Café Innovation – Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
Increasingly, SAP customers are demanding that services to them be offered in a somewhat granular manner – in a way that they do not have to work with long delivery cycles or long periods of preparation. They would very much like for external experts to adopt a delta force like approach which brings laser-focused attention on their problems, and quickly dispenses the necessary relief. Puneet K. Suppal in Business Process Expert, Business Suite 7, Enterprise Service Community, ERP, Partnership, Professional Services, Business Solutions [Nov. 23, 2009 05:03 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Maximizing ERP Return on Investment with On-Demand Support Services
ERP adoption marks a fine start to surviving the current environment. The companies that thrive will be those that realize their enterprise potential—and balance pressure for higher performance with shrinking internal resources—by enlisting outsourced support partners. Laure Poquette in EcoHub, Enterprise Service Community, ERP, Run SAP, Sustainability [Nov. 19, 2009 10:13 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 K. Suppal in Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP xApps, SAP Developer Network, Mobile, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Standards [Nov. 06, 2009 11:49 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

ASUG Webcast: Consolidating Integration Technologies on SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1
A reminder on the ASUG webcast tomorrow on "Consolidating Integration Technologies on SAP NetWeaver PI 7.1 " Srini Tanikella in Enterprise Service Community, SAP Process Integration (PI) [Nov. 06, 2009 01:00 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Agile Is A Journey
This Blog on Agile SAP Development focusses on the cultural challenges involved when a more rapid approach to deliver good quality software is chosen. Michael Koch in Composition Environment (CE), SAP Developer Network, Ranting, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, Careers, Application Server, Visual Composer, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards [Oct. 31, 2009 04:16 PM | 7 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]

How to Consume an Inbound Backend Web Service in NWDS/Jboss environment
The web services provided by SAP systems might be consumed in non SAP platform (Jboss, IBM Websphere ...). This weblog shows all steps which are required to consume a web service provided by a SAP backend system. The client is generated in Netweaver Developer Studio (NWDS). The project is deployed and tested in Jboss platform. Abdelmorhit El Rhazi in Eclipse, Enterprise Service Community, Java Programming, Service-Oriented Architecture [Oct. 30, 2009 12:40 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Why SAP cares about social networking within the enterprise? (a.k.a. enterprise social systems)
This post talks about why it is natural for SAP to incorporate social technologies into their offerings. John Mayerhofer in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Standards, Partnership [Oct. 26, 2009 03:37 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Community-focused BPM: Lessons Learned from SAP’s Enterprise Services Community
This blog continues my exploration of Social BPM and focuses on the problems associated with BPM communities as well as suggests a possible basis for successful BPM work in this context based on the experience gained in the SAP's Enterprise Services Community. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Ranting, SAP Research, Standards [Oct. 22, 2009 08:33 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Part 7: Enterprise BPM framework; Will the CIO be replaced by the Chief Processing Officer ?
At the 14th of October the second BPM theme day for the SAP user group was organized in the Netherlands. The theme of the day was: ----------- Will the CIO be replaced by the Chief Processing Officer? --- During the forum discussion the future role of BPM within the SAP environment was discussed. Frank Luyckx in Business Process Expert, Organizational Change Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Enterprise Service Community, Enterprise Performance Management, Crystal Reports, Composition Environment (CE), Community Day, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, SAP Business Workflow [Oct. 19, 2009 10:00 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Guideline for Best-Built Applications: One short sentence with huge implications
This blog discusses one of the recommendations you'll find in the "Best Built Applications" document: what does it mean to develop loosely coupled, asynchronous applications. Volker Stiehl in Business Process Expert, Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Service Community, Service-Oriented Architecture [Oct. 12, 2009 03:20 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

