SAP for Media provides end-to-end information management to organizations around the world.

Here are just a few of the organizations that are using SAP for Media to make the most of new technology and thrive in the new business environment:

• Burda (PDF, 187 KB), Germany – Learn how Hubert Burda Media company united communication channels and achieved simple, real-time access to information across disparate technologies with the SAP NetWeaver platform, including SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Business Intelligence, and SAP Web Application Server components.
• Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag (PDF, 101 KB), Germany – Explore how this German publisher, which offers products and services to financial firms, worked with SAP to increase margins while reducing costs. SAP helped the firm implement the SAP Customer Relationship Management solution and the SAP for Media solution set.
• The Globe and Mail (PDF, 132 KB), Canada – Read how Canada's leading daily national newspaper publisher chose SAP for Media to replace 20-year old, disparate legacy systems. Now the firm has easy, single-screen access to real-time information, integrated business processes, transparent data, and greater customer satisfaction.
• Haufe Media Group (PDF, 363 KB), Germany – Discover how this leading German specialist publisher in the fields of economics, law, and taxation optimized its core business processes – and streamlined order management – with industry-specific and cross-industry software from the SAP for Media solution portfolio.
• Higher Education Press (PDF, 80 KB), China – Read how this large Chinese educational text publisher needed new ways to support growth, reduce manual data input, and improve production, inventory, and sales visibility – and chose the SAP Business Suite to integrate operations and achieve greater process control.
• ILTE (PDF, 67 KB), Italy – Explore why this independent Italian printing house – with a client list of Europe's most prominent publishers and retail chains – chose the SAP NetWeaver platform to re-engineer business processes and implement an integrated print process and IT system that delivers increased efficiency.
• IPSOA (PDF, 79 KB), Italy – Examine how this publisher adopted the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) solution to enhance customer satisfaction while developing relationships with customers – through the integration with the SAP NetWeaver platform, which delivered rapid, measurable results.
• Keller Verlag (PDF, 149 KB), Germany – Learn how this German directory publisher benefited by adopting the SAP Exchange Infrastructure component of the SAP NetWeaver platform to help manage its own disparate information system landscape and the systems of connected external customers with leading-edge SAP solutions.
• The Mediaset Group (PDF, 87 KB ), Italy – Examine why this Italian media giant implemented the corporate finance management capabilities of the SAP ERP Financials solution to help improve financial management – and provide processes for the company to establish an internal bank and reduce IT management costs.
• N24 (PDF, 256 KB), Germany – Read how the SAP Web Application Server component of the SAP NetWeaver platform helps this German news station acquire content on short notice. A standard Web interface provides users with convenient order entry, processing, and reporting to make purchasing content quick and transparent.
• Oxford University Press (PDF, 222 KB), United Kingdom – Find out how Oxford University Press Education and Children's Division optimized demand planning and forecasting for its complete range of publications using the SAP Demand Planning application, which is part of the SAP Supply Chain Management solution.
• RCS (PDF, 161 KB), Italy – Explore how RCS Diffusione, the arm of RCS MediaGroup that distributes newspapers, magazines, collectibles, and paperbacks to local distributors throughout Italy, manages distribution cycles more effectively and reacts to market changes more quickly – meeting business goals more successfully.
• Sanoma Uitgevers (PDF, 329 KB), Netherlands – Read how this Dutch language publisher consolidated four separate systems into one that could support multiple processes – using the SAP for Media solution portfolio to execute new business strategies quickly and increase employee confidence in the new enterprise IT system.
• Southwestern/Great American, Inc. (PDF, 147 KB), United States – Consider how this direct marketing and custom publishing firm adopted the SAP CRM solution and the SAP Business Intelligence component of the SAP NetWeaver platform to streamline marketing processes, reduce costs, and capture customer responses.
• Tele Atlas (PDF, 178 KB), Belgium – Explore how this provider of digital navigation data used the SAP Customer Relationship Management solution to enhance customer loyalty – improving customer information with a direct customer communication channel that will help the company enhance service and target marketing.
• The Times of India Group (PDF, 254 KB), India – Read how this publisher of the world's largest-circulated, English-language, daily newspaper replaced disparate legacy systems with one integrated system, combining solutions from SAP and ppi Media – and accelerated invoicing, implemented significant system changes, and almost doubled revenue in 3 years.

