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		<title>Sweetlets – 1st Gold Level Partner in the SAP PartnerEdge Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just received confirmation today from the SAP PartnerEdge Program that Sweetlets has now become a &#8220;Gold&#8221;  Partner within the Partner Type of &#8220;Software Solution and Technology Partner&#8221; due to our successful efforts with SAP. We achieved the next program level (Gold Partner) at the beginning of February 2012 after considerable efforts from our inside team to complete all of the SAP PartnerEdge Program’s evaluation formalities. 1st Worldwide SSTP Gold Partner This accomplishment puts Sweetlets as the very first worldwide SSTP (Software Solution and Technology Partner) Gold Partner. Contributing reasons for our level upgrade include: SAP certified application High &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2012/02/sweetlets-1st-gold-level-partner-in-the-sap-partneredge-program/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2012/02/SAP_GoldPartner_grad_R.jpg" rel="lightbox[6286]" title="SAP Gold Partner Logo"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6289 alignright" title="SAP Gold Partner Logo" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2012/02/SAP_GoldPartner_grad_R-300x176.jpg" alt="SAP Gold Partner Logo" width="300" height="176" /></a>We have just received confirmation today from the SAP PartnerEdge Program that Sweetlets has now become a &#8220;Gold&#8221;  Partner within the Partner Type of &#8220;Software Solution and Technology Partner&#8221; due to our successful efforts with SAP.<span id="more-6286"></span></p>
<p>We achieved the next program level (Gold Partner) at the beginning of February 2012 after considerable efforts from our inside team to complete all of the SAP PartnerEdge Program’s evaluation formalities.</p>
<h4>1st Worldwide SSTP Gold Partner</h4>
<p>This accomplishment puts Sweetlets as the very first worldwide SSTP (Software Solution and Technology Partner) Gold Partner. Contributing reasons for our level upgrade include:</p>
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<li>SAP certified application</li>
<li>High number of satisfied clients</li>
<li>Active participation within the SAP community</li>
<li>Active participation in SAP workshops</li>
<li>SAP event contribution</li>
<li>Influence on the SAP NetWeaver Portal</li>
</ul>
<p>This is great news and a nice reward for the immense efforts from the Sweetlets team in their contribution to making the SAP Portal better.</p>
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		<title>World’s 10 Best Intranets – Sweetlets Customer Scott’s Miracle-Gro Makes the Cut</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nielsen Norman Group recently announced the world&#8217;s 10 best intranets in their 12th annual design contest and Sweetlets very own customer, Scott’s Miracle-Gro Company earns a much-deserved spot high in the rankings. Sweetlets has worked together with the IT crew at Scott’s Miracle-Gro over the years and can attest to the amount of dedication and effort they put into making their SAP NetWeaver Portal top notch for their employees. Continuous improvement and non-stop enrichment of social networking and personalization definitely pushed Scott’s winning intranet to new heights. From the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch: “The 10 organizations with winning &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2012/01/worlds-10-best-intranets-sweetlets-customer-scotts-miracle-gro-makes-the-cut/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.scottsmiraclegro.com/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-6150" title="Scott's Miracle-Gro Logo" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2012/01/SMG-Logo-sans-TheCoHR-300x46.jpg" alt="Scott's Miracle-Gro Logo" width="300" height="46" /></a>The Nielsen Norman Group recently announced the world&#8217;s 10 best intranets in their 12th annual design contest and Sweetlets very own customer, Scott’s Miracle-Gro Company earns a much-deserved spot high in the rankings.<span id="more-6137"></span></p>
<p>Sweetlets has worked together with the IT crew at <a title="Scott's Miracle-Gro Company" href="http://www.scottsmiraclegro.com/" target="_blank">Scott’s Miracle-Gro</a> over the years and can attest to the amount of dedication and effort they put into making their SAP NetWeaver Portal top notch for their employees. Continuous improvement and non-stop enrichment of social networking and personalization definitely pushed Scott’s winning intranet to new heights.</p>
<p>From the Wall Street Journal’s <a title="Marlet Watch - Wall Street Journal" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/intranet-teams-larger-than-ever-nielsen-norman-group-announces-the-worlds-10-best-intranets-in-12th-annual-design-contest-2012-01-03" target="_blank">Market Watch</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The 10 organizations with winning intranets are headquartered in four countries and have an average of 19,700 employees. In alphabetical order, the 2012 world&#8217;s 10 best intranets are:</p>
<ul>
<li>CenturyLink Business (United Stated) &#8211; Telecommunications company</li>
<li>Everything Everywhere Limited (United Kingdom) &#8211; Communications company</li>
<li>Genentech (US) &#8211; Biotechnology company</li>
<li>LivePerson, Inc. (US) &#8211; Communications company</li>
<li>Logica (UK) &#8211; Business and technology service company</li>
<li>MAN Diesel &amp; Turbo SE (Germany) &#8211; Provider of large-bore diesel engines and turbomachinery for marine and stationary applications</li>
<li>NCR Corporation (US) &#8211; Technology company</li>
<li>The ScottsMiracle-Gro Company (US) &#8211; Marketer of branded consumer products for lawn and garden care</li>
<li>Skanska (Sweden) &#8211; Project development and construction group</li>
<li>Staples, Inc. (US) &#8211; Office products company&#8221;</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>A big congratulation from everyone here at Sweetlets to the IT crew over at Scott’s Miracle-Gro Company for making the cut. Great to see their hard work and unrelenting commitment get noticed.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nngroup.com/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6153" title="Nielsen Norman Group Logo" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2012/01/nnglogo.gif" alt="Nielsen Norman Group Logo" width="90" height="50" /></a>Download the Nielsen Norman Group&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Intranet Design Annual 2012: The Year&#8217;s 10 Best Intranets</strong>&#8221; from the Nielsen Norman Group website at <a href="http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/design/" target="_blank">http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/design</a>. And don’t forget to check out the <a href="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sweetlets.com/downloads_public.html?id=604&amp;amp;no_cache=1&amp;amp;file=101&amp;amp;uid=2743&quot; onclick=&quot;trackDownload(this, 'Download', 'Success Stories', 'ScottsMiracle-Gro Pretty Poll Case Study'); return false;&quot;&gt;case study&lt;/a&gt;">case study</a> of how Sweetlets’ very own voting app, Pretty Poll is used to further engage users within Scott’s Miracle-Gro’s SAP NW Portal.</p>
