Friday 15 March 2024

Effectively adopting Recurring Service process from S/4 HANA Service Management into your business

Regular maintenance aids in maintaining a customer's assets at their best performance levels while reducing the likelihood of breakdowns and the costs associated with repairs.

Our preventive maintenance solution, designed to sustain customer assets, facilitates consistent production by mitigating unexpected breakdowns. This solution creates and executes orders at specified intervals/usage, drastically improving asset production efficiency and minimizing breakdowns. Notably, this solution also reduces maintenance costs and contributes to recurring service revenues for customers. It adeptly manages both commercial aspects through service orders, as per the service contract, and technical aspects through execution orders.

There are different types of Maintenance Plans, namely: Single cycle plans based on time or performance, strategy plans, or multiple counter maintenance plans that are implemented on need basis . Once you create a maintenance plan, you can schedule the plan to generate call objects when the system is due for maintenance.

Wednesday 13 March 2024

How to attach documents to a Journal Entry within SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud from ABAP

Introduction


In this blog, we describe a method to attach document files to a Journal Entry (BKPF) instance within the same SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud  using ABAP.

How to attach documents to a Journal Entry within SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud from ABAP.

This requires us to expose and consume the Attachment API as described in the SAP Business Accelerator HUB - Attachments.
 
I believe this blog can be very useful since existing documentation primarily focuses on exposing the services, but we encounter conceptual problems when consuming them locally.

Monday 11 March 2024

SAP IQ NLS-The Cold Storage Solution for SAP BW/4HANA

Introduction –

As we know B systems contain a large volume of data that is only accessed rarely. The data is either never or rarely needed in Data Warehouse processes or for analysis. The main challenge of implementing a multi-temperature memory strategy is to seamlessly integrate the warm and cold memory areas and to make these areas invisible to the outside, in order to ensure that all required functions are applied to this data. SAP offers various solutions, which help to reduce TCO SAP IQ NLS is one of them to reduce load by cold data 

Friday 8 March 2024

Protecting Your SAP HANA Cloud and SAP HANA with Credential Rotation Best Practices

In today's cyber-threat landscape, prioritizing data security is more important than ever. Security is one of the key cornerstones of SAP BTP and SAP HANA Cloud strategies. 

SAP HANA Cloud takes a comprehensive approach to security, providing a layered defense system encompassing authentication, authorization, encryption, and auditing. 

At the heart of this security strategy lies strong credentials management practices, one of which is the credentials rotation. For example, organizations can significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches by enforcing regular password rotation.

Wednesday 6 March 2024

Global Explanation Capabilities in SAP HANA Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) has great potential for improving products and services across various industries. However, the explainability of ML models is crucial for their widespread adoption. First, explanation helps build trust and transparency between the users and the models. When users understand how ML model works, they are more likely to trust its results. Moreover, explainability allows for better debugging of complex models. By providing explanations for models’ decisions, researchers can gain insights into the underlying patterns, which helps identify potential biases or flaws. Furthermore, the explainability of models enables auditing, a prerequisite for its usage in regulated industries, such as finance and healthcare.

Monday 4 March 2024

Create sales order automatic extraction -Maximize the value of SAP Business AI for SAP S/4HANA

SAP has released several prebuilt AI use cases in each of the process area. These are referred to as Basic AI providing out-of-the-box solutions. The base for this is of course SAP S/4HANA.

Create sales order automatic extraction -Maximize the value of SAP Business AI for SAP S/4HANA

The graphic above provides a rough summary of what is available.

Friday 1 March 2024

Clone SAP HANA Database Instance via Template based cloning

The cloning template essentially serves as a database backup, encompassing the schema and data of the clone while excluding its configuration details, such as the options chosen during provisioning. It's important to note that restoring a backup from a more recent SAP HANA version into an older version is not supported and results in an error.

Clone SAP HANA Database Instance via Template based cloning

Cloning templates are stored in a template container within HANA Data Lake Files, specifically in the Files service of the data lake. To create a cloning template, and to create an instance based on a template, your subaccount must therefore have a data lake Files service; note, however, only data lake Files is required — without the additional option of the data lake relational engine.

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Cloud Integration - How to Manage Abnormally Large Files with SFTP Adapter and SAP HANA Database

This blog provides a comprehensive guide for users seeking a solution for processing large files from an SFTP source and transferring the data to a HANA Database. The solution outlined in this guide employs SAP Integration Suite. There have always been challenges associated with processing large files, which may include issues related to performance, memory usage, and overall efficiency. All of which are solved by the solution shared in this guide.

Background Information


During a recent migration project - we were challenged with designing a solution that eliminated a previously designed integration using Informatica Platform. Replacing it with SAP BTP Cloud Integration Suite, during the migration project a crucial task emerged: retrieving large files from an external SFTP and seamlessly loading the data into a HANA Database On-Premise table.

Monday 26 February 2024

SAP Datasphere Replication Flow from S/4HANA to Azure Data Lake

Introduction


SAP Datasphere has introduced a new feature, 'Replication Flows.' This new capability (now available with Azure Data Lake) allows for the process of copying multiple tables from one source to another, offering a fast and seamless experience in data management. 

In this blog, we’ll provide a step-by-step tutorial on replicating data from SAP S/4HANA to Azure Data Lake, showcasing the practical application and efficiency of this new feature in real-world scenarios. 

Now, let's dive in. We'll walk you through each step necessary to effectively utilize 'Replication Flows' for transferring data from SAP S/4HANA to Azure Data Lake. 

Wednesday 21 February 2024

SAP Datasphere – Enable SAP HANA Development Infrastructure (HDI)

Introduction


Use SAP SQL Data Warehousing to build calculation views and other SAP HANA Cloud HDI objects directly in SAP Datasphere run-time database and then exchange data between HDI containers and SAP Datasphere spaces. SAP SQL Data Warehousing can be used to bring existing HDI objects into  SAP Datasphere environment, and to allow users familiar with the HDI tools to leverage advanced SAP HANA Cloud features.

Monday 19 February 2024

S/4HANA federated roles assignment to users in BTP via SAP Identity Provisioning Service

In this article I will explain how these federated roles from S/4HANA assigned automatically to users in BTP via SAP Identity provision service without any manual intervention.

To achieve this scenario, we should have below prerequisite: -

  1. SAP BTP cockpit, where we subscribe to the Cloud Identity Services connectivity plan in the subaccount.In SAP BTP Cockpit, open the subaccount and choose Service Marketplace Integration Suite- Cloud Identity Services and then choose for what type of tenant (test or productive) to use in the subaccount.
  2. The Identity Provisioning section of SAP Cloud Identity Services administration console, where we configure the S/4Hana system and SAP IAS as provisioning system.
  3. Content Federation has been setup and S/4HANA role content are federated and visible as role collection in BTP.