adapt their systems to changing business requirements.

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What is Rise with SAP

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RISE with SAP is a cloud-based service that helps organizations (predominately install base customers) migrate their on-premise ERP software to the cloud. It includes tools, services, and software that can help businesses improve compliance, build resilience, and make better decisions. RISE with SAP uses technologies like AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics

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What does RISE with SAP help with:

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  • Improve productivity: Automate processes
  • Make better decisions: Use real-time insights and AI.
  • Gain a competitive edge: Use intelligent technologies to drive innovation.
  • Streamline financial consolidation: Unify operational and group reporting.
  • Increase operational efficiency: Use a personalized dashboard to direct you to your most important tasks.
  • Learn new skills: Access self-paced training anytime, anywhere.
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What is SAP Business AI

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SAP Business AI enables you to automate manual and repetitive tasks, allowing your employees to focus on more strategic and value-added activities. This not only streamlines your business processes but also improves productivity and reduces labor costs.

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What is SAP WorkZone

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SAP WorkZone is a digital workplace for their employees. It provides a single entry point for accessing business applications, processes, information, and communications. SAP Work Zone can help increase productivity by providing employees with individualized experiences that surface relevant recommendations, insights, and actions. It can also help engage employees by enabling constant communication, knowledge sharing,

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What is SAP Joule

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SAP Joule is a generative AI copilot that helps employees use SAP products. It’s a virtual assistant that uses machine learning and AI to support employees in areas like HR, finance, purchasing, and supply chain management. Joule is designed to help users get work done faster and better while staying secure and compliant.

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What is GROW with SAP

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GROW with SAP is a package of services, solutions, and learning resources that helps companies transition to cloud ERP (predominately net new customers). It was announced in March 2023 and is designed for greenfield implementers who are moving to the cloud. GROW with SAP is powered by SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) and 50 years of industry best practices to deliver rapid deployment and agility.

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What are the fundamentals of our cloud ERP strategy at SAP?

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SAP BTP is essential for providing a clean core through extensibility, driving out modifications from back-end systems, and deploying cloud ERP in a modular way within a cloud paradigm.

SAP Signavio helps standardize the customer’s processes.

GROW with SAP is predominantly for net new customers, and RISE with SAP is predominantly for our installed base.

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What is SAP General Ledger

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SAP General Ledger Accounting is a core component of an SAP accounting and business process system that provides a comprehensive view of external accounting and the accounts involved. It records business transactions, including primary postings and postings from internal accounting.

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What is SAP Digital Supply Chain

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SAP Digital Supply Chain (DSC) is a cloud-based solution that helps build a sustainable supply chain that is also resilient to risk. It offers a modular framework that allows users to select the capabilities that are most relevant to their business and industry. SAP DSC covers logistics, manufacturing, planning, and operation needs, and can serve supply chain professionals independently from other solutions.

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SAP Rise Offering Contains?

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  • S/4 HANA Cloud Private Edition w/ enhanced finance capabilities
  • Signavio
  • BTP
  • Delivered through a managed cloud service with SLA’s from the application level to the infrastructure
  • Migration / Modernization program guided by SAP & partners
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What is Predictive Analytics?

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Predictive analytics is the process of using data to forecast future outcomes.

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What is Predictive Planning?

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Predictive Planning provides a statistically-robust mechanism to help planners create and validate their forecasts using time series forecasting methods on historical data.

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What is Digital Manufacturing

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SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM) is a cloud-based manufacturing execution system (MES) designed to provide the link between production and business in supply chain management.

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What is included in the RISE Managed Cloud Infrastructure

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  • Ready to run system (99.7% availability SLA)
  • Secure Data (backups)
  • Compliance (audits, architecture design)
  • Security (network setup, db encryption)
  • Set up (fiori launchpad, system refresh)
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What is a Brownfield Implementation

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The Brownfield approach, also known as system conversion or selective data transition, involves migrating an existing SAP ECC system to SAP S/4HANA. This approach allows organizations to leverage their current system’s investments while taking advantage of the innovations and features of SAP S/4HANA.

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During time of migration, will we be paying for dual landscapes?

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Short answer is Yes, there are double run costs. While we build the commercial structure for RISE, we do take that into account and try to minimize the exposure from a commercial structure standpoint. Being transparent, the only way is to accelerate the migration into RISE.

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What is Order to Cash in SAP?

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What is a Greenfield Implementation

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Greenfield implementation is a complete reengineering of an organization’s SAP processes and workflows from scratch, without any existing customizations. This approach can be appropriate for legacy enterprises that have been using SAP for many years, or for complex workflows and code that’s been heavily customized. Can be done in as little as 6 months.

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What is HANA Database?

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SAP HANA (High-performance ANalytic Appliance) is a multi-model database that stores data in its memory instead of keeping it on a disk. The column-oriented in-memory database design allows you to run advanced analytics alongside high-speed transactions – in a single system.

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True / False: The database must be HANA to move to RISE

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True

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