University Alliances Community promoted to top-tier in the SAP Community Network
The University Alliances Community (UAC) is celebrating our promotion to the top-line navigation in the SAP Community Network (SCN). Bob LoBue in ABAP, ERP, Higher Education, Knowledge Management (KM), Organizational Change Management, Partnership, Professional Services, Public Sector, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand, SAP Developer Network, SAP Network TV, SAP Research, SAP TechEd, Sustainability, University Alliances Message Board, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, EcoHub, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Business Suite 7, Co-Innovation Lab, Community Projects, Consumer Products, CRM, Defense, Webinars [Oct. 05, 2009 01:32 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Roadmap at TechEd 2009
This blog is about the one hour lecture "SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Roadmap" at TechEd 2009. Udo Paltzer in Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Service Community, Interoperability, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP TechEd, Service-Oriented Architecture [Oct. 02, 2009 02:08 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Services - Summary (Final Part)
This summary of the Architecture Lecture provides you an overview about alle the deliverables within the series and a structured approach on how you can build your own SAP methodology compliant services. Joachim von Goetz in Beginner, SAP Developer Network, Partnership, Enterprise Service Community, Enhancement Packages, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture, Co-Innovation Lab, Beyond SAP, Standards [Sep. 23, 2009 05:28 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Google Wave Demo: Creating a service request
Google Wave will be interesting for enterprises to use. This blogs shows one example, where Wave can be used to enhance customer experience and processing time. Daniel Graversen in Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Service Community, Service-Oriented Architecture [Sep. 22, 2009 01:14 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

TERP10 Certification at University
TERP10 and the benefits to universities and students of gaining an SAP Certification whilst at college Martin Gollogly in Beyond SAP, SAP Process Integration (PI), Professional Services, Manufacturing, Integration and Certification, Higher Education, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Community Projects, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, University Alliances Message Board [Sep. 20, 2009 06:49 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

BPM & SOA - A change is gonna come Part 3: Change the way we work
In this third blog in a series about changes that are coming our way due to BPM and SOA we discuss the changes in the way we work. Main changes are resulting from the shift towards process oriented and business driven IT support as well as from the stronger project governance from an architectural point of view. Combined with the availability of improved tooling (which we will discuss in the next blog in this series) this leads to new ways of working for a lot of SAP consultants and customers. Caspar Laar in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Service Community, Governance, Risk and Compliance, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture [Sep. 09, 2009 01:51 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Get Active. Stay Active. Build Your Reputation.
Being an Active Contributor on SCN builds your reputation, visiblity, and knowledge base. We have built a new area on SCN, called Get Active. Stay Active, that gives you lots of tips on how to earn 250 points in a year to become an Active Contributor. You'll also learn how your activity helps fund SAP's PlaNet Finance contribution for 2009. Gail Moody-Byrd in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, EcoHub, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Developer Network [Sep. 04, 2009 03:07 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Gravity – Collaborative Business Process Modelling within Google Wave
Gravity is a prototype developed by SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia and SAP NetWeaver Development providing real-time, cloud-based collaborative business process modelling within Google Wave. Google Wave is Google's new real-time collaboration platform that combines features of e-mail, social networking, wikis and instant messaging in one integrated browser-based client. Alexander Dreiling in Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Composition Environment (CE), Consumer Products, Enterprise Service Community, Insurance, Interoperability, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Research, Business Process Expert [Sep. 02, 2009 11:56 PM | 42 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

SOA kept its promise
This blog, reports on the bottom-up SOA Adoption of the Swiss Healthcare Market. Bart de Witte in Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Portal (EP), Enterprise Service Community, Healthcare, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI) [Sep. 01, 2009 01:17 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Career Center, a Week in Review and a Peek into What’s to Come
This has been a very busy and exciting week for the SCN team. On Monday, Aug 24th we launched the new career center on SCN. In this blog I will talk about the past week and what is in store Marco ten Vaanholt in SAP Developer Network, Enterprise Service Community, Community Projects, Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Beginner [Aug. 31, 2009 11:20 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Enterprise Service and Google Wave
How to use Google Wave and SAP Enterprise Services to create a powerful environment for collaboration. Google Wave is one of this years most hyped products, so it is likely that some product which will be used in organizations. It is therefore interesting if it works together with SAP. In this blog I'll start with showing some demos. Daniel Graversen in Beyond SAP, Enterprise Service Community, Service-Oriented Architecture [Aug. 21, 2009 01:28 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

