SAP Basis Support: What Do I Need?
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by Curtis Gaska - Solution Architect
4y ago
It’s wise to be prudent about outsourcing SAP Basis support. In our experience, it’s too critical a job to trust to just anyone. Too many times we’ve heard stories from customers about unresponsive offshore teams, a “break-fix” mindset and escalation-based support. These often lead to chronic poor performance and unplanned outages. At the same time, many companies are hesitant to sign up for onshore SAP Basis support. Common concerns about complicated pricing models and unpredictable bills have left a sour taste in many IT leaders’ mouths. Further complicating the situation is that in-ho ..read more
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Preparing For An SAP S/4HANA Cloud Data Migration
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by Curtis Gaska - Solution Architect
4y ago
As the end of support for SAP ECC looms, the option of migrating to SAP S/4HANA looks even more appealing to many companies that run SAP. Hosting S/4HANA in the cloud simplifies and streamlines many aspects of migrating from ECC to S/4HANA. Your cloud provider manages the infrastructure and takes care of maintaining the application itself. These two factors alone are potentially huge time and money savers for you. However, to get there, you will have to deal with SAP S/4HANA cloud data migration. This need not be a huge headache, but neither is it a trivial task. (Note – for the sake of simpli ..read more
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The SAP GRC SOX Compliance Checklist
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by Scott Goolik - VP, Compliance and Security Services
4y ago
It’s now been 17 years since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), which was enacted in the wake of the corporate accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom. The goal of SOX was to make publicly traded companies more accountable for the accuracy and integrity of their financial reporting. Whether the law has lived up to its intended goals is a matter for debate, but SOX has definitely had an impact on the way companies handle their Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) duties. And, considering the centrality of SAP systems in accounting, SAP GRC controls are essential when ex ..read more
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5 Key Considerations for the Enterprise Private Cloud
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by Jay Graboff, Cloud Product Manager
4y ago
You have to hand it to the Rolling Stones. They foretold the current debate over cloud computing back in 1965 in their hit single, Get Off of My Cloud. The song sums up the anxieties of all public cloud users in its lyric, “Don’t hang around ’cause two’s a crowd.” Seriously, though, cloud computing has been transformative but the public cloud is not for everyone just yet. One alternative that continues to make sense, especially in SAP circles is a private cloud. Enterprise private cloud delivers the isolation you expect and need along with the familiar virtualization that you have trusted with ..read more
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Key SAP Fiori Prerequisites
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by Nick McCall, Senior Basis Consultant
4y ago
It’s not accurate to say that SAP Fiori is new (it was officially launched in 2013), but it is the newest User Interface (UI) or, as SAP refers to it, a User Experience (UX) for SAP software and applications. Fiori works with the SAP HANA platform. To get it to work, though, you must meet a number of SAP Fiori prerequisites. As a UX, SAP Fiori finds itself in a wide variety of use cases. These include business functions like work approvals. Fiori may be part of a financial application, a calculation app or a self-service app. In just about any scenario where an end user needs to interact with ..read more
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A Guide to SAP Business Suite on HANA vs. S/4HANA
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by Curtis Gaska - Solution Architect
4y ago
When SAP launched its high-performing SAP HANA in-memory database and platform in 2011, the move marked a major shift in the company’s product strategy. SAP had not previously offered its own database. Its products were database agnostic, but that was all changing. Today, SAP fields both SAP HANA and S/4HANA, which is SAP’s next-generation business suite for ERP and more. As its name implies, S/4HANA runs on SAP HANA—and only on SAP HANA. It does not support Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and so forth. In early 2025, SAP will stop supporting all business applications other than S/4HANA. This lo ..read more
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SAP GRC — Access & Process Controls
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by Scott Goolik - VP, Compliance and Security Services
4y ago
SAP GRC access control and process control are automated tools that manage an internal security model, remediate compliance issues, and monitor potential business risks within an SAP system. When users have too much access in a system, they can damage the company and break compliance. This happens both by intentional misuse (e.g. using privileges to steal money or goods) and accidental misuse (e.g. by making a mistake in accounting or bypassing a quality control safeguard). By logging access, transactions and other information, GRC Software addresses compliance, quality, fraud and other inter ..read more
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SAP Public Cloud, SAP Private Cloud, or HANA Enterprise Cloud?
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by Curtis Gaska - Solution Architect
4y ago
SAP is adapting well to the cloud computing revolution. The company has embraced the technology and now offers several distinct options for SAP companies that want to run some or all of their SAP landscapes in the cloud. These include public cloud hosting of SAP (e.g. on AWS), SAP S/4HANA as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud offerings hosted by SAP itself and private cloud hosting of SAP by third parties (like us). It can be a bit confusing, with similar-sounding solution names offering quite different functions and hosting architectures. SAP private cloud is a good option for a wide swat ..read more
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The S/4HANA Two Step With An SAP ECC Migration to HANA
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by Curtis Gaska - Solution Architect
4y ago
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last year, you know that the end-of-support deadline for SAP ECC arrives in 2025. That may seem like a long time from now, but in IT time it’s right around the corner. Some companies have already completed the move to SAP HANA and S/4HANA, the new SAP ERP suite. Others are planning their migrations, and some have yet to even begin. If you’re unsure about the best way to go, one approach that might be appealing is to run ECC on the SAP HANA platform. It’s a solid intermediate step that can take you part of the way toward replacing SAP ECC with SAP ..read more
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Expert Insight: Understanding SAP Security
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by Ben Uher, Client Manager of Security & Controls
4y ago
As cyber threats grow more dangerous and frequent, the once clear boundaries between SAP security, cyber security and compliance have started to blur. Traditionally, SAP security comprised the tools and processes that controlled what users can access inside an SAP landscape. With malicious actors now penetrating and lurking deep inside corporate networks, SAP security must now go far beyond its basic access control function. Why Does an SAP Landscape Need Protection? Strong security countermeasures more critical than ever to protect SAP landscapes from threats that range from cyber criminals ..read more
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