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Tiny details I would love to have on SDN, part 3
Business Process Management with High-Quality Master Data
Big uses from a small feature
SCM Upgrade - Leaping from 4 to 7
Using ERMS to Handle Email Opt-Out (Unsubscribe) Requests -- by John Burton and Vinod C
The Business Processes of Enterprise Information Management
Web 2.0 - The potential of social networks
SAP Inside Track Newtown Square
How to build business mashups based on existing business applications
Are Your Learners 'Over Qualified'?
MaxDB ST05-Trace Fallacy - when sometimes the trace is wrong...
Learning the hard way to REFRESH the internal tables
How to start the program ldap_rfc.exe as a Windows service
SAP Digital Asset Management by Open Text - Creation process

Tiny details I would love to have on SDN, part 3

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:39 AM PDT

This blog discusses the options of integration so-called social media features into SDN.

Business Process Management with High-Quality Master Data

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:52 AM PDT

A new white paper describes how master data quality influences the overall performance of a company and how business process management helps to govern master data across multiple systems in heterogeneous landscapes.

Big uses from a small feature

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:50 AM PDT

Change Source is a small feature that has a clear use -- moving Web Intelligence content from Dev to Test to Production. There is, however, a bigger potential to this feature that is much broader than this narrow use case. This post will describe a use case which could change the ways authors create reports.

SCM Upgrade - Leaping from 4 to 7

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 01:28 AM PDT

We're on SCM 7.0, as of Monday, April 26, 2010. We skipped over SCM 5, upgrading directly from version 4.1. Here is the view from the technology front, what we saw, what we're looking for, and what's next.

Using ERMS to Handle Email Opt-Out (Unsubscribe) Requests -- by John Burton and Vinod C

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 07:27 PM PDT

This blog describes how companies can leverage SAP CRM E-Mail Response Management System (ERMS) to handle Marketing email opt-out requests from customers. In order to implement this solution companies need to implement SAP Note 1455745 (ERMS: Unsubscribe e-mail sender for Marketing Campaigns). Please be advised that the note requires some additional manual steps.

The Business Processes of Enterprise Information Management

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 04:03 PM PDT

When I first started this blog, I called it Processes of Master Data Governance. The point was to talk about the business processes related to creation and approval for master data elements such as new customers and products. This is the most common application for BPM at SAP so far.

Web 2.0 - The potential of social networks

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 03:07 PM PDT

In today's blog post I talk about the potenial (and power) of social networks...

SAP Inside Track Newtown Square

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:39 PM PDT

The SAP Inside Track Newtown Square will take place at the SAP America Headquarters in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, on June 25th 2010. Come join us.

How to build business mashups based on existing business applications

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 10:56 AM PDT

This blog presents several approaches how to enable existing business applications for an re-use within business mashup scenarios.

Are Your Learners 'Over Qualified'?

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 10:53 AM PDT

SAP Learning Solution and Enterprise Learning customers commonly ask how many qualifications are appropriate for a Talent Management initiative. James Rocha shares his experiences with a new technology initiative which lead the company to realize that their learners were way 'over qualifed'.

MaxDB ST05-Trace Fallacy - when sometimes the trace is wrong...

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 10:08 AM PDT

Have you ever seen that the ST05 trace explain plan looked different from what you see in SQL Studio - maybe you ran into a similiar situation like the one I describe in this posting.

Learning the hard way to REFRESH the internal tables

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 07:24 AM PDT

Importance of clearing the internal tables / workareas

How to start the program ldap_rfc.exe as a Windows service

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT

In some scenarios where the LDAP Connector is used one would like to start the LDAP Connector as a Windows service on a standalone machine.

SAP Digital Asset Management by Open Text - Creation process

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:28 AM PDT

SAP Digital Asset Management by Open Text - video showing the creation part of Digital Asset Management.