SAP Top Contributor - Quarterly!
Moving into the 3rd quarter of the year we've just sent out our roundup to the Top Contributors... Craig Cmehil in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Jul. 02, 2009 06:37 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Webinar: Grow Your Business with SAP PartnerEdge and SCN – and get a free copy of Xcelsius Present
SAP sw solution partners, this event is for you if you are curious to learn more about how SAP PartnerEdge and the SAP Community Network (SCN) can benefit your business. Also get a free copy of Xcelsius Present. Natascha Schuberth in EcoHub, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jul. 01, 2009 03:42 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Webinar: Delivering Cost Savings with SAP SRM – sponsored by Wipro & SAP
Wipro & SAP jointly invite you to a one-hour webcast on procurement solutions from SAP including the SAP SRM 7.0 release. Find out how Business Suite 7, the BPX community and Wipro services can increase your ROI. Natascha Schuberth in Business Objects, SAP Developer Network, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Business Suite 7, Business Process Expert, Utilities Industry [Jul. 01, 2009 11:52 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Calling for Sustainability-Focused Session Proposals for SAP TechEd 2009
Submit your proposal focused on sustainability and green IT for SAP TechEd 2009 today! This is an exclusive opportunity open to SAP Community Network members. Christina Miller in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, Sustainability and CSR [Jun. 30, 2009 03:38 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Questions to SAP Support: "How to prevent MaxDB from creating backups to the RUNDIRECTORY?"
Never figured out how to specify the path to where MaxDB/liveCache backups are written? This blog tells you how... Lars Breddemann in Beginner, SAP Developer Network, SAP MaxDB and liveCache, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jun. 30, 2009 05:52 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

What’s in the Name
A product nomenclature is very important aspect. This article highlights on some observations on SAP products nomenclature. Sapna Modi in Business Suite 7, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, ERP, SAP Developer Network, Standards [Jun. 27, 2009 03:50 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Bringing SCN to me!
Just recently we announced a full rollout of NewsGator powered widgets all over the site... Craig Cmehil in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 26, 2009 04:59 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Platform Updates and New Functionality
Because of your loyalty and enthusiastic support around SAP products and services, the SAP Community Network team endeavors to foster the ongoing growth and maturation of the largest online community of SAP customers, partners, systems integrators, consultants, and the various other professions too numerous to mention, and in order to deliver on this promise to you, we must from time to time update our systems, implement new functionality, and perform basic system maintenance that will help keep our platform stable and our communities vibrant. Scott Lawley in Beginner, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, EcoHub, SAP Developer Network, University Alliances Message Board [Jun. 25, 2009 04:51 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Strengthen Your SAP Skills at SAP TechEd 2009!
It's time to convince your boss that SAP TechEd is an educational opportunity not to be missed. The educational sessions given by SAP's top experts are published for SAP TechEd Phoenix and Vienna, so you have the ammo you need. Christina Miller in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Jun. 25, 2009 03:56 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The SAP Business Workflow Community- Exemplifies Community
The Workflow Community has published a second edition of Practical Workflow for SAP and the remarkable group of experts and community have not only pooled wisdom but also generosity. This is community at its best Marilyn Pratt in Business Process Expert, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Developer Network, Sustainability and CSR [Jun. 24, 2009 12:57 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Marcelo Ramos's best blogs from March'09
In the last few years we have seen many blogs being recognized as "The best blogs of the year" on Blag's best blogs picks from 2008 and Top 10 Best Blogs of 2008. After reading ALL blogs from March 2009 I decided to post a personal list with the best blogs from March 2009. Marcelo Ramos in Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Beyond SAP, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 24, 2009 07:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