SOA Champions Blog: Usage of Service Oriented Architectures within Enterprise Content Management
SOA Champions Blog: An analysation to what extent the usage of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is advantageous within the field of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Claudia Richter in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Enterprise Service Community, Knowledge Management (KM), Product Lifecycle Management, Service-Oriented Architecture [Aug. 11, 2009 01:14 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Custom Development delivered Custom Enterprise Services (Part 9)
This blog highlights the concept and value addition of custom enterprise services (ES) provisioned by SAP Custom Development. Gajendra Bhakuni in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture [Aug. 11, 2009 01:51 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – Process and “the cloud”
Many organizations are looking to leverage “SAP in the cloud” in the future as a way to functioning more efficiently. For those who think that making the technology shift is enough to solve many of their pain points it should be pointed out that a focus on business process is very vital to get more out of their investment and effort. The role of business process experts in this regard is crucial. Puneet K. Suppal in Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Enhancement Packages, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, SAP Developer Network [Aug. 06, 2009 07:51 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Services - Implementing services in ABAP (Part 8)
Continuing the blog series on Partner-delivered Enterprise Services, this 8th part shows how to implement a web service defined in the Enterprise Services Repository using the ABAP toolset of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1. The blog series by the SAP Co-Innovation Lab 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. Markus Peter in ABAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Enterprise Service Community, Enhancement Packages, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, Beginner, Co-Innovation Lab [Jul. 21, 2009 11:56 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

New Healthcare Community Definition Group
Announcement of a new Healthcare ES Definition Group Bettina Lieske in Enterprise Service Community, Healthcare [Jul. 21, 2009 08:20 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mark your calendar for SAP Inside Track 2010 in Bonn, Germany
It’s high time to plan for the next European SAP Inside Track! SAP Mentor Tobias Trapp and I are planning the next SAP Inside Track in Bonn, Germany. Our beautiful little town is located by the Rhine River, allowing you to combine your professional development with an extended weekend in one of Germany’s most beautiful and inspiring regions. Thorsten Franz in ABAP, Business Process Expert, SAP TechEd, Java Programming, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Composition Environment (CE), Community Projects, Community Day, Beyond SAP, Ranting [Jul. 21, 2009 01:52 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Does that server have an Energy Star?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released the Energy Star logo for servers. It's a great first step but there is room for improvement. Christine Puccio in Enterprise Service Community, Sustainability [Jul. 07, 2009 03:46 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Change Enablers or Change Promoters; When IT itself needs a good dose of Change Management
IT departments should fill the role of change promoters within organizations. Often it is seen that strict and outdated IT strategies limit early adoption of new technologies. It is time to call the change management specialists to do a good work within the IT department itself. Leonardo De Araujo in Beginner, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Enterprise Service Community, Organizational Change Management, Service-Oriented Architecture [Jul. 02, 2009 01:45 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

What's the SAP Green IT Community Up to?
The SAP Green IT Community is working on the identification and clarification of customer requirements around Green IT, on the generation of a shared map of solutions and services for Green IT from SAP and partners, and on identifying opportunities within the community for co-innovation, co-development and standardization. These are some notes and observations of mine as I participated in the third session. Christine Puccio in Business Process Expert, Community Projects, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Research, Sustainability [Jun. 29, 2009 07:32 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

The future of integration consulting
SaaS integration could have an impact on how SAP integration consultants are going to work in the future. Daniel Graversen in EcoHub, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Process Integration (PI) [Jun. 18, 2009 03:22 AM | 5 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, Co-Innovation Lab [Jun. 18, 2009 01:14 AM | 0 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 K. 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]

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]

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 [Jun. 08, 2009 05:56 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Impressions of EA Day in Houston - Part 2
Part 2 of my observations of EA Day in Houston. ASUG's Enterprise Architecture SIG teamed up with SAP to bring a day-long program of customer, SAP, and partner speakers to Houston for a day of education and networking. My impressions of the afternoon sessions follow. See what you missed and can catch at a future EA Day event. Gretchen Lindquist in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Business Process Management [Jun. 05, 2009 02:39 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The Petro-Chemical Supply Chain and Product Quantity Values
Every day, more than 50 million barrels of oil and products are produced, stored and transferred. At each transfer point, exact measurements must be taken to determine product quantity and value. The folks at QuantityWare leverage the SAP infrastructure with a unique integration to the Quantity Conversion Interface to automate these transactions. Raymond Adams in Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, Chemicals, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Oil and Gas, Service-Oriented Architecture [Jun. 04, 2009 07:59 AM | 0 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 K. 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]

