[ Articles with keyword 'language' ]
Software Brick by Brick
20.10.2009
Dr. Johannes Helbig, initiator of the SOA Innovation Lab and CIO of Deutsche Post MAIL, spoke with SAP.info about the benefits of SOA and the work of the Innovation Lab.
Stemming the Applicant Tide
11.08.2009
Bilfinger Berger’s HR-department has to deal with a flood of applications every day. However, thanks to a new the SAP-based reporting solution and the key figures it utilizes, the company’s organization of applications has improved.
Baerlocher Takes Two Leaps Forward
09.06.2009
Fearing significant downtime, many companies still shy away from combining an upgrade from SAP R/3 to SAP ERP 6.0 with a Unicode migration. The Baerlocher group, however, successfully completed this transition and even saved time in the process.
SUGEN – An Overview
10.09.2008
The SAP User Group Executive Network, or SUGEN, was founded in fall 2007 and represents all 31 active SAP user groups around the world. The network sees itself as the user groups’ direct line to SAP.
Getting a Handle on Complexity
23.04.2008
Users of service-oriented architecture (SOA) are taking the gloves off and are using a basic paradigm of SOA for their own self-understanding as IT professionals. They are focusing on the business instead of IT. The business perspective and the value IT adds to the enterprise outweigh all other considerations.
Effective, Agile, and Connective (Part 2)
26.03.2008
Composite applications built from predefined enterprise services form the core of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). Ultimately the goal of enterprise SOA is composition of any service implemented on any technology by any business partner anywhere in the world. Open, standards-based technology is a key factor in achieving this level of interoperability – similar to plugging a telephone into the wall. Some of the standards needed relate to the technology used to implement enterprise SOA (Part 1), others define business semantics and the languages used to describe them (Part 2).
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).
Semantic Web: It’s All in the Meaning
21.11.2007
Semantic technology is set to streamline searches for digital content and take Web services to a whole new dimension. Professor Wolfgang Wahlster from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has been working on man-machine communication for over 30 years. In this interview with SAP.info, he describes how semantic technologies can be used and what role users will play in developing the “Semantic Web”.
Streamlining Contract Management for big Savings
13.06.2007
Companies continue to grapple with lengthy, inefficient processes around supplier and customer contract management. By applying best practices, organizations can streamline contract management, renew a higher percentage of those agreements and save millions of dollars by identifying and eliminating “maverick” off-contract spending.
Human Inference Software Achieves SAP xApps Certified Status
13.02.2007
Human Inference, supplier of data quality software, announced its HIquality Clearance Center version 1.0 product has achieved ‘SAP xApps Certified Powered by SAP NetWeaver’ status from SAP AG. As a result of this flexible and simple integration, users can be sure that they will not be doing business with unlawful persons and/or companies.
