Blogs

November 20, 2009

SAP Mentors @ SAP TechEd Live
Here a quick list with comments of all the SAP TechEd Live interviews with SAP Mentors participating.
Mark Finnern in SAP TechEd [07:53:27 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

November 19, 2009

Free eBook: Building Your Future through Personal Learning
When it comes to career development, many people don’t know where to start. This short guide helps you to set out your career goals and then start the process of “life long learning” by creating a “personal learning environment”.
Gavin Heaton in SAP TechEd, SAP Developer Network, Careers, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, Beginner [10:49:38 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

ABAP Objects: Custom SAP ERP HCM Class Library - Example 1 - Class Instances
Eight months has pasted since SAP Community Network (SCN) published my blog ABAP Objects: Creating a Custom SAP ERP HCM Class Library. It is high time to publish some real life coding examples. In this blog, I will provide class instance coding examples based on a business scenario.
Elvez in ABAP [10:19:23 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

What do Google Gadgets & IPhone Apps have to do with SAP?
Google Gadgets & iPhone Apps for SAP are some examples of the emerging category of applications call Enterprise Micro-Apps which are assuming an important role in extending the information and buisness transations from enterprise applications to light-weight apps that can be deployed on devices that permeate the current business user environment. Learn more by joining the Enterprise Micro-Apps Webinar Series on December 8th and 15th.
Rajeev Kak [10:15:44 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Maximizing ERP Return on Investment with On-Demand Support Services
ERP adoption marks a fine start to surviving the current environment. The companies that thrive will be those that realize their enterprise potential—and balance pressure for higher performance with shrinking internal resources—by enlisting outsourced support partners.
Laure Poquette in EcoHub, Enterprise Service Community, ERP, Run SAP, Sustainability [10:13:35 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How to Create an Activity within the Employee Interaction Center (EIC)
We are often asked about how to set up the Employee Interaction Center from a configuration and development standpoint but as is too often the case with a newer SAP product, there is a lack of understanding on how to use the product that end user (agent) will be working with. This blog will outline how to create an EIC activity within the ERP version of the Employee Interaction Center.
Jarret Pazahanick in ERP, Shared Service Center [10:12:18 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Freestyle Hierarchy Groups
This Blog describes about the feature of freestyle hierarchy groups provided in the DOE portal. Basically this feature is used for the management of multiple devices with multiple applications where administrators need not to assign the application one by one to devices rather create a hierarchy group and assign the application to a group of devices.
Gopal Jee in Mobile [10:11:40 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Protect Your IT Investment with SAP's Maintenance Strategy
Eileen Collins, Manager of Business Development for SAP Active Global Support, discusses SAP’s maintenance strategy and how it adds value to the customer’s IT investments.
Jessica Knell in SAP Enterprise Support [10:08:15 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

CRM 7.0 Interaction Center: Replacement of IC-Specific Business Transactions with Generic CRM WebClient Business Transactions
This blog discusses SAP's strategy for phasing out the old IC-specific business transactions that were native to the SAP CRM Interaction Center and replacing these IC-specific transactions with the generic CRM WebClient transactions that are used in all other non-IC business roles like Sales Pro, Service Pro, and Marketing Pro.
John Burton in Business Process Expert, Business Suite 7, CRM [03:58:43 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BI: Data Transfer Process (DTP) - Multiple options available in DTP with usage Scenarios.
BI7 Data Transfer Process has multiple options and checkboxes and the available options change based on various factors. I read quite a few forum posts and blogs where people have tried to ask and explain. Some of the functionality has changed since 13th service pack and hence older posts on SDN in that respect are outdated. Here is a sincere attempt to explain some of the tricky options and when to use these. Please feel free to suggest, ask or give feedback.
Shriram Kelkar in Business Intelligence (BI) [11:56:05 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Virtual SAP TechEd 2009 is here!
If you missed out on the education and technical updates from SAP TechEd 2009 event, check out Virtual SAP TechEd 2009. Over 30 sessions from SAP TechEd 2009 are now available and more will be released soon. Checkout the 2009 sessions!
Siva Darivemula in ABAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Business Suite 7, EcoHub, Professional Services, Service-Oriented Architecture [11:17:54 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Critical Infrastructure Protection - Air Transportation
During critical infrastructure outages, we realize that no matter who owns the asset or industry Government must respond.
Anthony McKinney in Aerospace and Defense, Co-Innovation Lab, Defense, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Public Sector, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Research, Security [08:44:58 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Podcast: Livin' The Demo Jam Dream - An Interview with Brian Dennett of Colgate-Palmolive
Just two years into his SAP career, Brian Dennett of Colgate-Palmolive was a Demo Jam finalist at SAP TechEd Phoenix 2009. To find out more about Brian's great story and get a view into his own career path, I had the opportunity to tape a live podcast with him at SAP TechEd 2009.
Jon Reed in ABAP, Beginner, Business Objects, Careers, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [08:21:49 AM | 0 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

