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  • Tech Today: SAP Takes Aim at Oracle with 'Whacko' Project

    SAP News
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:51 am
    SAP Takes Aim at Oracle with 'Whacko' Project: SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner has roped in university students on a project to take advantage of cheaper memory chips in order to perform calculations in seconds rather than days.

  • New in SAP CRM 7.0 EhP2: Integrated Advanced Returns Management

    SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs
    Ulf Guttmann
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:05 am
    This blog decribes the new integration of SAP CRM Complaints Management with SAP ERP Advanced Returns Management.

  • Integrating SAP BI and Streamwork

    SAP Watch
    Todd Morrison
    5 Dec 2011 | 9:39 am
    SAP is bringing BI to collaboration, but should it have done the opposite? StreamWork, SAP’s collaborative decision making (CDM) platform, is just that - a way to help teams of users drive projects forward through document sharing, instant messaging, and by using SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analyses within the application to reach decisions collectively. Because it’s integrated with BusinessObjects (BOBJ), users can upload and share copies of spreadsheets, Crystal Reports and Crystal Dashboards to help inform decisions. SAP’s is bringing BI…

  • When it comes to learning SAP, is e-learning any good?

    SAP Watch
    Todd Morrison
    2 Dec 2011 | 11:33 am
    Thomas Michael, the CEO of Michael Management, doesn’t hold back when it comes to saying what he thinks of a lot of the SAP education courses out there.  In short, not much. “It’s very easy to create crappy training,” he said. Michael’s company recently won an e-learning award for his company’s SAP courses built on interactive simulations of SAP modules. It’s not a live environment, but it feels like it, he said. The courses include voice over instructions, tests, and online web sessions where users can ask questions of an instructor. He may not be…

  • Archiving SAP Purchasing Documents

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    31 Dec 2011 | 9:14 am
    Archiving SAP Purchasing Documents
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  • CSC Receives 2012 North America Partner Award for Mobility Innovation at SAP ... - Business Wire (press release)

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:38 am
    CSC Receives 2012 North America Partner Award for Mobility Innovation at SAP Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)--CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced it has received a 2012 Partner Impact Award as the SAP ® Services Partner of the Year — Mobility Innovation, North America. Awards were presented by SAP Americas (NYSE: SAP) during the SAP North America and more »

  • SAP Touts Its Fab Fourth - Barron's

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:22 am
    SAP Touts Its Fab FourthBarron'sSAP President Sanjay Poonen dropped the word "fabulous" on us at least a couple times in a phone conversation last week. The German software giant, he said, had a "fabulous" fourth quarter. "It was the best quarter ever in 40 years," crowed Poonen.

  • SAP Extends Offer For SuccessFactors While Government Entity Investigates - CRN

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:06 pm
    SAP Extends Offer For SuccessFactors While Government Entity InvestigatesCRNBy Rick Whiting, CRN SAP has extended yet again the deadline for its offer to buy outstanding shares of cloud software developer SuccessFactors while a US government organization investigates the proposed $3.4 billion acquisition.and more »

  • Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace - Forbes

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    ForbesGetting Bullish on SAP in the HR MarketplaceForbesSAP, the world's largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company's quarterly revenues grew by 12% to over $3.4 billion Euros and profits rose by 23% to $1.6 SAP Takes On Oracle Database, Salesforce CloudInformationWeekInside SAP's Skunkworks as It Takes Aim at OracleWall Street JournalSAP's HANA In-memory Database Will Gain Ability to Run ERP This YearPCWorldEnterprise Apps Todayall 53 news articles »

  • CSC Receives 2012 North America Partner Award for Mobility Innovation at SAP(R ... - MarketWatch (press release)

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:02 am
    CSC Receives 2012 North America Partner Award for Mobility Innovation at SAP(R MarketWatch (press release)FALLS CHURCH, Va., Jan 27, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CSC /quotes/zigman/222918/quotes/nls/csc CSC +0.58% today announced it has received a 2012 Partner Impact Award as the SAP(R) Services Partner of the Year -- Mobility Innovation, North America.CSC Receives 2012 North America Partner Award For Mobility Innovation At SAP TheStreet.com (press release)all 7 news articles »
 
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  • CSC Receives 2012 North America Partner Award for Mobility Innovation ...

