Five Minute Briefing - SAP
April 24, 2013
Published in conjunction with the Independent SAP Technical User Group (formerly the International Sybase User Group), this monthly publication contains news, market research, insight for the SAP user community, as well as ISUG-TECH news and information.
News Flashes
A new version of SAP Sybase Replication Server is planned to provide high-performance, secure and reliable delivery of data across the enterprise. SAP Sybase Replication Server satisfies a range of mission-critical needs, including gathering real-time business intelligence and recovering from disaster. The latest release will replicate data in real time from multiple sources into multiple instances of SAP HANA — without disrupting or slowing the production applications at the source — while transactional consistency is preserved.
SAP rolled out three new enterprise resource planning (ERP) rapid-deployment solutions to speed and simplify adoption of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Rapid-deployment solutions include preconfigured software, implementation services, best-practices content and end-user enablement. The new SAP ERP for Finance and Controlling, SAP ERP for Manufacturing and SAP ERP for Trading SAP Rapid Deployment solutions come with a fixed price.
SEEBURGER announced that its SEEBURGER Purchase-to-Pay 6.3.5 solution has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that SEEBURGER Purchase-to-Pay 6.3.5 integrates with SAP NetWeaver 7.01 as an add-on to the ABAP programming language for use with the SAP ERP application.
Memory-based storage system provider Violin Memory Inc. and SAP AG have announced that Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Arrays are now certified for interoperability with SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE), providing reliability and increased performance across a range of enterprise applications. Together, these solutions will provide enhanced and simplified solutions that leverage the power of Violin Flash Memory Arrays and business-critical SAP applications to accelerate transaction-driven environments.
ISUG-Tech News and Information
ISUG-TECH has created a new forum for third-party software providers to announce the availability of new software and/or new software releases that are of interest to the SAP technical community.
ISUG-TECH has appointed William (Bill) Kennedy to the newly-created position of Vice President of Technologies. In this new role, Kennedy will work to ensure that the needs of SAP technologists are being met across the full breadth of the SAP product portfolio by ISUG-TECH.