From 5th to 7th of May 2015, there was a SAP SAPPHIRE Event in Orlando. The videos you will find below are 20 minutes recorded sessions about customers and consultants sharing their experience with SAP Financial productss. The valuable thing is that they not only share their success stories, but also their lessons learned, failures and what they did to overcome the issues they faced. They also share what plans do they have for future upgrades and how they want to leverage the new SAP technologies like HANA. Airbus case with future plans of implementing BPC, BW …
Read More »Build Own SAP HANA Home Training Server – Assembling
Quick update on my progress building SAP HANA Home training server. At the time of my first post on the topic I was waiting for a 64GB memory kit to arrive. Well, it arrived relatively quickly and I was really happy that everything works the way it should. I installed it on the machine which was pretty straightforward process. On the following video you will see quick recap of how I did the installation of the memory kit. You will also see that I put 512GB SSD which I expect to provide a better performance. …
Read More »Build Own SAP HANA Home Training Server – Buying Guide
In a few posts I will try to describe my journey building my own SAP HANA server for training needs. I am an ex accountant with no technical degree, but I have the passion to get it run. Over the internet, there are a plenty of evidences that such thing is possible. My goal is to have a running SAP BPC 10.1 classic and embedded versions powered by SAP HANA as well as Business Suite on HANA. Let’s be clear, this guide is not for production use. This is only for personal training and experimentations with no additional …
Read More »A Few Updates About Me
I have not been very active in the blog for the past two months, but many things have happened to me in that time. I became a father of a wonderful baby girl and a member of CIMA (UK). I also got an attractive SAP job and now I am attending a few SAP official trainings thanks to my new employer. Becoming a father is wonderful experience and there is nothing in the world which I can compare it with. The name of my princess is Maya and she is a real cutie :). Anyway, every parent says …
Read More »SAP FICO Consultant – Part 4: From Beginner to Expert
Continuing the series for becoming a SAP FICO Consultant I would like to share with you several resources and major steps you could follow. They will give you a very good knowledge in this area. So far, you should be familiar with business processes in SAP ERP, capabilities of FICO modules and have access to SAP IDES. Then it is a good time to dive into FICO Configuration world. You should already know that without practice you could not become a SAP Consultant. Experience is vital to become a SAP expert, but without fundamental knowledge, almost nobody will …
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