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Crystal Reports and SAP BW Hierarchies - Part 2 of 2

Ingo Hilgefort — 2009-07-10T11:10-08:00

In this two part blog series we are talking a look how you can use Crystal Reports in combination with hierarchies but still use drill down.

Integrating risk management and automated controls

Norman Marks — 2009-07-10T07:32-08:00

The value of a top-down and risk-based approach to testing controls.

SAP Freedom Act - Social Media Guidelines

Benny Schaich-Lebek — 2009-07-10T05:20-08:00

SAP recently released it's social media guidelines. While it's actually an internal guideline it is important to the community too.

Marketing 2.0 - towards Total Customer Experience and Customer Loyalty ... the plea for a strategic and integrated CRM approach

Ralf Strauss — 2009-07-10T05:10-08:00

Offering products or services alone isn't enough these days: Organizations must provide their customers with satisfactory experience. Competing on that dimension means orchestrating all the different factors that people pick up in the buying process - and across all customer touch points. This needs to be backed up with modern CRM technology - not as an isolated "point solution" and implemented in and by individual company departments fails but rather to unlock CRM's potential to have a substantive impact on the Total Customer Experience and really drive loyalty.

Well, Isn't That the Point of Tweeting?

Andrea France — 2009-07-10T05:07-08:00

According to a new survey, 54% of professional communicators think Twitter is a fad, but take a closer look at what those who use Twitter for business said.

Category and Subcategory within the Employee Interaction Center (EIC)

Jarret Pazahanick — 2009-07-10T05:03-08:00

We are often asked about how to best set up Categories and Subcategories within the Employee Interaction Center (EIC). This blog will outline some of the key business decisions that should be made up front as well as the technical details on how to set them up in SAP.

The Year of Education: podcast

Gavin Heaton — 2009-07-10T03:05-08:00

A brief podcast with Eric MacDonald, COO of SAP Education, introducing Learning on Demand by SAP.

Are you up for the Home Carbon challenge?

John Astill — 2009-07-09T22:40-08:00

Home Carbon Challenge is a Facebook application that uses the power of social networking to reduce the power consumption in your home.

Generic Data Extraction in SAP BW Decoded - Part 2

Arun Varadarajan — 2009-07-09T19:37-08:00

An explanation into one of the ETL Procedures which people shy away due to lack of information in many cases. I have tried to explain in detail the function module generic extractor and how best it can be used and in many cased to simplify your ETL Design with a view to create more consolidated and complex extractors which would do away with a lot of piecemeal extractors.

Podcast: Building a BPX Business Case for TechEd

Jon Reed — 2009-07-09T15:45-08:00

Recently, I wound up in the middle of a discussion on my Twitter Feed about "Building a BPX Business Case" for SAP TechEd. What began as a conversation with one "BPXer" trying to understand the value of TechEd became a bigger story. I wound up doing a podcast on the value of SAP TechED for BPXers on my web site. I want to share this podcast with the SCN community also.

Webinar: Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times -- Featuring CIMdata President Ed Miller

Natascha Schuberth — 2009-07-09T15:42-08:00

Don't miss this webinar, featuring Ed Miller, President of CIMdata, who will talk about the business value of PLM in an uncertain economy. He is accompanied by Hans Thalbauer, VP of SAP PLM at SAP, presenting significant trends and an outline of SAP's approach to a new generation of PLM solutions. Why is the BPX community a resource that PLM customers cannot afford to miss?

Crystal Reports and SAP BW Hierarchies - Part 1 of 2

Ingo Hilgefort — 2009-07-09T14:44-08:00

In this two part blog series we are talking a look how you can use Crystal Reports in combination with hierarchies but still use drill down.

Load Building -- a powerful tool to optimize your purchase

Nobuhiro Kusumoto — 2009-07-09T14:33-08:00

Load Building (LB) is a powerful functionality, which optimize your purchase, resides in SAP ERP. This Blog introducing LB and validate how LB helps Wholesale Distribution company's procurement process.

Python and SAP Adventures

David Hull — 2009-07-09T14:31-08:00

A follow-up to my blog series on experiences and instructions on using perl to make RFC calls to an SAP ABAP system; this one focuses on the python scripting language.

New Support Page for BusinessObjects Customers

Kendra Vangundy — 2009-07-09T13:52-08:00

A new support landing page is available for BusinessObjects customers.