PPM 4.5 to PPM 5.0 Upgrade
Blog is about the upgrade of PPM 4.5 to PPM 5.0. In this blog I have mentioned about the Prerequisite for v5.0, upgrade dependency, upgrade sequence and provided all the important SAP notes which one needs to go thru before starting the PPM 5.0 upgrade. Sushil Aher in SAP xApps, Application Server, Enhancement Packages, ERP, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 06, 2012 01:34 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mobilize your physicians with SAP
How SAP managed it to create an iPad app that exactly meets the needs of physicians during a ward round. Carolin Flesch in Healthcare, Mobile, SAP Research, SAP xApps [Dec. 09, 2011 12:47 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Rapid Deployment Solution - A consultants view
There has been some debate going on about SAP’s new implementation methodology or offering Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS). I would try to provide a neutral stand point without any sales pitch. Will provide what works in RDS mode and what does not.. Ravishankar Ramamurthy in Emerging Technologies, ERP, Financial Excellence, Human Capital Management, SAP xApps [Nov. 21, 2011 12:51 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Data Compression Using Custom Actions in SAP MII
This blog explains how to create a custom action in SAP MII to compress and decompress data using GZIP library of Java usually required for data compression and decompression of large XML data in HTTP and SOAP web service calls. Dipankar Saha in Composition Environment (CE), Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Java Programming, SAP xApps [Aug. 08, 2011 06:28 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

PPM 5.0 UI Choice - A Solution Architect Perspective
PPM 5.0 offers three usage types. The question is which one offers the best advantage. Sharad Agrawal in ABAP, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP xApps, Web Dynpro [Jun. 13, 2011 01:05 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

How to create direct URL for PPM 5.0 Item
SAP Portfolio and Project Management (PPM 5.0)- How to create direct URL for item Sharad Agrawal in ABAP, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP xApps, Web Dynpro [May. 16, 2011 02:55 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

How SAP Aims to Lead the Enterprise Mobile App Market
SAP is making big moves in order to become the leader of a fourth market for enterprise applications, this time in mobile. Eric Lai in Analytics, CRM, Mobile, SAP xApps [May. 16, 2011 01:52 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Optimizing BLS Performance for XML Handling in SAP MII
This weblog explains you can optimize BLS performance while handling large XML document Dipankar Saha in Composition Environment (CE), Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [May. 03, 2011 12:06 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Spend Performance Management - SAP xSA
Basic Version - How do we implement xAPP, SAP Spend Analytics? - A High level insight. What do we need? What it does? Sriram Varadhan in SAP xApps [Jan. 19, 2011 03:41 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Order Trace on SAP MII - A solution developed for Process Industries
The solution on MII traces a Process Order across Raw materials , Vendors, Equipment & Labor. It enables organizations achieve a lower cost of quality and compliance. Udayan Upreti in Co-Innovation Lab, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [Jan. 10, 2011 06:45 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

