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February 09, 2010

Selecting the right GRC solution for your organization

Norman Marks in Business Process Expert, Governance, Risk and Compliance [08:17:37 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Food for Thought on Risk Appetite
An interesting discussion on risk appetite
Norman Marks in Business Process Expert, Governance, Risk and Compliance [07:58:57 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Gartner, SOALogix, SAP Process Integration and all that fuzz
SAP PI - The roadmap, the future ?
Shabarish Vijayakumar in SAP Process Integration (PI) [07:20:44 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Happy reporting with (ABAP OLE) Excel
According to my experience most of the users are very happy about the ABAP to MS Excel outputs. Maybe this blog will be your first contact with MS Excel output, maybe it can help you improve your existing ABAP to Excel outputs a little.
Otto Gold in ABAP [06:23:31 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Oops did I forget something.... Yes the Active Directory
Installing and configuring the Active Directory for SAP in the AWS Cloud
Chris Kernaghan in Emerging Technologies [05:36:28 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Backup and Data Recovery within the Cloud
How to configure Backup and Recovery of databases within the AWS Cloud
Chris Kernaghan in Emerging Technologies [04:58:26 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Saying “Hello” in different languages or Unicode and XML
A program to capture "Hello" in different languages. It uses a global ABAP class to load and save Unicode XML with correct character encoding.
Edward Pelyavskyy in ABAP [04:02:17 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

How to create a direct URL for xRPM Item
There was a business requirement in our xRPM 4.5 SP6 implementation to send emails out on Gate approvals. The expectation was to provide xRPM item link in the email text so that user can click on the link and navigate directly to xRPM item. There was no standard functionality available in xRPM to achieve this. SAP customer support confirmed that.
Sharad Agrawal in ABAP, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP xApps, Web Dynpro [04:00:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

ALM functionality teaser #4 Central System Administration
My fourth ALM functionality teaser - How to monitor systems using Solution Manager Central System Administration.
Tony de Thomasis in Application Life-Cycle Management, SAP Solution Manager [03:39:12 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Implementing SAP Higher Education & Research: The journey of the Indian School of Business
In her article, Ms. Janaki Ramachandram, Assistant Director of Academic Services & Administration (ASA) department at ISB describes the process from planning stage to actual implementation of the SAP Higher Education & Research solution and summarises the benefits and the challenges that the institution met during its journey.
gjanakir in Higher Education [03:22:48 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

IDoc Packaging - How to Deal with Reprocessing?
IDoc Packaging - How to deal with errors and reprocess the complete batch?
Shabarish Vijayakumar in SAP Process Integration (PI) [03:10:26 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How-to Handle Data in the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory
The System Landscape Directory (SLD) of SAP NetWeaver is a central provider of information on software and systems. It is used by many client applications, such as SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, SAP Solution Manager, and the Adaptive Computing Controller. SLD data is needed in three areas of the landscape, for development systems, productive systems and systems managing systems. According to the different roles, different types of data are needed in each area. On the other hand, data should be gathered in one place to avoid inconsistencies. Therefore, data is retrieved once and then distributed.
Wolf Hengevoss in Application Life-Cycle Management, Application Server, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Solution Manager [02:56:43 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SLD Recommendation - Reasons to Use a Virtual IP Address for SLD Access
The SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD) is a central provider of landscape information used by many client applications. When using an SLD in your system landscape it might be a good idea to use a virtual IP address to access it. This blog lists reasons and use cases.
Wolf Hengevoss in Application Life-Cycle Management, Application Server, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Solution Manager [02:53:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

2010 SAP Business One Enablement and Education Sessions for SAP Channel Partners
I have just been spending the last 4 days watching, editing, re-recording and encoding the upcoming presentations for the 2010 SAP Business One Enablement and Education sessions and we have some fantastic content coming up for our SAP Business One Partners.
Richard Duffy in SAP Business One [12:25:24 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

