Tips

Tips

• Privacy and your offshore operations

  Most companies are used to considering the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley on their domestic operations, but thinking about security and privacy offshore is just as important. Contributor Joel Dubin explains how to ensure ...  Continue Reading

• Systems management checklist: Software upgrades

  Software upgrades are an inevitable part of using technology, and it is likely that even the smallest upgrade will alter your system in some way. Although these changes are simply the price, for example, of security patches or better compatibility, ...  Continue Reading

• MySAP CRM: The official guidebook to SAP CRM 4.0

  It is imperative to establish effective sales processes. Working together with marketing, sales order processing, and service, the goal of sales business processes is to establish and enhance business relationships with customers. Learn about sales ...  Continue Reading

• CRM ROI series: Building a business case for SaaS CRM

  If you're considering hosted CRM, take the time to make sure it will yield quantifiable business improvements. In this business case for Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM, contributor Dan Merriman outlines the questions an organization should ask ...  Continue Reading

• Why NetWeaver matters as a composition platform, part two

  Start practicing the BPX role. Have a look at a methodology used in NetWeaver to successfully transition business process requirements into business process models ready to be specified and implemented into composite processes within your domain ...  Continue Reading

• MDM-XI-R/3 integration

  Learn how to integrate Master Data Management (MDM) and SAP R/3 using SAP PI in short frame with SAP NetWeaver as the framework in this tip authored by Bala Subbaiah Gorla of SDN. Inbound and outbound scenarios are presented.  Continue Reading

• Why NetWeaver matters as a composition platform, part three

  Truong completes his introduction to the Enterprise Process Framework by translating business process models into executable and manageable business processes.  Continue Reading

• SAP NetWeaver 2004s kernel updates explained -- Part II

  In the final part of a two-part series, SDN contributer Storm Archer III walks through processes for advanced kernel updates for scenarios like Java and Unix.  Continue Reading

• Calling MDM JAVA-API application (executable) from ABAP

  This tip provided by BV Pillai from SDN details how to call a MDM Java-API executable application from ABAP using the provided MDM TECH 5.5 add-on or workarounds.  Continue Reading

• SAP NetWeaver 2004s kernel updates explained -- Part I

  Learn what SAP kernels do for your SAP systems, where to get them and what factors to consider when applying one in this tip by SDN contributing member Storm Archer III.  Continue Reading

• Set up data encryption between RFC Client and Web AS ABAP with SNC

  Learn how to enable data encryption for RFC connections to ABAP back ends with this how-to guide for the Application Server developer.  Continue Reading

• Why NetWeaver matters as a composition platform, part one

  SDN contributor Andre Truong discusses the benefits, challenges and opportunities NetWeaver presents as a composition platform for enterprise services architecture (ESA).  Continue Reading

• Combining SAP ABAP and Visual Composer

  In this highly graphic and code-filled tip, SDN contributer Thomas Jung details how to use SAP's Portal Eventing to connect output from Visual Composer and ABAP. Jung also teaches how to trigger Portal Eventing using BSP applications.  Continue Reading

• IBM DB2 and Master Data Management

  Over the past year, master data management has become a topic of interest to CIOs seeking to rationalize their enterprise information architectures. What is master data management? And what role can DB2 play in making master data management a ...  Continue Reading

• Specializing your stylesheets with xsl:import

  SDN member Morten Wittrock demonstrates how to create a slight variation on an existing SAP mapping program without copying the entire program and modifying the copy.  Continue Reading