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November 07, 2009

You have the CCMS that goes PING?
There's a scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life where Michael Palin exclaims to Graham Chapman and John Cleese, "Ah, I see you have the machine that goes *ping*" in an expensively furbished hospital operating room. This story has nothing to do with that. Other than the ping sound. And maybe the overly expensive tools to do simple jobs.
Jim Spath in Application Server, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Solution Manager [03:02:09 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

November 06, 2009

What I Learned Installing Crystal Reports Server
My experience installing Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1
Blair Wheadon in Business Objects, Crystal Reports [07:38:37 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – How about an SAP App store?
In this age of people-centric technology, the iPhone revolution has brought about new business models and innovative ways in which people seek to conduct routine business. Fueling this is the availability of an increasing number of “apps” that are a result of a community-driven approach to make the mobile experience more meaningful. Enterprise application of this approach is picking up. Possibly, it is only a matter of time before we see a plethora of “apps” serving those that have enterprise needs – including those serviced by SAP functionality.
Puneet K. Suppal in Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP xApps, SAP Developer Network, Mobile, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Standards [11:49:22 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Be careful when using BRFplus to take actions
Don't use the action functionality of BRFplus when you are automating decision making.
James Taylor in Business Rules Management [10:53:18 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Podcast: Amit Bendov of Panaya on SAP User Attitudes Towards SAP Support
Recently, Panaya conducted a survey which asked SAP customers exactly these kinds of questions - about issues with SAP support and SAP support packs. I thought this survey had some interesting results. To get a better feeling for the survey results and also for how Panaya's content sharing approach works for them, I recently issued a twenty minute podcast on this topic with Panaya's Chief Marketing Officer Amit Bendov. I'm now sharing that podcast with the SCN community.
Jon Reed in Careers, Co-Innovation Lab, Professional Services, SAP Developer Network, SAP Enterprise Support [10:32:28 AM | 0 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

Make a positive impact, big or small -- from 'Hopenhagen', Denmark to the forests of Orissa, India
Talking on the green theme: How busineses are demonstrating their commitment to sustainability, Hopenhagen, and more...
Ranjan Baghel in Sustainability, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions [07:48:42 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

EHP 1 for SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1: Available Adapters and Adapter Modules
This blog gives an overview of the available adapters and adapter modules for EHP 1 of SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1.
Udo Paltzer in Integration and Certification, Interoperability, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture [06:59:56 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Little known ways to create a load balanced Consumer – Producer connection in a FPN scenario
With this blog I want to create a short guide describing how to configure a Federated Portal Network (FPN) connection between two portals by using a Load Balancer.
Michael Albrecht in Enterprise Portal (EP) [04:48:19 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Unleash the power of the Portal Theme Editor
For those of you who have worked with the Theme Editor to try to change the portal look and feel, you probably ran into the many limitations that the tool seems to have....or does it? This weblog helps you to use the portal theme editor to change pretty much everything you want to change without any custom development.
Marcel Rabe in Enterprise Portal (EP) [02:38:14 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Decades of big investment in information technology are paying off in the chemical industry’s response to the recession
IT investments in ERP and SCM solutions are paying off for Chemical Companies in economic downturn
Stefan Guertzgen in Chemicals [02:38:06 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

ABAP : Making CIN tab fields Obligatory
Making country version fields mandatory while creating the customer master data.
Rama krishna S in ABAP [02:37:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Enterprise Mobility - A Strategic Necessity
Enterprise Mobile Solutions have come a long way, from being a luxury, to become a strategic necessity to remain competitive. This blog post outlines the reasons for this transformation, and the options from SAP to take the next step towards enterprise mobility.
Ramalingam Krishnan in Emerging Technologies, Mobile, SAP NetWeaver Platform [02:37:11 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Record Comparison in MDM
In Present Blog we will discuss about need and importance of record comparison in MDM.
vibha sharma in Enterprise Portal (EP), Master Data Management (MDM) [02:37:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