February 08, 2010

Virtualizing resource-intensive applications - introducing an enterprise case study with Intel, SAP, and VMware
concerned about performance of virtualized SAP applications? Results from this case study conducted by SAP co-innovation lab with Intel and VMware may shed some lights for you.
Kevin Liu in Co-Innovation Lab, Emerging Technologies [06:27:42 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NetWeaver BI: DataStore Objects for Direct Update
This blog describes how to write and delete data thru APIs in the DataStore Object for Direct Update and it also outlines some of the benefits that we get with DataStore Object for Direct update.
Mr. Rajesh Kalidindi in ABAP, Business Intelligence (BI), ERP [02:38:50 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Delivery of Business Intelligence Content developed by SAP Partners and Software Solution Providers (SSPs)
SAP developed BI Content (formerly delivered as Business content and Technical content) based on best practices from nearly 10,000 Business Warehouse installations. SAP BI Content is an evolving set of information models. But there are gaps when it comes to delivering BI Content for specific industry or specific business requirements. This is when Partners and Software Solution Providers complement SAP delivered BI Content. BI Content that is delivered for this specific industry or business requirement is referred to as “Partner Content” or “Third Party Content”. BI Content delivered that is delivered by SAP Partners or SSPs can be certified by SAP Integration and Certification Center (ICC) and they can obtain “SAP Certified” logo.
Srinivas Chintaginjalu in Business Intelligence (BI) [02:38:22 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Creating “on-the-fly” editable Portal Page Layouts
Ever thought, “hey wouldn’t it be easy to have Page Layouts that are configurable via the PCD properties editor?” Well here is your answer… It’s possible, proven in action (in a 50K user Portal) and available for you in this blog.
Benjamin Houttuin in Enterprise Portal (EP) [02:38:04 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Display dynamic columns for business workplace in the UWL
How to display dynamic columns for the business workplace in the UWL.
Pierre DOMINIQUE in Business Process Expert, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Business Workflow, Universal Worklist [02:33:30 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Disaster Recovery with BusinessObjects
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuance with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Kevin McManus in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects [01:29:33 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BO Mobile Guide
How to config Business Object support Mobile Access
Ghochi Elin Kuswoyo in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, SAP NetWeaver Platform [01:29:15 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Effective WebDynpro Applications: Dictionary Optimization
The blog shows experience of Java Dictionary usage in WebDynpro applications. It explains why big dictionary could bring slow performance and proposes solution for the problem - shows how Java dictionary can be included into WebDynpro dictionary cache, not active by default. Tricky aspects of Java Dictionary deployment are discovered. Advanced SAP Dictionary Runtime API usage is shown (DdDictionaryPool, DdDictionary, DdJavaProvider).
Siarhei Pisarenka in Application Server, Java Programming, Web Dynpro [01:19:54 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Engagement and Service Delivery with SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager (EHP1) offers new functionality, strengthens collaboration with SAP, and improves the organization and transparency of SAP service delivery. It was released with SAP Solution Manager 7.0 support package stack 18. It contains the new SAP Engagement and Service Delivery Work Center structuring collaboration by Issues, Top Issues, and management of tasks. The Work Center provides SAP and its customers with a central support platform that stores management information and technical support data. Companies get a new perspective on formerly isolated and technical IT actions and services and can adjust them to fit their specific business needs. This blog should help to understand the support instruments (Top Issues, Issues, Tasks and Servcies) and how they play together.
Veit Eska in SAP Solution Manager, [01:16:02 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BW Accelerator Upgrade: P3 : Is Cube Roll Up Failing ?

Vikram Srivastava in BI Accelerator, Business Intelligence (BI) [01:14:34 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

