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Esker on Demand brings faxing into the future

When Glendale Adventist recognized the inefficiencies in its manual back-office faxing process, a progressive solution was sought to save time, money and resources, while still being flexible enough to deploy throughout multiple departments. Esker on Demand proved to be the platform to take their fax to a new level of efficiency. 
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QVS takes the plunge with Business ByDesign

Wanting to take their demand planning to a more sophisticated level, personal care accessories manufacturer QVS Global saw the opportunity to integrate their whole system infrastructure in a cloud-based delivery model. The company became one of the first in Australia to implement SAP Business ByDesign. Freya Purnell reports.

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Inside emergency departments

A Sybase and SAP BusinessObjects project has given South Australia Health greater visibility of bed availability, patient flow and waiting times in hospital emergency departments. By Freya Purnell. 
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Officeworks goes mobile for inventory

Office products retailer Officeworks sought an online mobile inventory system to increase visibility, accuracy and productivity.  
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Water Corporation refreshes its approach to SAP mobility

The Water Corporation manages Western Australia’s water supply catchments, removes and treats wastewater, manages drainage networks and irrigation, and supplies drinking water to communities spread across 2.5 million sq/km (1.55 million sq/mi) of one of the driest countries on Earth. Owned by the Western Australian Government, the Water Corporation is one of Australia’s largest and most successful water service providers. The Water Corporation directly employs more than 3000 people, serves over two million Western Australians, and manages more than $13 billion in water supply, sewerage, and drainage infrastructure. 
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NSW Fire Brigades reduce IT infrastructure costs

By migrating its SAP applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the New South Wales Fire Brigades significantly reduced its infrastructure costs while improving the availability and performance of mission-critical services. The new environment uses VMware virtualisation software to provide additional flexibility and resilience. 
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Maintaining training and accreditation compliance

As Australia’s largest rail freight operator with a workforce of over 9000 staff across Queensland, QR National has stringent requirements around staff training and accreditation, and has used SAP Learning Solution (LSO) to manage organizational compliance. Freya Purnell reports. 
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Interfacing across the sea

When Coca-Cola Amatil began building its new $57 million manufacturing facility at Eastern Creek, Plaut IT was tasked with the challenge of integrating CCA’s overseas equipment suppliers’ systems to SAP. Anne Widjaja reports. 
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Meeting the challenges of maturity

Organic growth may be the dream of every bright company. But after 30 years in business, having achieved that goal, coal-mining firm Idemitsu Australia Resources (IAR) found itself confronted by new challenges.Organisational change and corporate governance requirements spelled the need to consolidate IT systems. With the SAP Business All-in-one for Mining solution, IAR realised not only company-wide commonality but greater speed, efficiency, and a whole new era of cross-enterprise communication. 
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Removing the pain from commodity trading

In an industry first, an implementation of SAP Global Trade Management helped major food manufacturer George Weston Foods gain the visibility they require to manage their busy harvest period.  Freya Purnell reports. 
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Blogs

What’s in store for HR/Payroll in 2013 and beyond?

Organisations need to gear up now for some significant changes to SAP HR/ Payroll taking effect in the coming financial year. Peter Stulcbauer highlights the changes you should be aware of. 
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Q&As

Digging deeper on databases

Irfan Khan, senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), Database and Technology, SAP and former CTO of Sybase, spoke to Eleanor Reader about the opportunities SAP’s complete database portfolio presents for customers to create a strategy to utilise big and unstructured data.  
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Features

Taking the helm at SAP ANZ

In July, Andrew Barkla took up the role of president and managing director of SAP ANZ, left vacant by Tim Ebbeck earlier in the year. Barkla joined SAP from senior regional roles at Unisys and PeopleSoft. He spoke with Freya Purnell about what’s on his agenda for the next 12 months, the challenges ahead for SAP, and the role of the ecosystem in helping SAP ANZ double in size by 2015. 
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