IDocs not reaching to PI but in backend SAP it was processed successfully
Scenario: IDoc to XML. IDoc was sent successfully from backend SAP (ECC/SRM) system. But, it didn't reach PI.
Mayur Patel in Integration and Certification [02:33:30 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Loading Dropdown value in HCM Forms from Generic Services
Loading Dropdown in HCM Form using Generic Services
Mukesh mani in SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe [02:32:00 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Data Quality Check
During Master Data Management assessments one of the most important activities is analyzing Data Quality. The quality has to be analyzed with respect to conformance to standards, completeness, consistency and duplicates. This blog discusses how we could leverage a tool like MS Access to perform the quality analysis during assessments.
Anantharam Subramanian in Master Data Management (MDM) [02:29:21 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Believe It or Not - II
These days nothing can be predicted as amazing it all happens. Interesting as it may be. Keeping this in mind I am initiating some interesting facts in SAP. I am trying to collect the information which can be categorized as Believe it or not the SAP way.
Srivastava.G in ERP [02:28:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Don't leave children unattended - How SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood manages the parent-child relationship of SAP jobs
Many SAP ABAP based applications run in background jobs which in turn create other background jobs (e.g. to allow for mass processing in parallel). For a job administrator there is the challenge to manage this newly created parent-child relationship. With SAP's XBP 2.0 (or higher) interface the relationship is recognized by your external job scheduler (such as SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood.)
Jochen Steinmetz in ABAP, Application Server [02:26:52 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

End of Ownership?
Discussing the problems facing copyright holders in this digital age.
Bill Pfleging and Minda Zetlin in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Ranting [02:26:31 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP System Implementation & Business Process Reengineering
SAP system is a very useful and efficient tool for enterprise BPR, the target of SAP system implementation is not just go-live, the original intention of SAP is, after SAP system go-live the company can combine SAP standard processes and its own business processes and make company's business processes better than before!
Tao Zhang in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions [02:26:25 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mobile SAP Client (Android): android SAP Customer search client demo
Development of an android client for mobile phones, that searches for SAP ERP clients by name with the help of standard - out of the box - SAP web services.
Thomas Schnocklake in ABAP, CRM, Emerging Technologies, ERP, Java Programming, Mobile, Open Source, Search, Service-Oriented Architecture [02:26:13 AM | 5 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

Integrating 3rd-party Cryptographic Providers into NetWeaver Java - What's Possible and What's Not
This article explains how to plug a 3rd-party JCE-compliant cryptographic provider into your SAP NetWeaver J2EE engine, and what to expect after that, i.e. what security functions will benefit from the 3rd-party crypto provider, whether standard functions will break, etc.
Dong Pan in Application Server, Security [02:26:04 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

