Decoding S/4HANA Conversion

To start with there is always a lot of confusion on S/4HANA Conversion projects.

Too many tasks, too many teams, and too many responsibilities. Also moving away from our beloved Business Suite sparks fear in us.

Lets explain why we should move away from ECC 6.0 :

SAP Maintenance Strategy:

SAP provides mainstream maintenance for core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 software (including SAP ERP 6.0, SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0, SAP Supply Chain Management 7.0, and SAP Supplier Relationship Management 7.0 applications and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA®) on the respective latest three Enhancement Packages (EhPs) until December 31, 2027.

XaaS Digital Assets with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud

In this blog let us go in more details of various possible business models and corresponding pricing models that we can have as part of XaaS Digital Assets. Our focus will be on E2E business process for Subscription based products in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud with an out of the box integration with SAP Subscription Billing & Entitlement Management solutions.

Let us imagine that there is a Digital Assets Software company having a software portfolio including various software & different pricing models like:

◉ Fixed Recurring Charge

◉ Tier Based Pricing

◉ Volume/Usage Based Pricing

XSD Validation for DMEEX

There is new functionality available in DMEEX and delivered across SAP S/4HANA on-premise that allows you to define XSD (XML Schema Definition) validation for your format trees.

If you were provided with an XSD with a criterion for the output file from the requester (e.g., bank or other financial institution) you can now upload the XSD file and take advantage of the file being checked against the schema as soon as the file is created.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud bulk provisioning

As our customers adopt SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, we often need to help them set up new users for both training and productive use.  This can be a significant administrative task when there are many users, spaces, connections, and shares needed for each user.  NOTE: SAP provides the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud command line interface (CLI) for automating some provisioning tasks.

For a specific customer, we needed to create 30 training users, along with a Space per user, multiple Connections per user, and numerous shares from a common space.  This could all have been accomplished using the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud user interface but we wanted to go faster, and more importantly make it repeatable.

How can SAP applications support the New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) Process?

In this blog you will get an overview of “How can SAP Applications support the New Product development and Introduction (NPDI) Process for Discrete and Process industry .

Introduction of NPDI Process:

NPDI stands for “New Product Development and Introduction is the complete process of bringing a new product to the customer/Market. New product development is described in the literature as the transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale and it can be tangible (that is, something physical you can touch) or intangible (like a service, experience, or belief).

SAP AppGyver – Handling Image : Loading and displaying data

This article is a continuation of the previous one. This article assumes the environment created in the previous article, so please refer to that article if you have not yet done so.

This time, I will explain how to display the image data stored in the BLOB type column of HANA Cloud using the SAP AppGyver application.

Additional development to the AppGyver application

Add a page

In this case, I would like to create a function that displays a list of image IDs, and when I tap on one, the image is displayed.I would like to add a separate page for this function, although it could be created on the same page.

The SAP Geoenablement Framework (GEF) now authenticates with ArcGIS Enterprise

Transmission line repair

GEF is integrated into SAP Plant Maintenance.GEF allows Plant Maintenance users to do their tasks using a map – regardless of whether the customer is running SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA (Suite on HANA), or SAP S/4HANA.

Difference between Role, Authorization Object/s, and Profile

As a Functional Consultant, one may wonder what a Role is and how different it is from the Authorization Object and Profile. While it is mostly the job of the Security team to assign the required Role for a user, it is also the Functional Consultant’s responsibility to provide inputs about the required Transactions, restrictions within a Transaction, and how these restrictions should vary depending on the user.

Let’s begin this blog by defining what a user is. In simple terms, if a system has our users already created in it, only then we will be able to log in using a username and password. In SAP, Transaction code SU01 is used to create a user. Using this Tr. Code, users can be created, modified, deleted, locked, unlocked, and copied to create a new one. Typically, in a project user creation has certain prerequisites. Initially, the user or the concerned manager requests the user creation by filling in the access form and providing all the required details. This is followed by one or two stages of approval and finally the creation of the user by the Security team.

How to use Custom Analytical Queries in SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics?

In this blog post you will learn step-by-step how to create a report in a SAP Fiori environment on operational SAP S/4HANA data. This is done using the ‘Custom Analytical Query’ SAP Fiori app. This SAP Fiori app is standard available in SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics and allows users to create reports themselves, directly on the operational data. These reports can be consumed in SAP Fiori or in any other visualization application like SAP Analysis for Office or SAP Analytics Cloud.

How to create a Custom Analytical Query?

To create a Custom Analytical Query the following steps need to be executed:

Step 1: Start the Custom Analytical Query app

Step 2: Create a new report

Step 3: Select the fields

Step 4: Assign to rows and columns

Step 5: Add custom fields

Step 6: Add filters

Step 7: Publish

Pass Input Parameters to CV from Parameters derived from Procedure/Scalar Function

I am writing this blog post on SAP HANA Input Parameters. There are few blogs on HANA IPs but they are not giving clear understanding. Here I am giving a basic example which will make the understanding easy for HANA developers.

Those who are working on HANA for quite sometime and developed SAP HANA CVs they must have worked on Input Parameters and Variables.

A Variable:

Variables are bound to columns and are used for filtering using WHERE clauses. As such, they can only contain the values available in the Columns they relate to.

SAP AppGyver – Handling Image: Data Writing

Now, here is an article on SAP AppGyver.

Today I would like to explain how to handle image data. Images can be found at …..There are pros and cons to storing it in HANA Cloud’s BLOB type column.

Assumption

In this article, I will explain how to create an application that takes a photo and stores it in a BLOB type column in HANA Cloud.