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The following articles are written by SAP experts, contributors from the SAPinsider Community, and SAPinsider’s skilled team of editors and research analysts. From technical guides to thought leadership pieces, these articles contain essential insights to help SAP customers solve day-to-day challenges, understand what types of decisions organizations need to be making, and receive lessons learned from other SAP customer experiences.

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Performance Problems in ABAP Programs: How to Fix Them Jul 15, 2003 — Whatever the cause of your program’s performance troubles, optimizing the runtime of the application requires that you first find out where the majority of the runtime is spent. The first installment of this two-part article series showed you how to use SAP’s performance monitoring and tracing tools to identify the critical actions or code sequences […]

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Put Better Programs into Production in Less Time with Code Reviews: What They Are, How to Conduct Them, and Why Jul 15, 2003 — There is no substitute for a close examination of others’ code before it is released into production. A “code review” is the process of having someone other than the author evaluate a program at various points in the development cycle, prior to placing it into productive use. This article provides a brief introduction to the […]

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SAP .NET Connector for C Programmers Jul 15, 2003 — In the past, the SAP ActiveX Controls and the SAP DCOM Connector were the only options available for writing Windows-specific applications that communicate with ABAP-based SAP components like R/3. SAP has now released a new product for the Microsoft platform, the SAP .NET Connector, which has several advantages over the SAP ActiveX Controls and the […]

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Data Transformation in SAP Standard ALE Distributed Business Processes: How to Ensure an Efficient, Effective Implementation Jul 15, 2003 — SAP’s Application Link Enabling (ALE) is an integrated toolset for distributing data between SAP systems as well as between SAP and non-SAP systems. ALE offers a wide range of tools for performing data conversions between systems, each with its own advantages and limitations. This article outlines these data conversion tools — their capabilities, relative merits, […]

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5 Best Practices for a Smooth Training and Events System Extension Jul 15, 2003 — It is often just a matter of time until companies that are live with R/3’s Personnel Administration and Organizational Management implement the remaining HR functionalities, such as the Training and Event Management component (PE). Once PE is implemented, it makes sense to leverage the investment by employing the application everywhere in your organization where learning […]

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HR Module Maintenance Best Practices Using HR Support Packages Jul 15, 2003 — Almost immediately after implementing the HR module, each customer is faced with the need to keep its R/3 system current by applying HR Support Packages. This article explains how you can continue to ensure a high level of reliability in your production environment by fitting HRSPs into your existing change management process. In traditional, custom-built […]

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Unleash the Power of Dynamic Actions: Tips and Tricks to Get the Best Results Jul 15, 2003 — The Personnel Administration (PA) submodule contains a plethora of interrelated infotypes. Your business process may demand that changes made in one infotype affect the fields of another, or that they trigger an entirely separate activity. Imagine yourself in a situation where you may be required to create a tax infotype automatically for an employee when […]

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8 Steps to Take and 9 Tips to Consider Before You Implement the Travel Management Module for Trip Expenses Jul 15, 2003 — Travel is one of the largest controllable expenses for a company. SAP’s Travel Management module (FI-TV) is designed to help a company manage these costs. The author, who worked for SAP AG as a developer of the module, gives a business process perspective on the technical configuration to help you get started, if you are […]

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Fast Data Conversion, Migration, and Updates for Functional Analysts with LSMW Jul 15, 2003 — SAPepxerts/FinancialsData conversion is no longer a one-time activity. Gone are the days when it was required only during an initial SAP implementation project. Here are some day-to-day business scenarios when you may be called upon to convert data. Data conversion is no longer a one-time activity. Gone are the days when it was required only […]

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Split One Record into Multiple Records for Reports Using Return Tables Jul 1, 2003 — When a report requires that one record be split into multiple records, the method often used is to modify the data in the source system. You can avoid this tedious process by using a hard-to-find BW option called the return table. It allows you to insert ABAP code within an update rule to split the […]

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