<h4>About ScottsMiracle-Gro</h4>
<p>The <a href="http://www.scottsmiraclegro.com/" target="_blank">Scotts Miracle-Gro Company</a> (NYSE: SMG) is the world’s largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products. They operate primarily in North America, along with businesses in Europe and Asia Pacific, and employ approximately 8,000 associates. The Company was founded in 1868 in Marysville, Ohio.</p>
<p>Scotts currently takes advantage of a wide variety of Sweetlets applications to improve associate productivity on The Garden’s home page. These business packages include <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/world-times/">World Times</a>, <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/quick-links/">Quick Links</a>, <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/events-calendar/">Events Calendar</a> and, <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/pretty-poll/">Pretty Poll</a>.</p>
<h4>&#8220;10 Best Intranet&#8217;s&#8221; Sources:</h4>
<p><strong>Nielsen Norman Group</strong> &#8211; <a href="http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/design/" target="_blank">http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/design</a><br />
<strong>The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch</strong> &#8211; <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/intranet-teams-larger-than-ever-nielsen-norman-group-announces-the-worlds-10-best-intranets-in-12th-annual-design-contest-2012-01-03" target="_blank">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/intranet-teams-larger-than-ever-nielsen-norman-group-announces-the-worlds-10-best-intranets-in-12th-annual-design-contest-2012-01-03</a></p>
<p><a onclick="trackDownload(this, 'Download', 'Success Stories', 'ScottsMiracle-Gro Pretty Poll Case Study'); return false;" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/downloads_public.html?id=604&amp;no_cache=1&amp;file=101&amp;uid=2743">Scott’s Miracle-Gro Company case study</a> with the Pretty Poll voting application</p>
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		<title>DSAG 2011 Annual Meeting Wrap-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another great event from the DSAG just wrapped up. The German speaking SAP User Group’s annual meeting in Leipzig, Germany from October 11-13 drew a crowd of 3,921 visitors with 171 exhibition partners. Sweetlets was on hand with both a booth and of course, our SAP Portal experts. The DSAG Jahreskongress 2011 exhibition was big, colorful and creative and as always &#8211; there was plenty of excellent food. Many of the topics covered were the same hot topics discussed at the September SAP TechEd in Las Vegas – the future of SAP, HANA, mobile, and of course the new 7.30 &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/10/dsag-2011-annual-meeting-wrap-up/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-06-at-2.08.35-PM.png" rel="lightbox[5686]" title="DSAG Logo"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5669" title="DSAG Logo" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-06-at-2.08.35-PM.png" alt="DSAG Logo" width="199" height="121" /></a>Another great event from the DSAG just wrapped up. The German speaking SAP User Group’s annual meeting in Leipzig, Germany from October 11-13 drew a crowd of 3,921 visitors with 171 exhibition partners. <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/news/2011/10/dsag-2011-annual-meeting-dsag-jahreskongress-2011/">Sweetlets was on hand</a> with both a booth and of course, our SAP Portal experts.</p>
<div id="attachment_5692" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/P1040215.jpg" rel="lightbox[5686]" title="A full house at DSAG Jahreskongress 2011 "><img class="size-medium wp-image-5692 " title="A full house at DSAG Jahreskongress 2011 " src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/P1040215-300x225.jpg" alt="A full house at DSAG Jahreskongress 2011" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A full house at DSAG Jahreskongress 2011</p></div>
<p>The DSAG Jahreskongress 2011 exhibition was big, colorful and creative and as always &#8211; there was plenty of excellent food.</p>
<p>Many of the topics covered were the same hot topics discussed at the <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/blog/2011/09/sap-teched-2011-overview/">September SAP TechEd in Las Vegas</a> – the future of SAP, HANA, mobile, and of course the new 7.30 NetWeaver Portal.</p>
<div id="attachment_5693" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/P1040237.jpg" rel="lightbox[5686]" title="Sweetlets booth at the DSAG conference"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5693 " title="Sweetlets booth at the DSAG conference" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/P1040237-300x225.jpg" alt="Sweetlets booth at the DSAG conference" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sweetlets booth at the DSAG conference</p></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>On the Sweetlets end, we saw more and more interest in out-of-the-box solutions, especially with time and budget restraints on the rise. Companies are looking for quick-win methods to increase traffic and portal usability (i.e. easier and more powerful <a href="../solutions/sso-express/">SSO</a> and <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/events-calendar/">intuitive team calendars</a>) and more efficient ways to extract data (i.e. from <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/bw-tree/">BW</a>).</p>
<div id="attachment_5691" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/P1040211.jpg" rel="lightbox[5686]" title="DSAG 2011 annual meeting awards presentation"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5691  " title="DSAG 2011 annual meeting awards presentation" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/P1040211-300x225.jpg" alt="DSAG 2011 awards presentation" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">DSAG 2011 awards presentation</p></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>More information and downloads of presentations can be found on the<a href="http://www.dsag.de/go/jahreskongress" target="_blank"> official DSAG Jahreskongress 2011</a> website (complete slides may require DSAG membership to download).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>See you next year.</p>
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<h4></h4>
<h4></h4>
<h4>About the DSAG</h4>
<div id="attachment_5690" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/IMG_0313.jpg" rel="lightbox[5686]" title="DSAG Jahreskongress 2011 "><img class="size-medium wp-image-5690  " title="DSAG Jahreskongress 2011 " src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/IMG_0313-300x224.jpg" alt="Welcome to DSAG Jahreskongress 2011" width="300" height="224" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Welcome to DSAG Jahreskongress 2011</p></div>