Part 6: Enterprise BPM Framework; BPM within SAP projects
Many SAP project managers are struggling with the question whether they should integrate BPM within their SAP projects. For them the ROI of BPM for their project is not obvious. The Enterprise BPM framework, as introduced in my previous blogs, provides an overview of the utilization of BPM within SAP projects. The decision whether BPM should be incorporated within the SAP projects should also be taken by the stakeholders who are responsible for the TCO of the SAP environment. Frank Luyckx in Business Process Expert, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Business Workflow, Organizational Change Management, Knowledge Management (KM), Governance, Risk and Compliance, Enterprise Service Community, Enterprise Performance Management, Composition Environment (CE), Business Solutions, Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture [May. 29, 2009 02:16 AM | 0 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, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Enterprise Service Community, Enhancement Packages, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab [May. 20, 2009 08:01 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Internet of Services + Internet of Things? Internet of Objects!
Let us see where we can go if we want to merge Internet of Things and Internet of Services. Let us be bolder than the current trend of exposing sensors and applications as services. We scratch here the surface of what it would mean to enable the accessibility of any object (virtual or physical) via the internet through universally adopted web technologies. Cedric Ulmer in Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Research, Ruby, Public Sector, Mobile, Interoperability, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, Business Objects, Standards [May. 08, 2009 05:09 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – Innovation options from the SAP ecosystem will be on display at SAPPHIRE ‘09
Attending SAPPHIRE this year is a matter of enterprises seeking to find out more about how best they can leverage their SAP investment. Attendees should seek out those opportunities that help them stay in step with the evolution of SAP’s offerings. They should seek out the game-changing options that will help them focus on business process in a way that not only helps them with savings during this economic downturn, but also assists them in emerging ahead of their competition beyond it. Puneet K. Suppal in Analytics, SAP SAPPHIRE, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Professional Services, ERP, Enterprise Service Community, Enterprise Performance Management, Enhancement Packages, Business Suite 7, Business Process Expert, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), BI Accelerator, Service-Oriented Architecture [May. 05, 2009 10:31 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Service - Outlining the ‘way to deliver' services (Part 2)
Learn the ‘way to deliver' methodology-compliant services as part of the Partner delivered Enterprise Service Architecture Series. Joachim von Goetz in Beginner, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Developer Network, Enterprise Service Community, Enhancement Packages, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab [Apr. 26, 2009 11:33 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Are there still use cases for direct RFC calls?
A few days ago, I concluded a blog series called "ABAP Calls Java via RFC", prompting an inquiry by a fellow SCN member who asked why I was writing about RFCs between ABAP and Java in the first place. Should he not use PI and forget about direct RFCs? Yes and no, or “Jein”, as we say in German. Thorsten Franz in ABAP, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Java Programming, Interoperability, Enterprise Service Community, Composition Environment (CE), Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Application Server, Service-Oriented Architecture [Apr. 23, 2009 05:25 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Service - Introduction (Part 1)
Introducing the SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Service Joachim von Goetz in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Enterprise Service Community, Interoperability, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture, Co-Innovation Lab [Apr. 21, 2009 05:29 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

The Value Scenario "Design Challenge"
Dan Woods, in a recent post "Value Scenarios and the BPM Continuum" hits the nail on the head, when he calls SAP Business Suite Value Scenarios a "Design Challenge". This is exactly why we need... Robb Bush in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Suite 7, Enhancement Packages, Enterprise Service Community, SAP SAPPHIRE, Service-Oriented Architecture [Apr. 14, 2009 09:19 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

MI Bank is cool! - Part 2
Few days ago, extending the concept of the Post Processing Office in Banking Services to an MI 7.1 environment, I published a weblog concerning the mobilization of SAP Banking Services. In this second part I would like to extend the concept with additional assumptions based on an eSOA infrastructure. Ludovic Fernandez in Banking, Enterprise Service Community, Mobile [Apr. 14, 2009 03:58 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – Desperation yields cost cutting and innovation yields cost savings – What is your plan?
While spending on innovation has indeed suffered in this recession, it is not the entire story. Companies do recognize that there is a return on investment to be enjoyed with innovation; they just need to figure out what works best for them. They are looking to go for those programs that might have a shorter term payoff, confirming that these companies recognize that innovation is a weapon to combat the challenges of these times and not a burden. Puneet K. Suppal in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Suite 7, Enterprise Service Community, ERP, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture [Apr. 13, 2009 03:37 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

ASUG ITEB Webcast - The Evolution of SAP's B2B Strategy - April 1st, 2009 - 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
Join us for the ASUG ITEB webcast on "The Evolution of SAP's B2B Strategy" - April 1st, 2009 - 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT. Registration is now open on ASUG.com Srini Tanikella in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture [Mar. 31, 2009 08:32 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]