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Sofindev invests in leading SAP consulting company Expertum
Expertum concludes a strategic partnership with Sofindev. The partnership between Sofindev and Expertum, a leading player in the SAP consulting market, will...
Efficient ABAP programming: How to work with Eclipse in SAP
Programming in SAP has changed a lot in recent years. For some years now, there has been the possibility to connect your company's or customer's SAP system...
Introducing the Expertum Application Model
In today's modern application development, it's becoming increasingly important to have proper state management and easy read/edit modes in apps. Expertum...
The switch to Daylight Saving Time in SAP
For most humans, the switch to Daylight Saving Time (26th of March at 02:00 in the morning) just means one hour less sleep. But for software applications,...
SAP Datasphere unleashed
SAP announced the evolution of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) into SAP Datasphere during its ‘Data Unleashed’-digital event.
Running a native UI5 desktop application
Having a dedicated desktop application can improve the user experience. To achieve this, we want to use the
XP Recap: Innovation and Development @ SAP TechEd 2022
As stated by my colleague Lars van der Goes, SAP TechEd 2022 again was a mostly online event, only...
XP Recap: Data & Analytics @ SAP TechEd 2022
In spite of no lack of turbulent events this year, 2022 has been the time for many of us to mostly return to the way we lived our lives before the COVID...
Benefits and challenges implementing SAP SuccessFactors (Part 2)
In my previous Blog (Part 1) the possible transition strategies from SAP HCM to HCM for SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors were explained. In this blog I...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Growing IT organically: how Ecotone migrated its BI environment to SAP BW/4HANA
Earlier this year, Ecotone finalised its journey towards SAP BW/4HANA...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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.
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...
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).
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...