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It has been a very long time since our last post. We have been very busy with our SAP Consulting work and also are working on new partnerships with companies that offer great services & products for increasing the productivity of SAP Professionals.

We will update our blog with news as soon as we have evaluated & validated these products & services. Please stay tuned and also give us some feedback on posts, products & services you are looking for. We are also interested in authors who want to contribute to this blog and get your name out.

For now, we are presenting a few new services & products we have added to our portfolio:

Starter Training for SAP® Software (Online Version)

Starter Training for SAP® Software is an invaluable tool because it includes up-to-the-minute techniques for easy handling of SAP software screens and transactions. You’re practicing with simulated screens as they would look like when utilizing the latest version of SAP software, SAP ECC 6.0. Whether you’re a beginning user wishing to brush up on more efficient methods and shortcuts to make your job easier, or a candidate needing exposure to SAP screens and transactions for your next job, Starter Training for SAP® Software is the perfect training vehicle for you.

We will post more details about this $67.00 training class. For now, please visit the product information page.

VPN Software

You may be working in a project in a country where you don’t have the freedom of visiting your favorite websites or simply want to watch a sports game or News from your home country, but due to copyright issues, content may be censored (Yes, this can happen even if you live in the USA and want to watch News or Sports events available online THERE but not HERE!)

We found a couple of  products for starters that may be of interest to you:

SwissVPN

VPNSwiss PRO CH & USA : Pricing is in EUROS

- 100% anonymous surfing – increased security against hacking
- 100% uncensored access to internet content (e.g. web TV, Youtube, facebook, adult content sites, online poker)
- maximum security for public WiFi networks against: Man in the middle attacks, DNS spoofing attacks and more
- unlimited bandwidth and traffic volume
- Zurich based servers
- maximum security for online eBanking (256bit encryption)
- and a fully automatic installation for Windows and Mac OSX (Installer) !

 First Month will be free until further notice!

Below a few licenses.

VPNSwiss PRO CH & USA
Windows Version (10.00 Euros/Month)
MAC OSx Version (10.00 Euros/Month)

VPN Easy Versions: (one country)
Easy Swiss – (5.00/Month)
Easy US -   (5.00/Month)

Yearly

Easy Swiss -  (50.00/Year)
Easy US -  (50.00/Year)

HappyVPN

Is your Internet access restricted in any way? Are you living or traveling to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE, China, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait?

Happy VPN is a place where you can buy a VPN subscription and start accessing Internet in any way you like. Unlock Skype, bypass internet provider or government restrictions. All this in complete   anonymity, using a US – based IP.
We supply the anonymous IP adress and the best customer service.

You gain access to our virtual private network. We teach you how   to set it up, in less than 5( five) minutes!

Monthly Happy VPN plan

Biannual Dedicated IP Happy VPN plan $124.99 / 6 months

Biannual German Happy VPN plan

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!

Click here for more publications!

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.

SAP*, DDIC, EARLYWATCH

SAP Systems create the standard users SAP*, DDIC and EARLYWATCH during the installation process in the clients as shown in the table below.

During the installation process, SAP Systems creates standard users such as SAP*, DDIC and EARLYWATCH. The table below shows these ID’s with their standard passwords.

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by Simon Kirrage

How many times have you been asked by SAP recruiters “do you know anyone?” If you give a name, that person will get bombarded with emails and if you don’t, they will never know about the jobs that suit them, so you can either let your friend down or hand them to frenzied agents to chase. After all, give a consultants name to a non reputable agent and they will probably never speak with you again!

Agents ask because they have a bad combination going on – too lazy to search and too mean to pay – harsh but true. Consider contacting an agent and asking continue reading…

Last Update May 22, 2011

It does not matter what access you have for table editing (S_TABU_DIS). Just use the command &SAP_EDIT in the command field in SAP and off you go: you can edit table content directly. This works if you have debug with changes access for object S_DEVELOP, but S_TABU_DIS is ignored as well as the system settings regarding changes. If you use this function for transaction, master data or other tables that cannot be changed with SM30, you can cause quiet some damage.  So, use with caution and this is NOT a Best Practice by all means, but to educate you on a little documented feature:

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You have setup a procedure where contractors / temporary workers are limited to x number of days to make sure that these users won’t be active for ever. The downside of this procedure is, that someone needs to keep track on these user-ID’s before they expire so that access can be extended ahead of time to make sure users are not impacted.

Best case scenario would be that the acess to SAP is in synch with the network ID and communication is setup so that everyone is informed in a timely manner about the upcoming expiration. continue reading…

What is SAP

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing. Designed and developed by 5 IBM engineers during the 1970s as a standards based software alternative to custom built ERP software, SAP has come a long way. SAP has been in the forefront of ERP software ever since.

SAP develops ERP products to be used by companies to manage their enterprise. This includes managing their day to day operations, logistics, finances, month end, quarter end and yearly activities, reporting, HR etc. Although there are a couple of other ERP vendors who do the same, the key differentiator for SAP is the way in which SAP integrates all these operations and makes for a seamless system that is both easy to use and at the same time sophisticated enough to include all kinds of complex activities that are needed for any kind of enterprise. Examples of some of these activities could, be running Material resource planning, recruiting and managing an employee’s lifecycle, disbursing payrolls, recording all financial transactions and drawing balance sheets and P/L statements of the company etc.   Now imagine a single system that takes care of all these diverse activities and still keep them well integrated. continue reading…