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 [Nov. 19, 2009 10:49 PM | 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 [Nov. 19, 2009 08:21 AM | 0 Comments | Download Media | 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 [Nov. 18, 2009 07:12 PM | 1 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 [Nov. 16, 2009 04:03 PM | 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 [Nov. 16, 2009 06:21 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

How To: Trigger Background Jobs with Background User
Many a times our User ID lacks the authorization to trigger a background job in a SAP system. This job can be scheduling of loads from ECC systems or any batch jobs. This blog explains how we can schedule such jobs to run with Background User ID. This can also be helpful for any background job user change. Shashank Dighe in Beginner [Nov. 15, 2009 04:02 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

My new BPM experience, second post.
This is my second post about my BPM project experience! A lot of things have happened this week! sirnejo in Beginner, Visual Composer, University Alliances Message Board, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Higher Education, Composition Environment (CE), Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Web Dynpro [Nov. 15, 2009 03:56 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

New space for Basis on the Wiki
Wiki space for Basis and Technical related content. Juan Reyes in Application Server, Beginner, Enterprise Portal (EP), SAP Developer Network, SAP MaxDB and liveCache, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Nov. 13, 2009 03:04 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Academic Study Finds SAP Community Offers High Response Rates, Timely Answers, and Sense of Community
Researchers at the University of Colorado analyzed the SAP Community Network (SCN) - in particular, our discussion forums - in a study examining peer-support communities. They compared SCN to two other such communities. See their conclusions about the culture created through your community participation. Mark Yolton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network [Nov. 11, 2009 11:36 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

You have the right to access the workitem container, fully !
Reading workitem container. Pavan Bhamidipati in Beginner, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Nov. 10, 2009 08:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

What is SAP Records Management
This blog is a brief introduction to SAP Records Management - content management & process management solution Pragya Pande in Beginner, Travel and Logistics Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Public Sector, Product Lifecycle Management, Knowledge Management (KM), Industrial Machinery and Components, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Utilities Industry [Nov. 10, 2009 08:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

A Love of Jazz and the Data Dictionary
An improvised blog riff on jazz, the SAP data dictionary, and just a few of my favorite things. Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, Beginner, ERP, Integration and Certification [Nov. 09, 2009 05:51 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Part 4 - Configure the Workflow Engine in Netweaver Trial 7.01
Soon after posting 'Part 3 – Enable Transport System on Netweaver 7.01 Trial' I went on to configure my Workflow Engine and realised that it had a very similar problem as the transport system had - For some reason this version of Netweaver is set up with the host name specified as PWDF3101 by default - This causes all sorts of complications, one of which I dealt with in the previous part of this series, and another here. David Bann in Application Server, Beginner, SAP Business Workflow, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Nov. 07, 2009 01:33 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

End of Ownership?
Discussing the problems facing copyright holders in this digital age. Bill Pfleging and Minda Zetlin in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Ranting [Nov. 06, 2009 02:26 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Version numbering of SAP Netweaver components
Clarity about the different versions of SAP Netweaver components mention during SAP Teched '09 Jan Penninkhof in ABAP, Beginner, Composition Environment (CE), Ranting, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd [Nov. 06, 2009 02:23 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Master of One . What Next ?
This blog has come out of some of my doubts and apprehensions on been handling a single module for quite some time Gajesh Nagesh in Beginner, Beyond SAP, ERP [Nov. 06, 2009 02:23 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

What's Your Big (Education) Idea?
Using IdeaShare from Learning on Demand by SAP, you can share your ideas on the future of learning. Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP [Nov. 02, 2009 02:31 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BI – Technical/Functional/Techno-Functional?
Is SAP BI Technical, Functional or Techno-Functional? Can we answer this question, there has always been a confusion to me regarding the same, hence I take this blog to initiate this discussion. Kunal Gandhi in Beginner, Business Intelligence (BI) [Oct. 31, 2009 11:48 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Different ESS/MSS upgrade options when upgrading to ECC 6.0
Are you planning on SAP upgrade to ECC 6.0, but not sure how to handle the ESS/MSS upgrade. You have customized the ESS/MSS business package and strugling with the fact that some of those are delivered with new Business packages. Read thiws blog to Know different options you have with their Pros and Cons. Mohid Khan in ABAP, Web Dynpro, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Java Programming, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Enterprise Portal (EP), Composition Environment (CE), Business Process Expert, Beginner, Enhancement Packages [Oct. 30, 2009 12:55 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