<p>The <a href="http://www.dsag.de/en/ueber-dsag.html" target="_blank">German-speaking SAP User Group</a>: Deutschsprachige SAP-Anwendergruppe e.V. (DSAG) in Walldorf is the independent lobby for users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Founded in 1997 as a registered association, DSAG counts today more than 2,400 member companies and has established itself as the largest SAP user group worldwide.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German SAP User Group’s annual meeting (DSAG Jahreskongress) is here. This year’s event runs this Tuesday, October 11th &#8211; 13th in Leipzig, Germany. Come visit us at booth #C05 &#8211; Sweetlets will be doing live presentations of our SAP Portal solutions for you to see and play with. Visit us at our booth and and talk fact-to-face with one of our SAP Portal experts. Let&#8217;s exchange thoughts on latest portal developments and of course, the 7.30 Portal (as we were on the 7.30 beta program). We would also like to get your experience with the SAP Portal, your road-map, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/10/dsag-2011-annual-meeting-dsag-jahreskongress-2011/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-06-at-2.08.35-PM.png" rel="lightbox[5660]" title="DSAG Logo"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5669" title="DSAG Logo" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-06-at-2.08.35-PM.png" alt="DSAG Logo" width="199" height="121" /></a>The German SAP User Group’s annual meeting (DSAG Jahreskongress) is here. This year’s event runs this Tuesday, October 11th &#8211; 13th in Leipzig, Germany.</p>
<p>Come visit us at <strong>booth #C05</strong> &#8211; Sweetlets will be doing live presentations of our SAP Portal solutions for you to see and play with.</p>
<p>Visit us at our booth and and talk fact-to-face with one of our SAP Portal experts. Let&#8217;s exchange thoughts on latest portal developments and of course, the 7.30 Portal (as we were on the 7.30 beta program). We would also like to get your experience with the SAP Portal, your road-map, and any current issues you may be facing.</p>
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<h4>DSAG Annual Meeting (Jahreskongress) 2011 Details</h4>
<ul>
<li>Date:    <strong>October 11-13, 2011</strong></li>
<li>Place:    <strong>Leipzig, Germany</strong></li>
<li>Booth:  <strong> C05</strong></li>
<li>Info:      <strong><a href="http://www.dsag.de/go/jahreskongress" target="_blank">DSAG Jahreskongress</a></strong> (in German)</li>
</ul>
<h4>DSAG Topics Covered</h4>
<ul>
<li>Keynotes</li>
<li>Customer presentations</li>
<li>SAP Forums</li>
<li>Partner presentations</li>
<li>Partner exhibitions</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/b9377b0def.jpg" rel="lightbox[5660]" title="DSAG Chessboard"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5668" title="DSAG Chessboard" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/10/b9377b0def.jpg" alt="DSAG Chessboard" width="240" height="156" /></a>Get help answering questions like this and more while there:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Which technologies will be applicable to me in real life?</em></li>
<li><em>Which solutions does my business need for its processes?</em></li>
<li><em>Which service models are best required for the future?</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Some 3,500 participants and over 160 partners are expected to attend and submerse themselves in SAP for three big days. Read more on <a href="http://www.dsag.de/ueber-dsag/presse/pressemitteilungen/details/inhalt/Pressemitteilungen/dsag-jahreskongress-2011-in-leipzig-treffpunkt-realitaet.html" target="_blank">DSAG’s press release</a>.</p>
<h4>DSAG 2011 Complete Agenda:</h4>
<p>The agenda for the three day conference can be downloaded via <a href="http://www.dsag.de/fileadmin/media/jahreskongress11/DSAG_JK2011_Programm.pdf" target="_blank">DSAG Jahreskongress 2011</a> (and as <a href="http://www.dsag.de/fileadmin/media/jahreskongress11/Agenda_Homepage.xls" target="_blank">Excel</a>).</p>
<p>We hope to see you there (remember, <strong>booth C05</strong>).</p>
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		<title>“What happens to my custom and 3rd party applications when we upgrade to NW 7.3?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the new NW 7.3 Portal coming out, there seems to be a bit of confusion around migrating applications Here&#8217;s a quick set of guidelines to follow from our portal experts. Migrating SAP Applications SAP actively takes care of the migration in their own components, so the new code for 7.3 is rolled out as part of the upgrade. Migrating 3rd Party Applications This does not apply to any custom or 3rd party applications. Some 3rd party software vendors provide new or compatible packages. Compatible packages (e.g. current versions of Click Stream, World Times and RSS Express) run on old &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/09/what-happens-to-my-custom-and-3rd-party-applications-when-we-upgrade-to-nw-7-3/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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<h4>Migrating SAP Applications</h4>
<p>SAP actively takes care of the migration in their own components, so the new code for 7.3 is rolled out as part of the upgrade.</p>
<h4>Migrating 3rd Party Applications</h4>
<p>This does not apply to any custom or 3rd party applications.</p>
<p>Some 3rd party software vendors provide new or compatible packages. Compatible packages (e.g. current versions of Click Stream, World Times and RSS Express) run on old and new portals as well, so you don’t need to worry about migration. Other packages only run either one or the other platform.</p>
<h4>Our Recommendation:</h4>
<p>Before you upgrade to the 7.30 portal, contact all suppliers and vendors of your applications and ask for 7.3 compatibility. Keep in mind, it may take them some time to adjust their applications to the new platform, so don’t wait until you go live!</p>
<p>And in case you have custom applications installed (not just SAP or 3rd party), and want to upgrade your portal to 7.3, take a look at this <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/04/6c444aa960490e8fe9e0361b7f39e7/frameset.htm" target="_blank">&#8220;Migrating Portal Applications&#8221;</a> guide from SAP.</p>
<p>Still got questions and not sure what your next best steps are? We do offer consulting, so get in touch with us.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SAP TechEd 2011 conference wrapped up in Las Vegas last week. This is SAP&#8217;s biggest conference with over 6500 visitors. Here is a quick overview of the event from our perspective. SAP TechEd Pre-Conference Monday evening unofficially started the conference with a guest key note session from Jane McGonigal. She spoke about games and how games can change the world. This led to controversial discussions about the gamification of IT in the audience. SAP TechEd 2011 Keynotes Tuesday, Hasso Plattner introduced the executive keynote with a recorded video message. He explained that SAP has started fundamental changes, but at &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/09/sap-teched-2011-overview/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_5589" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/LasVegas.jpg" rel="lightbox[5579]" title="Las Vegas"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-5589" title="Las Vegas" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/LasVegas-150x102.jpg" alt="Las Vegas" width="150" height="102" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">TechEd 2011 in Las Vegas</p></div>
