For more information about the benefits and capabilities of the SAP for Mining solutions, check out the following information:

Overviews

• "SAP BusinessObjects Knowledge Accelerator" (PDF, 667 KB) – Get to know SAP BusinessObjects Knowledge Accelerator – a customizable, Web-based learning and support product you can deploy to the desktop via your intranet, server, or CD. It gives you complete training and performance support on a variety of SAP products, which you can readily tailor to your company's needs.
• "SAP BusinessObjects Knowledge Accelerator: For Crystal Reports Software" (PDF, 182 KB) – Find out how SAP BusinessObjects Knowledge Accelerator software for Crystal Reports software gives learners an introduction and a quick-start approach to the report creation process using Crystal Reports. Step through the entire report creation cycle, from planning a report to sharing a report with others.
• "Success in the New Economic Reality" (PDF, 689 KB) – Discover what your best-run business needs to do to become a "clear enterprise." Learn about the importance of seeing clearly, thinking clearly, and acting clearly. Find out how SAP software and services can help your clear enterprise thrive regardless of the economic climate at any particular time.

Solution Briefs

• "Enterprise Asset Management: Maximize Return on Assets with an End-to-End Solution" (PDF, 152 KB) – Strengthen your ability to develop strategies for optimizing enterprise asset management (EAM) and improving asset usage and maintenance, strategies that can help you reduce operating costs and capital expenditures using our SAP Service and Asset Management solution.
• "Executive Industry Dashboards from SAP: HP Try-and-Buy Program" (PDF, 1 MB) – Check out the executive industry dashboard HP Try-and-Buy program, which SAP and HP partnered to create. HP Try-and-Buy lets you experience firsthand immediate business insights, demonstrating the value of the interactive executive dashboards created using SAP BusinessObjects solutions.
• "Giving Manufacturing Companies a Fast Start" (PDF, 127 KB) – Find out if the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program is the right fit for your midsize manufacturing company, with preconfigured software based on best practices in your industry that can help you achieve fast time to value, control cost, and improve operational efficiencies.
• "Manage and Integrate Operations Across the Enterprise" (PDF, 144 KB) – Learn how SAP and TietoEnator solutions help paper and forest companies perform diverse operational and logistical activities, from forest management to mill wood purchasing. Together, these solutions provide real-time operations management with planning, business operations, and production control functionality.
• "Paving The Way To A Successful Upgrade Project" (PDF, 87 KB) – Understand how the SAP Upgrade Assessment for SAP ERP service delivers the expert advice and assistance you need to upgrade to a new SAP ERP release. We help you find the right services for upgrade projects, provide effective training, identify where you can increase business value, and help you develop a solid business case.
• "Support Global Expansion with Trade and Financial Compliance: SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for Brazil" (PDF, 298 KB) – Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for Brazil (SAP Nota Fiscal Eletronica) can help your company comply with digital invoice regulations in Brazil. Discover how the software can save costs and support you with automated, certified, and secure communications at the state and federal level.

White Papers

• "The Impact of Technology on Cost in Business Process Outsourcing" (PDF, 251 KB) – Gain insight into the true cost of business process outsourcing (BPO) beyond what is typically reflected in the BPO provider's service price (total contract value). Learn how technology, if chosen and implemented carefully, will have a major impact on driving down these costs, in both the short and long term. Log-in required.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Sustained Growth Through Operational Excellence" (PDF, 3 MB) – A survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) showed that achieving operational excellence is on the agenda of IT executives worldwide. Read the survey results and learn more about the concept, challenges, and benefits of its realization. (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2008) Log-in required.