Category: Technology

In this interview, SAP Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Becher discusses the role of the CMO in the “Brave New World” of modern marketing. He explains his view on the role of marketing and discusses customer value in this one on one interview.

SAP has developed an alternative to the Enterprise Portal that can be used with HCM applications. The Netweaver Business Client offers a desktop client that includes the ability to host classic and Web dynpros, Business Server Pages and portal integration with role-based access. With the release of the latest Enhancement Packs, new roles have been developed for use with SAP Human Capital Management applications.

A new Aberdeen report finds that cloud-based expense-management software offers a better alternative to today’s Excel-based or other on-premise software and processes. The verdict, according to Aberdeen survey research of 50 service firms, is that the cloud does offer advantages over on-premise systems. Cloud-based systems contributed to: a 52 percent increase in billing speed compared with those firms using on-premise management software; a 26 percent higher increase in payment speed; and 21 percent more consultants and other employees using the expense management system to create and submit project expenses, notes the report.

Understanding what will be the present and the future of Talent Management and build the next generation of applications in that space, is a combination of SAP experience in the Human Resources market, where SAP has been leader for years, a deep understanding of trends and the competitors landscape and Co-Innovation with SAP customers -- a program which is unique in the industry.

To plan and execute tests there are many different products on the marketplace. SAP Solution Manager provides different options that can be utilised depending on which 3rd Party tools are already deployed. This blog focuses on utilising the SAP Solution Manager toolset .

Strategy - The simplest yet powerful design pattern. Why do we need it? And how does it help us in solving our design problems?

Tackling the usability obstacle may be the solution to improving adoption rates, lowering headcount overhead, and increasing transactions. Learn four key steps to getting started with making SAP more usable for your business processes.

We reveal how you can integrate SAP HANA into your IT landscape, what size models and servers are available, and the databases on which the appliance will run. There are many deployment scenarios for SAP HANA: It can be used as an accelerator or as a database or as a basis for applications. The SAP HANA appliance comprises software and hardware. In terms of hardware, SAP works with server providers such as HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Cisco, and Dell.

If you want to build a successful Floorplan Manager (FPM) application, then you have to create a clear structure and follow some important architectural principles. This blog gives a rough overview on how to start designing your FPM.

The ABAP development triangle is a model that describes the trilemma of ABAP development. Three constraints - Performance, Security, Design - are discussed in this blog. The idea of the ABAP development triangle originates from the Project Management Triangle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Triangle).

Understanding the needs of your customers is at the heart of any successful business, but how do you achieve that when you have millions of customers? One way is through effective communications. If you target messages and communications based on customer information that resides in your current systems, you’ll discover great opportunities for increasing customer satisfaction and generating value. Most organizations realize that they need high-quality data to run their business applications, but few appreciate the importance of the unstructured content flooding their systems. In fact, the applications employed by most organizations for customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, and supply chain management handle structured, transactional information, such as addresses, customer numbers, and order numbers very well.

Sometimes we think that its quite easy to do few things like hiding Help button in FPM based applications but when it comes to reality, it’s not that easy(I couldn’t say that it’s difficult too if I don’t know these steps). To make other’s life easy, I decided to write this blog with the steps (with which I have achieved the required functionality).

So all the ALM and SolMan Guru's have been watching with baited breath whilst SAP develop 7.1, move through the ramp-up process, and release it to the world. Well it's here now and since August when it was taken off ramp-up, the industry has been lapping it up.

I've worked across many clients and seen a lot of changes in the SAP world over the years so I'm not the easiest person to get excited about new versions of software that are often heavy on re-branding of old functionality and light on step changes that significantly benefit to our clients.

Did you know that for every inappropriately typed input parameter, the ABAP kernel kills a binary kitten and hangs it on a STRING?