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SAP.info for iPhones and BlackBerrys
06.02.2010
It’s brand new and yet still looks familiar: SAP.info has now been adapted for your iPhone, BlackBerry, or other smartphone. You have full access to 7,000 articles with the day’s most-wanted news items – wherever you are and whenever you like.
Smooth Handover with PDF Forms
03.06.2009
Early shift, late shift, night shift – long before the advent of IT, the production industry already knew about the challenge of “interfacing.” Today, the shift report function of Enhancement Package 3 for SAP ERP is ready to provide efficient assistance.
At DEKRA, Employees Manage their own Data
06.02.2009
DEKRA’s employees increasingly manage personnel data on their own. The company has made the switch to the SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution and has since continuously updated its version of Employee Self-Service (ESS), a function of SAP ERP HCM. As a result, DEKRA is profiting from many advantages – and what’s good for the employees also benefits the entire company.
Flexible and Secure Analysis Tool for Tax Experts
17.11.2008
Tax Audit, SAP’s online analysis tool, not only provides all tax-relevant document data but also alerts users early on in the case of irregularities. As a result, companies are on the safe side even before the advance return for tax on sales/purchases and business audit.
The Networked Banks of the Future
23.09.2008
Given the latest developments in the financial service industry and the consequent challenges it faces, the number of networked and specialized service providers is rising. The tailored service packages previously offered by banks are increasingly becoming the responsibility of service providers that mass-deliver standardized services using industrial-like processes. Traditional and outdated application landscapes are unable to effectively support these diverse requirements. A service architecture enables banking processes to be mapped in software applications. At the 5th Value Chain Forum in October in St. Gallen, Switzerland, “The Networked Bank of 2015” workshop will explore the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches.
Improved Sales Tool for Energy Suppliers
13.08.2008
crm light is a template adapted to the specific requirements of energy companies. Supplied by cronos subsidiary crm consulting AG, it is now available with improved and extended functions for SAP CRM 2007.
When the Shirt Calls the Doctor
14.05.2008
We already have sports shirts that measure the runner’s pulse. And you can buy skiing gloves with a built-in telephone, too. In future our clothing will become even more intelligent. Torsten Linz from the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) in Berlin is one of the scientists already working on this. In an interview with SAP INFO online, the expert in integrating electronics into textiles explains what is technically possible and what challenges the researchers are currently working on.
News in ABAP (Part 1)
30.01.2008
ABAP is alive and kicking. SAP remains committed to further development of the ABAP programming environment on the basis of state-of-the-art software engineering techniques and its users’ changing demands. Examples of how SAP addresses these demands include the enhancement and switch framework, better support of decimal floating point calculations (Part 1), secondary keys, string processing, and new features in the ABAP debugger (Part 2).
Enhancing the ERP Core without Modifications (Part 2)
16.01.2008
With its enhancement framework, SAP standardizes previously differing enhancement concepts for the SAP ERP application (Part 1). Enhancements in the form of new functionality become effective only after the switch framework is activated. The interplay of both technologies helps enhance SAP ERP 6.0 as a long-term, modification-free core enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that meets changing requirements with new and innovative technologies (Part 2).
Old Friends, New Contexts
16.01.2008
Companies that use enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and call services in a wide area network or transmit synchronous messages should keep an eye on performance: they might need more resources. Performance – a constant IT issue – can certainly be measured with older, familiar tools in the ABAP environment, but with enterprise SOA, additional factors affect performance in some areas.
