At a time where the SCN website is due to have a clean face, SAP employee and SAP mentor Mark Finnern delights us, yet again, with a highly useful post titled “Top 25 SCN Blogs of all Time“. In case you have missed it, here is your opportunity to know which are the most popular SAP SCN weblogs, of all time. This ranking has been produced taking in consideration the number of user views, counted on the last 8 years. So these are the most viewed weblogs, which obviously reflect which SAP subjects users are more interested in.

Mark Finnern also adds a few observations that sustain this thorough list:

Wow there are some well known names and some surprises in the list, not the least the number one blog post by Steffen Weber. With 178K almost twice as many hits as the famous often updated originaly named XI FAQ post by Michal Krawczyk. Looks like the Excel Macro File referenced in Steffen’s blog post does come really handy. Congratulations Steffen for having written the most viewed post of the last 8 years.

I have to smile seeing that Michal’s XI/PI FAQ post is #2. I had long discussion with him why this kind of content should be moved to a wiki page so that everyone can improve it. His argument is that you need a curator, otherwise the quality isn’t there. Number of views he got is proofing his point, comments of certain links not working anymore can be counted for the wiki camp, but this is not the blog post to bring up that argument again, but to celebrate the top blog posts of SCN.

Thomas Jung can ad the title Master of SCN blogging to the long list of his career achievements, as 6 of his posts are in the top 25. I am always at awe seeing the beauty and quality of his posts. I remember the early beginnings when Brain McKellar nudged him after seeing his excellent BSP forum answers to post blogs. I am so glad he did oh and we miss Brian on SCN.

Love it that a Crystal Report post by Blair Wheadon is #5. It is a beautiful proof, that the BOBJ community has found a home on SCN. Being posted only 2 years ago in December 2009 it is also the youngest blog post on the list. Really amazing that it is on rank #5 already. Well done Blair.

Just wow that there are still 3 Roberto Negro posts in this top 25 list. He used to dominate the BW space, as it was called back in the mid 2000s. He moved on and is unfortunately not working in the SAP space anymore. Really bummed that he nver made it to a TechEd, or at least I don’t remember. I hope the hammock he once offered me is still standing somewhere in Italy waiting for me to relax in. Roberto we really miss you here, please come back.

Manfred Lutz and Ingo Hilgefort are the other two bloggers that have more than one post in the list. We have over 3000 SCNers who have written at least one post, To be in the top 25 is quite the achievement. Thank you all for putting the effort in.

Top 25 SCN Blogs of all Time

1. SAP NetWeaver Portal Reporting for Collaboration Rooms
This Blog describes how to create consolidated and ordered reports out of standard SAP NetWeaver Portal collaboration room raw data files.
Steffen Weber in Knowledge Management (KM), Standards, SAP NetWeaver Platform

2. XI/PI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Exchange Infrastructure – Frequently Asked Questions
Michal_Krawczyk_PIXI in SAP Process Integration (PI)

3. Sending E-Mail from ABAP – Version 610 and Higher – BCS Interface
Yesterday I posted a weblog on how to send E-Mails from ABAP in releases <= 46D using the API functions. Today we are going to look at releases >= 610 and the BCS Interface.
Thomas Jung in ABAP, Application Server

4. Web Dynpro ABAP Demonstration Videos
Web Dynpro, with its strong graphical modeling environment, provides an interesting challenge for authors of all types of written materials on the subject. Often videos can fill that gap. This weblog describes several hours of newly released Web Dynpro ABAP videos.
Thomas Jung in ABAP, Beginner, Enterprise Portal (EP), Web Dynpro

5. Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2010
An overview of how Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 customers will receive Crystal Reports.
Blair Wheadon in SAP Crystal Reports, Interoperability .NET

6. New Blog Series: ABAP Trial Version for Newbies
New Blog Series: ABAP Trial Version for Newbies With the new build of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP Trial Version (SP11), we in SAP NetWeaver Product Management are eager to introduce, through a series of blogs, SAP ABAP technology to those with limited ABAP experience.
Manfred Lutz in ABAP, Application Server, Beginner, Web Dynpro

7. BusinessObjects and SAP Part I
This is Part I of a series on BusinessObjects and SAP products.
Ingo Hilgefort in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Process Expert

8. How do you activate ABAP Proxies?
Have you got the error message “Unable to connect to the Integration Builder, when you are trying to create a ABAP PROXY from a R/3 system? This blog show the steps to be executed to make sure you are able to build ABAP Proxies.
vijaya kumari in SAP Process Integration (PI)