ASUG BI and BusinessObjects: Coming Together
ASUG BI and BusinessObjects: Coming Together
Tammy Powlas in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects [01:13:41 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Education (North America) answers the question..."What are E-Academies?"
E-Academy programs from the SAP® Education organization give participants, seeking SAP certification or on-the-job support, the core training materials and help to suit their specific needs. The programs provide self-paced e-learning, a help desk, ready access to SAP training systems, and student handbooks.
Kenneth Schieffer in SAP Education [01:03:37 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Cash to Cash - Making Lemonade in Today's Economy
Life beyond that first lemondade stand - find out how to calculate your cash-to-cash cycle, and which KPIs can help you optimize that number.
Birgit Starmanns in Financial Excellence, ERP, Manufacturing [09:57:14 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Are you having problems with fields that are not ready for input in MM?
Sometimes you have a field in a screen that is greyed out, and even if you search in the customizing, you are not able to find why. This blog will show you how to exactly know, where to search in the customizing.
Arminda Jack in Business Solutions [07:57:59 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How-to Install a System Landscape Directory and Manage the Initial Setup?
With IT landscapes at least partially made up of SAP systems of more recent releases, gathering landscape data in the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD) is mandatory. This blog describes the installation of an SLD system and the initial setup, which both have been automated to a large extent. Both processes are demonstrated using the example of an SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 EHP1 installation.
Wolf Hengevoss in Application Life-Cycle Management, Application Server, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI) [07:08:29 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Frameworks Integrated in the Composite Designer
This blog is part of a series of blogs with focus on the Composit Designer. This blog is the fifth one and provides information about the frameworks integrated in CoDe.
Ivan Stoyanov in Composition Environment (CE) [01:45:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

February 07, 2010

Underwear, bananas or snack foods - what would you bet on?
Depending on the state of the economy different goods and services see tidal rises and falls according to the mental and economic state of the individuals within it. Stocks and bonds savvy investors know what to look for, when to buy and when to sell. Surely the same critical analysis should be applied to the peaks and troughs of business demand for robust and repeatable technology based solution to solve business problems?
Clinton Jones in Analytics [10:33:56 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Certification: the path to success!
Why SAP Certify? How to SAP Certify...the path to success.
Tammy Powlas in SAP Education, Business Intelligence (BI), ERP [08:02:23 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Do you have all the required libraries for your mobile application?
A step by step solution for using external libraries on custom mobile applications for Mobile 7.1
David Faustini in Composition Environment (CE), Java Programming, Mobile, Eclipse, Web Dynpro [07:57:34 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

An easy way to identify end-user scheduled jobs which bypass your central scheduling tool
Learn how you can easily identify background jobs that are periodically scheduled by end-users and which are undermining your central scheduling efforts. The blog describes an easy select either via transaction SM37 or via table TBTCO.
Volker von Gloeden in SAP NetWeaver Platform, Run SAP, ERP, Business Suite 7, Application Life-Cycle Management [07:49:30 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Delivering on the Power of Virtual Learning
How SAP Enterprise Learning and Adobe Connect meet customer training needs with virtual learning in challenging times.
James Rocha in SAP Education, Human Capital Management [07:48:55 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP ZIPPED 2022-Listen, Adapt & Zip- Vision 1.3
Established in 1972, SAP today has its presence and penetration into varied industrial segments catering to all the needs and aspirations of today’s vigilant and highly demanding customers. With growing SAP’s new dimensional products and advanced high performance versions, avid customers and partners can just keep their fingers crossed. It gives goose bumps imagining what will it be when SAP unveils the package in 2022 during its Global Jubilee celebration. SAP Zipped 2022 is a leap into the future showcasing the capabilities that SAP has and the potential to deliver.
Girish .V. Bhat in Beyond SAP [07:46:59 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Sustainability: yours, mine and ours
In order to have an outstanding SAP Mentor webcast, I need to do my homework. Here's what I found on a portion of the SAP Sustainability Report web site.
Jim Spath in Business Objects, Ranting, Sustainability, Webinars [05:59:56 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Want Fries With That?
Imagine you are the sitting down in a nice restaurant, the waiter comes however he doesn't offer a menu, but only carries a notebook to write down your wishes, well could that be how Business and IT engagement sometimes works today? Let me explain...
Martin Lang in Analytics, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Financial Excellence, Improving My Experience, Organizational Change Management, Run SAP [05:28:07 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