New SAP Mentor Introduction Webinar Recording
That was a really fun and interesting SAP Mentor Webinar today. Check out the recording. You will hear: Tips for your career, tricks to connect CRM and Lotus Notes, best tools of the Solution Manager and the latest Flex UI features. Plus SAP Mentor Gregor Wolf serenading us with a classical guitar song. Mark Finnern in Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 23, 2009 11:18 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SCN Treffen in Walldorf am Mittwoch 01.07.2009
Am 02. und 03. Juli 2009 findet die SAP Skills 2009 Conference in Walldorf statt. Wer möchte sich zu einem SCN Meetup am Vorabend, Mittwoch 01.07.2009 treffen? English version of this blog. Gregor Wolf in SAP Developer Network, Community Day, Business Process Expert, Business Objects [Jun. 23, 2009 02:12 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Welcome New SAP Mentors
Update 22nd of June: Tuesday June 23rd 8am PST New SAP Mentor Introduction Webinar. Details in the post. I am happy to announce and please help me welcome 4 new SAP Mentors: Mrinal Wadhwa, Nathan Genez, Tony de Thomasis and Stephen Johannes. Mark Finnern in Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 22, 2009 11:18 AM | 18 Comments | Permalink]

On The Road with the SAP TechTour 2009: United Kingdom
As part of the SAP TechTour UK, Colleagues from SAP Labs presented on the topic of Cloud Computing, Virtualisation. CRM on Demand, etc. The session included some amazing demo's of many scenarios and considerations customers should think about when looking at these topics. Christine Godek in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, SAP TechTour [Jun. 22, 2009 10:43 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Blogging in the SAP Community Network 101
This blog is for all of you who would like to become bloggers on SCN but have so far felt that they are too busy to figure out how to do it. Try it today! https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/blogs-communityguidelines Natascha Schuberth in Beginner, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 22, 2009 10:39 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Inside Track Sao Paulo 2009
It was a great experience doing SAP Community Day Brazil 2009, but… We need more, We can do more ! Today I'm inviting you all to attend to SAP Inside Track Sao Paulo. You can't miss that because the next one will take place in 2010. Marcelo Ramos in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 22, 2009 08:03 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Inside Track Lima 2009 - Almost there...
SAP Inside Track Lima 2009 is almost here... Alvaro Tejada Galindo in ABAP, Scripting Languages, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Ruby, Ranting, PHP, Open Source, Java Programming, Emerging Technologies, Community Projects, Community Day, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, Beginner, Web Dynpro [Jun. 22, 2009 07:32 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Services - Implementing Services in Java (Part 6)
This blog shows how to implement a web service defined in the Enterprise Services Repository using the JEE toolset of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 EhP1. It is part of the 2009 SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Services. This series introduces the steps from modeling and defining a SAP SOA methodology-compliant web service using the Enterprise Services Builder to the implmentation on different platforms. Hans-Joachim Odlozinski in Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Expert, Composition Environment (CE), Java Programming, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jun. 19, 2009 01:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Services - Leveraging a wizard to automate Service Creation (Part 5)
Introducing the SAP Enterprise Service Methodology Wizard that automates the creation of methodology compliant services. Mischa Keil in Service-Oriented Architecture, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jun. 18, 2009 01:14 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

My personal thoughts on the expert wiki
I wanted to share some of my personal thoughts and feelings around the Expert Wiki that launched recently since I was the primary driver of the change as well as having spent so much time working on it... Craig Cmehil in Ranting, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 18, 2009 12:41 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Welcome, the Expert Wiki
The SAP Developer Network launched the wiki in October of 2006, and it was in the Autumn of 2007 we began to explore this model of wiki use. From that point until Spring of 2009 we began testing the model and running pilots and found a higher rate of adoption, higher standard of quality and are now pleased, in the Summer of 2009... Craig Cmehil in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 17, 2009 09:31 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

IT and Micro Financing - An Opportunity for the Community
The announcement of the partnership between SAP and PlaNet Finance opens up new opportunities for the community. Having SAP donating money as a result of YOU being a contributor to SCN is great. Having you leveraging your skills to ‘do good’ is even better. Heino Kantimm in Sustainability and CSR, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 17, 2009 05:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Why PlaNet Finance
Today, 2.6 billion people live below the poverty line, surviving on less than 2 dollars a day. Microfinance is an innovative way to fight against this abject poverty by offering financial services to poor populations that are excluded from the banking system, in order to help them develop their activity and increase their revenue. Sarah Corne in Banking, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, SAP Developer Network, Sustainability and CSR [Jun. 17, 2009 04:08 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

