Saturday, 28 February 2015
SAP Innovation Video for Asset Management
Share your views on what you think of SAP EAM? What functionality would you like SAP to add.? SAP Innovation Video for Asset Management SAP SAP
EAM Web UI "how to" guide
EAM Web UI "how to" guideThe focus of the EAM Simplification was (and is) on enhancing the WebUI with new and rich functionality as well as using the newest features of the underlying WebDynpro ABAP technology.
To find all the details on adjusting/enhancing the WebUI Applications to your users’ needs SAP created a “How to”-guide (EAM Web UI Implementation Guide EHP7).
- How to get started with the SAP Web User Interface
- How to change the Web Dynpro Configuration
- How to adapt applications and how to personalize on user level
- How to configure POWL e.g. to add fields or user actions
- How to use side panels in the SAP EAM Web UI
- Which BAdIs and User Exits are available
- object based navigation and launchpads
- how to adjust the asset viewer
There is the opportunity to discuss all relevant EAM topics with the SAP experts during the upcoming SAP-Centric EAM Conference, in Huntington Beach, CA, US on March 8-11th, 2015 - find details here!
Posted by Martin Janssen in Enterprise Asset Management (SAP EAM) on Feb 27, 2015 12:55:43 PM
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Thursday, 19 February 2015
The TrackingPoint 338TP, the Linux rifle that's accurate up to a mile
Summary:You'll find Linux everywhere, including in the most accurate rifles in the world.
I grew up in rural West Virginia, and I don't remember learning how to shoot. All I know is I was certainly shooting well before the time I was 8. I grew up in a gun culture, with many relatives in the military, and I went to school at West Virginia University, which won its 16th NCAA Rifle Championship in 2014. In short, I know guns and I know just how hard it is to shoot accurately at extreme ranges such as 1,000 yards. Even at my best, I was never able to do it reliably.
This isn't science fiction or a stunt done that only works under indoor rifle range conditions. TrackingPoint Precision-Guided Firearms have been enabling shooters to hit targets beyond any range they could hit on their own for several years now.
This newest model, the 338TP, nicknamed the Mile Maker, which was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January, just extends this rifle line's range up to a mile. It works by using a combination of technologies.
First, the 338TP uses the .338 Lapua Magnum long-range rifle for its base. This rifle started as a design for a US Marine sniper rifle. Then, to acquire the target, the rifle uses a laser to enable you to "tag" your target. More than just a laser-targeting system, its sensors also track wind speed, direction, temperature, and barometric pressure. As serious shooters know, all of these factors must be taken into account for an accurate shot at great ranges.
This data is then passed on to the built-in Linux computer. Once you've tagged the target, the rifle will automatically track it. You then bring your reticule, the optical target-aiming point, to match the rifle's computed impact point. Once you've matched it up and you decide to take the shot, you pull the trigger and the TriggerLink computer works out all the details needed to hit the target. Thus, and this is surprising until you get used to it, there may be up to a second of delay between the time you pull the trigger and when the shot goes off.
So is it really that accurate? It works well enough that theUS Army is testing it. In one review, it was found that users of an older model were getting 70 percent first hit accuracy at 1,000 yards. A trained military rifleman, not a sniper, would hit about 5 percent of the time.
In a word, that's impressive.
Of course, for that kind of accuracy, you're going to pay a real premium. While final pricing hasn't been set yet, the 338TP won't go on sale until the second quarter of 2015, and it's expected to price out at over $40,000. Even the entry-level TrackingPoint rifle, thePrecision-Guided Semi-Auto 5.56, starts at $7,495.
Oh, and the ammo: You get 200 rounds with the rifle, which runs at about $8 a round. When you're shooting at a distance, everything, and I mean everything, counts for accuracy, including the ammo.
You can also get smartglasses, the Shotglass, and Heads Up Display software, which can be used with smartphones and tablets, to let you shoot at targets without actually sighting from the rifle itself.
The 338TP certainly isn't normally what you think of when you think of a Linux-powered device. It just goes to show how Linux can be used to make almost any device better.
