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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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Better Management of Change Requests with Extended Transport Control May 15, 2000 — Every implementation and development team instinctively knows that the transporting of change requests is vital to the success of an R/3 implementation. Recognizing that this process can become overwhelming, SAP introduced extended transport control with Release 4.5, so once you define client-specific transport routes, you don’t have to worry about managing into which clients a […]

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Building Your Own BAPIs — A Step-by-Step Guide May 15, 2000 — If you have some experience with crafting applications that utilize BAPIs and want to know how to actually create and implement a BAPI in the event that an appropriate BAPI does not exist, this article is for you. Once you have searched through the BOR and identified the suitable object types for your application, and […]

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A Custom Performance Test — Is It for You?May 15, 2000 — A load test makes sense — in fact, it’s an absolute must — for large, complex, or highly customized systems with add-ons. In these situations, a load test, whereby you physically test a heavily loaded system before it is deployed, is the only way to verify that the hardware sizing, configuration, and parameterization of your […]

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A Three-Step Process for Averting Downtime When Modifying Your R/3 System Mar 15, 2000 — /Project Management Whether your SAP system is still in its settling-in phase, or is one that has been firmly entrenched for years, ushering in new changes is a nontrivial challenge. Even small, seemingly innocuous changes, like rearranging a screen, introducing new headings on a report, or revising your backup practices can introduce downtime. Large or […]

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Destination and Session Management for the SAP DCOM Connector Mar 15, 2000 — The SAP DCOM Connector (SDC) is the standard middleware for Windows applications that require access to SAP functionality. SDC contains an API that offers access to the “destinations” in which R/3 system and user information required for logon is maintained. This article provides an overview of those destinations and the SDC API that enables a […]

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Paving the Way for a Smooth and Successful Integration of Your EDI and SAP Systems Mar 15, 2000 — /Project Management SAP professionals are finding that the integration of SAP and EDI systems is fundamental to many of the e-commerce applications they are being asked to support. All too often, however, SAP teams do not have a working knowledge of their organization’s in-house EDI subsystem, and vice versa. This article aims to bridge that […]

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ABAP Programming – An Integrated Overview Jan 15, 2000 — With Release 4.0 and the debut of ABAP Objects, SAP is replacing the classical distinction between reporting and transaction programming with an integrated view, recognizing the simple fact that all application logic is programmed in ABAP and that the application can communicate with the user via screens and with the database via a common interface. […]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Accessing BAPIs with the SAP DCOM Connector Jan 15, 2000 — This article will introduce you to the basic design principles behind SAP DCOM Connector (SDC), show you how to build BAPI-enabled applications with SDC in Visual Basic, and discuss some advanced concepts for SDC-based applications. In order to keep things simple, we will assume that our applications are built without MTS. So I will not […]

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Extending SAP Business Workflow with Web Forms Jan 15, 2000 — Web forms are the means by which developers can create applications that enable users to start workflows and execute work items from the comfort of a Web browser. A Web form is a simple, intuitive interface, which is made up of a relatively short list of fields and a “Submit” button. This interface obviates the […]

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Lessons in Logon Load Balancing Jan 15, 2000 — In large SAP R/3 environments that require multiple application instances, you can achieve intelligent, automated distribution of workload across multiple application instances, with minimal impact to end users, through logon groups. This article explains how logon groups work and how to use them to establish a logon load balancing strategy that can improve system performance, […]

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