Tutorials

Tutorials

• SAP HANA best suited for solving ERP performance issues

  SAP expert Tony De Thomasis lays out a plan for companies looking to deploy SAP HANA.  Continue Reading

• Introduction to SAP ABAP internal tables

  In this SAP Press book chapter download, find an overview of SAP ABAP internal tables. Learn about the different ABAP table types available.  Continue Reading

• SAP Press Chapter Download Library

  This collection of SAP Press chapter excerpts has a variety of information covering project management, software and modules, data management, NetWeaver, administration, and development.  Continue Reading

• Special Report: Getting started with SAP mobile applications

  In this special report, learn about SAP's mobile applications strategy and latest offerings. Find out the details of the SAP-Sybase merger. Read some SAP mobile project best practices.  Continue Reading

• Choosing SAP ERP software for the midmarket, SMBs

  In this special report, gain insight into choosing SAP ERP software for small and midmarket organizations. Read up on the basics of SAP Business ByDesign, SAP's on-demand software for SMBs, and get expert advice and tips on SAP’s on-demand strategy....  Continue Reading

• SAP RFID Guide

  Learn about SAP in the RFID market with this SAP RFID guide. Get SAP RFID tips, learn how companies solve SAP RFID challenges and read about the latest SAP RFID products.  Continue Reading

• Understanding SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0

  In this chapter download, learn about the aspects of designing a data warehouse solution based on SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 and find out how sales analytics makes up one of the most common requirements for BI solutions across organizations.  Continue Reading

• SAP ERP/ECC 6.0 upgrade planning and strategy

  Designing an SAP upgrade stategy is critical to the success of your SAP ERP/ECC 6.0 upgrade project. Find out how to decide whether you want a technical upgrade, a functional upgrade or strategic upgrade, as well as how to measure the success of ...  Continue Reading

• SAP ERP/ECC 6.0 upgrade best practices

  Learn how to overcome SAP ERP/ECC 6.0 challenges and pitfalls, including how to avoid mistakes during the upgrade process, how to minimize the impact of your ECC 6.0 upgrade on your other software systems and how to prevent upgrade project scope ...  Continue Reading

• SAP ERP Central Component (ECC 6.0) upgrade guide

  This guide explores best practices for SAP ERP upgrades, and is designed for an SAP ECC 6.0 upgrade project. Learn how to complete an SAP ERP upgrade audit to determine which SAP components you are looking to upgrade and learn how to overcome and ...  Continue Reading

• SAP Basis training tutorial

  This guide gives you best practices for SAP Basis administration, shows you pitfalls to avoid and provides Basis troubleshooting advice.  Continue Reading

• More functions in SAP Basis: Transactions, security, copying, printing

  Discover how SAP Basis administrators successfully manage SAP Basis transactions, SAP Basis security and other difficult SAP Basis tasks, such as printing and copying.  Continue Reading

• SAP Basis support, SAP Basis jobs and SAP administration books

  Discover the best SAP Basis administration books and resources to help you obtain SAP Basis jobs, get SAP Basis support and build your SAP Basis career.  Continue Reading

• SAP Basis administration tips and tricks: Transports, tables, SAPGUI

  Learn SAP Basis administration tips and techniques that cover SAPGUI, SAP tables, SAP Basis transports and instances, OS troubleshooting, and SAP archiving.  Continue Reading

• SAP NetWeaver Implementation

  Learn SAP NetWeaver implementation tips and NetWeaver deployment advice. Learn how to understand NetWeaver ROI and find development strategies.  Continue Reading

• SAP NetWeaver Configuration and Customization

  Learn how to customize and configure NetWeaver and get tips for SAP NetWeaver configuration. Get tips for NetWeaver development success and extend SAP value.  Continue Reading

• SAP NetWeaver skills, certifications and jobs

  Learn about SAP NetWeaver jobs, find out how to create an SAP NetWeaver career and discover who can benefit from SAP NetWeaver certification and classes.  Continue Reading

• SAP NetWeaver training tutorial

  Learn the answer to 'What is SAP NetWeaver? Get tips for understanding SOA in NetWeaver and learn about NetWeaver components for integration and development.  Continue Reading