February 05, 2010

IBM MQ (5.3, 6.0, 7.0) Interoperability with PI
As we upgrade MQ servers in the landscape, how will this effect PI's JMS adapters? What should we do if we have multiple MQ server versions in our landscape? In this blog, we will take a look at some of the compatibility issues between the different releases of MQ when integrating with PI.
William Li in SAP Process Integration (PI) [10:52:59 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Business Objects reporting over NetWeaver - Best Practice
Business Objects reporting over NetWeaver - Best Practice
Andrew Fox in Business Objects [09:26:11 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How to do Drill-Through BW data from BPC MS 7 and BPC NW 7
A lot of customer wants to see detail data from BW using BPC Drill-Through feature but current BPC 7 MS and NW version doesn't support it. Even though this feature is supported in BPC 7.5 NW but 7.5 MS doesn't support. This article shows how to do it using Excel macro.
James Lim in Business Objects, Enterprise Performance Management [09:19:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Overview of Xcelsius 2008 SP3 – Part II (Videos)

Kalyan Verma in Business Objects [09:17:22 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Customer Supplier Agreements (CSA)
Learn more about the most talked about program from the USPS in Intelligent Mail Full Service. One of the requirements for Full Service qualification is the Customer Supplier Agreement (CSA). This blog entry will provide you with more detail on what a Customer Supplier Agreement is.
Kris Sorenson in Postalsoft [07:25:01 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Cost and Benefit: Why to parallelize rollout projects - if you can!
In a Template Rollout Approach (Global ASAP roadmap) you can either parallelize your individual rollout projets - or execute each one after the other one. This weblog is about a comparison of both options, their advantages and disadvantages, and especially considering transport management conflicts.
Eberhard Hoffmann in Business Process Expert, ERP, Organizational Change Management, Standards [06:47:15 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Higher Education and Research User Group 2010 Conference
This blog summarizes the goal of the upcoming International SAP Higher Education and Research User Group (HERUG) 2010 conference at the National University of Singapore from 19th April 2010 to 22nd April 2010.
Tina Bach in Higher Education [06:23:26 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Logging in Web Dynpro (Java) - a guide and tutorial for beginners [Part 1]
A guide how to log in your Web Dynpro project and where to find logs.
jacek wozniczak in Web Dynpro, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Beginner [06:08:39 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP ZIPPED 2022-Listen, Adapt & Zip- Vision 1.2
Established in 1972, SAP today has its presence and penetration into varied industrial segments catering to all the needs and aspirations of today’s vigilant and highly demanding customers. With growing SAP’s new dimensional products and advanced high performance versions, avid customers and partners can just keep their fingers crossed. It gives goose bumps imagining what will it be when SAP unveils the package in 2022 during its Global Jubilee celebration. SAP Zipped 2022 is a leap into the future showcasing the capabilities that SAP has and the potential to deliver.
Girish .V. Bhat in Beyond SAP [06:07:38 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Benefit Now From Support Package 4 for SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1
SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Support Package 4 is available for download. Benefit from the enhancements it has in stock. This blog focuses on the SP4 enhancements related to flexible master data creation scenarios in conjunction with SAP NetWeaver BPM.
Markus Ganser in , Universal Worklist, Service-Oriented Architecture, Master Data Management (MDM), Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Web Dynpro [05:58:03 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Google Voice and SAP Project Management
These are tough trying economic times, when Institutes/Universities and Implementing partner are saving costs on communication fronts, we as SAP professionals need to collaborate everyday for quick and faster solutions.
Vinod Kumar in Public Sector, Professional Services, Higher Education, Healthcare [05:56:42 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How to write a messy form
In this blog I would like to talk about the things that can heavily damage your Adobe forms solution/ development or cause some "bonus" stress, time or work.
Otto Gold in SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe [05:53:50 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP PI7.1: Selecting the Application Profile
This weblog is aimed to help the reader understand and select the required application profile while working with SAP PI7.1.
abhishek salvi in SAP Process Integration (PI) [04:12:22 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Whatever happened to that shy guy?
Last week, I picked up a New York Times, in Atlanta. I was really looking for the local news, to pass the time while traveling. But who did I find later on an inside page but Shia Agassi, formerly of SAP. What is he up to now?
Jim Spath in Sustainability, Ranting, Beyond SAP [12:13:51 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