AS Java Stack most common LOG Files
This blog describes comprehensive overview of the most commonly looked JAVA Stack Application Server logs and trace files paths and their purpose. This will be very useful for beginers.
sekhar in Application Server, SAP NetWeaver Platform [02:25:13 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Fighting crime and terrorism with a prototype of advanced integrated analytics capabilities for police agencies
SAP Research France demonstrates in this blog entry how combining latest social network analysis technologies from the SAP Business Objects Innovation Center together with the Investigation Case Management system helps police organizations to speed up their investigation processes.
Cedric Ulmer in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Defense, Emerging Technologies, Public Sector, Security, SAP Research [02:24:15 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Activation of Transformation in Production Environment
Many a times transformations get inactive in the production or QA systems. This can happen due to changes/replication of datasources, inconsistencies caused by other transports, etc. The only plausible way to get the transformation to active state is to do a re-transport from the development box, which can lead in delay in data loads. This article provides a simple solution to activate the transformation directly in the production or QA environment.
Shashank Dighe in ABAP, Business Intelligence (BI) [02:24:08 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Accessing UKMS from message mappings (multiple values implementation) - Part 2
Current blog outlines possible approaches for accessing UKMS from message mappings and consists of two parts. Part 1: Accessing UKMS from message mapping by using graphical RFC lookup as a single value implementation. Part 2: Accessing UKMS from message mapping by using SAP standard Java API in UDF as a multiple values implementation. This blog assumes basic knowledge of SAP PI and UKMS.
Rudolf Yaskorski in Java Programming, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI) [02:23:42 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Version numbering of SAP Netweaver components
Clarity about the different versions of SAP Netweaver components mention during SAP Teched '09
Jan Penninkhof in ABAP, Beginner, Composition Environment (CE), Ranting, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd [02:23:31 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Master of One . What Next ?
This blog has come out of some of my doubts and apprehensions on been handling a single module for quite some time
Gajesh Nagesh in Beginner, Beyond SAP, ERP [02:23:14 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Restoring older document versions using Knowledge Warehouse
SAP Solution Manager stores all versions of its documents in Knowledge Warehouse. Some transactions (like SOLAR02) don't have options to restore document versions. As a workaround, some people have to open the (desired) old version, copy it's content, open the current version, paste the content over the existing and save again, creating a third version. But there's a way to restore older versions directly from Knowledge Warehouse.
Cristiano Canzone in SAP Solution Manager [02:22:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Enhance Your Business Process Productivity by Enhancing User Productivity. [Part 1]
Have you ever thought about, why most of the expensive and complex SAP implementations are failing to satisfy the end users. And to make them user friendly how much money is spent in rework. Follow this blog series to understand how low user productivity can directly hit the overall business productivity and also learn few solutions to resolve these problems.
Mohid Khan in ABAP, Universal Worklist, Utilities Industry, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, Wholesale Distribution, Automotive, Banking, Chemicals, Composition Environment (CE), ERP, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Retail, Aerospace and Defense, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Consumer Products, Enterprise Portal (EP), Healthcare, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Public Sector, Mining and Metal [02:22:08 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Coming to TechEd'09 Bangalore? Find Out How NetWeaver AccAD Boosts Web Application Performance
Coming to TechEd Bangalore this year? Join me in my Live Expert Session: Boosting Network Performance with Accelerated Application Delivery (AccAD).
Dong Pan in Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd [02:21:36 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Have you seen Crystal shining Identity Management?
Reporting from SAP NetWeaver Identity management 7.1 with Crystal Report.
Hong Gun Cho in Crystal Reports, Identity Management [02:21:28 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Virtual Workshop on "Business Process Efficiency"
Announcement of a workshop for Business Process Efficiency hosted together by Enterprise Services Community (ESC) and the Global SOA Adoption Program, SAP AG in November 2009
Aditya Palekar in Business Process Expert, Composition Environment (CE) [02:21:14 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Few "BUGS" - An Outsiders View
"Bugs" "Trace" "Rules of Engagement"
Shekar.J in Security [02:20:58 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Trends and Future of ITSM
This blog points out to the growing trends in the area of IT Service Management.
Akash Winny in Business Process Expert, CRM, Emerging Technologies [02:18:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Researching a memory leak in Java on SAP ISA
This goes into details on resolving an issue in the Java code (in our case on Internet Sales), identifying it, getting data about it and getting it resolves using multiple tools available for the Java platform. It starts with Identifying the issue using several tools and JVM options. Then continues on with getting Data such as Head dump and Garbage Collection logs. That data is then analyzed using the memory Analyzer (MAT), the IBM heap analyzer and the IBM Garbage Collection log analyzer. The issue was located and SAP worked with on on getting it resolved.
Thibaut Colar in CRM, Java Programming, SAP NetWeaver Platform [02:18:45 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Delivering Results: Clarity and Sustainability in Retail, a Webinar with NRF's STORES Magazine
Retailers have unparalleled opportunities to gain insights about their shoppers. Social networks and communities are offering retailers a new engagement model with consumers. Additionally, today’s consumers are increasingly expecting retailers they do business with to demonstrate socially responsible behavior. Register for the webinar to learn more on these and hear how SAP BusinessObjects solutions can help you take advantage of these opportunities.
Mohamed Amer in Business Intelligence (BI), Wholesale Distribution, Travel and Logistics Services, Retail, Organizational Change Management, Mobile, Enterprise Performance Management, Crystal Reports, CRM, Consumer Products, Business Suite 7, Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Sustainability [02:17:46 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Part 3 - Enable Transport System on Netweaver 7.01 Trial
In order to create a more realistic development environment, along with other good reasons, it is a good idea to enable the transport management system (TMS) in Netweaver 7.01 trial. By default the TMS does not work (for me anyway), but it doesn't take much to get it up and running...
David Bann in ABAP, Application Server, SAP NetWeaver Platform [02:17:36 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Systems landscape design, Is it an art or simply an insanity?
SAP Systems Landscape Design - Available tools.
Hong Gun Cho in Application Server, Enhancement Packages, Interoperability, Product Lifecycle Management, Run SAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Solution Manager, SAP TechEd [02:17:30 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

ASUG Webcast: Consolidating Integration Technologies on SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1
A reminder on the ASUG webcast tomorrow on "Consolidating Integration Technologies on SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 "
Srini Tanikella in Enterprise Service Community, SAP Process Integration (PI) [01:00:49 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