• SAP HR and HCM training tutorial

  This SAP ERP Human Capital Management (HCM) training tutorial will help SAP HR and HCM administrators maximize their use of SAP ERP HCM.  Continue Reading

• Managing employees with SAP HR

  Effective employee management with SAP HR is vital for growing the top and bottom line, becoming more productive, and achieving competitive advantage.  Continue Reading

• SAP HR reporting tips and techniques

  HR managers are often tasked with preparing regular business reports to give their superiors a strategic picture of what's going on. Find SAP HR reporting tips in this section.  Continue Reading

• Information technology skills for the SAP HR developer

  Find an overview of information technology skills necessary for the SAP HR developer in this section of our HR tutorial.  Continue Reading

• SAP certification training guide

  Undeniably, certifications can enhance your resume and provide an employer with verifiable proof of your knowledge in one particular area. But what do these expensive pieces of paper really mean in the hard-to-crack SAP job market? Read this ...  Continue Reading

• SAP NetWeaver BI training tutorial

  SAP BI (business intelligence) can help decision makers get better data, quicker. This SearchSAP.com guide explains how and why business intelligence (BI) is used -- providing expert advice, decision-making analysis, case studies and business ...  Continue Reading

• Visual Composer for xApp analysis

  Get inside Visual Composer and its functionality within NetWeaver for composite applications.  Continue Reading

• Part 4: Using Web Design API to export to Excel

  Get inside Visual Composer and its functionality within NetWeaver and for composite applications.  Continue Reading

• Review: Conclusion and additional resources

  Get inside Visual Composer and its functionality within NetWeaver and for composite applications.  Continue Reading

• Part 3: Using Web Design API to export to CSV

  Get inside Visual Composer and its functionality within NetWeaver and for composite applications.  Continue Reading

• Part 1: Architecture of Visual Composer BI Kit

  Get inside Visual Composer and its functionality within NetWeaver and for composite applications.  Continue Reading

• Part 2: Using the native Visual Composer export data functionality

  Get inside Visual Composer and its functionality within NetWeaver and for composite applications.  Continue Reading

• Part 6: Tips and Tools for the MDM Administrator

  This is part 6 of SearchSAP.com's Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5.  Continue Reading

• Part 5: MDM for the Java Developer

  This is part five of the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5.  Continue Reading

• Conclusion - Guide to SAP MDM 5.5

  This is the conclusion to A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5.  Continue Reading

• Part 7: Migrating MDM Configuration

  This is part seven of the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5.  Continue Reading

• Part 4: The OS/DB Product Availability Matrix for MDM 5.5 SP4

  This is the fourth section for the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5.  Continue Reading

• Part 2: MDM Components and Modules

  This is part two of the SearchSAP.com crash course series SAP MDM 5.5: A QuickStart Guide.  Continue Reading

• Part 3: MDM Architecture: How components fit into the MDM ecosystem

  This is the third part of the SearchSAP.com Crash Course A QuickStart Guide to SAP MDM 5.5.  Continue Reading

• Part 1: Select and Install MDM Components

  This is part one of the SearchSAP.com crash course series SAP MDM 5.5: A QuickStart Guide.  Continue Reading

• SAP MDM 5.5: A QuickStart Guide

  This edition of SAP Crash Course offers Java developers and MDM administrators a how-to on Master Data Management (MDM). Learn about MDM components, installation, maintenance, tips and tools for installing and running SAP MDM.  Continue Reading

• SAP BW Guide: Open Hub Service

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open Service Hub. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 2: Open hub component: Creating an InfoSpoke

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open Service Hub. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 7: Activation

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 8: Extraction

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 3: Creating an InfoSpoke: General Tab

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 9: Output

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Conclusion and other resources

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub Service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 1: How to get Open hub service

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open Service Hub. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 6: Creating an InfoSpoke: Selection Tab

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 5: Creating an InfoSpoke: InfoObject Tab

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• Part 4: Creating an InfoSpoke: Destination Tab

  Learn how to control and maintain effective data distribution for a timely business with the SAP BW Open hub service. This crash course will teach the data warehouse professional how to create and execute InfoSpokes within the open hub to be the ...  Continue Reading

• SAP application security guide

  If you're like most IT professionals, security is at the forefront of your concerns. Learn best practices for SAP security and applications security in this learning guide from SearchSAP.com and SearchAppSecurity.com.  Continue Reading

