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Managing the consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of data in your SAP system is critical to keeping businesses running efficiently and profitably. However, moving critical information in and out of data-intensive SAP transactions is typically time consuming, costly, and error prone. Companies need a convenient, timely, manageable, and  maintainable data entry solution.

“Winshuttle TRANSACTION gives us the ability to do things we weren’t able to do before. We have significantly reduced our manual data entry costs, reduced headcount, and minimized the burden on IT.”

- Paul Cahill, Director of Information Technology, Hubbell Wiring Systems

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Winshuttle FORMS™ allows business users to create online forms to be used as a front-end for SAP processes. FORMS leverages secure web services created by Winshuttle STUDIO.

Unlike other solutions, FORMS allows non-technical users to securely create forms-driven processes on top of their existing SAP implementation. Winshuttle FORMS eliminates the programming, deployment, and cost typically  associated with forms. FORMS allows business users to author forms that can collaborate with suppliers, customers, and partners without requiring that they understand the detailed interaction associated with SAP, but still meet all the governance and security standards. As a result, companies can simultaneously enhance SAP end user experience while improving business efficiencies and increase their competitive edge.

Business users can easily automate business processes that include forms, such as maintenance requests, purchase requests, expense reimbursement requests and internal requisitions.

Winshuttle FORMS connects the structured transactional data stored within SAP and the unstructured,  document-based information and processes that reside within Web-based forms. This direct interaction enables companies to reduce operational costs and increase business process agility via automation and increased data accuracy.

Click here for a 15 day trial version of Winshuttle products.

SAP Job Market

SAP job market is currently in a state of flux just like any other IT job. Where there used to be 10 jobs there are 4 or may be 5. Post recession, the reasons are obvious – Lack of budgets, postponing new implementations, general market slump etc.

However, all is not lost yet. There are still jobs. And more are going to come up as the economy slowly takes roots again and boomtown comes along. continue reading…

I am sure that your data governance is up do date and you are happy with your eCATT and LSMW scripts, or even happy that you saved some money to hire some interns or temps to enter data in your system. But why doing it the better & more cost effective way if you have money to burn? Just kidding!

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There are quiet a few companies that want to give end-users access to extract table data via SE16 or SE16N. If you decide to give SE16N, please read our blog that shoes the pitfalls & danger of giving SE16N – In addition, the auditors, security people and basis folks worry about using having transactions such as SQVI, SQ01 etc…. Why is that? For starters, users can access confidential data once they can use SQVI as it is not protecting the data to be extracted by company code or other organizational values. A guideline on how to convert SQVI report into a InfoSet query will be published on this blog.

In addition, SQVI reports, if created poorly, can have a drag on system performance as the endusers never have performance in their minds and run queries over millions of records with inadequate table joins.  The same applies to SQ01 – SQ03 transactions. These are a red flag for most of the auditors also if the user is allowed to add custom code on InfoSet level.  Security managers usually recommend that SQxx transactions are used in a development environment and the queries mapped to transactions so that these can go through Change Control and given to users via roles in a controlled manner . continue reading…

Accurate and timely measurements of business performance is the overarching goal of business intelligence (BI) systems today. This need for measurement of how a business is performing against corporate goals and its visualization in the form of interactive dashboards has become a major driver for the selection of BI tools available in the market.

Even with highly capable BI systems installed and operational at most companies, one of the top challenges reported by SAP end-users is the inability to easily access real-time SAP data in the transactional system. Enabling end-users to easily and securely query and extract transactional SAP data is critical for many purposes beyond BI for corporate performance measurement, including:

• Ad-hoc operational reporting
• Rapid response to challenges driven by business changes
• Prototyping steady-state BI reports

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