CE 7.1 EHP1 SP03 and CE 7.2 SP03: Performance Comparison/Analysis
This blog is about performance analysis between CE 7.2 and CE 7.1 . Often we get into a situation where we need to take a call whether upgrade is worthy or not depending upon our set of parameters. What happens if performance is our only concern? Sunit K Roy in SAP xApps, Composition Environment (CE) [Jan. 06, 2011 03:11 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP River, Gateway and more at Innovative Community Day Bangalore
Reflections and recollections from the Innovative Community Day Bangalore on 30th November, 2010 Dipankar Saha in Emerging Technologies, SAP TechEd, SAP TechTour, SAP xApps [Dec. 06, 2010 08:40 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Are you looking for SAP ME(Manurfacturing Execution) Tutorial
There is very limited documentation available on SAP ME, most of the beginners strugle to learn the basic features of SAP ME even if they have access to the system. So in this Blog I would like to make you familier with the Tutorial available in SCN WIKI. Pushkar Patil in Business Process Modeling, Beginner, Manufacturing, SAP xApps, Business Process Expert [Nov. 10, 2010 02:06 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Using Dojo editable Grid as an alternate to standard MII iGrid
Showing data using editable grid is one of the most common and important feature of almost any real life application. But in MII the iGrid template that we use is not editable. So in this blog I have tried to show how we can use Dojo editable data grid as an alternate of SAP MII iGrid. Avijit Dhar in SAP xApps [Nov. 09, 2010 08:40 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Dynamically Add Columns, Rows and Data to IllumDocument in MII
Dynamically add columns, rows and data to document in SAP MII using Business Logic Services Adarsh Sidnoor in Beginner, Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [Nov. 01, 2010 02:56 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Release : SAP MII Backuper v 1.0
An application to backup Configuration & Projects for SAP MII version 12.0 and upwards... Abesh Bhattacharjee in Beginner, Emerging Technologies, SAP xApps [Oct. 29, 2010 12:57 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Using Excel charts to display MII data
This blog is about integration of MII with Microsoft Excel in order to use its charting capabilities Musarrat Husain in Emerging Technologies, SAP xApps [Oct. 10, 2010 06:22 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Executive Dashboards in SAP Manufacturing Execution
Dashboards are used in industries to represent various statistics, KPI graphs , yield statistics. These dashboard gives overview of what is happening on the shop-floor. SAP Manufacturing Execution have the facility to design and use these dashboards. These dashboard usses real time data from SAP Manaufacturing system. These dashboards can be shown on the shopfloor on big screens so everyone gets the idea where the shopfloor is heading.Let's see how we can design our own dashboard from SAP ME. Pushkar Patil in Business Process Expert, Industrial Machinery and Components, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [Sep. 02, 2010 06:54 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Repair and RMA Process handling in SAP Manufacturing Execution
RMA and Repair handling creates lot of confusion in users mind while defining the correct process in SAP ME. Here I would like to share some of the approches for handling of Repair and RMA in SAP ME. Pushkar Patil in Business Process Expert, Industrial Machinery and Components, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [Aug. 25, 2010 11:05 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Challenges for EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Services) for implementing central traceability system
In this short blog I want to share some challanges faced by EMS industries for implementing the central tracebility system due to changing demands from customer to customer. Pushkar Patil in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Industrial Machinery and Components, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [Aug. 25, 2010 12:45 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

End to End Product Traceability
Many manufacturing industries now demand for End to End product Tracebility.There are many doubts in mind of functional consultants while defining the solution involving this concept. In my following thoughts I would like to focus on what is exactly mean by End to End traceability and how to achieve this while implementing SAP ME for end to end product tracebility. Pushkar Patil in Automotive, Beginner, Business Process Expert, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [Aug. 18, 2010 06:54 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Role of MES in Operational Excellence --> A Step towards Perfect Plant
In the race towards Perfect Plant companies are implementing various systems and below I would like to share some of my thoughts related to MES and Operational Exellance. Pushkar Patil in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Manufacturing, SAP xApps [Aug. 16, 2010 06:58 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

MES Benefits in Detail
SAP Manufacturing Execution is now widely used for shop-floor control, This is in-contuniation to my last blog regarding use of SAP ME in High tech Manufacturing industries. It explains the Key benefits in detail. Pushkar Patil in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Manufacturing, SAP xApps, Industrial Machinery and Components [Aug. 04, 2010 05:02 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Defining your custom charts for Reporting Cockpit within SAP RPM
With inclusion of customer specific attributes and fields in SAP RPM Objects, there arises a need to incorporate additional reports/charts within the reporting cockpit. This can be easily achieved by creating and adding a new chart/table within the Administration area of SAP RPM on Enterprise Portal. Vivek Pandey in Product Lifecycle Management, Professional Services, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP xApps [Jul. 29, 2010 02:35 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

XSLT and PI - When you really should use it - ( Part 1 )
I am a big fan of XSLT style sheet. First, they are “common knowledge” and even the result underneath the graphical mapper is XSLT. XSLT has great tools and it can be used collaborative inside a greater, distributed groups of project and people. Holger Stumm in ABAP, Beginner, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP xApps, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards, Human Capital Management [Jun. 03, 2010 06:34 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Are you looking for easy possibility to visualize SAP ECC Data?
Mashups offer a fast and easy way of combining existing information for analysis purposes so it is no surprise that they are becoming more and more popular with businesses. Uwe Wortmann in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Process Management, SAP xApps, Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling [May. 08, 2010 08:36 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

From a Products to Services based Organisation : What I learnt : Part - II
My journey as a system integrator & architect from a product based organisation to a services based one, part II. Abesh Bhattacharjee in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Career Center, Manufacturing, SAP Developer Network, SAP xApps [Apr. 28, 2010 01:17 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