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am
    CSC today announced it has received a 2012 Partner Impact Award as the SAPA Services Partner of the Year - Mobility Innovation, North America.

  • Least Favorite

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:55 am
    Business Card Company: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Posted on Jan. 25, 2012 01:04 PM in Business Process Management , SAP Business Workflow For no particular reason, I am listing my top 10 favorite SAP transactions, as they relate to building and administering to SAP Workflows.

  • Tech Today: SAP Takes Aim at Oracle with 'Whacko' Project

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:51 am
    SAP Takes Aim at Oracle with 'Whacko' Project: SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner has roped in university students on a project to take advantage of cheaper memory chips in order to perform calculations in seconds rather than days.

  • Additional Info

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:41 pm
    As you know Netweaver 7.3 is released on 30 May 2011. And I have a project on Netweaver 7.3. So I decided to make some modifications on my 7.3 test system.

  • Varian Medical Systems Uses SAP to Support Sustainability and Compliance With REACH and RoHS

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:27 pm
    From Design to Delivery, SAP Solutions Helps Leading Medical Device Manufacturer With Significant Savings, Revenue Protection, and Return on Investment PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan.
 
 
 
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  • SAP acquires workforce performance software from datango AG

    Jacquelyn Howard
    16 Jan 2012 | 2:55 pm
    Today SAP announced its intention to acquire software and relevant assets from datango AG, provider of workforce performance software that companies can use for ERP training. Datango’s mission is to help “people adopt, use and benefit from the software enterprises invest in to make them more productive.” Datango’s performance suite is currently incorporated into SAP Business ByDesign to assist small and medium businesses with application rollout and education. “The workforce performance tools market has become increasingly strategic and critical to our…

  • It’s not easy being green – or is it?

    Jacquelyn Howard
    14 Dec 2011 | 1:52 pm
    While at the 2011 SAP Influencer Summit yesterday, Scott Bolick, Vice President of Sustainability Solutions, commented “The real battle in sustainability is going to be on the energy side.” I met up with him later in the afternoon to follow up on this (and to discuss the state of the Red Sox, but that’s another story). What makes the energy side the biggest area for sustainability right now? As you can probably tell if you heat your home with oil or drive a car, energy is rising in term of cost - there is quite a bit of volatility in pricing. In fact, Bolick estimates that…

  • Integrating SAP BI and Streamwork

    Todd Morrison
    5 Dec 2011 | 9:39 am
    SAP is bringing BI to collaboration, but should it have done the opposite? StreamWork, SAP’s collaborative decision making (CDM) platform, is just that - a way to help teams of users drive projects forward through document sharing, instant messaging, and by using SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analyses within the application to reach decisions collectively. Because it’s integrated with BusinessObjects (BOBJ), users can upload and share copies of spreadsheets, Crystal Reports and Crystal Dashboards to help inform decisions. SAP’s is bringing BI…

  • When it comes to learning SAP, is e-learning any good?

    Todd Morrison
    2 Dec 2011 | 11:33 am
    Thomas Michael, the CEO of Michael Management, doesn’t hold back when it comes to saying what he thinks of a lot of the SAP education courses out there.  In short, not much. “It’s very easy to create crappy training,” he said. Michael’s company recently won an e-learning award for his company’s SAP courses built on interactive simulations of SAP modules. It’s not a live environment, but it feels like it, he said. The courses include voice over instructions, tests, and online web sessions where users can ask questions of an instructor. He may not be…

  • In a full-court press, SAP looks to add developers to the HANA bandwagon

    Todd Morrison
    15 Nov 2011 | 8:59 am
    SAP to developers: We care. As a part of its efforts to demonstrate to developers that the technology is all that it’s cracked up to be, SAP has set up a virtual sandbox environment to let developers bang on HANA’s in-memory functionality as much as they want - and to show them they have their IT interests at heart. “The goal of the sandbox is really to show that as for SAP, we care about developers and we rely on them to be successful,” said Anne Hardy, vice president for platform evangelism and developer adoption at SAP. “We want to make sure that we excite…
 
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  • Of Rhinos, old friends, Mountain bike rides.