<p>The SAP TechEd 2011 conference wrapped up in Las Vegas last week. This is SAP&#8217;s biggest conference with over 6500 visitors. Here is a quick overview of the event from our perspective.</p>
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<h4>SAP TechEd Pre-Conference</h4>
<p>Monday evening unofficially started the conference with a guest key note session from Jane McGonigal. She spoke about games and how games can change the world. This led to controversial discussions about the gamification of IT in the audience.</p>
<h4>SAP TechEd 2011 Keynotes</h4>
<div id="attachment_5591" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/KeyNote.jpg" rel="lightbox[5579]" title="Executive Key Note Session"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5591  " title="Executive Key Note Session" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/KeyNote-300x195.jpg" alt="Executive Key Note Session (Vishal Sikka) at the SAP TechEd 2011" width="300" height="195" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Executive Key Note Session (Vishal Sikka) at the SAP TechEd 2011</p></div>
<p>Tuesday, Hasso Plattner introduced the executive keynote with a recorded video message. He explained that SAP has started fundamental changes, but at the same time SAP continues to support existing installations.</p>
<p>Vishal Sikka followed with a brief overview on SAP&#8217;s strategy &#8211; HANA shall improve the performance of SAP applications, Sybase technologies will make them more mobile and Cloud services shall reduce the maintenance costs per client.</p>
<h4>SAP Portal News</h4>
<p>SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.3 has generally been available for more than three months.<br />
Many customers visited sessions and workshops at TechEd to learn more about the new portal release, how to upgrade from their current, or how to customize the look and feel.<br />
As always, we are not sure how reliable the information is that SAP gave us about the future plans, but here is a short summary:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAP has announced that all business packages are now compatible with NW7.3.</li>
<li>SAP wants to keep the portal as the central entry point to all SAP and also non-SAP systems.</li>
<li>At the end of this year, a mobile enabled framework page shall go into ramp-up as part of NW7.3 Portal SP6, which shall be released in the first half of 2012.</li>
<li>For the future, SAP plans to release a portal that is designed first for mobile devices, but also runs on desktops.</li>
<li>In a later stage Sybase HTML containers shall enable even more device specific functionality on mobile devices for the portal.</li>
<li>HANA shall be used to bring the most popular content to the top in real time to make sure that only the most relevant content is displayed on the small mobile device screen.</li>
<li>SAP plans private portals in the cloud and hosted on-demand sites.</li>
<li>Enterprise Workspaces are generally available and approximately 50 customers use it already. However the interest in this platform was very low.</li>
<li>Open Text and SAP have recently announced a Portal Site Management tool as well as a Portal Content Management tool. The release is planned for end of this year. SAP will sell this solution as an SAP product and also offer support for it. The user interface for the portal has some restrictions in terms of usability that we know from other WebDynpro based applications. Only very few participants listened to the sessions about this solution.</li>
</ul>
<h4>SAP HANA</h4>
<p>SAP has announced HANA end of last year. In the mean time this technology is generally available and first customers use it already. With several sessions and a dedicated demo area in the exhibition of the conference, SAP emphasized the strategic role of this new technology. Below there is a short summary of the current status of HANA and what we learned about HANA at TechEd in Las Vegas.</p>
<div id="attachment_5596" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/HanaSystem.jpg" rel="lightbox[5579]" title="Hana System"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5596  " title="Hana System" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/HanaSystem-300x224.jpg" alt="HANA system in action" width="300" height="224" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">HANA system in the exhibition area of the SAP TechEd 2011 conference</p></div>
<ul>
<li>HANA is an In-Memory Database.</li>
<li>HANA is currently only available as an addition to an existing classical database infrastructure.</li>
<li>HANA is currently only available for Business Objects.</li>
<li>The next platform that will support HANA is BW.</li>
<li>In the future it is planned to run the whole SAP infrastructure including ERP on HANA instead of a classical Oracle database.</li>
<li>Today data are dumped into HANA from a classical ERP system and delta updates keep the data synchronized with the original tables.</li>
<li>HANA was developed by SAP using C++ as a programming language.</li>
<li>Column based data access allows better use of parallel computing capabilities of modern CPUs which increases the computational performance.</li>
<li>SAP recommends to use HANA with at least 128GB of RAM memory.</li>
<li>Certified server hardware is available at five vendors.</li>
<li>Hardware pricing starts at approximately $100.000 for a normal HANA implementation.</li>
<li>Additionally, HANA Software can be purchased from SAP.</li>
<li>SAP recommends to implement HANA with consulting support from SAP.</li>
<li>HANA can be accessed using an eclipse based development tool.</li>
<li>HANA supports normal SQL queries and JDBC.</li>
<li>Use of JDBC is not supported outside of Business Objects.</li>
<li>Read <a href="http://www.experiencesaphana.com/" target="_blank">more about HANA</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>And there you have it, a quick run down of what people were talking about at the 2011 SAP TechEd. If you have any comments or would like to add, please feel free to do so below.</p>
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		<title>Just released – RSS Express Now Compatible with NW 7.30</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete 7.30 integration now available in the latest version of Sweetlets’ RSS Express &#8211; adding RSS feeds to the latest portal version has never been easier. The latest NW 7.30 portal release involved a bit of tweaking from our developers to adapt our RSS Express application. SAP&#8217;s new Java version required a different  code for the style sheets in the end user front end. Also, the URL of the portal style sheet had changed, so this involved a few adjustments. This is now the second Sweetlets business package (after Click Stream analytics) that supports automated portal upgrade to the NetWeaver &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/09/just-released-rss-express-now-compatible-with-nw-7-30/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Complete 7.30 integration now available in the latest version of Sweetlets’ RSS Express &#8211; adding RSS feeds to the latest portal version has never been easier. <span id="more-5491"></span></p>