New SAP Community PlaNet Finance Program to Benefit Under-served Markets
SAP Community Network (SCN) has launched a bold new initiative to encourage active contribution by the community and help under-served markets. Upon reaching the goal of 3,000 active contributors, SAP will contribute €200,000 toward programs managed through our newly-announced partner PlaNet Finance, a leading international non-profit organization that provides support services to microfinance institutions in some of the poorest regions of the world. Chip Rodgers in Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Community Projects, SAP Business One, SAP Developer Network, Sustainability and CSR, Business Process Expert [Jun. 17, 2009 04:06 AM | 8 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, SAP xApps, SAP Developer Network, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture [Jun. 16, 2009 05:28 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Interfacing Shipments How?
Interface and Integration. It's always a fun topic. Here are some ideas on how to integrate into SAP from a third party for distribution. There are some links to new pages on ABAP proxy and the integration of shipments. Michelle Crapo in ABAP, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI) [Jun. 16, 2009 07:43 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Demo Jam at SAP TechEd 2009
It's that time of the year, SAP TechEd is just around the corner and that means the coolest thing, our own "American Idol" for Geeks is... Craig Cmehil in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Jun. 16, 2009 05:11 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

P&G Improves Productivity and Lowers Costs with the Communities at SAP – Customer’s View of the Benefits
Procter and Gamble leverages the Communities at SAP to improve productivity and lower costs - in a collaborative workgroup with the ES Community to centralize sales data, and by connecting with peers in the SAP Developer Network. Hear about it in this video, as told by P&G’s Order Management Global Solution Owner. Gail Moody-Byrd in Consumer Products, Enterprise Service Community, ERP, Manufacturing, SAP Developer Network, Wholesale Distribution [Jun. 15, 2009 08:10 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SCN Meetup Walldorf 2009 - Wednesday 1st July
Let's meet up for some drinks and a chat in Walldorf one day before the SAP Skills 2009 Conference on Wednesday, 1st July 2009. Zur deutschen Version dieses Blogs. Gregor Wolf in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 13, 2009 03:11 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Inside Track Palo Alto 2009 Summary
Friday the 29th of May we had our SAP Inside Track Palo Alto created by the SAP Community for the SAP Community mostly driven by the 5 I would like to say local SAP Mentors, but 3 of them flew in for the event: Matthias Zeller, Srini Tanikella, Harald Reiter, David Halitsky and Leonardo De Araujo. Mark Finnern in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 12, 2009 07:16 AM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

Active Contributors - Moving to Recent Contributions
Our definition of active contributors will change from lifetime to annual to better reflect recent knowledge & contributions throughout the community. Michael Schwandt in Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 12, 2009 04:39 AM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

SAP is first vendor to provide a comprehensive Job Management Suite
SAP is first vendor to provide a comprehensive Job Management Suite. Job Management means Lifecycle Management for a background job or job chain. Martin Lauer in Application Server, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Run SAP, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Solution Manager, SAP TechEd [Jun. 10, 2009 11:31 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Netweaver 7.01 ABAP Trial Tips - Part One
For those of you who have chosen to advance your SAP skills by having your own personal SAP Netweaver server on your home PC or laptop, here are a couple of tips that might make the ride a little smoother for you... David Bann in ABAP, Application Server, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jun. 09, 2009 08:37 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Mixing Jack and Coke Good, Mixing Production and Non-Production Systems - Not Good
Brown-Forman partners with Sun Microsystems and adopts a virtualization strategy for SAP CRM - taking consolidation to the limit. Savings on space, energy and operational costs are achieved. Christine Puccio in Business Suite 7, SAP SAPPHIRE, SAP Research, SAP Developer Network, Retail, Open Source, Manufacturing, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, CRM, Sustainability and CSR [Jun. 08, 2009 05:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Keep this in mind for next week!
As the SAP TechEd event approaches next week will start to become even more important so please keep this presentation in mind as we move toward June 8th as well as June 15th! Craig Cmehil in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Jun. 04, 2009 08:49 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Introduction to GUIXT...
Introduction to GUIXT .about how you can make your logon screen looks cool and other useful application. AMIT KUMAR in ABAP, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 04, 2009 07:09 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Wiki based documentation is up and coming
In addition to SAP's own documentation wiki efforts, there are a lot of similar projects going on in the software world, especially open source. Andrea Anderson in Knowledge Management (KM), Organizational Change Management, SAP Developer Network [Jun. 03, 2009 06:22 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