    Thomas Otter
    12 Jan 2012 | 9:57 am
    This clever and moving video arrived on my facebook wall a few days ago. It is worth taking a moment to watch it. And then this morning a dear friend from South Africa pinged me that he was seeking sponsorship, raising money for the Wildlands Conservation Trust.  David got me into cycling many years ago, introducing me to the joys of the high end bike shop, and the Berkshire and Surrey countryside.  After years of hanging on his back wheel, the least I could do was sponsor him while he rides his mountain bike around Giant’s Castle. If you would like to help, head over to…

  • On Corporate Burghers

    Thomas Otter
    11 Jan 2012 | 6:02 am
    Cross posted on my work blog. While taking a break from a flurry of  inquiry calls about ERP upgrades vs SaaS replacements,  I ambled over to facebook with Nespresso in hand.  A few years ago I met Dave Duarte, who  introduced me to  the Ogilvy Digital Academy   in South Africa. There is a lot of innovative stuff going on in the land of my youth, so I follow the SA scene  on  Facebook and on Twitter.  South Africa has had a lot of innovative advertising over the years, and I’m pleased to see this has well and truly moved over into the social side of things.  Today’s…

  • Employee branding. Some assembly required.

    Thomas Otter
    4 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Cross posted on my work blog. I stumbled on this brilliant video today (hat tip to @williamtincup).     This is one of the better examples of linking corporate and employee branding for recruitment I have seen. Low cost Innovative Targeted Measured (note the stats at the end). It cleverly reinforces the corporate and the employee brand.  I wrote a note several years ago now (client link here) where I stressed the need for organizations to get marketing and HR to work more closely together on recruitment branding. This is probably the best example I have seen of a company doing…

  • On constraints. Marcuse, Bach and Scriabin.

    Thomas Otter
    27 Dec 2011 | 2:18 pm
    This time of the year tends to be a time of excess. The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. This is a quote from Herbert Marcuse, a German philosopher.  I rather like it, but I’ve never really been comfortable with the term “the people.”  After all, the same affliction affects me too. This is a first person issue, other than the kitchen equipment:  I’m with the Hitch, but there is a part of me that really likes stuff. Here is my newly discovered antidote; two…

  • A review of Race Against the Machine.

    Thomas Otter
    26 Oct 2011 | 10:58 am
    I’ve just read Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s Race against the Machine in one sitting when I have masses of other pressing stuff to do. It is short, sharp, engaging and easy to read. Put down that Scandinavian crime novel, ignore your travel expense application issues and read this book instead. I’m perhaps reading too much into the title,  but I can’t help wondering if it isn’t a hat tip to the rock band Rage Against the Machine.  If it is, deeply nifty sub-editing coolness.   If not,  it is a lovely  unintended consequence. The book highlights the…
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  • Our first major European conference is taking shape nicely.

    James Governor
    13 Jan 2012 | 11:43 am
    Tweet Tickets sales are ticking along. The site looks lovely. Sponsors have signed up – including Microsoft, Appirio Cloudspokes, Alcatel Lucent, Google, IBM, VMware, Joyent, and Sift Media. Confirmations that quite a few reporters from titles like RWW are coming along. The menus are in place, and look frankly amazing. The beer-tasting is booked. I have two local craft beer supplier partners in the shape of The Kernel and Camden Brewery. There is still an awful lot to do. But I think I deserve my wine tonight. Less than two weeks to go, but frankly I am ready completely exhausted. It…

  • Internet of ThingWorx, bringing industrial into the mix

    James Governor
    11 Jan 2012 | 12:50 pm
    Tweet I have been writing and consulting about the Internet of Things since 1999, when I helped Jonathan Eunice create the “Pervasive Automation” practice at Illuminata, a boutique research firm based in Nashua, NH. Billions of dollars have poured into the space since then, but we still haven’t seen the big transformation many of us have expected for a long time. But increasingly it does look like machine to machine communications is going to get real. IBM, for example, is investing heavily in Smarter Buildings, bringing the world of HVAC and asset management together with…

  • What we have here is a business model

    James Governor
    5 Jan 2012 | 4:15 am
    Tweet I started the day reading this post from TorrentFreak, which lays bare some of the key problems with the current Copyright situation. In the early days of RedMonk we spent a great deal of time writing about the need for copyleft approaches, and more permissive content licensing, as a basis for both business innovation and better user experience. Our position hasn’t changed, but sadly the situation has probably worsened in the last eight years or so. The Digital Economy Act in the UK, and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the US, are both pieces of legislation that skew the balance…

  • SAP and SuccessFactors- buying the past or the future, the corporation or the human?