<p>The latest NW 7.30 portal release involved a bit of tweaking from our developers to adapt our RSS Express application. SAP&#8217;s new Java version required a different  code for the style sheets in the end user front end. Also, the URL of the portal style sheet had changed, so this involved a few adjustments.</p>
<div id="attachment_5495" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/RSS_Express_NW7.30.png" rel="lightbox[5491]" title="RSS Express NW7.30"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5495 " title="RSS Express NW7.30" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/RSS_Express_NW7.30-300x158.png" alt="RSS Express inside the latest version of the SAP NetWeaver Portal - NW 7.30" width="300" height="158" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">RSS Express inside the latest version of the SAP NetWeaver Portal - NW 7.30</p></div>
<p>This is now the second Sweetlets business package (after Click Stream analytics) that supports automated portal upgrade to the NetWeaver 7.30. From IT down to your end users, pushing RSS feeds to your audience could not be easier &#8211; a real win-win solution for everyone.</p>
<p>If you have any questions about the NW 7.30 (Sweetlets took part in the 
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<h4>About RSS Express &#8211; Feeds for your SAP Portal</h4>
<p>RSS Express simply offers a more powerful interface than the standard tools:</p>
<h4>Single style look and feel</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unified SAP Portal theme</li>
<li>Seamless integration into the SAP Portal (all versions)</li>
<li>Super user-friendly</li>
</ul>
<h4>Portal administrators</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ability to push information from various sources (either self-made rss feeds or paid 3rd party feeds)</li>
<li>Push feeds based on groups and roles</li>
<li>Re-use the iView multiple times to push different feeds to different groups or areas</li>
</ul>
<h4>Portal end users</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easily customize the number of items displayed</li>
<li>Quickly arrange feed order</li>
<li>Unique to each user</li>
<li>Shared service (ability to logon from diff. computer and still get personal feeds)</li>
<li>RSS feeds updated automatically</li>
</ul>
<h4>Maintenance &amp; performance</h4>
<ul>
<li>Compatible with any portal version or SP stack (inc. NW 7.30)</li>
<li>Smooth running, no maintenance.</li>
<li>Server side content cache &#8211; performance optimized for many users</li>
</ul>
<p>Curious about RSS Express in your SAP Portal? Free, fully functional versions <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/rss-express/try-buy/">available for download</a></p>
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		<title>SAP MaxDB – Now Available for Click Stream Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through client request, the latest release of the Click Stream analytics business package supports SAP MaxDB. A Quick Intro to SAP MaxDB SAP MaxDB is a database management system you can count on to manage your midsize company for current productivity and future growth, without compromising the flexibility your customers have come to expect. Affordable and reliable from start-up, SAP MaxDB self manages so effectively that you also reduce expensive downtime significantly and save on training costs. SAP MaxDB supports a wide range of operating systems, eliminating the specter of new hardware constraints, consistently winning high marks for usability and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/09/sap-maxdb-now-available-for-click-stream-anlaytics/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Through client request, the latest release of the Click Stream analytics business package supports SAP MaxDB.<span id="more-5560"></span></p>
<h4>A Quick Intro to SAP MaxDB</h4>
<p>SAP MaxDB is a database management system you can count on to manage your midsize company for current productivity and future growth, without compromising the flexibility your customers have come to expect. Affordable and reliable from start-up, SAP MaxDB self manages so effectively that you also reduce expensive downtime significantly and save on training costs.</p>
<p>SAP MaxDB supports a wide range of operating systems, eliminating the specter of new hardware constraints, consistently winning high marks for usability and performance. And when you choose additional applications from SAP, integration is predictable and comfortable</p>
<h4>Click Stream and MaxDB</h4>
<p>The Click Stream Development Team discussed the advantages of MaxDB with iTechnology (<a href="http://www.itechnology.de" target="_blank">www.itechnology.de</a>) a company that specialized in developing applications for MaxDB Database. Itechnology recommended MaxDB based on their expertise and experienced with clients in various industries.</p>
<ul>
<li>MaxDB is a database management system developed and supported by SAP AG</li>
<li>It has its focus on the requirements of SAP customers and SAP applications</li>
<li>It has to pass SAP&#8217;s rigorous quality assurance process before being released</li>
<li>SAP MaxDB can also be used with non-SAP applications for free</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information, read the <a href="http://maxdb.sap.com/license/MaxDB_Community_License_2007.pdf" target="_blank">SAP MaxDB Community License</a>. Also, <a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/maxdb-downloads" target="_blank">SAP MaxDB version 7.8</a> has been published on SCN and is now available for download.</p>
<h4>Features of SAP MaxDB</h4>
<p>The database management system scales easily for future increases in business volume, so you don’t lose your responsiveness to customers as your company grows.</p>
<ul>
<li>SAP MaxDB Supports interfaces such as SQL92, JDBC and ODBC</li>
<li>Space management and log backup are automatic</li>
<li>Support CPU load balanced by default</li>
<li>Support Multiple log partitions allowing parallel log writing</li>
<li>Default settings for System monitoring supported</li>
<li>Support identification of clients running commands</li>
<li>Automatic recreation of bad indexes is configurable</li>
<li>Software installations are fully isolated from each other</li>
<li>Full SQL support</li>
<li>Transaction Management supported</li>
<li>Flexible bulk loader</li>
<li>Hot stand by</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Should You Consider SAP MaxDB?</h4>
<p>SAP MaxDB can meet or exceed stringent performance requirements in both SAP and non-SAP environments:</p>
<p>With SAP MaxDB, you gain a single, proven business management application that   streamlines operations and supports your processes for accounting, sales, purchasing, inventory management, human capital management, and analytical reporting in one user-friendly environment.</p>