9. SAP NetWeaver 7.0 – Java and ABAP Trial Version on Linux – VMware Edition – Tips & Tricks
Here you find the required steps missed out in the official Documentation. How to get the Application Server running, install the License and connect from Windows.
Gregor Wolf in ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform

10. BSP a Developer’s Journal Part XIV – Consuming WebServices with ABAP
In this BSP Developer’s Journal we once again look at a technology that just does ride on the edge of the BSP environment. We look at how we can call WebServices with ABAP.
Thomas Jung in Business Server Pages, ABAP, Application Server

11. LOGISTIC COCKPIT DELTA MECHANISM – Episode one: V3 Update, the ‘serializer’
This is the first episode of a series (of three) concernig delta mechanism in the Logistic Cockpit for BW. Here you can find a short overview examining the conception and technical background of delta extraction related to logistic flows towards BW system by using the Serialized V3 Update.
Roberto Negro in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse

12. Basic ABAP OO eLearnings
I frequently receive requests for learning materials on basic ABAP Object Oriented concepts. In response I have created a 5 part eLearning series that is intended to be accessible to anyone just starting out with ABAP OO.
Thomas Jung in ABAP, Beginner, Business Server Pages, Web Dynpro

13. Troubleshoot the SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI Frontend Installation
This aim of this blog is to discuss how to configure your browser parameters as well as discuss how to install the latest SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI Frontend Components. Keep in mind that it is always best to keep your frontend patches up to do date. This article covers most of the issues I’ve seen when working with different browsers and frontend components specifically related to installation of frontend components.
Prakash Darji in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Enterprise Portal (EP)

14. LOGISTIC COCKPIT – WHEN YOU NEED MORE – First option: enhance it !
Through this weblog we will go on in our tour around the logistic data extraction world: after having familiarized with the data flows that the system can run for every available update methods in LBWE and before approaching all the other extraction mechanisms managed by SAP Business Warehouse, now it’s necessary facing this question: what’s happen if a standard logistic datasource (and its related information set) is not enough for our needs ?
Roberto Negro in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse

15. Web Dynpro ABAP exercises from TechEd 2007
For those who are looking to improve their Web Dynpro ABAP skills, here is the content of the hands-on session for Web Dynpro ABAP at TechEd 2007. Based on the ESM (Enterprise Sales Model), the exercises are structured so that the result of one task forms the foundation for the next exercise. The download contains all required objects, the ESM data generator, the example solutions, the templates, and the document ‘CD255 Developing User Interfaces with Web Dynpro ABAP’. All you need is a local installation of the latest ABAP Trial Version.
Manfred Lutz in ABAP, Application Server, Web Dynpro

16. Gravity – Collaborative Business Process Modelling within Google Wave
Gravity is a prototype developed by SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia and SAP NetWeaver Development providing real-time, cloud-based collaborative business process modelling within Google Wave. Google Wave is Google’s new real-time collaboration platform that combines features of e-mail, social networking, wikis and instant messaging in one integrated browser-based client.
Alexander Dreiling in Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Composition Environment (CE), Consumer Products, Insurance, Interoperability, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Research, Enterprise Social Systems

17. Update Your ABAP Development Skills to SAP NetWeaver 7.0
If the title of this blog sounds familiar, then chances are good that you have attended session CD251 at one of the TechEds this year. Now find out how some of the core content of this TechEd Session has been made available as an Online SDN E-Learning.
Thomas Jung in ABAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP TechEd, Web Dynpro

18. BusinessObjects and SAP – Installation and Configuration Part 1 of 4
In this blog series I am describing the steps that are required to install and configure the BusinessObjects solution on top of a SAP BI system (Part #1).
Ingo Hilgefort in Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Community Day, ERP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd

19. ABAP Proxies in XI(Client Proxy)
The other way of interfacing XI is through proxies. From WAS 6.20, proxy generation feature enables application systems to communicate with XI using proxies. Proxy generation enables you to create proxies in application systems. Proxies encapsulate the creation or parsing of XML messages and the communication with the relevant runtime components required to send or receive the messages.
Ravikumar Allampallam in SAP Process Integration (PI)

20. Generic Extraction via Function Module
Short overview about the extraction api, using custom defined function modules.
Siegfried Szameitat in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse

21. Aspirant to learn SAP XI…You won the Jackpot if you read this!-Part I
My inbox is flooding with many mails soliciting the direction to start their career into SAP XI. I am too lethargic to reply for everyone as it is a bit lengthy process to explicate it in a mail. You can ask me, Why am blogging so late? I told you already am lazy to pen lengthy stuff:)…But…One day I got a mail from an graduate student asking me to guide him…!!….Alas! Iam amazed and impressed with that mail….I guess SDN Community has accomplished its goal in global marketing and inspiring all sorts of people across the globe……Kuddos to SDN!…
Sravya Talanki in SAP Process Integration (PI)

22. LOGISTIC COCKPIT DELTA MECHANISM – Episode three: the new update methods
This third episode describes in detail all the elements required to help make an aware selection of the right new update method (after the serialized V3 update mechanism replacement) for the applications related to the Logistic Cockpit.
Roberto Negro in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse

23. Http* Errors in XI
There are many forum discussions about Http Errors. This blog is collective information about most common HTTP errors occurring during XI implementations and possible tips to solve the problems.
Krishna Moorthy P in SAP Process Integration (PI)

24. SAP’s definitive strategy for planning technologies moving forward: What’s the word on BPC, BI-IP and SRC?
This blog discuss SAP’s direction for planning products. It describes SAP’s official stance, and provides a bit more insight into Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0, version for SAP NetWeaver.
Ryan Leask in Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Enterprise Performance Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform

25. First steps to work with Change Request Management scenario
This blog describes how to create a test landscape to practice with the Charm scenario in Solution Manager 7.0 without creating interferences with real TMS landscapes. Also you will find tips and tricks for the common mistakes in the configuration of this scenario.
Dolores Correa in SAP Solution Manager

Many thanks again to Mark Finnern for this great contribution. Here is Mark’s career summary.

Mark Finnern is the Chief Community Evangelist of the SAP Community Network focusing on the SAP Mentor initiative. He is an SAP veteran, has implemented SAP FI/CO at many customers in Germany and the US. Was the co-inventor of the Pre-Configured Client (PCC), which at times was used by 90% of all US SAP customers to save implementation time. It evolved into SAP’s Best Practices and All-In-One offerings. He is the proud owner of a Traffic Monitoring System patent. Mark was the driving force behind community features of the SAP Community Network: Blogs, points recognition system, wiki, Community Day now Inside Track. Mark Finnern has a bachelor’s degree in Business oriented Computer Science from the Fachhochschule in Furtwangen Germany. He is also the founder and host of the Future Salon with its new tag line: Creating a world that works for all.

Source: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/27705

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Similarly to last year, Panaya Inc released recent 2012 SAP Salary survey. Part of this study was based on a conducted SAP talent salary survey but also taking in consideration Panaya’s deep knowledge of the SAP market. There is a chance that you, as a SAPLAB.org reader, might have contributed for the results shown in this report.

The earnings of an SAP professional depend on many variables, including your location, education level, and experience, as well as the location of the company you work for and the industry you are in. Published by Panaya for the third year now, this survey will help you compare your compensation makeup to industry peers, better understand what drives compensation in this market, and get useful ideas for increasing your value.

Please click on the image below to access the full report (pdf)

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Back in 2010, ERP consultancy company Panaya ran an experimental SAP salary survey that was received with tremendous interest. In 2011, the same approach has increased the number of participants by more than doubled to over 800.

Panaya’s main focus in this study were issues that are of interest to the global SAP community versus regional issues.

For example:

• Are Europeans earning more than Americans? (Hint: No)
• Is there gender bias among SAP professionals?
• Is there a correlation between education and pay level?
• What are the top paying jobs?
• What is the outlook for 2011?

Note: you can also view the 2011 SAP Salary Survey to access the complete figures and survey results.

The SAP Salary Survey

The earnings of an SAP professional depend on many variables, including your location, education level, and experience, as well as the location of the company you work for, the SAP version you are working on, the industry you are in, as well as your gender. Panaya conducted this survey to help you compare your compensation makeup to industry peers, better understand what drives compensation in this market, and get useful ideas for increasing your value.

Get your 2011 SAP Salary Survey – Infographic

Please click on the image below to access and download the whole PDF.

About Panaya Inc

Panaya’s software-as-a-service helps companies that use SAP or Oracle reduce 80% of their upgrade and testing risk and effort. Utilizing a cloud-based supercomputer, Panaya simulates the upcoming upgrade, automatically pinpointing which custom programs will break as a result of the upgrade and automatically ?xing most of these problems.

Panaya’s testing solutions dramatically expedite ERP testing and eliminate the need for manual test script maintenance. Seamlessly capturing business knowledge in the background, as users work with the ERP applications, Panaya automatically generates plain-English test scripts that are rapidly executed and continually self-adjust based on test results

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The results of the 2011 SAP Salary Survey are here, published by company Panaya. The survey results are based on responses from more than 800 SAP professionals around the world.