From a Products to Services based Organisation : What I learnt...
My journey as a system integrator & architect from a product based organisation to a services based one, in parts... Abesh Bhattacharjee in SAP xApps, Career Center, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP [Apr. 15, 2010 02:58 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

User Interface decision tree
Decision tree that can be useful to validate the business case for developing an alternative user interface as replacement for SAP standard delivered UI Pim de Wit in Business Server Pages, Visual Composer, SAP xApps, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, PHP, Perl, Java Programming, Interoperability IBM, Interoperability .NET, Enterprise Portal (EP), Duet, Web Dynpro [Apr. 05, 2010 08:31 AM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

My perspectives on Mastering SAP Technologies 2010
I would like to share my experiences from the Mastering SAP Technologies conference that took place in Sydney Australia from March 22nd - 24th 2010 and hopefully encourage everyone in the community to get involved. Simon Kemp in Community Day, SAP Solution Manager, Manufacturing, Improving My Experience, Governance, Risk and Compliance, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Interoperability, Enterprise Portal (EP), Duet, SAP xApps [Apr. 01, 2010 11:33 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Mentor Directory 2010
This dashboard displays list of SAP Mentors 2010 by their area of expertise... Anil Bavaraju in ABAP, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP xApps, Scripting Languages, Service-Oriented Architecture, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, Widgets, Business Process Management, SAP Business Suite, Human Capital Management, Interoperability, SAP Developer Network, SAP Business Workflow, Beginner, BI Accelerator, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Process Expert, Business Server Pages, Composition Environment (CE), CRM, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Portal (EP), ERP, Perl [Feb. 09, 2010 09:45 PM | 2 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 [Feb. 09, 2010 04:00 AM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

Collaborative Decision making in Portfolio Management using 12Sprints
Decision making plays an important step in managing Projects and Portfolios, and it is equally important to document the discussions that happen during this process. 12Sprints - a codename project by SAP for collaborative decision making is apt for this purpose. Still in Beta, 12Sprints brings in features that could be best suited to Project and Portfolio Management processes. Vivek Pandey in SAP xApps, Ranting, Professional Services, Product Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Social Systems [Jan. 28, 2010 07:54 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Integrating Demand Management Solution (Part III)
This is the final chapter of the 3 part series of Blog on Demand Management Solution for the Fresh Foods Industry. Here i talk about how the Demand Management Solution developed by Wipro Technologies in collaboration with SAP helps to address various business challenges in the Fresh Foods industry Aviral Gupta in Composition Environment (CE), Consumer Products, ERP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP xApps, Service-Oriented Architecture [Jan. 11, 2010 01:09 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

First impressions and Thoughts on 12sprints.com
First impressions and Thoughts on 12sprints.com Srinivas Reddy in Analytics, Widgets, Scripting Languages, SAP xApps, SAP Developer Network, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, Service-Oriented Architecture, Emerging Technologies, Code Exchange, Co-Innovation Lab, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Beyond SAP, Enterprise Social Systems [Dec. 28, 2009 03:50 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

2010 ASUG Annual Conference - Call for Speakers
Manju Venkataseshan in CRM, Manufacturing, Mobile, RFID, SAP xApps, Webinars, Wholesale Distribution [Dec. 07, 2009 06:59 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

An ASUG Webcast series "Always Connected Mobile Key Values"
Manju Venkataseshan in Mobile, Manufacturing, Retail, RFID, SAP xApps, Webinars, Wholesale Distribution, CRM [Dec. 03, 2009 08:46 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Building Queries in Netweaver Mobile 7.1 - Laptop Perspective
This blog details the steps involved in defining the queries in SAP Netweaver Mobile 7.1 - Laptop perspective. Muhammed Nishad J in Mobile, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP xApps [Nov. 27, 2009 12:56 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 Suppal in Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP xApps, SAP Developer Network, Mobile, Emerging Technologies, SAP Business Suite, Business Solutions, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Standards [Nov. 06, 2009 11:49 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Encryption everywhere -- Securing your Duet landscape
This blog takes a look at the connections and security related configurations in complex NetWeaver landscape -- like a Duet installation (WebAS Java to WebAS ABAP, WebAS Java to IIS, ...). As a result you should not only know how to secure your landscape, but also get a better understanding of what components are involved. Holger Bruchelt in Duet, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Security, SAP xApps [Oct. 03, 2009 09:44 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The one with the generic Workflow UI
As described in Volker’s blog, sometimes it might be necessary to add a bit more generic to the delivered Alloy workflow forms, in order to save implementation efforts. One way of adding more generic to the Alloy forms is described in Volker’s blog. Dirk Lehmann in Alloy, Emerging Technologies, Interoperability IBM, SAP xApps, Scripting Languages [Sep. 16, 2009 02:30 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

