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The following articles are written by SAP experts, contributors from the SAPinsider Community, and SAPinsider’s skilled team of editors and research analysts. From technical guides to thought leadership pieces, these articles contain essential insights to help SAP customers solve day-to-day challenges, understand what types of decisions organizations need to be making, and receive lessons learned from other SAP customer experiences.

Anatomy of the Solution Manager Knowledge Warehouse

A lot of time and effort go into creating solution documentation. By understanding how Solution Manager stores this information, you can be better prepared to take advantage of other capabilities of information management to provide end users and support teams with better control, visibility, and access to your solution documentation. Key Concept The Solution Manager...…
Understanding BSI 10.0 and Its Integration with SAP US Payroll

Learn about the relationship between SAP and BSI 10.0 for US payroll. Companies running SAP Payroll in the US need this functionality. Learn about the key information that you need to know to update your system to BSI 10.0 as required by SAP. Key Concept BSI 10.0 is the latest version of the Business Software...…
Complement Warm Data Management in SAP HANA with Dynamic Tiering

Christian Savelli describes the Dynamic Tiering option available starting with SAP HANA Support Package 9, which enables a more effective multi-temperature data strategy. It offers management of warm data content via the extended table concept, representing a major enhancement from the loading/unloading feature currently available. Key Concept The term extended table refers to tables logically...…
SAP Predictive Analytics: The End Result of a Long History of Data-Mining Tools from SAP (Part 1)

This is the first installment of a series of three articles that help with understanding the basics of the SAP Predictive Analytics toolset and its history. In this part, learn about the automated analysis component of SAP Predictive Analytics (specifically, a classification analysis) and see how it can be used to generate money-saving analysis of...…
Extract and Transfer SAP ERP HCM Data to SuccessFactors for Variable Pay Planning

Learn how to extract and transfer employee data from SAP ERP HCM to the SuccessFactors HCM Suite to perform the variable pay process as a part of the Integration Add-On 3.0 for SuccessFactors HCM Suite and SAP ERP HCM. The integration scenarios explored use SAP Process Integration as middleware. Once integrated, users are able to...…
To Split or Not to Split: Taking Another Look at the Adaptive Job Server

In the past, it has been accepted as common wisdom that the Adaptive Job Server should not be split due to concerns about stability and size. Learn why this may not always be the case, and see some helpful use cases for which splitting is not only practical, but essential. Key Concept Server splitting is...…
Avoid Manual Errors by Automating Your Costing Run

Move beyond standard functionality by integrating the steps for product cost planning into a single ABAP program that you can schedule as an automated background process. Key Concept Executing the costing run transaction as an automatic batch program without any manual intervention eliminates system issues, makes the process highly scalable, and makes it easily manageable...…
Learn How to Enhance Standard SAP ERP HCM Infotypes Quickly and Easily

Learn the four steps for enhancing standard infotypes. Using infotype 0555 as the example, learn how to make enhancements to infotypes easily and quickly without changing standard ABAP code. These added custom fields behave exactly as the other fields of standard infotypes. Key Concept SAP allows enhancements to the Single Screens of the majority of...…
Use Subgroups in Regular Expressions to Solve Problems Quickly and Easily

Rehan Zaidi explains how the use of subgroups within a Regular expression (Regex) allows you to write short code for solving complex programming problems. See six examples of how such regular expressions in conjunction with a REPLACE statement can save time and coding effort. Key Concept A Regular expression (Regex) is composed of literals and...…
SAP Predictive Analytics Part 2: An Overview of the Expert Analytics Tool

In this second of a series of three articles about the SAP Predictive Analytics toolset (previously marketed separately as SAP InfiniteInsight and SAP Predictive Analysis), learn about its Expert Analytics functionality. The first article covered the Automated Analytics functionality. This article focuses on how to use this more advanced toolset in the real world to...…