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  1. Secure Your ABAP Code Against Attack

    As new business needs arise, organizations often develop custom code to extend the functionality of their business software. Unfortunately, custom code can sometimes lead to unforeseen risks, including code vulnerabilities that leave your systems open to damaging cyberattacks. SAP NetWeaver Application Server, add-on for code vulnerability analysis helps you mitigate these risks by identifying vulnerabilities…

  2. Migrating Custom ABAP Code to SAP S/4HANA

    Ever since SAP first introduced SAP S/4HANA back in early 2015, there’s been a lot of confusion in the SAP community about what SAP S/4HANA really is and how it will affect the SAP development landscape going forward. With so much misinformation out there, these mysteries can be hard to unravel — especially for customers…

  3. Quick Tip: 3 Methods for Identifying and Remediating Custom ABAP Code Issues When Migrating SAP BW to SAP HANA

    SAP HANA in-memory technology brings improved performance to standard SAP Business Warehouse (BW) processes. Custom development of ABAP code, however, may require some tweaking to optimize its performance and properly harness the power of SAP HANA. This is especially true for custom ABAP programs that were originally designed to run on older versions of SAP…

  4. ABAP Development in the Cloud

    Thank you for registering to read the discussion transcript on taking advantage of the newest ABAP innovations, enterprise-grade SAP Cloud Platform business and application services, and the power of the SAP HANA business data platform to build breakthrough business applications in the cloud. Please find the transcript below. Matthew Shea: Hello, and welcome to our...…

  5. ABAP and the Cloud

    As the longtime foundation for SAP’s solution portfolio, ABAP is central to SAP customer landscapes. To help these customers meet modern business needs, SAP continues to add enhancements and new capabilities for ABAP that bring the latest technologies — such as the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) — to ABAP-based environments. This article…

  6. Fully Integrate Your SAP HANA Database Procedures into ABAP with AMDP

    ABAP Managed Database Procedures (AMDP) is a new technology to embed native database source code into ABAP applications. With the current focus on SAP HANA, ABAP developers now can use database features beyond the scope of Open SQL. AMDPs are available with SAP NetWeaver 7.40 Support Package 5 though some features described here require subsequent...…

  7. Introducing ABAP Platform 1809

    While the cloud has been receiving the lion’s share of attention, a significant number of on-premise ABAP-based systems are running productively in SAP customer landscapes. To support these customers, SAP has released ABAP platform 1809, which serves as the technical foundation for SAP S/4HANA 1809. ABAP platform 1809 delivers a wide range of valuable improvements…

  8. Source Code Documentation: A Comparison of Javadoc and ABAP Doc

    Proper and adequate source code documentation is essential for the effective maintenance of SAP software. Lukas Dietzsch describes the Javadoc and ABAP Doc documentation approaches. See a comparison of both source code documentation strategies, as well as the current functionality in SAP NetWeaver 7.40 and ABAP Doc’s automated documentation. Key Concept Javadoc is an early...…

  9. Improve and Simplify Your Transformations by Using ABAP Objects

    Learn how to use ABAP Objects to improve your business code within transformations. This leads to reduced costs, accelerated delivery, and increased quality. Key Concept ABAP Objects is an object-oriented programming extension of the ABAP language. It can be used to simplify applications and make them easier to develop. Most, if not all, new functionality...…

  10. 20 Uses for ABAP on SAP NetWeaver BW Projects

    SAP NetWeaver BW reduces the need for ABAP for most reporting tasks, but most SAP NetWeaver BW projects could benefit from having an experienced ABAPer available. This is particularly true for data preparation and preprocessing functions. The author shows how an ABAP programmer would be useful in 20 different areas. If you ask a CIO...…