Enhancements Packs and NetWeaver Versioning – Clarifying the Relationships

In the SAP world, each Enhancement Pack is inextricably linked to the SAP NetWeaver stack upon it runs. But if you look solely at the version numbers, you will be forgiven if you run into confusion about which NetWeaver stack is most appropriate for any given Enhancement Pack.  Here’s the inside scoop. As we’ve covered previously, the NetWeaver code lines essentially split some years ago. Today, one line – NetWeaver 7.0x – runs directly within the SAP Business... Read More

Product Review – Nakisa Data Quality Console (and Org Chart)

Who they are Founded: 1999 Employees: 150 HQ: Montreal, Quebec Customers: 400+ User seats: 3,000,000 Top four countries: US, UK, France, Germany What they do Nakisa helps SAP users clean and visualize their SAP data by adding a “visualization layer” on top of SAP HCM. The Data Quality Console (reviewed here) facilitates HR data cleansing. Nakisa customers can then utilize that cleaned data for analysis and planning with Nakisa’s Org Visualization and Talent Visualization... Read More

Choosing the Right Load Balancing Tool for Your SAP Shop

Load balancing is an effective way to ensure good performance for your SAP environment. In a nutshell, load balancing is a way to distribute the processing load among various servers, so that no one server is overloaded with requests while another remains largely idle. Two basic approaches exist toward achieving that goal. The first is a hardware-based appliance from vendors such as Array Networks, Barracuda Networks, Cisco, and F5 Networks, to name a few. The alternative is a... Read More

How the Army Normalizes Disparate ERP systems – and Gets Better Data

Matt Cozzi Large corporations face a common problem: difficulty normalizing data that comes from different business units or even companies that fall under the same corporate umbrella. Think of a bank that has multiple lines of business, such as home loans, credit cards, consumer banking, commercial banking and an investment brokerage.  Each business unit has a multitude of business systems and its own way of describing processes and data, making it difficult for the company... Read More