<ul>
<li>Minimal administration is required to run SAP MaxDB</li>
<li>Low cost  of ownership and easy maintenance</li>
<li>Easy  installation of MaxDB on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating Systems</li>
<li>MaxDB integrates quickly and work seamlessly with a wide variety of enterprise applications</li>
<li>MaxDB is an less expensive alternative to databases from other vendors</li>
</ul>
<h4>Operating Systems Supported By SAP MaxDB</h4>
<ul>
<li>SAP MaxDB is available on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and UNIX and for the most prominent hardware platforms (see <a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/maxdb?rid=/webcontent/uuid/b0f9ded6-6255-2910-5f85-e9d60545602d" target="_blank">Getting Started with SAP MaxDB</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Installation of SAP MaxDB</h4>
<ul>
<li>(see <a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/maxdb?rid=/webcontent/uuid/707ce80e-3b53-2910-529c-dce412dfe9b1" target="_blank">Installation on Microsoft Windows and Linux</a>)</li>
<li>Installation of MaxDB in Clickstream</li>
<li>MaxDB was installed on Ubuntu 11.04 following the steps in the installation Document.( see <a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/maxdb?rid=/webcontent/uuid/707ce80e-3b53-2910-529c-dce412dfe9b1" target="_blank">Installation on Microsoft Windows and Linux</a>)</li>
<li>Also installed is a tool for configuring, managing and monitoring SAP MaxDB Database called Database Studio</li>
<li>Total installation lasted about 2 Hours.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Configuration of MaxDB for Clickstream</h4>
<p>Configuring MaxDB for Click Stream in your portal is quite easy. Simply follow these steps:</p>
<ul>
<li>Log on to the Database via Database Studio as Database administrator</li>
<li>In the context menu of Servers, choose Administration Tasks Create Database</li>
<li>Create a new database in Simple mode (system default)</li>
<li>All important database properties are pre-configured, but you can still adjust some of them during the creation of the database</li>
<li>MaxDB has two user Classes, RESOURCE and STANDARD USERS</li>
<li>For Clickstream we created Resource user with EXCLUSIVE mode of Connection</li>
<li>Users belonging to this class can define Data and create database Procedures</li>
<li>And Grant privileges for their database objects to other database users</li>
</ul>
<h4>Experienced with Database Script for Click Stream</h4>
<p>Here is our take-away after using:</p>
<ul>
<li>The SQL Scripts for creating the Database tables, Constraints and indexes are syntactically similar to those of Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL</li>
<li>On the other hand, there existed more similarities with Data Manipulation Language Statement for MSSQL than with Oracle and DB2</li>
<li>Database functions like “IF EXISTS” are not supported by MaxDB Except as a Conditional Statement “WHERE EXISTS”</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information, visit the <a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/solutions/click-stream/">Click Stream home page</a>.</p>
<p>Feel free to leave us your comments below.</p>
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		<title>NetWeaver 7.30 – 2 Great Starting Point Resources Worth Bookmarking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those that don’t know about the 7.30 Portal, here is a handy overview and a great link-list resource. SAP NetWeaver Portal: News Blog This blog is a great link-list highlighting new presentations, how-to guides,7.30  blogs, etc. which are new in the area of the SAP NetWeaver Portal. (SDN login required) Ameya’s Blog: Comparison between SAP Netweaver portal 7.0 EhP 2 &#38; 7.3 Ameya is on top of his game when it comes to the NW Portal. In this post, Ameya “tabulated a comparison between features available in 7.3 and what are available in EhP 2.”  Super handy and a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/09/netweaver-7-30-2-great-starting-points/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
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<h4><a href="http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/26011">SAP NetWeaver Portal: News Blog</a></h4>
<p>This blog is a great link-list highlighting new presentations, how-to guides,7.30  blogs, etc. which are new in the area of the SAP NetWeaver Portal.</p>
<p>(SDN login required)</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.ameyablog.com/netweaver/netweaver-portal/comparison-between-sap-netweaver-portal-7-0-ehp-2-7-3/">Ameya’s Blog: Comparison between SAP Netweaver portal 7.0 EhP 2 &amp; 7.3</a></h4>
<p>Ameya is on top of his game when it comes to the NW Portal. In this post, Ameya “tabulated a comparison between features available in 7.3 and what are available in EhP 2.”  Super handy and a great visual contrast between the two.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; Don&#8217;t forget, we were involved in the beta program for the NW 7.30 Portal. So if you have any questions, we can help &#8211; or in the very least, point you in the right direction.</p>
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		<title>Tracking SAP Portal Usage with Google Analytics – 10 Critical Areas Not to Overlook</title>
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		<dc:creator>Burt Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have many clients who approach us on their quest for the best SAP Portal usage tracking tool. Time and time again, Google Analytics comes up in their research. We decided to help those searching with a few essential items they should be on the lookout for before implementing. Hope this helps. P.S. – This will be the first in a long series of postings comparing the various analytical tools on the market for tracking SAP Portal usage and what your options are. If you are interested in the whitepaper (due before the end of 2011), email with “Analytics Whitepaper” &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/2011/09/tracking-sap-portal-usage-with-google-analytics-10-critical-areas-not-to-overlook/">Read more ...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_5634" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/sap_portal_google_analytics.jpg" rel="lightbox[5520]" title="sap_portal_google_analytics"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5634 " title="sap_portal_google_analytics" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/sap_portal_google_analytics-300x91.jpg" alt="Google Analytics for your SAP Portal?" width="300" height="91" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Analytics for your SAP Portal?</p></div>
<p>We have many clients who approach us on their quest for the best SAP Portal usage tracking tool. Time and time again, Google Analytics comes up in their research. We decided to help those searching with a few essential items they should be on the lookout for before implementing. Hope this helps.<span id="more-5520"></span></p>
