SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs

Academic Study Finds SAP Community Offers High Response Rates, Timely Answers, and Sense of Community

Mark Yolton — 2009-11-11T23:36-08:00

Researchers at the University of Colorado analyzed the SAP Community Network (SCN) - in particular, our discussion forums - in a study examining peer-support communities. They compared SCN to two other such communities. See their conclusions about the culture created through your community participation.

eCommerce Evaluation Guide for SAP Business ONE

Wolfgang Niefert — 2009-11-11T23:23-08:00

eCommerce Evaluation Guide for SAP Business ONE

New developer licenses for NetWeaver on the horizon

Mario Herger — 2009-11-11T22:29-08:00

With the announcement of Code Exchange at TechEd Vienna, we also mentioned in a by-sentence that there will be new developer licenses for NetWeaver available. Let me briefly explain the key changes and the benefits of the new licenses and why it will replace the test & evaluation licenses.

How to Implement Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) with the SAP CRM Interaction Center

John Burton — 2009-11-11T18:44-08:00

This blog describes the steps necessary to implement computer telephony integration (CTI) with your SAP CRM Interaction Center.

10 EA pitfalls that a real EA implementation might experience

Natty Gur — 2009-11-11T16:18-08:00

I saw Gartner's list and I simply had to write my own version (which is based on my experience). 1) Doing EA just for the sake of EA: Enterprise architecture is a mean to reach a goal. If you dont know what is your goal and how you'll use enterprise architecture to reach this goal, you fall into the most common and painful pitfall. There should be at least one goal like to reduce IT cost, better planning and executing of IT, dealing with compliance requirements or even migrating legacy applications to new platform. If you cant provide clear goals and explain how EA is serving you, you're doing enterprise architecture for the sake of enterprise architecture. Regretfully doing EA for the sake of EA will bring your initiative to complete failure.

Webcast, Dec. 8: Driving Customer Advocacy with Loyalty Marketing

Anik Roy — 2009-11-11T13:52-08:00

Over the years, companies have fostered a community of loyal customers by implementing loyalty program strategies. The challenge now: Leverage these increasingly empowered and knowledgeable customers as part of a customer advocacy strategy to build deep, long lasting partnerships. This webcast, part of the CRM Thought Leadership Series, will show how leading companies are leveraging traditional loyalty management to drive customer advocacy. Join us!

Unicode Character and SAP Standard Interfaces based on RFC

Martin Vierling — 2009-11-11T08:43-08:00

Communication between Unicode-Systems and None-Unicode Systems when using SAP Standard Interfaces based on RFC.

Browser Support: Windows 7

Peter Barker — 2009-11-11T07:48-08:00

SAP support for Windows 7

Central CTS - A technology preview

Christian Martick — 2009-11-11T07:45-08:00

This post introduces Central CTS - the next generation SAP Change and Transport System and gives a technology preview

Analyzing Problems Using ABAP Short Dumps: Part I

Stephen Pfeiffer — 2009-11-11T06:57-08:00

It's panic time when your ABAP program writes a short dump in a customer system. Experience has shown that developers tend to rush right past the ABAP short dump in their eagerness to start looking at the problem. But often, the short dump is the best and sometimes the only diagnostic aid that you have. This pair of weblogs explores the diagnostic aids and information resources that an ABAP short dump offers, and how to get the most help out of a dump.

Performance Study: Web Intelligence on top of SAP BW

Thomas Zurek — 2009-11-11T06:56-08:00

This is a kind of sequel to the <a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13398" target="_top">blogs</a> I've posted earlier this year. A long-term SAP customer provided real-world example that shows the performance improvements that have been achieved through the joint efforts of the WebI, ODA and BW development teams.

Live Expert Sessions for you! Presented by IPNW RIG: "Layered Scalable Architecture" is it! for your large scale BWs

Miwa Nakamura — 2009-11-11T06:56-08:00

Live Expert Session information for BW Layered Scalable Architecture @ TechEd2009 Bangalore

Prevent System Down Time with SAP Active Global Support

Jessica Knell — 2009-11-11T06:56-08:00

In order to best support their customers and the software they are running, SAP provides a remote network connection to customers; essentially a direct link between the customer and SAP. A component of SAP's Global Support Backbone, this connection enables communication, between customers, SAP and SAP's software solution partners through a variety of methods allowing the customer to take advantage of many different services and support functions that SAP has to offer.

An unconventional use of SAP Text Analysis

Dr. Marek Kowalkiewicz — 2009-11-11T06:51-08:00

SAP Research has recently released the first ever iPhone SAP application in the AppStore. The application demonstrates the power of SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis in a very surprising scenario. Read more to find out what the application does and how to get it (it's free of charge!).

Thoughts on a McKinsey study on technology and workforce collaboration

Gretchen Lindquist — 2009-11-11T05:56-08:00

A recent McKinsey & Company research study found that between 20 and 50 percent of collaborative activity is a wasted effort; their published findings proposed ways for technology to improve the quality and output of collaborative work. In this post I comment on what their findings have to say about our collaborative work in the SAP Communities.