Determination of the Purchasing Group Attribute
I have worked in some incidents where I could notice that were not clear how the Purchasing Group determination works. Per example, users set the purchasing group attributes in the by role but the...
View ArticleWhy SAP HANA can compute so fast – its scientific approach
HANA is a solution platform that has enabled organisations to run complex business transactional and analytical operations upto 10K times faster than they did before. It would be interesting to know a...
View ArticleWhat is there in a name? How missed best practice and missing structural...
During an implementation for MSS, we came across an interesting issue on Talent Management iView. The manager had 40 odd direct and and indirect employees under him. List of employees appeared...
View ArticleCreate dynamic table into dynamic structure
DATA: l_comp_tab TYPE cl_abap_structdescr=>component_table, l_comp_tab2 TYPE cl_abap_structdescr=>component_table, l_comp TYPE cl_abap_structdescr=>component, l_comp2...
View ArticleMetapedia - What's That Used For?
Information Steward's Metapedia promotes proactive data governance with common understanding and agreement on business taxonomies related to business data. With Metapedia, users have a central location...
View ArticleAuthentic Change....and What's Happening at EMC World?
In my April 22, 2014 blog as the title states,"Redefining IT from a Data-Centric Model to a Business Services Model", I touched on a new paradigm shift. As such, I thought I would highlight a new blog...
View ArticleWebcast: Strategic sourcing: Trends and topics to guide your strategy for...
With a world wide shortage of skills it becomes more and more important to be able to meet the demands of the business. Being able to develop a pool or a pipeline of candidates is crucial to meeting...
View ArticleSalesforce.com Adapter for SAP PI/PO
OverviewSalesforce.com integration with your SAP ERP system is becoming a lot easier with the Advantco SFDC Adapter for SAP PI/PO. The SFDC adapter enables you to read data from Salesforce.com and to...
View ArticleInfoset Queries: Collection of important posts
Infoset Queries: Collection of important postsJogeswara Rao KavalaThe Author posted several documents on Infoset Queries in last 10 months. Basics were not discussed in these documents, because lot of...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Blog Posts do You want on SCN?
I was going to write this blog in a story mode, but after reading The Story of Stone Soup by Ursula Gruen, I didn't think I could do better. In the past couple of months, there have been a plethora...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Customer Engagement? Weekly Round-Up for May 2, 2014
Instagram is Brands' Best Bet for Consumer EngagementNew Forrester Research shows that Instagram has the highest rate of consumer engagement with brands across all social networks. Instagram’s...
View ArticleABAP Text Symbol Analysis Tool
SAP has provided inbuilt text symbols analysis tool. This tool is used for following purposesa) To delete text symbols which are not used in report.b) To create text symbols that needs to be added in...
View ArticleReal-Time Data with #BWonHANA
Here is a quick summary and a list of some useful pointers for customers requiring real-time data within BW. In general, there is 3 options:real-time (0 sec*) w/o any replication via transient or...
View ArticleGoing to an ASUG Chapter Meeting
Yesterday Fairfax Water hosted the ASUG Virginia Chapter / Public Sector Interest Group meeting. You can see the planned agenda at Support your Local ASUG Chapter – You’re Invited to ASUG...
View Article"My SAP Internship" Blog Series: Ross Barrett - Presales
This blog was originally authored by Ross Barrett, SAP Presales Intern as a part of our "My SAP Internship" blog series. My name is Ross Barrett. For the last 9 months I have been working as an...
View ArticleFor my friend Judson Wickham
For those who did not know, Judson Wickham passed away. Judson was a champion of cloud computing and a significant contributor to this community. He and I met when each of us were deploying ByDesign...
View ArticleCorrupt SharePoint account breaks Duet Enterprise workflow publishing
One of our Duet Enterprise customers where I had a.o. configured the workflow capability, requested my support as workflow tasks where no longer published from SAP workflow backend into SharePoint. I...
View ArticleAre you a bad manager? 10 reasons why you might be!
I've been meaning to pen this blog for a while; I've had the pleasure of working with many people over the last 15 years of my career, and for some reason over the last few months, I've had the desire...
View ArticleoData for Everything? may be not!
While building ui5 applications using oData, there were may instances where I had to make any adjustments to represent everything coming-out/going-into SAP in terms of oData. Most of the times, these...
View ArticleMerger Mania: Time of Change Continues for Life Sciences Industry
As the Life Sciences industry finished the first decade of the 21st century, the focus was and has been on restructuring the portfolios to reduce costs, grow revenue and transform their business models...
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