    James Governor
    4 Jan 2012 | 12:51 pm
    Tweet When news first rolled in, back in December, that SAP was going to acquire SuccessFactors my first reaction was – makes sense, that brings them some much-needed scale, with 15k customers and the potential for volume economics. And of course an aggressive sales force that lives and breathes cloud deals. But then a week or so later at SAP’s annual Influencer event something began to nag at me. You see- the SAP cloud story was finally beginning to look pretty solid. The company has adopted agile development, and even some user centric design, to make its products more appealing…

  • On The Genesis, Present and Future of Monki Gras – technical and social bridgebuilding

    James Governor
    4 Jan 2012 | 6:57 am
    Tweet One of our potential sponsors for the coming Monki Gras conference was interested to know more about our thinking – will this be a one off, or an event series worth investing in for the long haul? The answer is the long haul. This is a chance to get in at ground level for what promises to be an influential event series. Its worth pointing out that the umbrella brand for the community event series is actually RedMonk Brew – but “Monktoberfest” suggested itself so strongly for our inaugural event in Portland, Maine, that we had to run with it. RedMonks and beer in…
 
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  • Interview with Tamás Holics

    16 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
    Tamás Holics is manager at Hovitaga, a company in Budapest specialized in SAP development that is also bringing to market some SAP add-ons and applications. I asked Tamás if he could share his experience in a short interview, as I think this kind of experience is interesting for many of us running consulting companies or working as freelancers and also trying to market SAP applications or enhancements.[PL] Hi Tamás, can you tell us more about you, how you started with SAP and what areas of SAP you currently focus?[TH] I joined SAP Labs Budapest in 2006 as a junior ABAP developer. There I…

  • Using ZAKE to export objects to the filesystem

    4 Oct 2011 | 4:48 am
    A script to use ZAKE to export a package to the filesystem. I'm starting to use ZAKE and SAPLink to synchronize the ABAP repository with the mercurial version control system, so the default SVN object was not good for my goal.

  • onsap.com update

    22 Sep 2011 | 5:30 am
    I'm again using onsap.com to record questions and answers. Now the site allows users to subscribe to email updates of individual questions or tags so it is more useful as a way to follow some topic. I still think it can be a good tool for SAP people. I will keep using it to record my questions (and perhaps later update it with answers) and to learn a bit more from trying to answer other questions. You can follow my activity here and you're very welcome to join.

  • Random element from a table in ABAP

    20 Sep 2011 | 5:27 am
    One function I find myself using a lot in python is random.choice that gives me a random element from a list. Quick example in python:>>> import random>>> for i in range(20):... print random.choice(['A','B','C','D']),...C A D C C D A D C B B B B C B C A C D BIt turns out it is not that difficult to do the same in ABAP.class lcl_random definition. public section. class-methods choice importing it_table type standard table exporting es_row type any.endclass.class lcl_random implementation. method choice. data: l_size type i, l_index type i. describe table it_table lines…

  • Test functions in SE37 with commit execution

    12 Apr 2011 | 5:57 am
    A very simple trick that I only learned recently. A couple of times I faced the situation that I had a function that I could call to solve my problem. I would like to do it in SE37, but the function would need a COMMIT to be called after execution. I thought it was not possible to do in SE37 but it actually is. There is an option to test sequences:So I just need to put my function and to perform the commit I can use the standard function BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT.
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  • Table Partitioning in SAP

    bloggerV
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:39 am
    When tables grow large, queries on the table will be slow. Index range scans, table scans, backups and restores will be slow. The most common characteristic of such tables is that the older entries in the table are seldom changed and updates happen on the newer entries. By partitioning the table, the older entries can be maintained in a seperate partion, thereby increasing performance--looking up for query results in a smaller set of data, parallel processing in different partitions, faster backups etc. Types of Partitions: Range Partition: This allows you to partition data by…

  • Disabling File System Transports in PI

    bloggerV
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm
    If you have configured CTS+ or CMS for XI/PI transports, you may want to disable file system based transport. In order to disable file based transports, follow these steps: Call open Exchange Profile from http://<server>:<port>/exchangeProfile Create the boolean parameters com.sap.aii.ibrep.core.transport.enableFileExport and com.sap.aii.ibdir.core.transport.enableFileExport under the directory com. Set the value as false or uncheck option in PI 7.3.