My "Inside Track" on the SAP Inside Track 2009
SAP Inside Track Palo Alto 2009 Christine Puccio in Community Day, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research [May. 29, 2009 02:38 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – What do you need to get to the Clear Enterprise?
SAP’s message on the Clear Enterprise is not surprising. To realize the vision of a Clear Enterprise requires an organization to establish a spirit of innovation and a culture of process. Innovation is not a burden but instead an ally in these times. Puneet Suppal in Analytics, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Business Suite 7, Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), BI Accelerator, SAP SAPPHIRE [May. 29, 2009 01:36 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Inside Track Palo Alto Agenda
Update: Now with log in information for the Webcast. Join now: COIL room: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/coil/ Orion room: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/orion/ North Star: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/northstar/ Check out the agenda. Mark Finnern in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network [May. 29, 2009 09:49 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Starship Enterprisey - Getting Columnar with Dan McWeeney
In lieu of Hasso Plattner’s keynote at SAP Sapphire 2009 on columnar storage, the Enterprise Geek’s own Dan Mcweeney gives us the breakdown of Columnar vs Traditional Storage. Watch also as Dan shares his thoughts in general on the keynote. Craig Cmehil in Emerging Technologies, SAP Developer Network, SAP Network TV, SAP SAPPHIRE [May. 28, 2009 07:02 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Monitoring Job Chains with SAP CPS by Redwood and SAP Solution Manager
Demonstration how to create generic CPS Job Chains for ABAP jobs with several steps and how to monitoring CPS jobs of any type. Martin Lauer in ABAP, Application Server, Run SAP, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Solution Manager [May. 28, 2009 05:45 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Services - Defining services (Part 4)
Continuing the current Partner-delivered Enterprise Service Architecture Series, this blog focusses on defining services according to SAP's SOA methodology. Hans-Joachim Odlozinski in Service-Oriented Architecture, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Enhancement Packages, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform [May. 28, 2009 04:02 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Managing Standard Jobs centrally from SAP Solution Manager
Demonstration how to schedule, document and monitor standard jobs (as known from transaction SM36) centrally from SAP Solution Manager Martin Lauer in ABAP, Application Server, Run SAP, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Solution Manager [May. 28, 2009 02:18 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

A return to the SDN community, and a touch of Javascript
A return to the SDN community after 6 years, and a little bit of Javascript. DJ Adams in JavaScript, SAP Developer Network [May. 27, 2009 08:53 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

SAP changed my life, too. What about you?
The other day Blag posted a blog about how SAP had changed his life, some started to comment as did I and mine got kind of long... Craig Cmehil in SAP Developer Network [May. 26, 2009 02:58 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

How many exit routines are active in your SAP ERP system?
This Blog contains both a complete walk-through of how to analyze the active user-exits of a SAP ERP system and ZSDN_EXIT_SCANNER a special ABAP I develop to speed up the analysis. Andrea Olivieri in ABAP, ERP, SAP Developer Network, Open Source [May. 22, 2009 10:32 AM | 12 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Service - Modeling Services (Part 3)
Learn how to model SAP methodology-compliant services within the Enterprise Services Builder. Joachim von Goetz in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Enhancement Packages, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture [May. 20, 2009 08:01 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Community Network to Introduce New Terms of Use and an Updated Privacy Statement
The SAP Community Network (SCN) will soon introduce new "terms of use" and an updated "privacy statement" for all members. Here's background you may want to know as these new and updated policies / practices are rolled-out next week. Mark Yolton in Business Objects, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [May. 20, 2009 03:59 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]