<p><em><strong>P.S. </strong><strong>–</strong> This will be the first in a long series of postings comparing the various analytical tools on the market for tracking SAP Portal usage and what your options are. If you are interested in the whitepaper (due before the end of 2011), email 
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<p>First things first &#8230;</p>
<h4>So what is Google Analytics and how does it work?</h4>
<div id="attachment_5525" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/extra.jpg" rel="lightbox[5520]" title="Google Analytics flow chart"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5525   " title="Google Analytics flow chart" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/extra-300x236.jpg" alt="Google Analytics flow chart" width="300" height="236" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Analytics flow chart (Image from &quot;Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics&quot; by Brian Clifton)</p></div>
<p>Google Analytics is a free web analytics tool which is mainly targeted at advertisers to analyze if their advertising model works as expected. Google provides this service for free with the expectation that you are a potential customer of Google through its advertising products, AdWords and AdSense. Therefore, it provides strong integration with those products.</p>
<p>Google Analytics uses page tagging, which is one of the data collection method out of two major methods including web server log files. Page tags are simply JavaScript code snippet that collects data from visitor’s web browser when they are executed on page load. Google’s page tagging code calls the JavaScript file, Google Analytic Tracking Code (GATC), from Google. GATC does the job by collecting information including referral to current page, visitor related data and creating cookies. Collected information by GATC is sent to the Google data collection servers. Finally, Google processes those data, and reflects the updates on your report.</p>
<h4>10 Essential Items to Keep in Mind when Considering Google Analytics</h4>
<p>We&#8217;ve boiled it down to 10 key points that you should keep in mind if you consider Google Analytics as your web or portal analytics solution:</p>
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<h4>1. Lack of Real-Time Reporting</h4>
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<div id="attachment_5523" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/Image1.jpg" rel="lightbox[5520]" title="Google Analytics Dashboard for SAP NetWeaver Portal"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5523 " title="Google Analytics Dashboard for SAP NetWeaver Portal" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/Image1-300x292.jpg" alt="Google Analytics dashboard example for the SAP NetWeaver Portal" width="300" height="292" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Analytics dashboard example for the SAP NetWeaver Portal</p></div>
<p>Due to great amount of collected information for all the Google Analytics users and geographical propagation of the data collection servers, reports are updated hourly with the analytics data remained from 3 to 4 hours earlier. Therefore, the report that you currently view will be the report of 3 to 4 hours earlier if everything goes well. In some cases, due to interruption on transferring log files to Google servers, it might take 24 hours to reflect changes on your report. For the portal analytics this might be the main concern for you.</p>
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<h4>2. Data Storage Time Frame</h4>
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<p>Google doesn’t guarantee to keep your data older than 25 months on their server. If you want to keep your reports for longer period, which should be the case for portal analytics, you need to export them locally into raw files or some readable formats like pdf. Of course, this won’t give you a wide range of view of your reports.</p>
<h4>3. Erroneous Information</h4>
<p>Collected data with GATC are added onto the latest report at Google Analytics, and this process cannot be interrupted in case of any erroneous data collection due to problems on your portal or page tagging. Therefore, your reports will have the erroneous information on them, and Google Analytics doesn’t allow editing the reports to take them to an earlier state.</p>
<h4>4. User Depended Reports</h4>
<p>Because of Google’s privacy policy, you cannot track individual users of your portal. Therefore, you cannot take the advantage of the insight that comes from individual visitors’ usage attitudes. This might give such valuable information like click path of users on your portal and user activity reports including comparison of each users.</p>
<h4>5. No Intranet Access</h4>
<p>It is not possible to use Google Analytics on your intranet which is closed for internet access or behind a firewall, because GATC cannot send any data to Google data collection servers in both situations. In these cases you have to choose an analytics option that is able to collect analytics data into dedicated machine in your intranet network.</p>
<h4>6. Dependency on JavaScript and Cookies</h4>
<div id="attachment_5550" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/cookies_javascript.jpg" rel="lightbox[5520]" title="cookies_javascript"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5550 " title="cookies_javascript" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/cookies_javascript-300x182.jpg" alt="Cookies and JavaScript management in Firefox" width="300" height="182" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Cookies and JavaScript management in Firefox</p></div>
<p>As mentioned earlier, Google Analytics depends on your browser’s JavaScript support and Cookies. Disabling JavaScript support or a problem resulted from another JavaScript code on the web page cause stopping the JavaScript engine of the visitor’s web browser. Visitors can also disable or remove the cookies from their web browsers, as well as some antispyware applications and firewalls can do. This might skew your analytics reports. But, page tagging method as Google Analytics uses gives more analytics information that you can get from server log files.</p>
<h4>7. Your Company&#8217;s Privacy Policy</h4>
<p>With Google Analytics, data collecting and processing belongs to Google. This might be preferable if you believe that sending your analytics data to third parties won’t be a problem, as well as if you are trying to avoid maintaining additional hardware and software for analytics purposes in your company. On the other hand, you may have concerns related with sharing your analytics data with Google. In this case, you need to prefer an analytics solution that collects the visitor data on a dedicated machine in your internal network.</p>
<h4>8. Privacy Consideration of User</h4>
