Flash Island based Organizational Chart Visualization in MSS
The blog is about using the new Organizational Chart Visualization provided by SAP in MSS out of the box. Shankar in Enhancement Packages, Enterprise Portal (EP), ERP, Human Capital Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 20, 2012 05:50 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Factory-Pattern in ABAP OO
This blog describes how to build a generic template for implementing the factory-pattern with ABAP Objects. Hendrik Brandes in ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Standards, Web Dynpro [Feb. 20, 2012 05:06 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

My first steps with Easy Query
After reading the blog-series about Easy Query, I want to get more experience with this concept. This blog describes my first steps and what were my problems to get them run. Hendrik Brandes in SAP NetWeaver Platform, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) [Feb. 17, 2012 03:48 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

How our SAP BW team uses Kanban
This blog explains how we implemented Kanban to manage the maintenance and support work on our SAP BW system. François Gyöngyösi in SAP NetWeaver Platform, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse [Feb. 17, 2012 02:41 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

How to Decrease Your SAP Database Size?
This blog gives you an overview of the alternative methods to decrease the database size for your SAP systems. HUSEYIN BILGEN in SAP NetWeaver Platform, ERP, Sustainability [Feb. 16, 2012 06:52 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP on IBM i - Update week 07 2012, IBM announced End of Support for V5R4
This week IBM announced the End of Support date for Operation System release V5R4. This blog reflects on what the implications for SAP customers might be. Thomas Obermeier in Partnership, SAP Business Suite, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 16, 2012 03:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NW 7.3 Portal Upgrade Approach
NW 7.3 Portal upgrade and its approach which I used for one of the client. I have divided the NW 7.3 upgrade approach into three steps. 1.Things which needs to be considered Before Upgrade 2.Things which needs to be done during an upgrade 3.Post upgrade activities Sushil Aher in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 14, 2012 04:20 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

The gamification of Demo Jam
Let's bring #SAPTechEd #DemoJam back to the #SDN community. tbroek in Community Projects, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd [Feb. 13, 2012 03:38 PM | 12 Comments | Permalink]

Experiences with SAP system performance for 2012
SAP system performance. Kenneth Maguire in SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 13, 2012 03:07 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit in London
The Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit in London is sponsored by SAP Kristian Lehment in Governance, Risk and Compliance, Identity Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Security [Feb. 09, 2012 08:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HTML5 as UI Technology for NetWeaver Neo (Java Platform as a Service)
Recommended UI Programming model for NetWeaver Neo Michael Falk in Emerging Technologies, Java Programming, JavaScript, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 08, 2012 12:13 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week – Palo Alto – April 17-19
SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week schedule and call for papers Venkata Giduthuri in Application Lifecycle Management, Green IT, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Virtualization [Feb. 07, 2012 05:40 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

General Availability of SAP NetWeaver Gateway Certification for Partner Solutions
SAP NetWeaver Gateway Solution Certification is now in general availability. To learn more about the benefits and requirements of the certification offering, join us in the certification launch webinar on February 22. Peter Ng in Integration and Certification, SAP NetWeaver Gateway, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 06, 2012 11:22 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

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]

For those waiting for SAP HANA training on HANA 1.0, SP03 (and I know there are plenty of you out there)...
Information about our latest SAP HANA training is now available -- TZH300 – SAP HANA Implementation and Modeling course released on SAP HANA 1.0, SP03. Kenneth Schieffer in In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network, SAP Education, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 05, 2012 04:45 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

HANA backtrace 05/2012
This blog post series is a personal summary of what's up and new in the world of SAP HANA releases. Nothing official, but just what I read and stumbled over during the last week (or so) Lars Breddemann in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, In-Memory Business Data Management, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 05, 2012 04:38 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Sourcing 7.0 - Part 01 - Hardware Sizing
In this blog series I will share our challenges and learning from a recent SAP Sourcing 7.0 On Premise Implementation Shubham Tripathi in Procurement and SRM, Application Server, Composition Environment (CE), On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 04, 2012 11:34 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Discover how University of Mississippi is extending the reach of its SAP applications with SAP NetWeaver Gateway
Hardik Patel in SAP NetWeaver Gateway, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 03, 2012 02:24 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Einsatz und Entwicklung innerhalb von SAP ERP Systemen auf Basis der SAP NetWeaver-Plattform
Einsatz und Entwicklung innerhalb von SAP ERP Systemen auf Basis der SAP NetWeaver-Plattform - Usage and development within SAP ERP applications based on the SAP NetWeaver platform Alexander.Bell in ABAP, ERP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Web Dynpro [Feb. 03, 2012 01:37 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Share Your Experiences and Expertise at SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week 2012
The Call for Proposals is now open for SAP Virtualization and Cloud Week 2012. Share your experiences and show your expertise of running SAP systems in a virtual or cloud infrastructure, and have the opportunity to hear from other SAP customers and partners about their own experiences. Jeff Anders in Emerging Technologies, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Virtualization [Feb. 02, 2012 04:37 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Different People
Great ideas and innovations can come from everywhere in the organization, not just the research department! What do you do with these ideas – or differently asked – how do you provide some space for such innovations to come up in a world where the development process is streamlined around a prioritized product backlog? Bjoern Goerke in Organizational Change Management, Beyond SAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 02, 2012 07:51 AM | 14 Comments | Permalink]

