Homepage for SAP Professionals

A few months ago, we became a distributor for Hovitaga, a Development company in Hungary offering great SAP Tools. Feel free to contact us  if you are interested to learn more about the tools listed below. Please not, visitors of the Homepage for SAP Professionals get a special discount !

SAP Report Generator

An automatic ABAP Code Generator that can reduce your development time dramatically. Depending on the generation settings, 200-1000+ lines of ABAP code can be generated in a few minutes.

Messaging framework for SAP

A messaging system that can send business data on a regular basis or replies to incoming messages. The tool can also notify users for irregular business transactions. For Basis teams, it can alert them if a job fails and much more.

Open SQL Editor

The OpenSQL Editor provides an intuitive way to build ad-hoc reports with simple OpenSQL commands. The results of the queries are displayed immediately in an ALV Grid or Tree as desired and can be easily visualized using charts and diagrams.

Data Visualizer

Hovitaga Data Visualizer is a lightweight solution for real-time OLAP analysis and data visualization primarily for SAP systems. It can present data with pivot grids, maps, charts, gauges, treemaps and lists. Dashboards can be created with drag and drop which may gather data from different systems to give decision makers stunning interfaces to have an overview of key business data in one place.

As you may have noticed, we have not published any new articles lately due to the heavy workload. To keep you reading, we offer you a few interesting whitepapers.  Some of these are available for a limited time only!

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Financial Excellence Solutions from SAP

The needs of business users are changing – from where they work to how they work and what they expect from the application solutions on which they rely. Technology approaches are advancing at a rapid pace to keep up with these demands. No longer do business users need to reside in the office to work, and many teams span across country and continental borders. In addition, the new generations of workers expect the same degree of personal control and ease of use that they see in the myriad of solutions available for social networking and the like. The requirements are twofold: provide easier access to information and ensure even tighter process and security control over the huge volumes of underlying data.

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

Their goal is to enforce stricter control processes to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, offer strategic insights into the internal and external business environment, and connect the business strategy with daily operations through performance tracking. To assess the trends in the finance function and identify best practices, APQC, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that provides best practice research, metrics, measures, has evaluated the performance of more than 130 finance organizations. This SAP Insight shares the results of SAP research as well as APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research.

Free Publications:

SAP Insider

Published quarterly, it provides SAP customers advance notice of SAP’s product and service initiatives as well as offering strategic direction and practical advice to make the most of their investment in SAP technology.

SAP InsiderProfiles

insiderPROFILES provides firsthand insight into how SAP® solution and service providers help customers leverage their investment in SAP and leading third-party solutions.

Revelation Software Concepts Pty Ltd (RSC), an SAP® software partner and creator of the widely used Rev-Trac® change control technology has released its new ‘Salt Apps for SAP’ solution. Salt is a free application platform to power and deliver innovative, highly useful ”mini-apps” to SAP developers, Basis and other project team members.

The initial release includes:

Version Vault App:

It keeps copies of custom object source versions safe but accessible, providing a centralized repository for custom ABAP and data dictionary objects from all SAP systems. This makes it easy for users to compare versions across systems, view objects and object code, and provide assurance that a persistent audit exists of all changes to all ABAP objects and data dictionary objects. Team members can easily browse all information through an intelligent hierarchy, or restore a system or run a refresh and keep a copy of the prior state for reference, comparison or audit. continue reading…

If you hire an SAP consultant, certified by SAP AG, for one day to show you what SAP user screens look like, how to start up transactions, let you get hands on experience by stepping through the sequences yourself, how to do things smarter, and more, how much do you think that would cost?

What if you could get your own ‘starter training for SAP software’ for 7%* of that cost, without needing access to an online SAP software system?

continue reading…

Bratislava, Slovakia — June 8, 2010 — ORIWIN, SAP NetWeaver integrator and Resco, supplier of advanced developer components and tools for mobile devices released an updated version of FAIN (Fixed Assets Inventory) — a ready-made solution for fixed assets management and inventory. The solution is integrated into the SAP ERP environment. continue reading…

Original Article: SAP ERP to play crucial role in merger? | Codestone.

SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems could play a key role in the merger between two high-profile companies.

According to Computer World UK, a “vast chunk” of the integration between Kraft and Cadbury is likely to centre on SAP, as it is used by each of the businesses as their ERP platforms.

The news provider claimed the procedure could involve the migration of significant amounts of data from Kraft’s SAP ERP system followed by a centralisation process.

Kraft announced it expects to cut £379 million from operational costs following the £11.5 billion acquisition in 2009.

Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of the firm, said: “Everything we’ve seen so far has only reinforced our decision to acquire Cadbury.”

Research recently conducted by Gartner showed that SAP is continuing to do well in financial terms, as it was regarded as the world’s number one software provider in 2009, accounting for 22 per cent of the market.

by Lara Ward

This post comes from Don Fornes of Software Advice, a web site that compares and reviews manufacturing software.

Throughout its existence, SAP has been known as an enterprise-class applications vendor – one that sells only to really big companies. At the same time, SAP has attempted – through marketing, channels and development – to move “down market” into the realm of small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs). Today, that strategy has resulted in a portfolio of software solutions that might need some explaining. I’ll give it a try.

Before we dig into the SAP portfolio, it’s important to understand a few things about the SME market:

• There exists a range of SMEs and one-size does not fit all. A $750 million SME has very different needs than a $10 million SME.
• The smaller the SME, the less likely they are to adopt complex technology. When they do get into technology, they typically like Microsoft platforms (e.g. .Net, SQL Server).
• SMEs were the first to adopt software as a service (SaaS), and that model continues to gain traction within the SME market. Any SME strategy must include a SaaS strategy.

The implications of those three points for SAP were that SAP could not just “re-package” its core SAP Business Suite – the “big company product” formerly known as R/3 – and call it an SME strategy. SAP actually tried this throughout the 1990s, but in 2002 they started on a new path toward specific solutions designed just for the SME market.

You can read the full article here: SAP’s SME Solutions – A Guide to the Product Profile.