This is Vijaygandh Arumugam, working as Sr.Lead FICO Consultant in CenturyLink. In this Blog, I would like to share the changes made in General Ledger Master Data in S/4 HANA. Topics Covered… Introduction SAP S/4 HANA General Ledger Account Master data Changes G/L Account Type in GL Master Data Cost Element Category Field in GL Master Data Default Account Assignment in Cost Element master data Statistical Cost Element for …
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Empathy, Trust & Choice and the Journey to the Cloud
In the world of enterprise IT, navigating from ‘point A’ to ‘point B’ isn’t always easy – particularly when the journey is one of digital transformation that involves moving to the cloud, and when failure – or just doing nothing – is not an option. Enterprise companies are increasingly moving business-critical systems to the cloud for the benefits digital transformation provides: better customer relationships, more empowered employees, streamlined operations, new …
Read More »Empathy, Trust & Choice and the Journey to the Cloud
In the world of enterprise IT, navigating from ‘point A’ to ‘point B’ isn’t always easy – particularly when the journey is one of digital transformation that involves moving to the cloud, and when failure – or just doing nothing – is not an option. Enterprise companies are increasingly moving business-critical systems to the cloud for the benefits digital transformation provides: better customer relationships, more empowered employees, streamlined operations, new …
Read More »Managing General Ledger Accounts in SAP S/4 HANA
This is Vijaygandh Arumugam, working as Sr.Lead FICO Consultant in CenturyLink. In this Blog, I would like to share the changes made in General Ledger Master Data in S/4 HANA. Topics Covered… Introduction SAP S/4 HANA General Ledger Account Master data Changes G/L Account Type in GL Master Data Cost Element Category Field in GL Master Data Default Account Assignment in Cost Element master data Statistical Cost Element for …
Read More »SAP + Microsoft join forces to accelerate business innovation
You have probably seen or heard about the recent joint announcement by SAP and Microsoft to “join forces to accelerate business innovation”. As a former SAP, now Microsoft employee this obviously is a huge announcement for me. https://news.sap.com/microsoft-sap-give-customers-trusted-path-digital-transformation-cloud/ https://news.microsoft.com/?p=386524 In this blog I quickly want to outline, why this is also a really big news for customer and partners. Basically there were three big announcement in the press-release: Microsoft …
Read More »Three paradigm shifts in digital civilization
“When software become strategy, rather strategy is software”. This is the new vibe we heard in SAP SAPPHIRE 2017.Here is the three shifts happening in new digital civilization. Technology is becoming open, automated and scalable. Openness means business process excellence touching every layer of data from top to the line item level in real time. Data is integrated and secure. Get to the Cloud and use intelligent applications as many …
Read More »SAP HANA: Extraction of Calculated Columns from a View/Package
Hi All I was recently asked if there is a way to extract the list of all calculated columns in a view or package along with the data type of the calculated column and the logic used in the calculated column .. Unfortunately there seem to be no easy way to extract the list of calculated columns from the view ..The only option is to parse the XML of the …
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Hi All, I have seen lot of folks complaining about readily available utility views/tables for day to day activities … Most of the information is available in the system tables but not at one place.. I thought I would come up with some utility sql’s that can help in day to day development/administration activities Below are the compilation that would be helpful to developers.. Change List select SRC_SYSTEM, CHANGE_NUMBER, …
Read More »Alternative Strategies for HANA Performance
Hello Folks, It’s been a long time since i blogged. I have seen lot of performance questions in community forums. Today i would like to share few tips which would make a huge impact in terms of performance and memory utilization. I will try to explain 3 scenarios here Case 1) Optimal Use of Date Input Parameter in any HANA Views Case 2) Effect of If Statements in Calculated columns …
Read More »A journey to the cloud – Target operating model for banking in the cloud
Banking in the Cloud – or even banks going to the cloud. Not long ago, this was pretty unlikely to happen. Such a conservative branch is a tough cookie for cloud business. With all regulatory restrictions and the questions for security not every bank is really keen on moving to the cloud. A first step is our public cloud offering, which is can be a stepping stone for banks to …
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