ST12 - storing additional information and managing traces
In other blogs it was mentioned that ST12 only stores the ABAP trace in the database. While this is true there is an option which allows you to store additional information e.g. the summary of a SQL trace and additional information manually together with the trace. This blog shows this option together with some hints on how to manage the collected traces. Hermann Gahm in ABAP, Application Server, Beginner [Oct. 30, 2009 12:42 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Why I Blog on SCN
My response to the SCN Active Contributor Blog Contest Dan Everett in Analytics, SAP Developer Network, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand, Partnership, Enterprise Performance Management, Crystal Reports, Careers, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Beginner, Web Intelligence [Oct. 29, 2009 10:13 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Live Expert Sessions for you! Presented by IPNW RIG: Learn how to Reduce Costs & Simplify SAP Data Center Management
Introduction to Adaptive Computing Controller for SAP NetWeaver 7.1 Adarsh S Kapoor in Application Server, Beginner, Emerging Technologies, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd [Oct. 28, 2009 02:30 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Crystal Reports and Enterprise .NET developer resources
Where to find resources for developing Crystal Reports and Business Objects Enterprise Applications for Visual Studio and Delphi Prism .NET developers. Trevor Dubinsky in Beginner, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports [Oct. 26, 2009 12:20 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP 101 for Business Objects Experts
If you are an SAP BusinessObjects technology expert, you now have the opportunity to expand your skill set to include SAP technology topics. This 4 part blog series will provide a high level overview of what the SAP Business Suite does, it will then cover in more detail SAP NetWeaver - how it supports the SAP Business Suite, and how it can be used with SAP BusinessObjects technology. This session will assume you are new to SAP NetWeaver and you want to know what pieces can be easily leverage to complement your SAP BusinessObjects expertise. Ginger Gatling in Beginner, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Business Suite 7, Procurement and SRM [Oct. 26, 2009 12:03 PM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

Coding the STATUS IDoc Delete One-Step
Part 2 of KISS Those STATUS IDocs Goodbye. Coding a one-step STATUS IDoc delete that also cleans out all associated work flow items is as simple as stringing together a few SAP standard function modules. Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, Beginner, ERP, Integration and Certification [Oct. 26, 2009 06:57 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

TechEd 2009 Phoenix - Timeless Software, Singularity, Change: Recap
A final look back at the SAP TechEd conference that took place October 13th to October 16th 2009 in Phoenix. Lots of events, not enough time to catch them all! Joseph Zeinoun in SAP TechEd, Beginner, Community Day, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 26, 2009 05:30 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Calling All Students and Recent Graduates!
New video on University Alliance and the Career Center on SCN Claudine Lagerholm in Beginner, Business Objects, ERP, Business Solutions, Business Process Management, University Alliances Message Board, Careers [Oct. 25, 2009 05:31 AM | 1 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

Usability tests for SAP's technology tools
SAP Usability Test Center, SAP User Experience, usability, SAP TechEd, SAP TechEd Vienna, UI design Martin Hofmann in Analytics, Universal Worklist, SAP TechEd, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Business Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management, Java Programming, Interoperability, Integration and Certification, Enterprise Portal (EP), Eclipse, Composition Environment (CE), Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Business Intelligence (BI), Beginner, Web Dynpro [Oct. 22, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Getting the Juicy Goodness Out of Personal Learning
This is how you can constructively use your personal learning environment to grow your SAP career. Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 19, 2009 10:41 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Two Different Approaches for Scheduling Outbound Calls in Your Contact Center: Call Lists and Planned Activities:
This blog examines two different options for scheduling outbound telemarketing and telesales efforts from the SAP CRM Interaction Center: call lists and planned activities. John Burton in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Consumer Products, CRM, Retail, Utilities Industry [Oct. 19, 2009 10:52 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP TechEd Phoenix 2009 - My blogging review
SAP TechEd Phoenix 2009 is over...here are my thoughts... Alvaro Tejada Galindo in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Community Day, Emerging Technologies, SAP Developer Network, SAP Network TV, SAP TechEd, Scripting Languages [Oct. 19, 2009 08:21 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

How deep has Knowledge Manament dove into your company? Spreading this idea, breaking a paradigm
What happens after KM deliveries? are end-users using its capabilities to its full extent or how it was initially designed? This blog brings up this issue and presents the difficulties of implementing KM and how it could be possible to have KM well accepted and used by end-users Rafael Martins in Beginner, Enterprise Portal (EP), Knowledge Management (KM) [Oct. 19, 2009 05:50 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Trying to relate SAP Notes to one another
SEM-BCS SAP Notes greg misiorek in Business Process Modeling, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Standards [Oct. 19, 2009 05:48 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Delphi Prism, how to setup the environment for Crystal Reports 2008 and BOBJ Enterprise R3 development.
This describes the best practices when setting up a development environment for Crystal Reports 2008 and Enterprise R3 with Delphi Prism. This information is also valid for all Visual Studio .NET 2008 users. Trevor Dubinsky in Beginner, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Interoperability .NET [Oct. 19, 2009 05:40 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