How to improve your SAP CRM E-Commerce support Part 3
How to improve your SAP CRM E-Commerce support Part III . Wiki and FAQ.
Mark Foley in CRM [08:08:17 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Go Live Tomorrow + Response Time >5 Seconds = Sweat & Tears
Is your Go Live scheduled for next week and the production system response time is 5 seconds? Have you lived through performance tuning at the last minute before?
Marcus Behrens in CRM [05:55:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The secrets of interim settlement in the rebate agreements
Are you planning to use interim settlement as a normal process in your business?. This blog will explain the risk of using to often the interim settlement.
Arminda Jack in Business Objects [05:54:36 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NetWeaver - free for private use - Why not?
Should we start a new disussion about a "free for private use" version of SAP Netweaver?
Renald Wittwer in ABAP, Application Server, Run SAP, SAP Developer Network [03:08:13 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

November 18, 2009

IDoc Package processing using sender IDoc adapter in PI EhP1
This weblog describes the new feature available from EhP1 for PI for processing IDoc packages using sender IDoc adapter.
Pravesh Puria in SAP Process Integration (PI) [11:35:06 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

‘Human Insight’ + ‘System Intelligence’ = Business Intelligence?
The blog is on combining data from BI with Human Insight to create actionable Intelligence
Srijeet Mohanty in Business Intelligence (BI) [11:34:37 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Automatic Notification mail to basis for user locking
Automatic Notification mail to basis for user locking
bharath padmanabhan in ABAP [11:34:12 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

List of Scheduled Process Chains in SAP BW
In SAP BW, there is no simple and straightforward way to get a list of scheduled Process chains. The program discussed in this blog will give you a list of scheduled process chains and their respective schedule start date and time.
Uday Pothireddy in ABAP, Business Intelligence (BI) [11:33:33 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Believe It or Not - III (Team Work)
Team Work holds the key in any operations or projects. Trying to share folklore to get insight of the topic discussed on.
Srivastava.G in Business Process Expert, ERP [11:32:36 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Analyzing Problems Using ABAP Short Dumps: Part II
It's panic time when your ABAP program writes a short dump in a customer system. Experience has shown that developers tend to rush right past the ABAP short dump in their eagerness to start looking at the problem. But often, the short dump is the best and sometimes the only diagnostic aid that you have. This pair of weblogs explores the diagnostic aids and information resources that an ABAP short dump offers, and how to get the most help out of a dump.
Stephen Pfeiffer in ABAP, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform [07:23:58 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Competitive Pressures and Value Propositions, Is Lean the Answer?
The latest kick is Lean and Six Sigma but in most cases that will not make the difference in addressing competitive pressures or your value proposition. Focus on business drivers for your SAP implementation before the project, throughout the project, and after go-live to see real benefit.
Bill Wood in Analytics, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, ERP, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research [07:13:56 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SEM-BCS and IFRS - Part I
Translation, storage, and processing of this text in an electronic system is FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY and is not a copyrighted edition. Source: Item 1 pages 62 through 66 and SAP Note 1171344
greg misiorek in Beginner, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), Standards [07:12:56 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Terrorism and the Chemicals Industry
Last week, I hosted the CISUG (Chemicals Industry SAP Users Group) fall meeting in Newtown Square. Over 100 people attended, representing chemical companies from as small as $750M in annual revenue to $60B. So what was the Department of Homeland Security doing at SAP???
Raymond Adams in Business Process Expert, Chemicals, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Manufacturing, Sustainability [07:12:08 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Going Intelligent Mail with Label Studio:
Starting Intelligent Mail Label Design with Business Objects Label Studio.
Murtada Elfahal in Postalsoft [07:11:25 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Using Business Intelligence in an Uncertain World
Business Intelligence can help tame the unpredictability of today’s retail world. Leveraging STORES Knowledge Series webinar with Verlin Youd, Chris Puglise, and Russ Hill and RSR Research's latest Business Intelligence findings, learn what actions retail winners are taking to leverage real-time BI and to make it available when and where it’s needed.
Mohamed Amer in Analytics, BI Accelerator, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Crystal Reports, Retail, Web Intelligence , Webinars [07:05:36 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Innovation-Speed to Market is Key
The importantance of getting ot market quickly with innovation.
David Cruickshank in Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Co-Innovation Lab, Partnership [05:31:33 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

