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Ticket monitoring and reporting with SAP Solution Manager

Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network. This tip is excerpted from “Establish a Production Support Framework Using SAP Solution Manager,” by Allison Flexer, Vice President, Senior Change Manager.  It was published in Solution Manager Expert in September 2010 (Volume 3, Update 8). Reporting capabilities in SAP Solution Manager support the monitoring of tickets and issue response....…

How you can monitor your end users’ SAP experience

The experience that end users have with the SAP system can be a major issue for SAP customers. Companies spend good money implementing a business application that can do so much — but if end users have enough trouble using the system, the investment can go sour. This can result from end users trying to...…

Tips for configuring and administering payroll claims

Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network. This HR tip comes courtesy of Kathy Morris of Symphony Consulting Group, who spoke at our recent HR 2011 event. What Is a Payroll Claim? A claim is a dollar amount that an employee owes an employer due to an overpayment Claims result from net pay less than zero Claims...…

6 pitfalls to avoid when configuring costing variants with SAP product cost planning functionality

This tip is taken from the session “Guidelines for Configuring Costing Variant Functionality to More Accurately Plan Costs for Configurable Products”  presented by Johannes Le Roux, Vice President/Partner, Vortex Software Consulting, at the Financials 2010 conference in Orlando. This tip highlights key steps and pitfalls to avoid when configuring costing variant functionality in the SAP controlling module. 1....…

Data Owner Responsibilities and Characteristics

Authored by Vinod Reddy, Data Migration and SAP MM Techno Functional Consultant, Utopia, Inc.   Every enterprise will definitely have the objective to improve efficiency and effectiveness in managing data. Efficiency will result in minimizing the cost of administering data and effectiveness will result in maximizing the data quality. From my perspective, a data owner should...…

Federated Vs. Centeralized Vs. De-centeralized Data warehouse

— by Dr. Berg Last fall I was speaking at an SAP conference in Australia and was asked what the realistic options were for developing EDWs. After 20 years in this field, I strongly believe that there are only three real options: Federated, Centralized or De-centeralized architectures. And in this blog, I will outline the major differences, issues and benefits of...…

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Customizing your SoD rule set, what’s the big deal?

As I’m finishing up my research for the upcoming GRC 2010 Europe event in Barcelona this November, and just about to kick off the research for our GRC 2011 event next March, I’m noticing there seems to be a lot of buzz surrounding the importance in customizing your SoD rule set and questions on how...…