For Infosys, Panaya acquisition could just be a beginning
In a conference call with equity analysts late Monday evening, Sikka - the managing director and CEO of Infosys - said the company would actively pursue acquisitions.
"At any given time, we are looking at a couple (of) dozen companies," he said.
"We are actively looking at acquisitions to fill gaps in our capabilities. Merger and acquisitions is an integral part of our new strategy," added chief finance officer Rajiv Bansal.
Ritika Suri, a former SAP executive who is now heading merger and acquisition team of Infosys, was also a part of the call.
Panaya is an automation technology provider for large scale enterprise software management. In other words, it provides cloud-based quality management solutions to enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle Business Suit which deals with large organisational needs such as billing system, payment process and HR management.
Panaya's solutions help anticipate and fix software issues with minimum cost and human intervention.
Headquartered in the United States' New Jersey, Panaya is an Israeli technology company with most of its 156-strong team operating out of the country. With the acquisition of Panaya, Infosys gets a toehold in the thriving start-up ecosystem in Israel.
"For an organisation like Infosys it makes immense sense to acquire an overseas headquartered company in area of emerging technologies. This will give them not just additional capability but also enhance their overseas market reach and overseas customer base," said Sanjoy Sen, former senior director of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India, who is now a doctoral researcher in strategic governance at the UK-based Aston Business School.
"A midsize company is believed to be more agile and innovative than their gigantic counterparts and easier to integrate too - hence Infosys could look at some quick wins from this initiative as well as long term benefits," Sen added.
The deal also signifies India's growing ties with Israel.
"Israel has arguably the second largest concentration of start-ups after Silicon Valley… In fact, the Prime Minister has spoken to me about the importance of partnering with Israeli innovation," Sikka said at the conference call.
Panaya's revenue could be around $33 million (Rs. 198 crore) as the company is valued six times its revenue. It has 400 active clients.
Sikka said Infosys will retain all of Panaya's employees and its leadership will have "full flexibility". Panaya's CEO Doron Gerstel will report to Abdul Razack, head of big data and analytics at Infosys. Like Suri, former senior SAP executive Razack too was brought in by Sikka.
The former chief technology officer and board member of German technology giant SAP, Sikka joined Infosys as its first non-founder CEO to revive growth at the Bengaluru-based company seven months ago.
Panaya, Sikka's first acquisition, deploys 'big data analytics' to enterprise apps including SAP, Oracle E Business Suite, Salesforce and others that allows customers to know "what will break, how to fix it and what to test – before making any changes," according to its website.
Sikka's onetime-mentor Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of SAP, is an investor in Panaya through Hasso Plattner Ventures.
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
SAP's ex-Hana chief swallows software firm,
bets big on... Hana
Sikka rolls SAP and Oracle migration gambit for Infosys
The exec who led SAP’s Hana has bought enterprise software management specialist Panaya, pitting his new firm against his old bosses.
Vishal Sikka, chief executive and managing director of Infosys, has announced that his firm – India’s second largest outsourcing company – is buying Panaya for $200m.
The new acquisition produces CloudQuality, a suite for making and managing changes to SAP, Oracle business suite and Oracle’s JD Edwards.
Among other features, Panaya’s suite lets you migrate your SAP systems to Hana – the in-memory data platform that was Sikka’s baby when he worked at the giant.
Taking on Panaya is a significant step for Sikka's new company, because SAP has committed the next version of its trademark ERP suite to only running on Hana.
Features in the suite include change impact analysis, code cleansing, testing and code remediation.
Sikka said in a statement: “Panaya’s proven technology helps dramatically simplify the costs and complexities faced by businesses in managing their enterprise application landscapes.”
Sikka was SAP executive board member for products and innovation who led the development of Hana. He left SAP in May 2014 for “personal reasons” but was announced chief of the Indian outsourcer just a month later in June that year.
Founded in 2008, Panaya claims more than 1,200 customers – including Coca-Cola, Bosch, Whirlpool and Clarks. ®
Vishal Sikka, chief executive and managing director of Infosys, has announced that his firm – India’s second largest outsourcing company – is buying Panaya for $200m.