Some Thoughts about SAP Business Suite Foundation
Did you recognize that the NW 7.31 at SAP TechEd wasn’t an AS ABAP system? It contained an additional software component SAP_BS_FND. Of course SAP TechEd demosystem is often something special and SAP will improve the software until it the ramp up. But here we had a usage type of an ABAP application server that is not supported by SAP. Tobias Trapp in ABAP, SAP Business Suite, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 01, 2012 01:43 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Returning Process Instance ID After Process Start
Many customers have requested to have a process identifier returned after process start. This blog explains how to model and implement a synchronous process start leveraging a new feature in SAP NetWeaver BPM 7.3 EHP 1. Ralf Schaub in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 30, 2012 01:57 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP on IBM i - Update week 04 2012, RFC options
Based on recent feedback I try to give an entry point for finding information on RFC SDKs on our platform. Thomas Obermeier in Partnership, SAP Business Suite, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 27, 2012 07:29 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Have You Heard of SAP Solution Sales Configuration?
SAP Solution Sales Configuration is a powerful add-on application enabling SAP CRM and ECC sales processes to fully support the configuration and definition of complex solutions comprised of hardware (e.g. servers, industrial machines), software, technical services (e.g. installation, maintenance), project- based services and financial services including combinations thereof. Kenneth Schieffer in CRM, ERP, SAP Education, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 25, 2012 05:30 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Why we use Amazon AWS as our SAP System Landscape
We're been using Amazon AWS Cloud Systems for more than 3 years for internal purposes. This blog gives a brief introduction to setup a Cloud Based SAP System Landscape for a production system. HUSEYIN BILGEN in Application Server, ERP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Sustainability [Jan. 25, 2012 07:17 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Hybrid Provider in a Nutshell
Hybrid Provider is one of the new infoproviders introduced in NW BW 7.30. In this blog, I am defining the BW Hybrid Provider in simplest way, based on the questions that come in my training classes. Nidhi Arora in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, SAP Education, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 25, 2012 01:57 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

The story of PRINTOUT – Part 1 – Intro to different approach
The story of PRINTOUT - new approach/solution to printout data from SAP. Drazen Lovrencic in ABAP, ERP, Improving My Experience, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Web Dynpro [Jan. 24, 2012 04:27 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Deploying application without NWDS on NW7.3 Java server
Most of us know SDM tool is no more available for deployment on NW7.3 Web As Server. In this blog we will discuss how to deploy web application \ programs \ files directly on server without NWDS. Lets begin with deployment process Ravi.Gawas in Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 23, 2012 10:56 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Human Exception Handling Pattern in SAP NetWeaver BPM
A pattern is presented for handling business exceptions gracefully during runtime. The proposed solution gives to option to retry automated activities with different input or skip them entirely if necessary. Kristiyan Marinov in Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 22, 2012 07:45 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