On-premise vs. on-demand BI: SAP tries for the best of both worlds (link to SearchSAP.com story)
Jeff Kelly at SearchSAP.com reports on upcoming developments to on-demand business intelligence from SAP.
Mika Sissonen in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Emerging Technologies, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand [01:22:46 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Connecting SAP BI Directly with Xcelsius 2008
This web blog will explain how to connect SAP BI with XCelsius.
RashmiG in Business Objects [11:03:09 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP code exchange landing page now on SDN
With TechEd09 in Bangalore the new code exchange landing page on SDN is available.
Rui Nogueira in Code Exchange [02:40:46 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Leadership Qualities
Important leadership qualities to consider when succession planning
Babak Varjavandi in Business Process Expert, ERP [12:41:07 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

November 17, 2009

Best-Run Finance - What are the Key Factors?
Best-Run Finance organizations are fast becoming a strategic advisor to the entire organization - by being agile, connected, and metric-driven.
Birgit Starmanns in Financial Excellence [10:58:04 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mentor and Top Contributor Gala Evening Bangalore Style
Twas the nite before SAP TechEd Bangalore '09 and all through the night, our team was prepping for demo jam and uploading pics, videos and comments as the latest mentors receive their Rugby shirts and Top contributors are honored.
Marilyn Pratt in Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, [02:39:10 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Slipstream - Live Dashboarding for SAP NetWeaver BPM (“Galaxy”)
One of the value propositions of an SOA is to combine and reuse services. BPM technology has finally come to a point where we are able to model large parts of these service-based processes rather than hiding them within applications. This also enables us to run analyses at any point within the process and visualize the results in real-time instead of implementing awkward hooks into the application code.
Christian Janiesch in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture [11:44:42 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Podcast: Boosting Network Performance with Accelerated Application Delivery (AccAD)
Come and see how AccAD can vastly improve the access performance for your remote user.
Nghia Nguyen in ERP, SAP NetWeaver Platform [11:39:26 AM | 0 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

How healthy and ‘Green’ is the food you eat?
How Eco Labels will drive consumer choices like Nutrition lables do today.
Chetan Jain in Beyond SAP, Consumer Products, Ranting, Retail, Sustainability [11:39:03 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Measuring Employee Satisfaction
Employee satisfaction is an important key performance indicators and shows up on most balanced scorecards. However, it can be difficult to measure properly. In this post, I share a cautionary story from earlier in my career about using surveys to measure employee satisfaction.
Jonathan Becher in Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Performance Management [10:46:45 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

