SAP articles
Articles I published on SAP between 2020 and 2021, kept online as an archive. For the matching YouTube tutorials, see the Videos page. You’ll find the Deciphering SAP trilogy, step-by-step guides (CAL, S/4HANA on Google Cloud, how to log in), and posts for consultants and learners who are tired of decoding acronyms on their own.
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Would you like to use SAP CAL but you are concerned about the costs? In this post you will see how they work and what exactly SAP CAL is. You will also find some tips to save money when using SAP CAL.
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Access your own installation of SAP S/4HANA 2020. Now with Google Cloud Platform, it is possible to have it for free.
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There are several options to get access to an SAP S/4HANA system. Some of them are FREE.
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SAP Universal Id, the way in which SAP is centralizing with OSS users. OSS users now have expiration date.
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In this post, we analyze the meaning of user experience and we do a quick overview about the five SAP solutions included in SAP C/4HANA
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With the internet, the social networks, the mobile phones and the smart watches the creation of data has increased exponentially. This has created new IT jobs in the last decade. For example, data scientists or big data analysts.
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SAP also commercializes other standalone solutions that can be integrated with the core ERP. With the digital transformation, changes are happening so quick. Keeping up with the raft of changes poses a challenge.
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An add-on is a software used to provide more capability to an existing application. Likewise, in SAP, we also have add-ons. They are used to enhance a standard product offering.
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The goal of this post is to provide you, in my view, an overview of the most popular SAP modules. Additionally, I will review the concept of End-to-End processes and why I think it is wrong to use them in a job opening. For now, let’s start from the beginning.
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In this post, we are going to see three different ways to log in to the same SAP system via SAP client software: SAP Fiori Client, SAP Logon and SAP Business Client.
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It’s interesting how the concept of "real-time" appears everywhere. Since SAP was founded, the goal has been achieving the real-time. In fact, the R in SAP R/1, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3 stands for Real-time. However, the meaning of this concept has evolved throughout the years. Let’s analyze in detail what I consider are the three big revolutionary products of SAP.
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I am often asked how to install SAP as a standalone on a computer. Understandable, as some people want to improve their CV by enhancing their hands on knowledge of the application. However, the answer is not so straight forward. Wouldn't it be great if the whole installation of SAP was like installing the app Spotify on your computer?
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Do you know who the competitors of SAP are in the ERP market? Let's have a look to the main players in the ERP market nowadays and what ERP applications they commercialize.
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SAP is incorporating Cloud, Mobility, Power Analytics, User Experience, E-commerce, Intelligent technologies, SDK... to keep up with the digital transportation
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