You can now download the complete survey results, with the latest salary figures broken down by job title, geography, education, experience, and other variables.

You will be able to answer questions such as:

• What are the highest paying SAP job titles?
• Does higher education mean higher pay?
• Which industries pay top dollars for SAP skills?
• Do men earn more than women among SAP professionals?
• Get your 2011 SAP Salary Survey Results and find out everything you wanted to know about SAP salaries.

The earnings of an SAP professional depend on many variables, including your location, education level, and experience, as well as the location of the company you work for, the SAP version you are working on, the industry you are in, as well as your gender.

Panaya conducted this survey to help you compare your compensation makeup to industry peers, better understand what drives compensation in this market, and get useful ideas for increasing your value.

Nice, how do I get my hands on it?

Please click on the image below to access and download the whole PDF (you will need to register with Panaya).

About Panaya

Panaya’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions enable companies that use SAP to save up to 50% of their application lifecycle costs and minimize the risks associated with system changes. Utilizing cloud-based simulation to analyze the impact of pending changes, Panaya automatically pinpoints which custom programs will break as a result of an upgrade or support package implementation and automatically fixes most of these problems. Panaya provides a complete solution for managing these changes, explaining how to fix the anticipated issues, fixing most of them automatically, suggesting the most efficient test plan, and calculating required project budget and resources. To learn more access Panaya’s website.

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This document provides architectural recommendations for structuring and implementing composite applications. It does not focus on specific technologies like Business Process Management (BPM), Web Dynpro, or the Composite Application Framework (CAF), for example. Instead, it is intended to answer questions about how to structure a composite overall and what to consider when designing composite applications.

Authors: Andrey Hoursanov, Bernhard Drabant, Bogdan Vatkov, Emil Simeonov, Erik Dick, Jens Ittel, Kesavaprakash Vasudevan, Matthias Steiner, Nikolay Kabadzhov, Penka Tatarova, Ulf Fildebrandt, Ulrich Keil, Volker Stiehl, Prasanna Kumar Reddy, Harald Schubert, from SAP AG.

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SAT is the new ABAP Runtime Analysis Tool of the SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP2 (successor of the SE30 transaction). This demo explores the SAT tools and shows how to use SAT for typical scenarios of ABAP runtime analysis, such as searching for performance bottlenecks, program flow analysis or memory consumption problems.

Watch the Demo (20 min)

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Caffeine is a toolset that allows execution of the ABAP language on alternative runtimes outside of the ABAP server. As of today, it supports the execution of a subset of ABAP on the JVM (Java), Dalvik VM (Android), iOS (Objective C), and JavaScript. Its core design is centered around high performance, multi platform execution and multi threading.

Caffeine is at the moment a prototype project and proves the claims made. There is currently no relation to any current or future SAP product, but SAP is working on achieving this.

What’s it for?

Caffeine is a technology, not an application, and it can thus be applied to many use cases. Caffeine is not trying to enable the migration of existing ABAP code to other platforms, but is focusing on adding value to SAP’s On-Device, On-Demand, On-Premise strategy by making SAPs business programming language reach into spaces like mobile devices that our customer are looking to unlock and feed with information coming from the customers backend. Caffeine strives to help developers to build business applications that are better integrated from frontend to backend.

Download Full Paper

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SAP’s CRM Solution Management team has been very busy in creating short videos that demonstrate new features in CRM 7.0 EhP1. Below are a few highlights for each relevant area.

Interaction Center/Service

• SAP Ehp1 for CRM 7.0 – CAD Data Available for Alert and Rule modeler by Cathy Ma
• SAP Ehp1 for CRM 7.0 – C Alert for Incomplete Emails by Cathy Ma
• SAP Ehp1 for CRM 7.0 – BP Confirmation in Call Transfer Scenario by Cathy Ma
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – Rule Modeler Enhancements Part I: Show Policy Relationships by Kimberly Davis
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – Rule Modeler Enhancements Part II: Usability Improvements by Kimberly Davis
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1: Service Analytics by Akash Winny

Marketing

• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – Marketing Funds Management by Anik Roy
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – The new Marketing Calendar! By Nora Schrotz
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – Relationship Segmentation for High Volume Segmentation by Bastian Finkel
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – Object Segmentation for High Volume Segmentation by Bastian Finkel
• SAP CRM EhP1 – Leveraging Partners in Loyalty Programs – Part I by Bhushan Khadpe

