NW Client/Server Technology (CST)

As a business application developer, you need to ensure that your apps run with optimal performance. While this holds for all types of applications, in this blog post I am specifically looking at web apps, and in particular I am focusing on SAP... Read More »

The SAP Web Dispatcher is a reverse proxy designed to work best with other SAP software solutions. While there exist many reverse proxy solutions from various software vendors out there, the SAP Web Dispatcher is maintained and supported by SAP, is... Read More »

From my experience the RFC Gateway security is for many SAP Administrators still a not well understood topic. As a result many SAP systems lack for example of proper defined ACLs to prevent malicious use of the RFC Gateway. After an attack vector... Read More »

Hi community! This is my first blog post and I hope it might help you all to Run Simple. One of the steps in setting up SSL in the NetWeaver Application Server ABAP is configuring the available TLS protocol versions and the cipher suites. In some... Read More »

Imagine that you have designed and implemented this great app your users have been waiting for. But if it is too slow, they will not like it. System administrators will hate it if its resource consumption is too high. How do you know ahead of time... Read More »

As you might know, currently when you will perform an installation of a fresh SAP system based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0x and higher, there is an instance for ASCS. It was separated from PAS for all the fresh installations. But why SAP did that? Because... Read More »

This is the first blog post in a series of posts that cover my SAP GUI transaction ST05. Here, I show the straightforward use of the tool to get you started for ad hoc performance analyses of your business applications. If you have not yet done so,... Read More »

Many years ago SAP deprecated the SAPCRYPTOLIB and introduced the CommonCryptoLib (CCL) as its successor. The CCL is not only a replacement for its predecessor but also for OpenSSL, which was used for example by SAP HANA in its early days (and up to... Read More »

In January 2018, SAP launched a large-scale pilot of the Ask an Expert Peer support channel for SuccessFactors solutions to test the on-demand expert workforce approach.  The feedback received from customers during the pilot was very positive and... Read More »

Google Chrome will roll out an incompatible change regarding the “SameSite” cookie attribute starting Feb 17, 2020. All cross-domain browser scenarios could be critically affected. In this blog, I would like to inform you on the... Read More »