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Get Double Productivity from the Classroom: Master the Art of ‘Speed-Learning’ Popular Courses Such As BW, APO, CRM, and More!
Whether taking a training class or reading a book on most SAP software application products, what at first glance might seem to be new and complex is oftentimes based on something familiar. Newer SAP products such as BW data warehouse, APO, and CRM are no exception. This article uses the mySAP BW module to illustrate...…
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COM4ABAP: A Simpler, Cleaner, Universal Approach to Harnessing COM Objects in ABAP
The SAP DCOM Connector allows communication between an R/3 system and an external application via the “outside-in” approach, but there are times when you will actually need the process to work in the opposite direction. While this was possible in the past, it was by no means easy! Now, with Release 4.6D of the RFC...…
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Need to Get Your Customizing and Testing Ready for a Global Rollout? Use BC Sets and the Test Organizer to Smooth the Way!
Customers with numerous subsidiaries and installations often want to establish an SAP system landscape based upon a common standardized core, otherwise known as a global template, which reflects all of the R/3 settings and data that are specific to a corporate entity. Descriptions of common company processes, instructions regarding how (and how often) subsidiaries should...…
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Data Archiving Essentials — What Every Administrator Needs to Know
As the saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Administrators are well advised to archive data before ailing performance becomes a characteristic of their SAP environment. SAP Data Archiving enables you to keep the size of your database under control over the long term, ensuring improved system availability and performance,...…
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Everything a BAPI Programmer Needs to Know About the Business Object Repository
Trying to develop or use SAP’s Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs) without a solid understanding of what they are, how they are defined in the Business Object Repository (BOR), and what the difference between a BAPI and the ABAP Function Module underneath is, leads to errors and frustration. Beginners are often confounded as to how...…
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Dynamic Documents: Completing the New Face of Reporting
Screen programming and list programming used to occupy two different worlds. Controls programming changed that. The ALV Grid Control allows you to replace tabular lists with control-based tables on screens, and the SAP Tree Control provides a new way of displaying hierarchical lists. But how can you display unstructured output in a control-based environment? Starting...…
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Write Costing-Based CO-PA Reports Your Readers Will Trust — Five Secret Tricks to Building General Ledger Reconciliation into Your ‘Profitability Analysis’ Data
Section 1 of this article is especially for people who consider themselves CBR (Confused Beyond Recognition) by R/3’s “distributed” approach to accounting.1 Section 2 expands on this topic while specifically identifying some needed background information for examining CO-PA report challenges. Section 3 puts a finger on both some well-known and some not-so-well-known integration trouble spots...…
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A Developer’s Guide to the New ALV Grid Control
Within an SAP system there is a lot of data that needs to be reviewed, maintained, and interpreted. Granted, the effort to create a classical list for just simple output of data is minimal, but amass a few lists across a few applications, each created by a different developer, and users may find they have...…
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Defining SAP Service Level Agreements: An IT Manager’s Survival Guide
Given the complexity and investment inherent in large SAP environments, it is quite likely that you and your IT colleagues are being asked to measure and ensure a certain level of service for users of your SAP systems. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) can be of enormous benefit, because it directly addresses a core frustration...…
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Need to Understand a BAPI’s Parameters? Test-Drive the BAPI Inside SAP!
To write a BAPI-enabled application, you must understand all the relevant parameters of every BAPI you want to use in your application. This article shows you how to test-drive a BAPI inside R/3’s test environment in order to accelerate the learning process. Without writing source code, you can find out which parameters, in which combination,...…
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