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How to enable Basic Authentication for Cloud Integration on SAP Cloud Foundry
This blog describes how to set up inbound communication using Basic Authentication when using SAP Cloud Integration in the Cloud Foundry environment, as this...
Technology
What Is it Like Being an SAP HANA Database Administrator?
In this post, let’s discuss the day-to-day tasks of an SAP HANA database administrator and how to get yourself started down that career path. What does an
SAP HANA
SAP HCM transition strategies (Part 1)
SAP offers two solutions for SAP Human Capital Management (SAP HCM): SAP HCM for S/4HANA and SuccessFactors (Cloud). In this blog (part 1), I will share my...
News
Prepare for Planning with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud & Analytics Cloud
A few weeks ago SAP introduced the bi-directional integration between SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). This feature, currently...
News
SAP Planning in the Cloud - Stand-alone or Live Connection
SAP Analytics Cloud has been the strategic choice for planning within SAP's portfolio for several years now. Based on our experience working with both the...
Technology
Growing IT organically: how Ecotone migrated its BI environment to SAP BW/4HANA
Earlier this year, Ecotone finalised its journey towards SAP BW/4HANA...
Technology
Master data attribute recommendation using SAP AI Core and T5 transformers
Master data maintenance is a time-consuming activity for many businesses. Companies like retailers selling large amounts of different articles or...
Technology
Full Maintenance Scope with SAP S/4HANA Asset Management
The role of the Maintenance Department is often underestimated as playing only a supporting role in production companies. As a result, these departments...
SAP S/4HANA
Domo Chemicals Bronze Winner of the SAP Best of Customer Success Awards 2022
With the Best of Customer Success Awards, SAP is putting the spotlights on customers their SAP implementations with measurable results. Every year customers...
News
Balancing cost and performance with SAP HANA Data Tiering
SAP HANA is an in-memory database and is only supported on certified hardware. By requiring certified hardware, SAP is making sure that core-to-memory ratio...
Technology
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is SAP’s next generation, Cloud-based data warehouse solution. It is part of Walldorf’s HANA Cloud Services triumvirate, together...
News
The switch to Daylight Saving Time in SAP
For most humans, the switch to Daylight Saving Time (27th of March at 02:00 in the morning) just means one hour less sleep. But for software applications,...
Technology
Why every data migration project needs a solid team
Data migration is key to the success of an SAP S/4HANA or any other IT-system implementation. Preparation is indispensable for a successful Data Migration...
SAP S/4HANA
Expertum is nominated for Trends Gazellen 2022
For the second year in a row, Expertum is nominated as Trends Gazellen in the category of large companies in Brussels.
News
App development with the No-code platform AppGyver
In this year’s SAP TechEd (2021), a lot of topics were about the Business Application Studio (BAS) and how to accelerate application development with...
News
Are you ready for the Euro conversion in Croatia?
Now that 2022 already has started, I have written a blog about the Euro conversion in Croatia. January 1st 2023 is an extremely important date financially....
News
Explainable forecasting using HANA and APL
Last week our colleague Dirk Kemper (Data Science and Analytics Consultant) wrote a technical blog about machine learning at true scale, with SAP HANA's...
Technology
Large-scale forecasting using HANA, APL and Node.js
For our XP Tech blog from Expertum our colleague Dirk Kemper (Data Science and Analytics Consultant) wrote a technical blog about machine learning at true...
Technology
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: A post-TechEd round-up
This year’s SAP TechEd was the second edition held exclusively online; a format that undoubtedly holds both advantages and disadvantages for everyone....
News
Six Reasons S/4HANA Condition Contracts are a Huge Upgrade
Condition Contracts are an exciting addition to S/4HANA’s toolkit, allowing granular control of the rebate, commission and royalty agreements you manage for...
SAP S/4HANA
The switch to standard time or winter time in SAP
For most humans, the switch to standard time just means an extra hour of sleep. But for software applications, the consequences are less appealing. Software...
Technology
'Fitcoins' launched in Belgium
Kokoro, a Belgium based company that assists organisations in their well-being policy, launched the 'fitcoin', a digital currency to reward employees for...
News
Why preparation is the most important ingredient of a successful data migration project
Data migration is an indispensable part of the transition to SAP S/4HANA. Without accurate data, all investments in SAP's ERP flagship are worth nothing. In...
SAP S/4HANA
Why you should switch to Bank Reconciliation in SAP S/4HANA 2020
Are you ready to take advantage of significantly simplified Bank Accounting in SAP S/4HANA 2020? This article outlines what’s improved and shows you how to...
SAP S/4HANA
Tech Alert: Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft released mandatory security updates for several Windows versions including 10, 8.1, 7, and Server editions to patch the 'PrintNightmare' exploit.
Technology
Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud
For some time now, SAP SAC (Sap Analytics Cloud) has been the strategic choice for planning. SAP Business planning and Consolidation for S/4HANA and SAP...
Analytics
Tech Alert: Major Security Alert for All SAP ABAP Platforms
On 8 June SAP has issued note 3007182 - [CVE-2021-27610] Improper Authentication in SAP NetWeaver ABAP Server and ABAP Platform, describing a major...
Technology
Taking the temperature: An updates analysis of SAP's data & analytics strategy
In the past year-and-a-half, with the world facing a pandemic like never before, companies across the globe have seen the workload on their IT systems...
Review Azure services certificate authorities
Microsoft is updating its Azure services to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates from a different set of Root Certificate Authorities (CAs).
Technology
Expertum is nominated for trends gazelles 2021
We can proudly say that Expertum is nominated for Trends Gazelles 2021 in the category big companies in Brussels.
News
Hybrid and embedded: how the future of SAP analytics is blazing a trial for the intelligent enterprise
Hybrid. Embedded. Intelligence. If someone would ask me to describe the past few weeks of SAP’s Analytics webinars, these would be the first three words that...
The Expertum way: switching to SAP S/4HANA in four simple steps
As companies around the world switch to SAP S/4HANA, you may be wondering whether you should be doing the same. The answer is simple: you can, and this is...
SAP S/4HANA
Managing an SAP S/4HANA project: 8 things to keep in mind
The switch to SAP S/4HANA may seem like a big shift. In terms of functionality, it is. But when it comes to project management, rest assured: many key...
SAP S/4HANA
Recon: critical vulnerability affecting all SAP systems
A vulnerability has been discovered, which makes it possible to create SAP users with maximum privileges without the need to authenticate. The vulnerability...
Technology
SAP S/4HANA service
SAP CRM on premise is currently widely adopted by many companies throughout the world and SAP continues to support this solution, as currently known through...
SAP S/4HANA
Analytics in SAP S/4HANA explained
Traditionally there has always been a strict separation between analytics and transactional work. Partly this was due to technical separation of live...
Cloud