{"id":899,"date":"2009-08-03T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2009-08-03T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:00:05","slug":"enterprise-software-user-friendly-sap-its-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/enterprise-software-user-friendly-sap-its-overdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Software:  User-Friendly SAP? &#8212; It&#039;s Overdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time users of SAP are well aware that the term &#8216;user friendly&#8217; and SAP are seldom used in the same sentence.\u00a0 SAP has made a bundle with its tight-lipped no-nonsense business software.\u00a0 But SAP &#8216;transaction screens&#8217; and screen identifiers are often reminiscent of the days of the IBM 3270 green terminals.\u00a0 New-comers to the SAP world are often frustrated as if caught in a timewarp by the terse and complex screens.<\/p>\n<p>But SAP has been trying to change its image.\u00a0 And they have recently introduced a natural language search engine in order to aid business intelligence. That&#8217;s one improvement.\u00a0\u00a0 And SAP newer applications are looking a bit more like applications created in this century.\u00a0 For example, SAP has also released two new applications related to risk and compliance: SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management and SAP BusinessObjects Process Control.<\/p>\n<p>Narina Sippy, SAP BusinessObjects Vice President, said that &#8220;the enhancements we announced today allow customers to clearly see where they are most vulnerable to risk and where they need to bolster controls to mitigate that risk. 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