How to set up Generic Workflow Handling in Alloy
Alloy allows you to flexibly expose Decision Workflows onto your Lotus Notes client. Each Decision Workflow step can have its individual Notes Form on the client side to visualize the related information and to offer the available decision options to the end-user. In some other cases you might rather look for a generic Workflow handling on the Notes/Domino side. And that's what this blog is about. Volker Drees in Alloy, Emerging Technologies, SAP xApps [Sep. 16, 2009 12:10 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

New Duet WIKI page for supportability features
This blog serves as a notification that there is a new SDN WIKI page which deals with Duet supportability features. Stefan Schwing in SAP xApps, Duet [Aug. 28, 2009 02:14 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Twitter as a potential notification tool for SAP
Here is an interesting approach to use Twitter as a notification tool by integrating it with your Portfolio Management processes using SAP RPM and Collaboration Projects. Vivek Pandey in ABAP, Application Server, Beyond SAP, Eclipse, Interoperability, Java Programming, Product Lifecycle Management, Professional Services, SAP xApps [Aug. 27, 2009 10:02 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

SAP MII Blog/Article Contest - Win Brand New SAP Press Books!
Announcing an unique contest which may win you brand new copies of Implementing and Configuring SAP MII signed by the authors at SAP TechEd Bangalore, 2009 by writing blogs or articles on SAP MII published in SCN by November. Dipankar Saha in Beginner, Service-Oriented Architecture, Scripting Languages, SAP xApps, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Manufacturing, JavaScript, Emerging Technologies, Community Projects, Community Day, Business Solutions, Widgets [Aug. 24, 2009 02:53 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The one with the Alloy sidebar
Besides the 4 well known applications (Travel Management, Leave Management, Reports Management and Generic Decision Workflow) Alloy comes with one additional - often underrated – Feature that is quiet flexible: the Alloy sidebar. Dirk Lehmann in Alloy, Emerging Technologies, Interoperability IBM, SAP xApps [Aug. 12, 2009 08:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Training (Taming!) the end users
A systematic end user training contributes significantly to the success of a project. The users are the target, and all the hard work you’ve put during the implementation may not be well appreciated or even used fruitfully if the training sessions are not conducted properly. Here are some quick tips to share when you are delivering training to the end users. Vivek Pandey in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Organizational Change Management, Ranting, SAP xApps [Jul. 16, 2009 04:56 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

The one with the Alloy Request Trigger
Alloy uses several queues (on both sides SAP and IBM) to guarantee message delivery. However some of those queues have a scheduled job that monitors and processes items from within the queue at certain time points. Especially during test phases these scheduled jobs could cost you time, you could better spend with actual testing. Dirk Lehmann in Alloy, Emerging Technologies, Interoperability IBM, SAP xApps [Jul. 02, 2009 07:45 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Implementing and Configuring SAP MII - The book hits the stores !
A long cherished dream realised... Dipankar and my book on SAP MII finally hits the stores by the end of the month... Abesh Bhattacharjee in Analytics, SAP xApps, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, JavaScript, Enterprise Portal (EP), Emerging Technologies, Community Day, Beginner, Scripting Languages [Jun. 25, 2009 03:14 AM | 10 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – Social networking, revolutions, and how to approach innovation
Innovation that is not targeted to resolve known business problems is likely to not result in lasting business value. Organizations need to keep creativity channeled along their business needs. Use of social networking is rapidly becoming the norm for how people interact on a regular basis and this is assuming revolutionary proportions. Future enterprise solutions should be innovative enough to include the use of social networking tools. Puneet Suppal in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Emerging Technologies, ERP, SAP Developer Network, SAP xApps, Service-Oriented Architecture [Jun. 16, 2009 05:28 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]