Blogs

• SAP Application Development and Integration

Why SAP HANA or S/4HANA? Key Enablers That Will Drive Value to Your Business

With the announcement of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), SAP has asked its customers to take a leap of faith. Emphasizing the suite’s benefits, SAP has shared with customers how this latest generation of ERP will address their needs — with SAP S/4HANA you can run simple and reduce the complexity of…

Brazil Nota Fiscal – Insider Tips for Procure-to-Pay

In my previous article, we discussed the importance of contingency for your orders-to-cash process flow. In today’s blog, I wanted to focus on the importance of end-to-end automation from an accounts payable (AP) perspective. Many companies are not addressing the opportunity that the Brazilian invoicing model creates for AP and inbound logistics teams. While there are unique…

• SAP ERP

SAP Lumira – An Introduction

Last year SAP enhanced their tool called Visual Intelligence and made it much more user friendly. In general, the graphs became more advanced, while the self-service data visualization development effort was simplified. They also renamed the tool Lumira. In this blog I’ll take a quick look at some of the features of this tool and…

• SAP ERP

Contract Lifecycle Management: Comparing Ariba and SAP

Organizations that look to manage contracts effectively and efficiently have clear-cut agenda. It wants to mitigate financial risk that might arise due to non-compliance of contract and also effectively manage the relationship with vendors, customers and employees who help in creating value. Managing relationships could be a challenging process if there is no visibility and…

• SAP Analytics and AI

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – A Beginner’s Guide

In this blog we take a quick look at the features of Design Studio. We explore the basic functions and also look at the capabilities of this new interesting tool from SAP. Overview Design Studio is a far superior alternative to BEx Web App Designer. In addition to helping you build more dynamic dashboards, it…

• SAP Finance

Real HANA Performance Test Benchmarks

Over the last 8 months I have been working with a team of people to move a very large  SAP BW system to HANA.  Overall we moved data into a 15TB BW on HANA environment and tested almost 100 of the most used queries. We also tested HANA vs. BWA and HANA data load performance…

• SAP Finance

New Tools for Managing Large Tables in HANA and for SAP BW on HANA

In a ‘scale-out’ environment of SAP HANA, there may be many servers with InfoCubes and DSOs.  Some of these can be so very large and accessed so very frequently that it can lead to bottlenecks, even for HANA.  To fix this, you can partition large tables and move them across multiple servers to provide load balancing. In…

• SAP Analytics and AI

Tips for enhancing standard SAP ERP HCM Infotypes

This HR tip comes courtesy of Sylvia Chaudoir of Deloitte, who is speaking at our upcoming HR 2013 event, 11-14 June in Amsterdam! Get an introduction to enhancing standard infotypes. Step 1: Choose the Infotype to Enhance Enter the Infotype number and press Create All Use the four-digit number, including leading zeros Infotype Version: You may define…

• SAP Customer Experience

Information Operations: The Fifth Dimension of Warfare

The US Military recognizes at least five dimensions of warfare for which it is responsible: Land Sea Air Space Information The fifth dimension, information, has direct relevance to enterprise mobility and mobile strategies. In the military conference I spoke at last week, the other speakers taught me the importance of dominating the fifth dimension. It is a…...…

• SAP Governance Risk and Compliance

BPC 10 tip: Special considerations for security, roles & user access

At our most recent  three-day BPC Bootcamp, Accenture’s Anand Surange shared  his expert advice on securing BPC systems in his session “Critical Lessons for Configuring and Managing Security in Your Planning and Consolidation System.” Anand covered a variety of security concerns, including special considerations and advanced security with BPC 10. Here is a quick tip…...…