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Connecting BusinessObjects Dashboards Directly to SAP Tables

Reading time: 12 mins

Learn step-by-step instructions for how to use web service connections to connect directly to SAP tables without using a BEx Query connection. Also learn how to use existing dashboard web-service functionality to pull data directly from SAP BW tables, and to read, write, and modify SAP tables via a web service. The benefit of this...…
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Comparing SAP BW, SAP HANA, and SAP BW on HANA’s Data-Warehousing Capabilities

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Discover how to choose the right data-warehousing platform for corporate reporting and planning. This comparison of the capabilities of SAP BW, SAP HANA, and SAP BW on HANA helps elucidate the best use and benefits of each platform. Key Concept SAP BW Analytic Manager (formerly known as OLAP processor) orders SQL requests in a proper...…
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Get Data From Any Table in Another SAP System: A Generic Way in ABAP

Reading time: 29 mins

Learn a new way to load data from any table in any SAP system to any other SAP system. See how to use a Remote Function Call (RFC) function module call, Runtime Type Service (RTTS), and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) serialization/deserialization. Key Concept A Remote Function Call (RFC)-enabled function module is a function module that...…
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A Guide for Using Embedded BW on SAP HANA If You Get Most of Your Data from ECC

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Gain an overview and a use case for embedded BW, a little-known deployment option for SAP BW with an SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) implementation running on SAP HANA. Learn how SAP BW’s features can be deployed for a low cost and how these features help your SAP HANA implementation reach its full potential. Key...…
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Make SAP Automatic Credit Management Work for You, Without Damaging Supply Chain Efficiency

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SAP offers Automatic Credit Management to automate the risk check during order creation and delivery. Learn how to implement this tool without frustrating an efficient supply chain. Key Concept SAP Automatic Credit Management first became available with R/3 Release 3.0. Using settings in FI and Sales and Distribution (SD), it prevents the shipping or selling...…
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Better Manage Enterprise Risk and Streamline Audit Life Cycle Management with SAP Audit Management (Part 1)

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See how SAP Audit Management can help improve the different facets of the internal audit life cycle including audit planning and preparation while enforcing process control and risk management. Key Concept Audit is a process that defines the time, scope, resources, and other attributes for an audit engagement and documents evidence, results, recommendations, and reports....…
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Set Up Third-Party Orders Right the First Time for Trouble-Free Operation

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For third-party sales operations, it is important to set up master data and conduct continuous maintenance. Ignore these and face significant cost. Key Concept Third-party sales is a typical scenario in today’s competing global economies, where the “best of breed” products are manufactured for a given company by smaller niche manufacturers or associated business partners....…
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How to Use Synonyms and Dynamic Parameters in Procedures with SAP BW Powered by SAP HANA 7.5 Support Package 4 to Compensate for Missing OLAP Variables

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Get a detailed guide (including SAP HANA SQL code snippets) for how to speed up your SAP HANA calculation views by avoiding obsolete data at the database level. (The code in this article can be used as a reference for building your own procedure library for later use.) Learn about a dynamic method for reading...…
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Speed Up Your Profitability Analysis Performance with SAP HANA’s CO-PA Accelerator

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Get a first-hand look at how the CO-PA Accelerator for cost-based CO-PA with SAP HANA replicates data from SAP ERP in real time into SAP HANA for fast access to revenue, cost, and profitability data. Look at some of the most asked-about best practices available now for implementing the CO-PA Accelerator with SAP HANA, including...…
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Best Practices for Extending ESS Globally

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The employee portal in SAP ERP self services iViews are country specific and are not available for all countries. Learn how to extend the SAP personal data services by using configuration without any custom development of iViews. Key Concept Simple configuration tweaks can be used to make country-specific employee self services (ESS) available to countries...…