KISS Those STATUS IDocs Goodbye, Part 1
A simple one-step solution to cleaning up IDoc records and workflow items generated by a successful STATUS IDoc interface. Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, Beginner, Business Objects, ERP, Integration and Certification, SAP Business Workflow [Oct. 19, 2009 05:33 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Floor Plan Manager - Developers Delight
Floor Plan Manager( FPM ) - ensuring Consistent and Efficient UI's. Manas Dua in ABAP, Application Server, Beginner, Web Dynpro [Oct. 16, 2009 02:43 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Editing tables using SE16N and the security implications
In response to the blog on editing tables using SE16N (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/16008) I have collated the security concerns and recommendations from various sources and placed them in 1 place for reference. Kevin Wilson in ABAP, Beginner, Business Process Expert [Oct. 15, 2009 09:03 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP CRM Interaction Center: A hitchhiker’s guide from a process perspective
New to SAP CRM Interaction Center? Here is what you should know about the business processes supported by the Interaction Center. This blog explains the three main types of processes involved behind the scenes in the Interaction Center, independent of any business scenarios. Carsten Busch in CRM, Beginner [Oct. 15, 2009 06:26 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Project Management Courses Come to Learning on Demand by SAP
Learning on Demand by SAP extends course offerings with Project Management and Business Analysis courses via ESI International. Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, ERP, Organizational Change Management, Professional Services, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 13, 2009 02:02 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

"Co-Innovaton Lab" as new Blog Category
learn about SAP's newly introduced blog category of 'Co-Innovation Lab' Joachim von Goetz in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab [Oct. 13, 2009 12:39 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mapping IDocs to X12 Transactions and EDIFACT Messages
It's an inexact science perhaps but we can provide a base cross-reference between SAP IDocs and X12 transactions and EDIFACT messages. Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, ERP, Integration and Certification, SAP Process Integration (PI) [Oct. 12, 2009 03:26 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

The SOA Restaurant
The following weblog is an attempt to explain SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) in a lighter vein, using an anology between SOA and a restaurent. This blog can be useful to understand the rather absract nature of the concept SOA. Ravi Kanth Talagana in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture [Oct. 12, 2009 03:25 PM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

Introduction to Delphi Prism applications development.
Introduction to development in Delphi Prism with Crystal Reports and Business Objects Enterprise. Trevor Dubinsky in Beginner, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Interoperability .NET, Partnership, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 09, 2009 10:36 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SPIDERMAN is working in my system or a bug in the debugger?
This blog focuses on a feature of the new ABAP debugger that could be dangerous if you have the S_DEVELOP / DEBUG authorizations in a productive environment Andrea Olivieri in Beginner, ABAP, Beyond SAP, ERP, Security [Oct. 09, 2009 05:49 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

The case of the lost SAPLOGON.INI
I thought I'd just throw this out there to see if anyone else experienced a similar issue that I did. I lost my SAPLOGON.INI file and then 1 day it magically reappeared again... Kevin Wilson in Beginner, Security [Oct. 08, 2009 08:53 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Twitter + SAP Community + TechEd + Folks to Follow
Get fully connected and richly informed. Whether you're new to Twitter or an experienced pro, here are some guidelines, best practices, links, resources, and people to follow. Also: a preview of Twitter at SAP TechEd. Mark Yolton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, SAP TechEd [Oct. 08, 2009 07:43 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Are Controls and Security Synonymous? Not really.
Every so often I see a comment on a blog or in a forum suggesting that security and controls are essentially synonymous. In my experience such a simplistic view is how security gets dumped on for controls failures. See if you agree with my logic. Gretchen Lindquist in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Security, SAP TechEd [Oct. 07, 2009 10:46 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Video: SAP Mentors - Making the Business Case
Recently, the SAP Mentors were challenged to create videos for the upcoming Influencer Summit in Boston on December 8. We were asked to submit a video on a compelling story from the SAP ecosystem with a business case - something with real meaning to SAP customers. I believe the SAP Mentor Initiative is such a story - during this video, I make my case. Jon Reed in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Community Projects [Oct. 07, 2009 09:54 AM | 1 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

Recognition & Reputation are Perishable Goods
You made it to 250 points = active contributor already years ago. You always enjoyed this status and used it in CV or signature or on LinkedIn. BUT - Did you check your annual standing? Your 2008 or earlier points might have expired. Michael Schwandt in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Sustainability, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 06, 2009 11:14 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Usability Tests – The Democratization of Innovation
This blog describes the importance of attending Usability Tests as an avenue to participate in SAP innovation efforts. A list (including detailed descriptions) of usability tests of interest for BPX is also provided. Richard Hirsch in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Ranting, SAP TechEd [Oct. 06, 2009 06:19 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]