The Customer Magazine 1|2010
Need to Get Users Excited About Software
Following its new mantra of solutions with instant value, SAP is transforming itself to be faster and more customer-oriented. SAP Spectrum talks with Jim Hagemann Snabe to find out how the company aims to achieve this.
Touching Lives With Technology
Some of the people who work the phones for Deutsche Post DHL’s human resources hotline are blind. Along with special resources for the visually impaired, they use the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution to carry out their daily tasks.
Grabbing the Tiger by the Tail
The financial crisis, the drive toward internationalization, and SAP Enterprise Support services were three topics weighing heavily on the minds of SAP user companies in Japan last year.
22.01.2010
EHP: Keeping SAP Up to Date
By: Frank Völkel
What is an Enhancement Package and what advantages do they offer over traditional upgrades? Update SAP ERP 6.0 or upgrade SAP R/3? SAP.info establishes clarity in the complex world of software versions.
ERP 6.0: Faster up to scratch with EHPs (graphics: grasundsterne)
Nearly 95,000 customers all over the world rely on SAP software. And it has never been easier to keep software up-to-date. Since 2006, customers have had the opportunity to update their existing software applications to the latest version via enhancement packages (EHPs). And they did. More than 5,300 customers have already installed the enhancement packages for ERP 6.0 to benefit from the newest capabilities available. In addition to EHP5 for the ERP application, SAP plans to release EHP1 for CRM 7.0, SRM 7.0, SCM 7.0 and PLM 7.0.
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Enhancement packages represent a new software delivery strategy which allows customers to modernize and innovate their business processes without the need of traditional upgrades. Enhancement packages for ERP include functional enhancements, industry-specific enhancements, UI simplifications, and enterprise service bundles. The first four generations of enhancement packages for ERP 6.0 have been delivered and successfully adopted in the market.
Enhancement Package vs Support Packages
SAP enhancement packages are optional packages that deliver new or improved business functions which can be selectively deployed. Support Packages on the other hand, contain corrections like bug fixes and legal or tax changes and are therefore mandatory. SAP recommends installing enhancement packages when applying a regular support package as a maintenance activity. This combined approach reduces the downtime and manual effort for the whole installation procedure and for the testing efforts.
About SAP Business Suite 7
In 2009 SAP introduced Business Suite 7, a set of modular but integrated applications, designed as a long-term, sustainable platform. As shown in the figure Business Suite consists of the go-to releases of five core applications, the most recent industry and supplementary applications available since November 21, 2008 and the components of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform that support the above applications.
Business Suite 7 with ERP 6.0
Leserkommentare (5)
Supriyo Sengupta (02.03.2010, 09:09)
Hello, I would like to know the updates/upgradation in SAP PP (functional) with this EHP5. Can you please guide me where I can at least get an overview about the changes in the functionality in SAP PP so that I can share this knowledge to my oragization/clients if required. Thanks & Regards, Supriyo
Odaiah Pelley (20.02.2010, 00:09)
Hi I am looking upgradation information in SAP - FICO point of view. Regards Odaiah Pelley
Muhammad Yasir Shafiq (27.01.2010, 19:38)
ECC6-EHP5 Upgrade.
Nishant Dave (04.03.2010, 07:28)
Supriyo / Odaiah - go to the Solution Browser website to get the info you are looking for - http://erp.fmpmedia.com/ Select your source and target systems for the list of changes in the Functional area of your interest.