Wanted technical features across SAP products
Dear community,
I’d be interested to know which technical features you would absolutely like to see implemented across all SAP brands including BOBJ and Sybase.
For example, making SSO work across all our products and deployment layer (on demand, on premise, mobile).
Or providing explicit process models for all SAP solutions, whichever platform they are based on.
Having heard opinions of several customers and colleagues, I compiled a ‘top fifteen’ list and would now like to put it out to the SDN community, asking you to rank the list and to extend it with your own suggestions.
You can find the list here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SAPProductExperience_ShortPriorities
Your feedback is very welcome, our interest guaranteed!
Patrik Fiegl
SAP Architecture & Innovation Services
specifically uniform monitoring part. Seriously needed.
ECC - Ehp4 and in the SCM/APO implementation we used CIF to integrate master data and transaction data.
At the same client now they want to implement e-Sourcing/CLM. Now, we are saying we need a interface through PI (or any middleware) to integrate master data and trasaction data between ECC and CLM.
We are also implementing SAP CRM now we are configuring CRMmiddleware to integrate master data and transaction data between ECC & CRM.
Also the client have a roadmap to implement SAP ME. We need to have SAP MII/SAP PI to integrate master data and trasaction data between ECC and SAP ME.
why can't we have same technology or one dedicated tool to integrate all SAP products
They're all important things, but I was able to make a distinction betwen those which I considered very important and 'just' important. For what it's worth, I'll include my comments - see if it fires up a bit of discussion. I'm a certified BASIS / Netweaver Technology Consultant, with a background in working for a multinational SI, but currently consulting to a small number of SME's
1) Mobile MUST be platform agnostic (I can't tell my customer to throw away their iPhone / Android / Blackberry and existing integration investment).
2) Netweaver needs a (even via OSS) a set of standardised profile / configuration parameters for given system sizes (i.e the old t-shirt model) for each combo of OS / DBMS - We literally DONT have time to tune systems; If possible, the business want us to download an install kit on Friday and handover a running configured system on Monday or Tuesday.
hth
But it's a complete other thing that I find quite fascinating regarding this survey. It is a really good overview of features that SAP software does NOT offer. Generally in product presentation, fact sheets, documentation you always find lists of features. Missing functionality naturally is not mentioned. That's another good reason to complete this survey: Getting some interesing insights in that missing features list.
I am an SAP Certified ABAP Development Consultant. During ABAP Development, so many times we have to process data in internal tables in different ways for different purposes. I think Open SQL must be extended to allow queries, aggregations etc. on internal tables. The concept is similar to LINQ in .Net technologies where we could select and process data uniformly and in same way from both databases and arrays/collections. This would result in more compact code and with clear and easily understandable logic. This would greatly help in writing easily maintainable code too. I think this is a must have feature in next ABAP version.
Migration of older technologies to new technologies should be possible in easier way. Eg : We still dont have easy/automatic way of migrating the SAPScripts to Smartforms/Adobeforms 🙁
Even though there are methods for integrating class in to workflow still consultants prefer to use the predefined SAP Business object Methods and delegating it.
I hope this will be a part of newer versions of ABAP.
Regards
Arshad
It would be great if this would/could be integrated with HANA and get faster (near)real-time results.
Still not sure if CEP is integrated fully with Event Insight for SAP BI 4.0?
I am glad to read your comments. You are correct we already have some demos/scenarios where Event Insight is used with BPM. SAP Operational Business Intelligence (BI)
To answer your question
"Still not sure if CEP is integrated fully with Event Insight for SAP BI 4.0?"
Yes, Event Insight leverages CEP for the correllation of events. This correllation capabilities together with the event grid features give a key differentiation to Event Insight 4.0 in the market.
Feel free to reachout to me. We already have some EI and Hana demos that we created for a utilities conference.
my favourites are Office 2010 support, SAP GUI with more than 6 modes and ABAP for Eclipse. That would rock!