A Great SAP Community Networking Reception @ Bangalore
SAP Community Networking Reception @ Bangalore
B Velu Pillai in SAP TechEd [09:56:20 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Social Media Webcast: Event Recording and Summary
Missed our Thought Leadership Webcast on: How to best leverage Social Media & Web 2.0 in Marketing. Don't worry here's a link to the event recording and a summary of the session's key take-aways. Check it out!
Anik Roy in CRM, Emerging Technologies, Webinars [08:29:56 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Wal-Mart and Supply Chain Financing Require EDI
This article discusses a recent Wall Street Journal article on Wal-Mart's Supply Chain Financing initiative and how EDI/B2B connectivity is required to make it work well.
Kevin Benedict in Banking, Shared Service Center, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, RFID, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, ERP, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Expert, Wholesale Distribution [07:15:20 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

November 16, 2009

Kicking off Bangalore 2009 SAP TechEd
A short video to kick off SAP TechEd Bangalore 2009 our last stop off the 2009 season!
Craig Cmehil in SAP Developer Network, SAP Network TV, SAP TechEd [10:18:35 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP 4.7 to MDM Integration using PI7.1-Part1
importing customer in MDM with pi 7.1 FUNCTIONALITY
Ramesh Gulipalli in Business Process Expert, Master Data Management (MDM), SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI) [10:16:29 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Importance of Run Time Projection in ESDMA Tool
The Mobile gateway is built on top of the DOE and allows you to create a standard and open adaptive interface to the DOE. To enable this open adaptive interface on top of DOE a new tool has been designed which is known as ESDMA tool. The concept of run time projection controls the run time data flow. In this blog we will see the importance of run time projection and steps to be followed to create the run time projection.
Gopal Jee in ABAP, CRM, Mobile [10:16:06 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Facilitate Your Day-to-Day Work Life with BOC
Find out what others already know: How you can leverage BOC to make your work life easier. "It's uncensored, so we could trust the information " or "they quickly overcame (challenges) by reaching out to BOC", are only a few customer and partner comments on BOC. Find out more in the full blog and story.
Natascha Schuberth in Beginner, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, Sustainability [04:03:01 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Webinar: Whats New in Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1
A summary of a webinar on Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1 I'm doing with the GBN Crystal Reports SIG.
Blair Wheadon in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports [01:55:50 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Virtual vs. Cloud - and the winner is...
The SDN offers the great opportunity to download and to install the current version of SAP Netweaver as a trail. This is fantastic, because I can play around with the newest SAP technology, can investigate problems from my projects or even play around. This is about my experience of installation...
Renald Wittwer in ABAP, Run SAP, SAP Developer Network [12:44:10 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

News release: Companies turn to on-demand BI solutions from SAP
From SAP news release for November 16, 2009: GENBAND, OneSource, and RapidAdvance rely on crystalreports.com to standardize the reporting process, minimize reporting errors and improve data quality.
Mika Sissonen in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Emerging Technologies, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand [10:27:09 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BPM in Turbulent Times
Do you need to be updated on what is going on in the BPM fields? SAP Nordics is currently hosting some sessions for how BPM is introduced.
Daniel Graversen in Business Process Expert [08:25:32 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Messages, EDI, and SAP: More Than Just Data Vessels
Welcome to the first of a series of blog postings about messages and message standards in EDI and SAP. Join me as I cover the basics of the key message standards used in EDI in an SAP environment including EDIFACT, X12, and IDocs. So stay tuned ... and I hope you enjoy the ride.
Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, SAP Process Integration (PI), Retail, Ranting, Procurement and SRM, Integration and Certification, ERP, Beyond SAP, Beginner, Standards [06:21:26 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Incentive Commission Management in SAP CRM – a quick overview
This blog provides an introduction to the Incentive & Commission Management scenario available in SAP CRM.
Sandeep Nargund in CRM, ERP [05:33:12 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Show ST01 authorization trace
Report ZSHOWAUTHTRACE reads the current ST01 trace file and shows the authorization trace data in a simple to use grid format.
Frank Buchholz in ABAP, Application Server, Code Exchange, Security [01:46:10 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]