Among other features, Panaya’s suite lets you migrate your SAP systems to Hana – the in-memory data platform that was Sikka’s baby when he worked at the giant.
Taking on Panaya is a significant step for Sikka's new company, because SAP has committed the next version of its trademark ERP suite to only running on Hana.
Features in the suite include change impact analysis, code cleansing, testing and code remediation.
Sikka said in a statement: “Panaya’s proven technology helps dramatically simplify the costs and complexities faced by businesses in managing their enterprise application landscapes.”
Sikka was SAP executive board member for products and innovation who led the development of Hana. He left SAP in May 2014 for “personal reasons” but was announced chief of the Indian outsourcer just a month later in June that year.
Founded in 2008, Panaya claims more than 1,200 customers – including Coca-Cola, Bosch, Whirlpool and Clarks. ®
Sunday, 15 February 2015
Thursday, 5 February 2015
SAP founder Hasso Plattner: 'If this doesn't work, we're dead. Flat-out dead.'
SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner
On Monday, German software company SAP released a new crop of products, redesigned from the ground up to take advantage of its four-year-old database called HANA.
“If this doesn’t work, we’re dead. Flat-out dead. It’s that simple,” SAPs charismatic 71-year-old founder and chairman Hasso Plattner told Re/Code’s Arik Hesseldahl after the launch.
He’s not exaggerating.
SAP is the biggest player in the financial software market, also known as “enterprise resource planning or ERP,” which helps companies track everything from sales to raw materials.
Financial software is a conservative business and SAP is the epitome of a conservative company. The company, and its customers, don’t like change.
But a new trend is coming that threatens even a stalwart like SAP: a form of cloud computing called software-as-a-service, where companies rent their apps, delivered as a service over a network, paid for on a subscription basis.
SaaS is an alternative to buying SAP software the old fashioned way: licensing the apps, then buying computer servers, building data centres, and installing it all. Such old-school SAP roll-outs could take years, cost millions, and are often fraught with cost overruns and other problems.
Cloud companies are threatening to each SAP’s lunch and are deliberately gunning for SAP’s customers. Cloud competitors include Workday, Zuora, Netsuite, and, most especially, Oracle, who has also been relatively late to the cloud game, but is now coming on strong.
There’s also a crop of startups selling new cloud financial analysis apps that work great on smartphones and tablets, like Anaplan and Tidemark. They are gunning for SAP too, and growing really fast.
SAP has been buying its way into the cloud with big multi-billion acquisitions like SuccessFactors, Ariba, and Concur. But its attempts to write its own cloud apps haven’t done well.
Plattner admits as much, telling Hesseldahl, “You can say that our in-house development was not contributing enough.”
SAP has spent the last few years concentrating on HANA, which it did develop in-house. HANA is a new breed of “in-memory” database designed to crunch huge amounts of data lickety-split.
Most of SAP’s customers have traditionally used Oracle’s database, but Oracle viciously competes with SAP and they are arch rivals. Given the amount of smack talk they toss at each other, the word “hate” might not be too strong.
So HANA is SAP’s way of extracting its software, and its customers, away from Oracle and creating a much-needed new revenue stream. Plattner has staked SAP’s future on HANA.
The new products announced on Monday, known as SAP S/4HANA, can still be used with Oracle’s database, or other competitive databases. (It would have been suicide for SAP to do otherwise — enterprises do not lightly yank out their databases.) But there are special features customers can only get when using SAP’s software with HANA.
These new products not only use HANA, but SAP changed them to be more touchscreen-friendly. And all of this software, including the database, can be run in the cloud, in a customer’s data center, or some combination of the two. (The combo thing is known in geek speak as “hybrid computing.”)
How well is SAP keeping the grim reaper at bay? SAP says it now has more than 5,800 HANA customers, and about 2,000 of them are using it with its its other apps.
That’s good, but not good enough, Plattner says.
He tells Hesseldahl, “We have 2,000 systems sold, and I learned today that we have 270 more in production. If we only double that in 2015 I will be disappointed. That is a significant number, but I will be disappointed by it.”
Source: Business Insider Australia, Tech,
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