<p>Thanks to the today’s media, web users are more aware and concern about their privacy on internet. Google Analytics is a client-side tool, which makes the portal user aware of it through the additional requested GATC’s URL on page loading or locally inserted Google Analytics cookies. It is known that user behavior might be affected under the knowledge of that they are being tracked, as well as they might complain about tracking their visits on web. Such concerns may lead the visitors to use browser add-ons like “AdBlock Plus” to block Google Analytics script ga.jsp. Additionally, Google also offers a browser add-on to block data collection from all websites using Google Analytics. In this case, you might be looking for an analytics solution which does the job at server-side with server log files instead of page tagging as Google Analytics does. However, you cannot get as rich analytics reports as you get from page tagging.</p>
<h4>9. Free, but … Implementation Costs</h4>
<div id="attachment_5524" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/Image2.jpg" rel="lightbox[5520]" title="Google Analytics Content Performance report"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5524 " title="Google Analytics Content Performance report" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/Image2-300x124.jpg" alt="Google Analytics Content Performance report for SAP Portal pages" width="300" height="124" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Analytics Content Performance report for SAP Portal pages</p></div>
<p>Google Analytics is a free tool; however a correct implementation and analyzing reports in case of erroneous data collection need keeping additional staff in your company for analytics. Simply adding Google’s tag on your portal won’t result readable reports unless you provide the necessary values e.g. correct navigation path names of your portal to Google. [See image to right] Therefore, using Google Analytics might seem a cheap solution at first, but it might be laborious task if you don’t have a simple web site or a portal.</p>
<h4>10. Page “Hits” Variation</h4>
<p>There is a limitation with the “hits” that your web site sends. According to Google “Each pageview, ecommerce transaction, custom variable or event triggered on your site sends a hit to Google Analytics.” and “…a single view of a web page can send multiple hits to Google Analytics”. If your portal sends “hits” more than 10 million each month, exceeding number of hits might not be processed unless you are a Google AdWords customer. Again, if your web site sends 1 million hits per day, your report will be updated once a day, which results updating of some metrics every two days. These limits needs attention if you have a portal having high visitor volume daily.</p>
<h4>An Alternative from Google &#8211; Urchin</h4>
<div id="attachment_5635" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 199px"><a href="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/urchin.jpg" rel="lightbox[5520]" title="urchin"><img class="size-full wp-image-5635 " title="urchin" src="http://www.sweetlets.com/w/uploads/2011/09/urchin.jpg" alt="An alternative from Google - Urchin" width="189" height="57" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">An alternative from Google - Urchin</p></div>
<p>Some of the mentioned problem can be solved by choosing an analytics software that is installed in your intranet instead of an on demand analytics service provider like Google analytics. One of the alternative is Google’s software Urchin. Urchin offers both raw server log file analyze and page tagging method. They are called IP+User Agent and Urchin Traffic Monitor (UTM) methods, respectively. Even the page tagging method, UTM, writes the visitor’s information that it collects with its JavaScript tag into the server log file. At the end, you have to provide the server log file with the information that Urchin needs to analyze.</p>
<p>We mentioned that Google Analytics is lack of real-time reporting. However Urchin allows you to process log files based on a period of time decided by user, or by simply clicking one button on its user interface. This might not give you the expected real-time reporting, but it makes possible to reprocess historical data. Therefore, you can overcome the data storage time frame problem of Google Analytics.</p>
<p>With Urchin, you provide the log files that it needs to process, therefore in case of any problematic processing; you can restore and give back the correct log files to Urchin.</p>
<p>You can also use Urchin in your intranet behind a firewall, because it doesn’t need DNS calls to connect to the data collection servers, it just needs the server log files that you’ve provided.</p>
<p>Depending on your Urchin configuration, you can also overcome the problems resulting from JavaScript, Cookies and Image dependency if you don’t use the page tagging option of Urchin. But again, the analytics information that you get from bare server log files will be limited comparing to page tagging option.</p>
<p>Privacy consideration of users was one of the aspects that we mentioned above. If you choose to use Urchin with its IP+User-Agent method, visitors of your portal won’t be aware of tracking.</p>
<p>Both methods of Urchin writes the information into your server log files, and process them on a machine that you have installed Urchin. This solves the problem if you have any concerns with sending data to Google by keeping the analytics data in your dedicated servers and database.</p>
<p>Finally, while Google’s software Urchin makes you view your reports in a similar fashion that you do with Google Analytics, Google charges to use Urchin. At the time of publishing, per installation prices ranged from US $2995 for Urchin 6, upwards to US $9995 for Urchin 7. Besides, you need to keep a dedicated server and database to use with Urchin along with your IT person.</p>
<p><strong>**Important Google Update about Urchin**</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Urchin: In 2005 we acquired Urchin, whose online web analytics product became the foundation for Google Analytics, helping businesses of all sizes measure their websites and online marketing. We’re fully committed to building an industry-leading online analytics product, so we’re saying goodbye to the client-hosted version, known as Urchin Software. <strong>New Urchin Software licenses will no longer be available after March 2012.</strong>&#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>See <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/renewing-old-resolutions-for-new-year.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/renewing-old-resolutions-for-new-year.html</a> for details</p>
<h4>Conclusion to Tracking SAP Portal Usage with Google Analytics</h4>
<p>As you can see, there are a few items one must consider before not only considering Google Analytics, but any analytical solution. And some of these key items carry quite a bit of weight which can heavily influence your decision. We hope that this article gave you the insight that you were looking for and comfort your exploring process on Google Analytics with a SAP Portal.</p>
<p>P.S.S &#8211; As mentioned earlier, this will be the first in a long series of postings comparing the various analytical tools on the market for tracking SAP Portal usage and what your options are. If you are interested in the whitepaper (due before the end of 2011), email 
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