Tuesday, January 19, 2010

SAP Network Weblogs

SAP Network Weblogs

Pitfalls of EPM being finance driven

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:40 AM PST

Often management reporting/enterprise performance management frameworks are architected from a financial /accounting rule perspective. This makes the framework quiet rigid and removes organization wide business insight that would appeal to every line manager, not just finance managers/analysts. We discuss how we can get there in this blog

Savor Success Before 2009 Fades in the Rear-View

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:19 PM PST

It was supposed to be an awfully difficult year, and it was in some ways, but for the SAP communities and our members it was (surprisingly) positive. We achieved a lot together, made big strides of forward progress, delivered significant value and benefits to each other, and received noteworthy recognition for our achievements. Let's take a moment to reflect on the positives before we move headlong and full-speed into 2010.

A Timeless Software Problem

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:01 PM PST

If looking at successrates of software engineering projects, one must say that the state-of-the art looks disastrous. This blogs summarizes a few facts an observations.

Will Performance Tuning be necessary in BW 7.20?

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST

Will Performance Tuning be necessary in BW 7.20?

Employee Search Options within the Employee Interaction Center (EIC)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:56 PM PST

Explores the Employee Search Options within the Employee Interaction Center (EIC).

Why the portal gets more than its fair share of complaints... and what to do about it

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 01:17 PM PST

I wanted to write a blog post about why the Portal gets more than its fair share of blame when something isn't working correctly and suggest some things that could be done to improve the situation.

Up With Intelligent Mail Volume

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:52 PM PST

The number of Intelligent Mail Full Service mailpieces processed are contuining to grow. Mailers are now seeing the benefits.

Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #14

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:07 AM PST

Did you try using tcode RSA2 in your source system?

14 January 2010 Postal Bulletin Summary

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 09:32 AM PST

Today's Postal Bulletin will not affect Postalsoft Presort.

Streamlining Electronic Payments & Cash Management Using ISO 20022 XML Version 3

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:59 AM PST

ISO 20022 XML and the reasons for adoption.

SAP BPM: Enhancing enterprise operational efficiency and sustainable development capability - Part 3

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:58 AM PST

Introducing how SAP BPM (Business Process Management) helps local Chinese's customer to improving operation and management efficiency as high-flexible and high-agile within whole corporate, and optimizing and re-forming some complicated business processes meanwhile.

Asset data resulting from Mergers & Acquisitions

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:57 AM PST

Mass onboarding of assets to the chart of accounts can prove to be onerous tasks for operational business users already challenged by daily operational needs. In the realm of corporate entities running SAP, that are engaged in mergers and acquisitions, using Desktop integration tools can alleviate some of the hardship resulting from such necessary activities.

XStep Café: New Blog for detailed topics on XSteps, PI Sheets and Electronic Work Instructions

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:53 AM PST

The XStep Café has been a useful source of information for XSteps, PI Sheets and Electronic Work Instructions since 2007. Now a separate external blog page has been created to cover these topics more in detail. There you also find the links to all recorded sessions.

My Brain On Integration: Multi-system Interface Development

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:09 AM PST

While developing a series of bank payment interfaces in SAP and Sterling Integrator I consider the interesting challenges of working with different systems, programming languages, and communications protocols to produce an integration architecture that fulfills a critical business requirement.

Handling zip file entries with special characters and CP437 encoding

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:44 AM PST

This blog is about how to deal with zip files which contain files with special characters or umlauts e.g. German umlauts. With the classes in java.util.zip you can read / create zip files. When you try to read zip files which contain files with special characters you get an IllegalArgumentException (depending on the file encoding) and the file processing is interrupted.
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