Preface |
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1.1 How to Embrace Finance Transformation |
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1.2 Why Is Finance Transformation Important? |
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1.2.1 Staying Ahead of Competitors |
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1.2.2 Meeting Compliance Requirements |
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1.3 How to Measure Shareholder Value |
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1.4 How to Increase Shareholder Value |
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1.5 Finance Operate Model |
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2.1 The System: SAP S/4HANA |
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2.1.1 SAP S/4HANA Finance |
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2.1.2 SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server |
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2.1.3 SAP Master Data Governance |
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2.1.4 SAP Business Technology Platform |
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2.2 The Database: SAP HANA |
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2.3 The Table Structure: Universal Journal |
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2.4 The User Experience: SAP Fiori |
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2.4.1 Transactional Applications |
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2.4.2 Analytical Applications |
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2.4.3 Fact Sheet Applications |
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2.5 The Network: Peripheral Cloud Applications |
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2.5.1 SAP Analytics Cloud |
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3.1.3 Organizational Structure and Hierarchies |
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3.1.4 Business Partners: Customers, Vendors, and Banks |
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3.2.3 Finance and Controlling Merged into One |
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3.2.4 Parallel and Extension Ledgers |
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3.2.5 General Ledger Reporting |
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3.3.2 Vendor Invoice Management |
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3.3.3 Integration with SAP Ariba |
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3.3.4 Payables Management and Reporting |
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3.4.2 Post Accounts Receivable Transaction |
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3.4.3 Credit, Collections, and Dispute Management |
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3.4.4 Accounts Receivable Reporting |
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3.4.5 Receivables Management Reporting |
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3.4.6 Receivables Management Dashboard |
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88 | (3) |
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3.5.2 Asset Parallel Ledger |
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3.5.3 Asset Management and Reporting |
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103 | (4) |
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3.6.3 Central Asset Accounting |
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3.7.2 Reporting on Various Hierarchies |
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4.1 Cost Element Accounting |
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4.1.2 Primary and Secondary Cost Elements |
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4.1.3 General Ledger Account Types |
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4.1.4 Profit and Loss Account Types |
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4.1.5 Cost Element Accounting Reporting |
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4.2 Overhead Cost Controlling |
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4.2.4 Project Cost Reporting |
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4.2.5 Flexible Hierarchies |
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4.2.6 Overhead Cost Controlling Reporting |
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4.3 Product Cost Controlling |
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4.3.3 COGS Split by Cost Component |
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4.3.4 Work in Process Analysis |
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4.3.5 Production Variances Split by Variance Category |
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4.3.6 Manage Material Valuations |
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4.3.7 Material Inventory Values: Balance Summary |
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4.3.8 Material Price Analysis |
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4.3.9 Production Cost Analysis |
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4.3.10 Product Cost Controlling Reporting |
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4.4 Material Ledger and Actual Costing |
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4.4.2 Transfer Pricing and Multiple Valuation Approaches |
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4.4.3 Actual Costing Runs |
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4.4.4 Material Ledger Reporting |
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149 | (8) |
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4.5.2 Additional Quantity Fields |
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4.5.3 Combined Profitability Analysis |
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4.5.4 Attributed Profitability Segment |
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4.5.5 Real-Time Derivation of Market Segment |
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4.5.6 Profitability Reporting |
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5 Treasury and Risk Management |
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5.1.2 Liquidity Forecasting |
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5.1.3 Cash and Liquidity Management |
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5.1.5 Advanced Payment Management |
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5.1.6 Cash Management Reporting |
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5.2 Liquidity Planning and Forecasting |
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5.2.2 Liquidity Planning Objects |
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5.2.3 Liquidity Planning Data |
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5.2.4 Liquidity Planning and Forecasting Reporting |
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5.3 Transaction and Risk Management |
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5.3.2 Transaction Manager |
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5.3.4 Transaction and Risk Reporting |
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5.4 Bank Account Management |
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5.4.2 Bank Account Master Data |
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5.4.3 Bank Account Hierarchy and Bank Account Groups |
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5.4.4 Bank Account Management Workflow |
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5.4.6 Bank Reconciliation |
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5.4.7 Bank Communication Management |
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5.4.8 Bank Account Management Reporting |
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6.1 Financial Planning and Analysis |
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6.1.1 Extended Planning and Analysis |
