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  1. Lessons Learned from an SAP HANA Cloud Platform Implementation

    Reading time: 19 mins

    Key principles and facts are included in this overview of the design and implementation of a cloud application on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Key Concept Applications consume and expose web service application program interfaces (APIs) that facilitate the re-usability of the capabilities of an application and support the integration into other applications. The following solution...…

  2. A Primer on Information Governance: How to Make Your Information Behave

    Reading time: 13 mins

    Learn how information governance can be applied to one project, or started with one data domain, and can then be extended to the entire enterprise. Ask the right questions to get your company in the right place with information governance, regardless of what system or solution you are using. Key Concept Information governance is a...…

  3. Enhance All Layers of an Application with the New and Classic Enhancement Technologies

    Reading time: 16 mins

    Working in cooperation with the classic append technology, the Enhancement Framework enables you to enhance all levels of an application from the Web Dynpro ABAP user interface over the application logic to the database layer. By going through a comprehensive example you will learn how to use the Enhancement Framework and discover the underlying principles...…

  4. Work with Enhancement Technologies and Make Your Enhancement Project Switchable

    Reading time: 20 mins

    Learn how to work with enhancements of a global class — such as post-methods — and get to know how to plan, structure, and implement a project in which you make your enhancements switchable. Assign the relevant packages to a switch, assign the switch to a reversible business function, and switch the whole project on...…

  5. Understanding Service Level Agreements in Service Desk

    Reading time: 17 mins

    Manager See how the configuration of Service Level Agreements (SLA) works in SAP Solution Manager, with a specific focus on how information moves among configuration objects. Knowing how the objects involved interact allows you to not only perform more effective configuration but also solve problems should anything go wrong. Key Concept SAP Solution Manager’s Service...…

  6. Interview: Michael Pytel on 7.1’s Work Center-Based Monitoring Functionality Technical Operations

    Reading time: 10 mins

    ManagerDiscover the technical and visual features of Technical Operations, a new monitoring feature with SAP Solution Manager 7.1. Learn how it differs from the Computing Center Management System (CCMS), and the expected time to set up Technical Operations. The Computing Center Management System (CCMS) has long been used for its monitoring and alerting features to...…

  7. Benefit from the Upgrade Support of the Enhancement Framework

    Reading time: 15 mins

    Using the new Enhancement Framework instead of classic modification technology saves a lot of time in an SAP upgrade. In contrast to the classic modification technology, all enhancements survive an upgrade. You need only to adjust an enhancement if the underlying SAP object has vanished or been incompatibly changed. The new transaction SPAU_ENH informs you...…

  8. Cloud Computing for SAP CRM

    Reading time: 11 mins

    Learn background information on cloud computing deployment models and see how to select a cloud service to meet your on-demand service requirements. Key Concept Cloud computing is a technology that enables the delivery of on-demand services over the Web on or off premise. Cloud computing can improve your SAP CRM operations at three service levels...…

  9. Help Your Field Teams with Lean Offline Scenarios for SAP CRM

    Reading time: 13 mins

    Find out how you can build lean offline scenarios to support your mobile workforce without implementing a full offline CRM solution. Instead, you can combine some of the standard tools in SAP CRM 2007, such as the Web service tool and Document Template Designer, to enable this functionality. Key Concept SAP CRM 2007 offers standard...…

  10. What Can ACE Do for You? Lessons Learned from a Recent Implementation

    Reading time: 28 mins

    Learn how CRM Access Control Engine (ACE) provides CRM users with just the data they need, reducing the time spent maintaining data. Also learn how to set up business rules in ACE with minimal ABAP programming. Finally, take a look at lessons learned from a recent ACE implementation. Key Concept Access Control Engine (ACE) determines...…