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Sergio Ferrari

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I have more than 15 years of experience with SAP products starting with R/2 in the 90s. My focus is on the integration between SAP and Internet and I successfully conducted several projects in the area of Web Enabling and Web Services Integration. Web Dynpro for ABAP, Adobe Interactive Forms and Enterprise Services are the present preferred platforms. I'm a Solution Architect Consultant of www.techedge.it .

Results SAP Inside Track Milan 2011 Questionnaire
In this blog I'm reporting about the success of the fresh new format we adopted at SAP Inside Track 2011 Milan. Check the results from questionnaire and take a note about my suggestions. Oct. 10, 2011
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SAP receives ACM SIGDOC Diana Award 2011
In Pisa, Italy, on October 5th, 2011, SAP has received the SIGDOC Diana Award regarding the Product Documentation. This is also a blog about the brand new upcoming version of the SAP Help Portal. Oct. 6, 2011
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A Social Ambassador at SAP World Tour 2011 in Milan
An interview with Franck Cohen President of SAP EMEA at SAP World Tour in Milan Jun. 24, 2011
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SAP World Tour 2011 in Milan IT on June 23
SAP World Tour will be in Italy on June 23rd and I’m wondering to see which of the topics presented at SAPPHIRENOW 2011 will get more interest in my beautiful country. I’m also very interested to verify the level of adoption of Social Media and I'm inviting fellow italian community members to be as much active as possible here in SCN for sure but also in Twitter. Jun. 18, 2011
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Podcast With No Name (yet) - Episode 2
In this second podcast episode SAP Mentors Matthias Steiner, Sergio Ferrari and Oliver Kohl talk about Gamification that maybe will enter into the enterprise world, the ways used by Google and Twitter to make money, the first OSS Note opened and solved via Facebook, real-life experiences with SAP StreamWork and many more different topics. Apr. 21, 2011
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A fresh new format for SAP Inside Track Milan 2011
What about adopting the format of Demo Jam in the SAP Inside Tracks ? I'll test the 6 minutes long sessions at the first SAP Inside Track in Italy and I'll let you know.  Apr. 3, 2011
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Working together to enable Mobile Tagging in the SAP Business Suite
From Japan, Saudi Arabia and Italy, three members of the community (two of them are also SAP Mentors) are working on different options to manage Mobile Tagging directly from the SAP Business Suite. Jan. 26, 2011
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SAP TechEd 2010 - CD119 Introducing QR Codes in Your SAP System
This blog introduces SAP TechEd session CD119 that is about the adoption of QR Codes in SAP applications and has been organized for the community by SAP Mentors. Oct. 2, 2010
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The SAP Prophecy of 2015
The must-read-document - SAP's Release Strategy for Large Enterprises - is already updated with latest news presented during SAPPHIRENOW 2010 and it seems also to contain an interesting prophecy about 2015. Let's have a look in the future Jun. 25, 2010
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NWBC hacking to resume the dear old Session manager menu
The great Netweaver Business Client (NWBC) manages user's menu in a new way disabling the dear old Session Manager menu. In this blog you'll find how to activate Session Manager also within NWBC. Apr. 27, 2010
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unofficial Timeline of SAP
In this blog a nice graphical timeline to learn about SAP evolution in terms of products and user interfaces. Jan. 28, 2010
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SAP Inside Track Bonn 2010 is coming soon
SAP Inside Track Bonn 2010 is coming soon. It will take place on Saturday February 20th. Attending means sharing real life experiences with who really knows how it works.  Jan. 22, 2010
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a starting point to perform a software Assessment of your SAP ECC
In this blog you’ll find a map, a poster with the main technical objects, layers and tools available to perform a software assessment of a SAP ECC (SAP R/3 too) system. Dec. 9, 2009
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Passion for SAP Community Network (SCN)
Increase your passion for the SAP Community Network (SCN) reading this blog and looking the embedded cool presentation (2 minutes) about contributions posted by people working for Techedge. Jul. 24, 2009
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how many lines of custom ABAP code are inside your system?
Download this utility to count the lines of custom ABAP code are inside your system and compare with the others. Jan. 20, 2009
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How a Composite Application looks like?
does everybody knows what a Composite Application is? reading this blog you'll get an easy introduction and you'll find an original classification. Oct. 18, 2008
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SAP MP3 - plug Business and play Music
I added to ABAP the capability to export any SAP data in MP3 format. Thanks to this new open source project you will able for instance to show to customers the Product Catalog of your company touching photos on your MP3 player.  Nov. 6, 2007
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SAP Elegant Finder was born - it is the Open Source that makes a pleasure to search on Web Dynpro for ABAP
This blog introduce SAP Elegant Finder, the new Open Source project about Web Dynpro for ABAP. Take a look to the screen-shots and to the live demos. Sep. 11, 2007
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BSP/HowTo - Customizing the design of System Logon page in NetWeaver '04
Logon Page personalization Made Easy – A step-by-step guide to customize the design of System Logon page in NetWeaver '04 Apr. 6, 2007
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SAP Web AS/HowTo - Customizing the design of System Logon page: new options of the NetWeaver '04s
In NetWeaver 2004s it’s easy to customize the Logon Page of your BSP and Web Dynpro for ABAP. This blog is about the new option of the transaction SICF… Feb. 16, 2007
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BSP In-Depth: Model Data Binding
BSP Model Data Binding - place the Data Dictionary at the center of your Web Applications Aug. 28, 2006
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Spreadsheet integration - which approach for which SAP technology
do you want to know how each SAP technology download data to Microsoft Excel. Is OpenOffice.org Calc supported? Which Microsoft Excel version is supported? Jun. 12, 2006
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Downloading data into Excel with Format Options (from SAP Web Applications)
Do you know how much is it easy to generate spreedsheet files pretty formatted from your SAP Web Application? Jun. 11, 2006
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Simple SAP Benchmark - ABAP vs. Java
Who perform better between ABAP and Java? After collecting ABAP and J2EE benchmarks it is time to compare them.. Jan. 19, 2006
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Simple Java Benchmark
Are you curious to know how much your SAP system (J2EE) is fast? Try this simple Java Web Dynpro utility... Jan. 19, 2006
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Simple ABAP Benchmark
Are you curious to know how much your SAP system (ABAP) is fast ? Try this simple ABAP utility... Jan. 18, 2006
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BSP / HowTo: BACK Navigation - the nightmare of statefull Web applications
BACK Navigation within the Browser on a statefull application. Here is how to manage it. Apr. 18, 2005
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Supply energy to ABAP Web Services in SAP Web AS 6.20
ABAP Web Services (SOAP runtime) is a very powerful technology and with few tips it becomes also more flexible and robust. Headaches due to XML Schemas? Take the ABAP+XSLT medicine Here is How-to solve the issue (you will also win a nice SOAP log) Nov. 22, 2004
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