Sales

• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1: Savo and Sales Opportunity by Mirjam Wittmann
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 Shared Tools by Mirjam Wittmann

CRM Analytics

• SAP CRM 7.0 EHP1 Insight-to-Action: Embedded competitor analysis in opportunity management by Gert Tackaert
• SAP CRM 7.0 EHP1: CRM Interactive Reporting by Gert Tackaert
• SAP CRM 7.0 EHP1: Xcelsius dashboard integration by Gert Tackaert
• SAP CRM 7.0 EHP1: Dashboard on Homepage by Gert Tackaert

Real Time Offer Management (RTOM)

• SAP CRM 7.0 EHP1 – Real Time Offer Management by Business Goals by Maya Kidron
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – Related Campaigns in RTOM Offers by Maya Kidron
• SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1 – RTOM real time event based recommendations in CRM by Maya Kidron

About SAPLABS, LLC

SAP Labs, LLC researches and develops software products for the SAP business application systems. The company offers SAP NetWeaver platform and enterprise service-oriented architecture, SAP xApps composite applications, and SAP solutions for radio frequency identification. It supports SAP developer network, a collaborative community of technical experts and business analysts, the business process expert community, application consultants, and process developers. The company has strategic relationships with organizations, such as Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Rutgers, Software Developer’s Forum, Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, Intel Corporation, and Microsoft. SAP Labs, LLC was founded as SAP Technology, Inc. in 1996 and changed its name in 1997. The company is based in Palo Alto, California. SAP Labs, LLC operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP America, Inc.

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SAP StreamWork is now available as a mobile application for the Apple iPhone. Users can keep collaborating with their teams and driving activities forward, even while not at their desks.

The SAP StreamWork mobile application is delivered with settings to access your internet-based SAP StreamWork application, and also has prebuilt integration to your device. With the SAP StreamWork mobile app, you can manage SAP StreamWork from your mobile device so that method content such as notes, pro/con, discussion, decisions, quick poll, and consensus can be easily shared and securely administered among all SAP StreamWork participants.

This application has many exciting features, such as the ability to view team member profiles directly within an activity, to start a phone call or send an e-mail, taking advantage of iPhone native functionalities such as easy use of media files and voice notes. Below ate a few screenshots of the SAP StreamWork mobile app for iPhone in action:

Extend SAP StreamWork to your entire organization: Enterprise Edition

The enterprise edition of SAP StreamWork promises to bridge the gap between people’s demands for easy-to-use, quickly available software and access to enterprise information, and IT’s challenge in delivering enterprise data to cloud applications securely. SAP highlights this framework as being secure, quick to install, easy to manage and easy to extend.

It includes all the teamwork capabilities of the professional edition and adds advanced security, automatic provisioning, and a foundation for integration with your enterprise applications. It’s an affordable enterprise solution that works with your existing IT investments – and provides the flexibility to allow your business users to work the way they want and be productive immediately. Compare all editions.

Further reading and Download links

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Today I am excited to announce another new content area in the SAPLAB.org blog. The “SAP White Papers” co-branded website contains literally hundreds of free offers which are provided to you on behalf of SAP.

According to our partner RevResponse, all publications ate free because “while subscriptions to all the trade publications on the TradePub.com web sites are free, some publications offer a limited “free trial period” followed by a solicitation for a paid subscription should the reader wish to continue receiving the magazine. TradePub.com never invoices for subscriptions“.

Let me highlight a couple of included white papers:

Better Answers Through Better Questions – Learn what differentiates SAP BusinessObjects Explorer from BI tools you may be using now….

The Impact of Technology on Cost in Business Process Outsourcing – Gain insight into the true cost of business process outsourcing (BPO)..

… among many others. Go on, start browsing and give it a try by clicking here or click the option on the top navigation bar named “SAP WHITE PAPERS“. Hope you like this initiative.

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SAPLAB reader Bruce Zivan sent us an email message suggesting to include an interesting fact sheet. For all of us who are involved in large SAP implementations, working with clients that work hard to keep in high SP levels, these are some curious and interesting facts that we can learn about. They will show us a broader picture in terms of the impact that certain SAP Support Packages have in an SAP module.

The original message was the following:

Dear Mr. Caldas,

Since I believe you are running SAP ERP 6.0, I thought you would be interested in this new SAP Support Package Stack 17 Fact Sheet.
This Fact Sheet contains important facts and impact estimates that could help you prepare for implementation.

