Blogs posted October 2004

In most BSP in Action: Strategic Freight Procurement with BASF EPILOG tables are choosen to present data to the user. The tables are often large, not only in regard of the number of records but also in number of columns. In certain cases the number... Read More »

In a recent blogpost, I have talked a bit of ABAP program execution via transaction codes. Now, let’s talk about the kind of program execution, that is reserved for exactly one program type, namely executables, let’s talk about... Read More »

“Business objects from productive backend systems are friends, not food” As Bruce, the shark from “Finding Nemo” would say: I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change... Read More »

After almost 4 years as a product manager at TopTier and later at SAP, I changed my direction to the implementation world, becoming a project manager. It was a tough change, which wasn’t really covered by real knowledge of the challenges that... Read More »

NEW – Simple Web Repository Manager As of SAP NetWeaver ’04 Support Package Stack 04, you can now use the simple Web repository manager to integrate documents stored on remote Web Servers into SaP Knowledge Management with very little... Read More »

SAP Knowledge Managment supports the SAP NetWeaver scenario fof Information Broadcasting. This integration can be used to make structured information from the SAP Business Information Warehouse available to users in the SAP Enterprise Portal.... Read More »

SAP Knowledge management uses crawlers to collect resources located in internal and external repositories. With the release of SAP NetWeaver’04 SPS04, crawler profiles and crawler types no longer exist. Crawler parameters are now used to... Read More »

As you can see in my bio I am not only the Collaboration Manager for SDN but on the side in my free time I am also co-producing the Accelerating Change Conference happening next Weekend from the 5th to the 7th of November at Stanford and this is a... Read More »

Consider these scenarios In your portal implementation you need to integrate a lot of websites. So you find yourself creating a lot of similar URL-based iViews. After creating a few you are getting impatient and you want the higher gods to help... Read More »

I am happy to announce, that the documentation of ST has finally made its way to the SAP Help Portal. You find it here! What is ST? As of Release 6.10 ABAP contains the statement CALL TRANSFORMATION that allows you to transform ABAP data to XML and... Read More »