SAP

Historically functional requirements have remained the key focus of organizations working with enterprise applications such as SAP. However, in their race to meet the functional requirements of business users, many times non-functional requirements (NFR) and usability may take back stage and are not updated.

Business demands for flexibility and responsiveness have always put pressure on IT departments to increase the speed at which new applications are created or changes are implemented. Newer tools (such as Portal, MDM, Composites etc.) and new way of architecting (SOA, Virtualization etc.) the solution are being used by IT for being quick and efficient to support business of the enterprise. Each of these new tools and architecture has their own demands for NFR (performance, availability and security) and usability.

From performance point of view, following four key layers play important role:

• Browser layer
• Network layer
• Application server layer
• Database layer

Continue reading "Win the last mile battle by addressing Performance and Usability of SAP Netweaver based Web apps…PART I of IV- Browser Layer" »

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Is moving to ERP 6.0 really the end of journey for Upgrades? Not necessarily so, please read on..

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SAP modifies the support windows

SAP used to follow the 5-1-2 rule till recently. All products were covered under the mainstream support for 5 years at a fixed price of 17% AMC. This was followed by a penalty of 2% for 1 year and 4% for the next two years.

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Background:

Fundamentally, computers deal with just numbers. Characters are converted to predetermined numbers in order to be stored in the system. For example in the ASCII encoding “A” is stored as 65 (Dec) and “a” as 97 (Dec). As the need to store characters from different languages arose, different forums were formed to create different code pages that would suit their requirement. However, there was no order maintained to ensure that the numbers consumed by characters in other code pages are not reused. Soon there was a mess with different characters being represented by the same number in different code pages and also because of the repetition of some of these characters.

Continue reading "Overview of Unicode" »

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