by Ameya Pimpalgaonkar, Advisory System Analyst, IBM India
SAP Professional Journal - Volume 14 (2012), Issue 1

Many enterprises are upgrading their portals to SAP NetWeaver 7.3. Look at five elements to consider when making the decision to upgrade your portal.

by Lauren Bonneau, Managing Editor
insiderPROFILES - 2011 (Volume 2), October (Issue 4)

More than half of the world’s population survives on less than $2 a day. In fact, the vast majority of humans on this planet struggle to secure access to the basic necessities of food, water, shelter, and medical care. Direct Relief International is a nonprofit organization with a single purpose — to provide humanitarian assistance and medical resources to people who can’t pay for them. Learn how Direct Relief used SAP technology created an online community network that can support people in need by making medicines and supplies more easily accessible.

by Ira Berk, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), October (Issue 4)

Improved user interfaces have helped transform portals into effective application deployment vehicles and full-featured collaboration hubs. This article explores how SAP has enhanced the functionality of its own SAP NetWeaver Portal solution to help end users, developers, and administrators take advantage of the portal revolution.

by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 8

Organizations face challenges to make their internal audit processes less labor intensive and more cost-effective. Learn how you can manage resources, schedules, tasks, and remediation activities for internal audit programs using SAP NetWeaver’s audit management functionality.

by Frank Rambo, Director, Customer Solution Adoption EMEA, SAP
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 6

Version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control comes with a revised platform and runs on an SAP NetWeaver application server ABAP. If you want to upgrade your current implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control you’ll need to migrate your data using export and import tools provided with the software. Learn how to plan a migration and examine the supporting tools.

by Srikanth Sirineni, Senior SAP BW Developer, Global Pharma
BI Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 4

See how to create one process chain to control the schedule, reschedule, and stopping of multiple broadcasts.

by Natalie Zhang, Senior SAP Analyst, American Standard, and Mukunda Krisnaswamy, CTO, MimosaSoft
SAP Professional Journal - Volume 13 (2011), Update 2

Follow step-by-step instructions to make your portal site more accessible to a search engine such as Google Search Appliance.

by Andrew Cabanski-Dunning, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), April (Issue 2)

User interfaces (UIs) are supposed to be easy to use, yet managing all the UI options out there can seem complicated to many companies. This installment of the “User Experience” column discusses factors that explain this complexity, presents SAP’s “core and extensions” approach to UIs, and looks at UI options that best serve the three main types of SAP users—the frequent user, the occasional user, and the unique user.

by Ameya Pimpalgaonkar, Senior Associate Consultant, Infosys
SAP Professional Journal - Volume 13 (2011), Update 2

SAP and the latest user interface (UI) technologies are progressing by leaps and bounds, but parallel to each other. Their roadmap hardly intersects. SAP is extremely strong in its business process mapping and availability of process-centric applications. On the other hand, the latest UI technologies (such as jQuery, Ajax, and data exchange technologies like JavaScript Object Notation and HTML5) are unmatched when it comes to faster execution, writing fewer lines of code, built-in optimization, and user-friendliness. However, the key is to figure out how integrating SAP applications with the latest UI technologies can make your solution more robust, lean, and optimized.

by Ameya Pimpalgaonkar, Senior SAP NetWeaver Consultant, L&T Infotech
SAP Professional Journal - Volume 12 (2010), Update 6

Set your company portal apart from the rest by incorporating these six simple customizations. From adding your company logo to your SAP logon page to applying themes to enabling a hover effect that allows a user to easily see what nodes (sub menu) are contained within parent (header menu) nodes, you can make your portal inviting and usable.