ERP System with Enhancement Packages Installation/Upgrade
How to make ERP system ready to use starting from installation to upgrade to make it available for functional people ? Sunny Pahuja in Enhancement Packages, ERP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Solution Manager [Jan. 19, 2012 04:16 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Using an ABAP Web Service Client Proxy – Part Two of Three
Greetings to my fellow SAP colleagues! We are ready for Part Two of our three part series on using an ABAP Web Service Client Proxy. Thanks to all of you for the great feedback and questions related to Part One. In Part Two of our series, we pick up right where we left off and take a look at the client proxy that was developed in Part One. Mark Quincy Anderson in ABAP, Career Center, SAP Developer Network, SAP Education, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 19, 2012 01:30 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Part 2: Re-use business blueprints within SAP NetWeaver BPM
The first part ("Making more out of your Business Blueprints - a corner stone within a systematical BPM approach") of this blog series described the concept of business blueprints and the different types of business processes. SAP's new approach of visualizing business processes is done through the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). Thereby the business blueprint can be used as corner piece of a systematic business process management (BPM) approach within your entire enterprise. Learn now how the modeled business blueprints within the Business Process Blueprinting tool can be extended within SAP NetWeaver BPM. Markus Richter in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 16, 2012 01:38 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Technical Guide - Dual-Stack Split Tool vs Java Export SAPinst #sapadmin
Dual-Stack Split Tool - Java system copy & Java deinstallation Nicholas Chang in Application Lifecycle Management, Application Server, SAP Business Suite, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 16, 2012 07:27 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Starting with Work Center in Solution Manager 7.1
This blog will introduce how to start with Work Centers on Solution Manager 7.1 Maythe Organista in Run SAP, Application Lifecycle Management, SAP Solution Manager, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 11, 2012 03:22 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Why I am learning to program all over again
Why I have decided to learn a new language and increase my ability to work with a world of Web Services, APIs and data Chris Kernaghan in Application Server, Emerging Technologies, Ruby, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Scripting Languages [Jan. 10, 2012 09:19 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Referenced vs. Embedded processes in SAP NetWeaver BPM
There are several differences between referenced and embedded sub-processes that are not directly visible. This blog describes subtleties that you have to take into account while developing your processes. Kristiyan Marinov in Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 09, 2012 05:20 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NetWeaver BPM @ Full Throttle
SAP NetWeaver BPM has been in the market from more than 3 years and has gained a lot of market adoption. As many customer projects increase complexity of the implementation, there is also a need to run high-volume and high-throughput scenarios. This blog discusses and releases a joint case study between IBM and SAP where latest performance data is provided for SAP NetWeaver BPM in a typical three-step approval scenario. Ralf Schaub in SAP NetWeaver Platform, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling [Jan. 09, 2012 05:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Improving the SAP note implementation confirmation process
Vote on the idea on IdeaPlace to improve the SAP note implementation confirmation process. Find out which improvement can be made. Tom Cenens in Improving My Experience, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Solution Manager [Jan. 06, 2012 01:38 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

BW 7.3 Training Courses
SAP BW 7.3 Training Courses Nicole Duffy in Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, SAP Education, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 05, 2012 12:32 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP System Availability Management in Virtualized and Cloud Environments
Objective of this blog is to highlight effective SAP systems management in on-demand infrastructure such as virtualized and cloud environments. Venkata Giduthuri in Application Lifecycle Management, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Software Support and Maintenance, Virtualization [Jan. 04, 2012 03:33 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software release 1.0 - Key Features
This blog highlights the features of SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management 1.0, enterprise edition. Primarily targeted for NetWeaver basis administrators, LVM delivers automation in several areas including complete end-to-end automated SAP system clone, copy, and refresh tasks. Venkata Giduthuri in Application Lifecycle Management, Application Server, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Virtualization [Jan. 04, 2012 02:41 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Good Riddance
Having been 3 years into the Lean and Agile transformation of the SAP NetWeaver R&D organization, here are my main learnings and recommendations to get such a massive change in development methodology pulled off in an organization of 2000 people. Good riddance to overworn assumptions. Bjoern Goerke in Beyond SAP, Organizational Change Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 04, 2012 08:43 AM | 18 Comments | Permalink]

Single Sign-on with SAP Netweaver 7.3
How to Configure Single Sign-on Between SAP Business Suite 7 systems and SAP Netweaver 7.3 systems ? Sunny Pahuja in Application Server, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 04, 2012 02:42 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

ADS Configuration in Netweaver 7.3
How to configure Interactive ADS Configuration in SAP Netweaver 7.3 Systems ? Sunny Pahuja in SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe [Jan. 04, 2012 01:12 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Consolidated Operational Information for IWAY adapters
Consolidated Operational Information for IWAY adapters Piyush Gakhar in Business Process Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Support and Maintenance [Jan. 03, 2012 02:26 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Consolidated Operational Information for Seeburger Adapters
Consolidated and Updated operational information for Seeburger adapters Piyush Gakhar in Business Process Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Support and Maintenance [Dec. 30, 2011 02:10 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Extend the SICF-Logonscreen with XSLT
In addition to the blog posted by Alessandro Spadoni. I will show a way to build these fancy logon-screens with minimal effort. Hendrik Brandes in ABAP, Application Server, Mobile, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Dec. 30, 2011 01:39 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

#sapadmin:: Confused with Business Suite 7, SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations 2010, SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations 2011 and its SAP Netweaver Technology Platform?
SAP NW Technology Platform Business Suite Nicholas Chang in Application Lifecycle Management, Enhancement Packages, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Dec. 28, 2011 04:28 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Modeling is the next generation of programming languages.
Kobi Sasson in Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Portal (EP), Idea Place, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Visual Composer [Dec. 28, 2011 01:26 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]