where my cool (SAP) stuff happens …

last changed: 23rd of November 2022

where my cool (SAP) stuff happens …

What started as a little sidekick into the World of SAP S/4HANA especially the wide Area of SAP Upgrade, is now a comprehensive list of useful Information around various Topics in the Area of SAP Basis Technology, nowadays called BTP (Business Transformation Platform, or simply SAP Cloud)

more than a sidekick is the – SAP First Guidance Collection, a set of Documents which is a regularly update process once a topic needs some changes or corrections. Why not wring a Book: well, SAP never stops changing procedures/documentation/tools/etc.
So get yourself a binder and your “SAP Basis Book” is ready … 😉

the first stuff …

these were some of my first Blogs on the new SAP Community Platform, and we had a few of them 😉

• Blog – BI-JAVA, BEx Web and EP: the real connection…
• Blog – Note Analyzer – Revamp 2021
• Blog – Upgrade was never been easier…
• Blog – Changes in SAP BEx after Upgrade to 7.3x
• Blog – DMO: optimizing system downtime is timeless…
• Blog – Good News – Easier Modeling of the SEM Add-On in Solution Manager

where my true heart beats …

since the days when Sybase became part of the SAP Family, I was writing Articles about the Sybase IQ Database and our main SAP Use Cases for BW and ERP, now BW/4 and S/4 for HANA

• Document – SAP First Guidance – SAP NLS Solution with SAP IQ 16.x
  Blog – SAP (Sybase) IQ – the hidden treasure …
• Page – SAP BW NLS Solution
• Blog – Q – the easy Installer for SAP IQ
• Blog – SAP ILM based on SAP IQ Database
• Blog – enable SAP IQ for DBACOCKPIT
• Blog – Increasing the SAP-NLS Performance
• Blog – Leaner “RISE with SAP” and IQ towards Cloud

SAP Upgrade and S/4HANA

SAP S/4 HANA is always a good source for training the SAP technical Upgrade and keep up to date with the SAP Software Logistics Tools

Presentation – Upgrade S/4HANA Version 2020 -Basis View

• Blog – Upgrade to S/4HANA 1709 FPS01 – fast track
• Blog – S/4HANA 1709 FPS02 – the story continues …
• Blog – S/4HANA 1709 SPS03 – back on the Mothership again …
• Blog – Upgrade to S/4HANA 1809 SPSx – the final frontier
• Blog – Upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 2020 – time to change

25 Years of SAP BW

When I go back to my first days at SAP (Switzerland), I can remember one of my first Presentation talking about the R/3 Add-On for Data Warehousing 1.0, which a few Month later became the first standalone Version of SAP BIW 1.2A, the second Product after R/3 at SAP.
One of my part time Manager at this time was asking me, how many Installation I will do in a Year. He stated 1-2 and I have proved him pretty soon a countless Number of Customers.

Presentation –  Hitchhiker’s Guide to NetWeaver or “thank you for the fish …”

• Blog – SAP BW Installation/Configuration on/for HANA
• Blog – SAP BW? – three things to know …
• Blog – Three things to know when migrating to SAP BW on HANA
• Blog – On the Road to SAP BW/4HANA – first stage accomplished
• Blog – On the Road to BW/4HANA – second stage finalized
• Blog – SAP BW Installation/Configuration on/for HANA
• Blog – SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 – CAL for it …
• Blog – Upgrade SAP BW/4HANA 2.0 – the time is now …
• Blog – SAP BW/4 HANA 2021 – 3rd Generation in Sync with SAP S/4
• new Blog – why SAP BW/4HANA?
• new Blog – SAP Guardians of the Data Galaxy

Solving several Mysteries …

Digging deeper into cross topics was always in my interest, as we forgot to take care of one of our core values: not only knowing something in details, also know to connect the Systems on-premise and now more and more SAP Cloud and Hyperscaler Worlds as well.

• Blog – demystifying NLS/ILM error messages …
• Blog – demystifying TLS/SSL Settings for NetWeaver
• Blog – next Mystery solved – proper SAC Connection

Another sidekick: SAP Solution Manager is still one of the greatest hidden objects game from SAP with almost no value in return. It is simply time consuming …

• Blog – SAP MacGyver – Installing SAP SolMan 7.2
• Blog – another Mystery solved – connect Diagnostic Agent properly

SAP Data Intelligence

When SAP entered the “Kubernetes Adventure” to deliver a ground breaking connectivity Solution called SAP DI, it was also not foreseen that it would be needed workbench for SAP BW/4 to connect to the purchased Products bought by SAP. However, Customers have to toad swallow, when they want to use the functionality: some Cloud is mandatory, either SAP Cloud or Hyperscaler.

• Blog – prepare the Installation Host for the SLC Bridge
• Blog – Maintenance Planer and the SLC Bridge for SAP Data Hub
• Blog – Unified Data Integration for SAP
• Blog – SAP Data Intelligence Hub – connecting the Dots …
• Blog – SAP Data Intelligence 3.0 – implement with slcb tool
• Blog – Secure the Ingress for DH 2.7 or DI 3.0

Additional Topics to mention …

As every good chef knows his tools, it is also elementy that working with SAP technology also needs sharpened tools by hand. So investigating on the SAP Client side is also helpful when working with all kind of SAP Systems.

• new Blog – Apple M1 and real SAP Basis Support
• Blog – SapMachine and SAP HANA Studio
• Blog – SAP Secure Login Server – your own CA on Hand …
• Blog – SAP BI4.x Installation/Update/Patching

and what about SAP HANA?

Back in the days of the SAP BW Product Management, SAP HANA was the sidekick of SAP BW as it was the first official Product which was enabled for the In-Memory Database. Way too much was written for SAP HANA which is now nothing more than the sidekick of SAP S/4HANA and no is remember that I had the task to write the first SAP HANA training material back  in 2011.

Roland Kramer, SAP Platform Architect for Intelligent Data & Analytics, SAP SE
@SAPFirstGuidance

“I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious.”