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6.2.1 SAP Analytics Cloud |
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205 | (14) |
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6.2.2 SAP BPC, Version for SAP BW/4HANA |
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219 | (3) |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (6) |
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6.3.1 Profit and Loss Statement Planning |
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6.3.2 Sales and Cost of Goods Sold Planning |
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6.3.3 Overhead Expense Planning |
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6.3.4 Capital Expense Planning |
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6.3.5 Cost Center Planning |
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6.3.6 Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Planning |
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7 Financial Close and Consolidation |
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232 | (9) |
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7.1.2 Challenges in the Typical Closing Process |
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7.1.3 Advanced Financial Closing |
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234 | (6) |
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7.1.4 Emerging Technologies |
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7.2 Settlements and Assessments |
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241 | (9) |
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7.2.2 Universal Allocation |
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244 | (5) |
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7.3 Intercompany Accounting, Reconciliation, and Eliminations |
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250 | (12) |
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7.3.2 Stock Transport Orders |
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7.3.3 Intercompany Drop Shipment Scenarios |
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7.3.4 Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation |
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7.3.5 Intercompany Eliminations |
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7.4.2 Currencies and Exchange Rates |
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7.4.3 Post Currency Adjustments |
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7.4.4 Foreign Currency Revaluation |
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7.4.5 Currency Translations |
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269 | (10) |
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7.5.2 Consolidated Reporting |
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7.5.3 SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office |
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7.5.4 SAP Analytics Cloud |
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8 Reporting and Analytics |
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8.1 Enterprise-Wide Finance Reporting |
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281 | (4) |
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8.1.2 Reporting Organization |
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8.2 Tax and Compliance Reporting |
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285 | (7) |
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8.2.2 Advanced Compliance Reporting |
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8.2.3 Manage Withholding Tax |
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8.3.2 Other Reporting Requirements |
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8.3.3 SAP Disclosure Management |
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295 | (1) |
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8.4 Reporting and Analytics Tools |
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296 | (31) |
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298 | (6) |
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8.4.2 SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office |
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304 | (8) |
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8.4.3 SAP Analytics Cloud |
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312 | (8) |
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8.4.4 Predictive Analytics |
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320 | (4) |
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8.4.5 Artificial Intelligence |
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9.1 On-Premise versus Public or Private Cloud |
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329 | (6) |
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9.1.2 SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition |
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333 | (1) |
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9.1.3 SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition |
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9.2 Single Instance versus Multiple Instances |
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9.2.1 Single Global Instance |
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9.3.2 Phased Rollout by Functionality |
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9.3.3 Phased Rollout by Geography or Business Unit |
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9.3.4 Rollout Strategy: Decision-Making Approach |
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9.4.1 SAP S/4HANA Migration Options |
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9.5.1 SAP S/4HANA Migration Options |
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9.6 SAP Master Data Governance |
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9.6.1 SAP S/4HANA Migration Options |
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10 Planning an SAP S/4HANA Finance Project |
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10.1 Designing the Landscape of the Future |
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10.1.2 Other Parallel Initiatives |
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10.1.3 Business Segments and Markets |
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10.1.4 Organization Stakeholders |
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10.1.5 Transformation Roadmap |
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10.2 Anticipating Project Complexity |
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364 | (5) |
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10.2.2 Organizational Change Management |
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10.2.3 Internal Staffing and Readiness |
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10.2.4 Data and Legacy Systems |
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10.3 Building a Business Case for Your Organization |
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10.3.1 Cost/Benefit Analysis |
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10.3.2 Change Management and User Experience |
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10.4 Choosing an Implementation Approach |
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10.4.1 Waterfall versus Agile versus Hybrid Agile |
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10.4.2 Phased versus Big Bang |
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10.4.3 Phase 0 Assessment |
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10.5 Choosing a Partner/System Integrator |
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The Authors |
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Index |
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