How to Enable SAP GUI Scripting in 3 Easy Steps
Recording SAP GUI sessions can be an important part of testing and documentation. It’s not hard to do – IF you are up to speed on SAP GUI scripting techniques. Following is our illustrated guide on how to utilize SAP GUI scripting quickly and easily. SAP GUI scripting is a technology that enables record and playback of activities in the SAP GUI session. Test automation tools for SAP, such as HP Quick Test Professional (QTP), ECATT and Panaya Test Accelerator, use... Read More
Settling the Score on the New SAP NetWeaver Versions
SAP NetWeaver tends to create some degree of confusion among customers (although hopefully less so since our recent Jargon Buster piece on the topic), with some recent and forthcoming releases providing a case in point. Two new NetWeaver releases will be hitting the market soon: NetWeaver 7.0 Enhancement Package 2 (aka NetWeaver 7.02) and NetWeaver 7.30. The reason there are two versions, and the differences between them, is cleared up in this month’s Jargon Buster. Why... Read More
Lextron Goes Virtual with SAP – and Starts Counting the Benefits
Lextron IT Director Tim Hays Lextron, Inc. is a wholesale distributor of animal health pharmaceuticals with about 700 employees, 60 locations across 20 U.S. states and upwards of $500 million in annual sales. Until recently, as a result of mergers and acquisitions, it also had four separate ERP systems, says Tim Hays, Lextron’s IT Director and its top IT decision-maker. As Hays explains, when the company in 2009 decided to consolidate to a single SAP implementation, he opted... Read More
Getting Started with SAP Benchmarking
If you’re looking to implement a new SAP installation, upgrade an existing one or are just trying to maintain the status quo, at some point the questions will arise, “What are my peers doing with respect to SAP and how do I compare?” Coming up with answers requires you delve into benchmarking. Benchmarking requires you to assess the performance of other companies that are similar to yours with respect to how they run their SAP environment and, perhaps, the benefits they... Read More
What SPS Are You On Anyway? How to Quickly Determine Your SAP Support Package Stack Number
Enterprise workdays are too often consumed by the chore of looking up reference information – or worse yet, not knowing where to look. This is often the case with SAP Support Package Stacks (SPS). The problem? Many SAP technical decisions cannot be made without knowing which SPS you are on. Too often, SAP users get bogged down trying to figure this information out. No more! This illustrated four step process will allow your team to quickly determine the SPS level you are... Read More
Answering the Questions about SAP’s OnDemand Applications
Breaking news update (12/08/2010): On December 8, 2010, during his keynote for the SAP Influencer Summit, SAP’s Peter Lorenz, Executive Vice President of SAP’s On-Demand Solutions, announced new SaaS platform names and a clarified vision for SAP’s OnDemand applications. Billed as a “Unified technology stack,” SAP’s OnDemand architecture will be standardized on a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering that includes “Next Generation Core,” based on the Business... Read More
