If you’re an SAP S/4HANA user, it’s crucial to understand the role Compatibility Packs play in your system and the importance of monitoring their expiration dates. These temporary solutions were created by SAP to help businesses transition from older SAP…
If you’re not one of the 2,000-plus customers already live on SAP S/4HANA, it’s likely that you’ve started thinking about the best way to transition to S/4 from ECC. There are two basic ways to approach S/4HANA adoption: a brownfield…
In many organizations, critical business periods are identified well ahead of time. End-of-quarter, end-of-year, seasonal events with high transaction volumes, and so on. During these periods, IT systems and the business in general may be in a state of change…
November 1988 certainly seems like another era. The Berlin Wall was still standing, Liverpool were champions of the English football league and Bon Jovi topped the Billboard Hot 100 list (Taylor Swift was still more than a year away from…
As business units clamor for faster releases, delivering updates once or twice a year is no longer enough. Moving to a more Agile software development model, especially in an SAP environment, lets you bring innovation and change to the business…
At its heart, the SAP transport management system (TMS) is very simple: changes in a development system are packaged into files (a transport) and exported to a filesystem: the famous /usr/sap/trans. This filesystem is mounted across all of the systems…
Using the Agile software development model comes with a lot of advantages: faster decision-making, more collaboration, and better software releases. It enables faster user feedback and product refinement and allows re-prioritization when business needs change (or when that user feedback…