• SAP CRM training tutorial

  The SAP CRM learning guide gathers content from our site, our sister site SearchCRM.com and across the Web to make the CRM decision-making process as painless as possible.  Continue Reading

• SAP and ERP for small business guide

  Small- and medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) rarely get the attention they deserve. To remedy this, we've gathered information from SearchSAP.com as well as our sister sites to compile the ultimate ERP guide for SMBs. Learn about SAP, Oracle and SQL ...  Continue Reading

• SAP security guide

  This handy Learning Guide pulls SAP security information from both SearchSAP.com and its sister site, SearchSecurity.com, to provide the most comprehensive resource around for all aspects of making your SAP system bulletproof.  Continue Reading

• Scenario 5: JCo exceeds the number of SAP-allocated work processes

  Misleading or even indecipherable exception messages seem to be the rule of the day when it comes to debugging JCo connector installation exceptions. This checklist by veteran Java expert Austin Sincock sets the record straight on a number of ...  Continue Reading

• Scenario 6: Installing/porting JCo to other operating systems

   Continue Reading

• Scenario 1: JCo is unable to find the RFCDSK API library

  Misleading or even indecipherable exception messages seem to be the rule of the day when it comes to debugging JCo connector installation exceptions. This checklist by veteran Java expert Austin Sincock sets the record straight on a number of ...  Continue Reading

• Scenario 2: JCo is unable to find the JCORFC library in the system path

  Misleading or even indecipherable exception messages seem to be the rule of the day when it comes to debugging JCo connector installation exceptions. This checklist by veteran Java expert Austin Sincock sets the record straight on a number of ...  Continue Reading

• Scenario 3: JCo cannot load its RFC middleware layer

  Misleading or even indecipherable exception messages seem to be the rule of the day when it comes to debugging JCo connector installation exceptions. This checklist by veteran Java expert Austin Sincock sets the record straight on a number of ...  Continue Reading

• Scenario 4:JCo finds the wrong version of the librfc library

  Misleading or even indecipherable exception messages seem to be the rule of the day when it comes to debugging JCo connector installation exceptions. This checklist by veteran Java expert Austin Sincock sets the record straight on a number of ...  Continue Reading

• Checklist of JCo exception messages

  Misleading or even indecipherable exception messages seem to be the rule of the day when it comes to debugging JCo connector installation exceptions. This checklist by Java expert Austin Sincock sets the record straight on a number of exceptions.  Continue Reading

• SAP career advancement guide

  No matter how much you may love your career, every SAP professional is looking for advice and information on hot career trends and the best options in the IT market. This SearchSAP.com guide gathers premium information from across the Web to prepare...  Continue Reading

• IT checklist: JCo installation exception madness

  Misleading or even indecipherable exception messages seem to be the rule of the day when it comes to debugging JCo connector installation exceptions. This checklist by veteran Java expert Austin Sincock sets the record straight on a number of ...  Continue Reading

• SAP job seeker's guide

  Trying to land an SAP job? You have come to the right place. This Search SAP.com guide gathers expert advice, resources, news and online learning tools designed to get you ahead in your job search and make you a valuable commodity in today's ...  Continue Reading

• SAP BW training tutorial

  SAP's Business Information Warehouse (BW) is a comprehensive business intelligence product centered around a data warehouse that is optimized for SAP's R/3 environment. This SearchSAP.com guide will explain how and why SAP BW is used by providing ...  Continue Reading

• SAP Process Integration (PI) training tutorial

  In this SAP NetWeaver PI tutorial, learn about SAP NetWeaver PI basics, including how to implement SAP PI 7.1 (formerly NetWeaver XI). Find out about the new changes for the integration engine for SAP's implementation of SOA middleware.  Continue Reading

• Basis Learning Guide

  This guide introduces you to SAP Basis Administration, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find Basis articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice and more to pump up ...  Continue Reading

• SAP BAPI training tutorial

  Baffled by BAPIs? This guide explains what a BAPI is, how it's used and where it fits into your integration development. You'll find articles, tutorials, examples, tips, tools, expert advice and more to help you understand and use BAPIs.  Continue Reading