November 05, 2009

SSO with SPNego not working on Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2
With Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Microsoft removed the DES encryption used by SAPs SPNego implementation from the default encryption types for Kerberos. In this blog I outline the steps neccessary to get Single Sign On with SPNego working again.
Holger Bruchelt in Security, Application Server, Duet, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP NetWeaver Platform [04:39:34 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Tech Skills Chat with JonERP - A Follow-on Story
Inspired by the Tech Skills Chat podcast from the Enterprise Geeks, here's a little story, and one piece of simple advice on how to progress in the SAP world.
DJ Adams in Beyond SAP [02:24:38 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Missed SAP TechEd 2009? Get 130+ sessions with Virtual SAP TechEd
If you missed out on the education and networking opportunities from SAP TechEd 2009 event, consider getting the next best alternative: Virtual SAP TechEd now available at 20% discount till December 31, 2009.
Siva Darivemula in ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Product Lifecycle Management, Master Data Management (MDM), Interoperability, Integration and Certification, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Enterprise Performance Management, EcoHub, CRM, Business Suite 7, Business Process Management, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Banking, Automotive, Application Server, SAP TechEd [01:27:58 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Event trace and extending a BOR object
Learn how to use the event trace to find events that exist in your system and then extend an SAP object, adding an attribute, event, use the new objects in your workflow!
Ginger Gatling in ABAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Suite 7, ERP, SAP Business Workflow [08:51:44 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

EDI, SAP NetWeaver, eSOA and Cloud Computing
This article explores the problems custom EDI integration scripts cause companies and how SAP's new eSOA and cloud computing approach to EDI means to resolve it.
Kevin Benedict in Aerospace and Defense, Mining and Metal, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Retail, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Travel and Logistics Services, Utilities Industry, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Integration and Certification, Automotive, Banking, Business Suite 7, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Wholesale Distribution [08:08:16 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Voluntary Initiatives of CSR
How organizations in different sectors address CSR? Knowing about these initiatives, it is felt, would provide a good insight into the importance of appropriateness in promoting social responsibility in the respective sector.
Anbazhagan Sam Venkatesan in Sustainability, Business Process Expert [06:03:02 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Y-Code or Why Code?
Need for customised codes in today's environment
Babu Jayendran in ABAP, Business Process Expert, ERP, Security [01:28:52 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

November 04, 2009

The worlds most Innovative Companies
The worlds most innovative companies run SAP....
Paul Garrity in Co-Innovation Lab, Insurance, Run SAP [10:06:04 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

What's your role in the "Clean Tech Revolution"
Energy Efficiency has the potential to build whole new industries and create millions of new jobs. Learn what the leaders from SAP, PG&E and the US EPA discussed as Innovations and Opportunities in this space at a recent Churchill Club and GABA event hosted by and at SAP.
Christine Puccio in Business Process Expert, Co-Innovation Lab, Emerging Technologies, SAP Research, Sustainability [05:17:35 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Why join the BusinessObjects Community ?
In this short blog I provide you with the benefits of joining the SAP Mentor program and the BusinessObjects community.
Ingo Hilgefort in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports, EcoHub, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, Web Intelligence [04:32:50 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio 101 - Part 1
In response to requests from #SAPTechEd09 attendees, this Part 1 blog includes intro videos to the @BusinessObjects portfolio.
Jason Cao in Business Intelligence (BI), SAP TechEd, SAP Developer Network, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand, Postalsoft, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Enterprise Performance Management, Crystal Reports, Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Web Intelligence [03:34:27 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How to write a custom SAP EM activity function to compare analyze a parameter value
In SAP Event Management you may want to compare a parameter value you have sent in via an Event Message with an existing value on the EH. Here's the breakdown on how to dp it...
Kevin Wilson in ABAP, Business Process Expert [02:03:17 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Strategy vs. Planning
Performance management extends beyond budgeting to strategy management, profitability management and other performance considerations outside of finance. Planning is not the same as budgeting.
Jonathan Becher in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Performance Management [11:09:52 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version: what’s new?
During TechEd in Vienna SAP just announced the latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version. With this new post I'm highlighting what is new with this latest release.
Thierry Audas in Analytics, BI Accelerator, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Emerging Technologies [08:58:30 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

SAP EDI is a Community Effort
This article explores the evolution of SAP EDI from being a private effort to a SAP community effort by adopting a network-centric approach to SAP EDI.
Kevin Benedict [07:15:08 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Building a Vibrant Community "Paying It Forward"
The SAP Community Network empowers members to connect, collaborate, and co-innovate with the SAP ecosystem in an online social media community. This story told by a few CRM community members talks about improving the process for completed and detailed information in the CRM wiki for all community members to share. As they say: "paying it forward" and "giving back" to the community who has helped along their way. Read what they have to say.
Anne Fish in CRM [05:54:25 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

CRM in China (Part 2)
This blog describes how it is in the China CRM market since the world financial crisis happened in 2008.
Cathy Ma in CRM [04:57:50 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Results of SAP Survey on Order Management
Key Findigns from SAP Survey on Order Management
Prashant Dube in Business Process Expert, CRM, ERP [04:49:30 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Accessing UKMS from message mappings (single value implementation) - Part 1
Current blog outlines possible approaches for accessing UKMS from message mappings and consists of two parts. Part 1: Accessing UKMS from message mapping by using graphical RFC lookup as a single value implementation. Part 2: Accessing UKMS from message mapping by using SAP standard Java API in UDF as a multiple values implementation. This blog assumes basic knowledge of SAP PI and UKMS.
Rudolf Yaskorski in SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI) [01:29:01 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