February 04, 2010

Time to abandon ship?
The press has recently been peppered with criticism of SAP and has suggested that companies like NetSuite and Oracle have raised the ante in the ERP space. Is it time for customers to reevaluate their ERP and jump ship?
Clinton Jones in Beyond SAP [06:05:35 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Important Message regarding SAP BusinessObjects Certification Exams
Effective April, 2010, there will be new SAP BusinessObjects certification exams available after realignment with the SAP certification program.
Kenneth Schieffer in SAP Education, Integration and Certification, Business Objects [04:45:41 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

iPhones, Satellites, DVRs and Home Breakins
It is very intriguing to me, that I can be sitting in Starbuck's while sending a programming request from my iPhone up into outer space where it hits a circling satellite and bounces back down to my satellite dish, travels on a cable from my roof to my living room and programs the DRV box.
Kevin Benedict in Mobile [01:47:44 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Education (North America) answers the question..."What is Virtual Classroom Training?"
Need cutting-edge training that’s good for your business and budget? Virtual remote classroom training from the SAP® Education organization provides hands-on classes taught by SAP experts. You can attend from anywhere and get the quality interaction of a regular class without the cost and hassle of travel.
Kenneth Schieffer in SAP Education [12:19:36 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SharePoint consuming SAP Enterprise Services
Atos Origin has made a contribution to the new SharePoint eMagazine 2010 special. The article is a guideline for enterprises how to integrate SAP processes in SharePoint in its role as enterprise portal. Various integration scenarios are explained including how to consume SAP Enterprise Services in Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
Huub Montanus in Enterprise Portal (EP) [10:52:47 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Automating cancellation of a failed message in XI
Error handling in XI can sometimes be tricky. There might be certain error conditions which are known at design time, however low is the probability of them occuring. Ideally, such cases should be handled at Third party side or at ECC side, but there is a way which can be used to cancel the message automatically in case a specific error condition is encountered. This blog discusses the steps required to enable automated cancellation of a failed message when no manual intervention is required.
Ravi Gupta in SAP Process Integration (PI) [09:50:03 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Augmented Corporate Reality Proof of Concept with Layar and SAP BusinessObjects on-Demand
Information about an “augmented corporate reality” proof of concept, based on the Layar platform and the SAP BusinessObjects ondemand.com platform, running on a Google Nexus One Android phone -- overlay performance indicators on the real world!
Timo Elliott in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Web Intelligence [09:08:23 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Customers and Partners Share Their SCN Successes
Whether you are new to SCN and wondering what's in it for you, or a seasoned active contributor who knows the ins and outs of SCN, success stories provide important and useful insights for all of us. Success stories are now easier to find than ever....
Natascha Thomson in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, EcoHub, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Developer Network, SAP SAPPHIRE, University Alliances Message Board [09:08:16 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

erp4school - Blended Learning Approach for Colleges in Higher Commercial Education
The erp4school program is an integrated and process-oriented learning environment specially designed for students to illustrate business processes.
J. Scholz in University Alliances Message Board [09:05:18 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

A brief look at Security in the Cloud - Part 1
What are the key components of AWS Security from an SAP prospective
Chris Kernaghan in Emerging Technologies [07:26:12 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Cloudy Comparisons
Thoughts on the AWS Cloud and deployments within it.
Chris Kernaghan in Emerging Technologies [07:20:11 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

[Comic] - Young ABABer[SMQ1]
Comic - poor teachers of SAP-children
Puru Govind in ABAP, Beyond SAP [07:05:53 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Where is the movement from ISA B2B or BOB to Channel Management
If are a CRM ISA B2B or BOB company are you seeing a requirement to move to SAP's channel management solution? If not, why?
Glenn Michaels in CRM [05:47:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

National Address Versions in CRM
This article is about the usage of National Address Versions in CRM WebUI.
Arno Meyer in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, CRM [02:44:47 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]