  • Database Locks

    bloggerV
    13 Jan 2012 | 4:28 am
    Locking is a mechanism to control concurrent access to data in order to maintain consistency. Lock requests are made to concurrency-control manager. Transaction can proceed only after the request for lock is approved. Data can be locked in eXclusive mode or Shared mode. When a transaction sets an exclusive mode, it can both read and alter it. Whereas a shared mode will only let the transaction to read the data. A transaction may be granted a lock on an item if the requested lock is compatible (see the compatibility matrix) with locks already held on the item by other transactions.

  • Part 3 UNIX Stream Editor: sed

    Hello IT
    8 Jan 2012 | 8:32 am
    This is the last part on sed. Part 1 and 2 can be found as linked.. Multiple lines in pattern space Using N for multiple pattern lines The instruction N appends a newline character to the pattern space and waits for the next line. When the next line is read, it appends the line to the pattern space. Finally the resulting pattern space is output. Check these examples to understand N instruction. [user9@localhost ~]$ sed 'N' this is a test the line is not immediately printed here this is a test the line is not immediately printed here [user9@localhost ~]$ sed 'N' 1 2 1 2 3 4 3 4…

  • Part 2 UNIX Stream Editor: sed

    bloggerV
    7 Jan 2012 | 7:45 am
    This is a continuation of  Part 1 UNIX Stream Editor: sed. Print instruction p The instruction p prints the pattern space. In the following example, the lines are printed twice. Once by sed and once by the instruction p. [user9@localhost ~]$ sed 'p' /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin No print option -n In the above example, the lines were printed twice. You can use -n (no print) option to suppress the print by sed. The output is printed only if there is an instruction  to print…
 
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  • 22 Jan 2012 | 6:04 pm

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    22 Jan 2012 | 6:04 pm
    Activity AND Activity Risk RISK LEVEL Maintain credit master data AND Process sales orders User can increase a customer credit limit and then process sales orders for that customer leading to irrecoverable debt. M Maintain contract/scheduling agreement AND Process sales orders User can create a fictitious contract and then create sales orders against that contract. [...]

  • 22 Jan 2012 | 5:53 pm

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    22 Jan 2012 | 5:53 pm
    Description Transaction Maintain contract/scheduling agreement Create scheduling agreement VA31 Change scheduling agreement VA32 Create contract VA41 Change contract VA42 Maintain credit master data Credit limit changes FD24 Change customer credit management FD32 Credit management mass change FD37 Credit management mass change F.34 Customers: Reset credit limit F.28 Credit Limit Data mass change S_ALR_87009999 Reset Credit [...]

  • Monitoring Plan for Roles for SAP Audit Compliance

    admin
    16 Jan 2012 | 4:10 pm
    SAP Audit Compliance for Security Configuration SAP System has many reporting tools and ABAP/4 programs that provide detailed investigation and monitoring of SAP security configuration for SAP Audit Compliance. The monitoring reports can be executed via two methods, executing the actual program using transactions SE38, SA38 or SUIM (Repository Information System). Objective: For each system, [...]

  • SAP Risk

    admin
    15 Jan 2012 | 5:49 am
    SAP Risk One way of accessing the SAP Risk is to review your sap authorizations and the user’s access in the sap system. But this assessment is only focusing on the internal threat, with the advent of the open communication and internet there needs to be an assessment of the security of SAP systems from [...]

  • SAP Controls

    admin
    4 Jan 2012 | 4:22 pm
    Six areas where the SAP Controls can be effective SAP is a system which manages multiple business processes for an organization. The business processes spread from finance, Human resources, supply chain management and manufacturing. With the complex system comes also challenge of have SAP Controls in place to monitor all the business processes. If the [...]
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