XI/PI: Extended Receiver Determination with Conditional Context Object interface Determination
Extended Receiver Determination with Conditional Context Object interface Determination
Praveen Gujjeti in SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI) [01:28:42 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Typical BPM Workflow HOWTO on NW CE 7.1 Ehp1: Scenario 4 - Pushing back the submission
This blog explains common pieces of typical workflow scenario in the real life. We will discuss how to implement these common workflow design by NW BPM of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 Ehp1. This contents require beginner level knowledge of NW BPM on 7.1 Ehp1.
Kenichi Unnai [12:38:14 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

November 03, 2009

Voyager, multi-tabbed browsers, http sessions, Ctrl N, errors, crashes and hangs
Voyager uses session scoped JSF Managed Beans. Understanding how this works is key to avoiding certain errors and, if you are not on the right patch level, crashes and hangs in the MDAS server.
Reuben Cox in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Java Programming [01:53:27 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Calling a BDC in parallel using update task
Have you ever needed to speed up your BDC postings? Well here is a technique I've used before to call your BDC in parallel using a tRFC call. In addition I wait for the parallel sessions to end in order to write out the results.
Kevin Wilson in ABAP [12:34:12 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP CRM MDF Initative Processing - Video
This blow links to a video to show how easy it is for a channel partner to create an initiative and the brand owner processes the initiative.
Teresa Riley in CRM [10:07:18 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP CRM 7.0: Making Use Of Tileset Pages
The intention of this blog is to show how flexible the new CRM Web UI is and what benefits you can get out of this, based on an example on the CRM Resource Planning Application.
Alexander Biesinger in Business Process Management, Business Server Pages, Business Solutions, Business Suite 7, CRM [06:05:20 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

November 02, 2009

Social Entrepreneurship 101: 2009, Part 2 - Micro-Finance
The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia in Canada runs a Social Entrepreneurship 101 (SE 101): Africa program to teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to turn their ideas into actionable business plans. In Part 2 of this three-part blog, Kirby Leong of the BusinessObjects Community, shares what he learned from participating since 2008 in the SE 101 program.
Kirby Leong in Community Projects, Sustainability [11:14:43 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Data-driven rules
An answer to a reader's question about business rules
James Taylor in Business Rules Management [10:13:08 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Collaborative lead processing with channel partners via Adobe Interactive Forms
Watch the video on how to easily implement a lightweight lead management process with efficient partners collaboration via e-mail.
Marcus Ruebsam in CRM [09:20:24 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Increase Multi-Channel Success by using Campaign Optimization
This blog describes some options to run multi-channel campaigns with SAP CRM Marketing. For example by using Campaign Optimization to determine the optimal contact channel for every customer. A video is attached to show campaign optimization in action in order to optimize an end-to-end sales campaign.
Manuela Rominski in CRM [08:19:17 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Sales Methodology Yes/No?
In this article I would like to evaluate with you, how important a standardized Sales Methodology is?
Mirjam Wittmann in Business Solutions, CRM [07:59:14 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Individual Developer Licenses
SAP has promised to come up with Individual Developer License that could put an end to many of the limitations of the previous licenses. These Individual Developer Licenses were planned to be available in either November or December this year.
Jan Penninkhof in ABAP, Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Portal (EP), Java Programming, Open Source, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Web Dynpro [07:24:04 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Documenting an Unfolding Story: Blogging, SCN, and Community
Knowledge sharing through blogging is an on-going process of exploration and discovery. Building a community like SCN is an unfolding story written by each of its participants everyday. This is just one paragraph of that story.
Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, Careers, Community Projects, ERP, Integration and Certification, Ranting, SAP Developer Network [06:05:41 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Insurance Innovation (Promises...promises)
On the 28th of October in Sydney, SAP hosted an innovation lunch for executives from the Australian Insurance industry. Central to the discussions was a talk by Reg Price, author or the book "Reliability Rules" the ground breaking manual for using Promises Management to keep customers, build your brand and grow your business.
Paul Garrity in Banking, Business Process Management, CRM [05:12:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

What's Your Big (Education) Idea?
Using IdeaShare from Learning on Demand by SAP, you can share your ideas on the future of learning.
Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP [02:31:53 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]