Business Transformation Studies

• DIRECTV (PDF, 96 KB), United States – Learn how the largest direct-broadcast satellite provider in the U.S. transformed its supply chain operations with SAP SCM. DIRECTV links its extended business partners – equipment providers – with key channel providers in a closed-loop, forward-and-reverse logistics process. Log-in required.
• WorldSpace (PDF, 122 KB), United States – Learn how this provider of satellite radio used the SAP Business Suite to achieve an integrated solution across functions, a platform that would scale globally, and significant savings across the company. Log-in required.

Case Study/ROI Report

• C.H. Beck (PDF, 278 KB), Germany – Examine how a leading publisher of professional journals in law, taxes, economics, literature, and science implemented SAP Intellectual Property Management and other SAP for Media solutions to improve its royalty accounting process – realizing productivity savings and process improvements. Log-in required.
• Daekyo (PDF, 228 KB), Korea – Learn how this provider of online education programs and materials for early childhood education, tutoring, and homeschooling implemented SAP ERP to consolidate information systems, streamline purchasing, and reduce excess stock – and establish a Web portal for teachers and students. Log-in required.

SAP for Media has been proven around the world. Here are some other organizations that are using the SAP for Media solution set:

Newspapers and Magazines

• Cox Communications, United States
• Morris Communications, United States
• The Seattle Times, United States
• Star Tribune Minneapolis, United States
• Axel Springer Verlag AG, Germany
• Berlingske Tidende, Denmark
• Blitzinform, Ukraine
• Burda, Germany
• Clarín, Argentina
• Edipresse Publications, Switzerland
• El Mercurio, Chile
• El Nacional, Venezuela
• FAZ, Germany
• Financieele Dagblad, Netherlands
• The Globe and Mail, Canada
• Gruner+Jahr AG & Co., Germany
• Gulf News, United Arab Emirates
• Hindustan Times, India
• La Vanguardia, Spain
• Luxemburger Wort, Luxembourg
• Manchette Publicité, France
• Mediaprint, Austria
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland
• News International, United Kingdom
• O Globo, Brazil
• RCS Mediagroup, Italy
• Rheinische Post, Germany
• Ringier, Switzerland
• Sanoma Uitgevers B.V.
• Spiegel-Verlag, Germany
• Spir Communication, France
• Star Publications, Malaysia
• Styria Medien, Austria
• Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
• The Times of India, India
• Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, Germany
• Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main, Germany
• VNU, United States
• VUM Media, Belgium
• WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine - Die Zeitung des Ruhrgebiets, Germany
• Westdeutsche Zeitung, Germany

Book Publishers and Information Service Providers

• Pearson Business Services LLC, United States
• Random House, United States
• Simon & Schuster Inc., United States
• Bertelsmann DirectGroup, Germany
• Georg Westermann Verlag, Germany
• Giunti Gruppo Editoriale, Italy
• Nikkei Business Publications, Japan
• Oxford University Press, Great Britain
• Pearson Management Services Ltd., Great Britain
• Springer-Verlag GmbH & Co., Germany
• WEKA Firmengruppe GmbH & Co., KG, Germany

Broadcasting TV/Radio

• ANTENA 3 Television, Spain
• ARTE, France
• BBC, Great Britain
• CLT-UFA SA, Luxembourg
• Hessischer Rundfunk, Germany
• Measat Broadcast Network Systems, Malaysia
• n-tv, Germany
• ProSieben Media AG , Germany
• RTL II, Germany
• RTLplus, Germany
• SAT1, Germany
• SDR, Germany
• SRG, Switzerland
• Television New Zealand Ltd., New Zealand
• UNIPREX, Spain
• ZDF, Germany

Directories and Yellow Pages

• Heise Medien Gruppe, Germany
• Herold Business Data, Austria
• IT2Media (certified SAP partner), Germany
• Keller, Germany
• MTT, Hungary
• Roeser, Germany
• SEAT Pagine Gialle, S.p.A., Italy
• TATA Infomedia Ltd., India
• Telefonbuch Verlag Hans Müller, Germany
• Yell, United Kingdom

Entertainment

• Lions Gate Films, United States
• Polygram International Music B.V., Netherlands

Commercial Printing

• The Antioch Company, United States
• Brown Printing Co., United States
• Deluxe Corp., United States
• Moore U.S.A., United States
• Vertis, United States
• Wurst Printing Co., United States

Wholesaler

• Aldipress, Netherlands
• AMP, Belgium
• Lapker, Hungary
• M-DIS, Italy