You can download the fact sheet here: http://go.panayainc.com/rs/panayainc/images/SAP_Support_Package_Stack_17_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Please let me know if you need any more information.

Regards,

Bruce Zivan
Business Development Executive
Panaya Inc. – Cut 50% of your SAP upgrade cost with automation software.
Tel US: + 1 415 329 0200
E-mail: bruce.zivan@panayainc.com
Web: www.panayainc.com

Even though this e-mail might have some commercial purpose, nevertheless I considered this fact sheet useful to share it here in SAPLAB.

1. How To Do a Support Package Stack Upgrade – Part 1

Gingle is an SDN community user which posted a series of very useful weblog posts. As soon as you start reading the posts, you can see that some of the challenges described by Gingle are familiar. Whoever has tried the endeavor of installing a Mini-SAP, installing a Netweaver Developer Workplace or simply installing a SAP MaxDB Instance, you’ll know that sometimes things can get ugly. In my opinion, the easier the How-to, the better chance we have in a successful installation.

In this post I include some links to external sources like SDN, as well as some links to some of my own posts, hoping to help anyone who’s trying to accomplish an SAP product installation end to end.

1. Netweaver Sneak Preview (NSP) installation – Part 1

Gingle starts his series of posts by explaining which components are necessary, how and where to download them and how to unzip them, etc. The post includes a series of comprehensive screenshots and step-by-step approach to guide you into success.

2. Logical System & Virtual Machine – Part 2

Continuing his previous post as described in point 1., Gingle explains how to setup the Logical System and Virtual Machine. Again, Gingle was thorough in his explanation, including step by step details and lots of screenshots to help us progress.

3. License & Profiles – Part 3

In this post, the whole License and Profiles procedure is well explained and documented. Well done Gingle!

4. Transport System – Part 4

Probably as a SAP Consultant, you never had to deal with this kind of configuration. Just in case you need it.

5. HTTPS & Sapcrypto – Part 5

What is HTTPS & Sapcrypto? Learn about and also why and how you should configure it.

6. SPAM & Kernel – Part 6

Gingle intended on importing some transports and performing some upgrades, SAP always recommends the Support Package Manager – SPAM, to be the latest. Learn how.

7. Upgrade to SP6 – Part 7

This post explains which component versions to consider, how to download them and how to install them. Again, step by step approach and lots of screenshots.

8. BI Content – Part 8

According to the author (Gingle), after a successful upgrade to SP6, it seemed only natural to attempt to install BI Content.

9. The CE2 Installation- Part 9

In this post, Gingle explains how to install the Netweaver Composite Environment 7.2 Trial Version.

10. Install a Local SAP Netweaver Developer Workplace

A detailed explanation on how to successfully install your own local SAP Netweaver Developer Workplace. Please be sure to go through the necessary prerequisites.

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Learn how to apply a Support Package upgrade on your system.

12. How to Tune the Performance of KM

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13. TREX Installation on EP7

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14. How to Use Portal Session Notification with Your Own Custom Applications

The SAP Enterprise Portal offers a mechanism called Session Release Notification. This feature is used by SAP applications running inside the portal to close their sessions in case the user closes the browser window, navigates away from the application or logs-off from the SAP Portal.

15. How to Install a SAP (Max)DB Instance

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16. Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) on the Portal and the ERP

Learn how to easily configure Single Sign-On (SSO) on the Portal and the ERP.

17. How Many Lines of ABAP Code In Your System?

This is just a fun and easy way to benchmark how many lines of ABAP code exist in your system.

18. How to do a System Trace?

When you work with SAP Enterprise Portal, sometimes it’s useful to use the System Trace tool, enabled by the ERP system.

19. Single Sign-On with your SAP OSS User

If you have a company issued SAP OSS user and use it all the time (like myself), this post is for you.

20. Configuring SAP Connect (SCOT)

From SAP WAS 6.10, SAP directly supports SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). This means that the emails can be exchanged directly between SAP system and any SMTP compliant mail server. Learn how to configure it.

21. Configuring UWL for Guided Procedures on C.E.

This tutorial covers the configuration of the Universal Worklist (UWL) for Guided Procedures actions. It shows how to configure the UWL in the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment when the Guided Procedures are executed locally.

22. Configuring UWL for Guided Procedures on C.E.

This tutorial covers the configuration of the Universal Worklist (UWL) for Guided Procedures actions. It shows how to configure the UWL in the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment when the Guided Procedures are executed locally.

Please comment if you found this post useful! Many thanks in advance.

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