SAP eBook Library for Companies

Responsive design and web devicesDid you know that the SAP eBook Library is available for team and company access? Take advantage of discounted team pricing and provide your SAP team with access to 150+ SAP books and video tutorials that they can access anytime, anywhere for online for offline reading.
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Introducing the universal journal: excerpt from First Steps in S/4HANA Finance

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The universal journal (table ACDOCA) significantly changes the way
transactional data is stored for financial reporting. It offers huge benefits in terms of the ability to harmonize internal and external reporting requirements by having both read from the same document store where the account is the unifying element. You will still need to understand the different applications to the extent that you need to perform different business transactions in each application. This means that you still have to create general journal entries in General Ledger Accounting, acquire and retire assets in Asset Accounting, run allocations and settlement in Controlling, capitalize research and development costs in Investment Management, and so on, but in reporting, you read from one source, regardless of whether you want to supply data to your consolidation system, report to the tax authorities, or make internal management decisions.

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OpenUI5 development environment

1481Excerpt from Practical Guide to SAP OpenUI5 by Prem Manghnani, Sheshank Vyas, Seshu Reddy.

OpenUI5 is a client-side UI technology that runs on a browser using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Server-side, on the other hand, is responsible for deploying applications, holding UI5 libraries and connecting with databases. SAP NetWeaver Application Server, for example, holds UI libraries and makes the libraries available for the client side when receiving a request.
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Preparing for the conversion to SAP HANA

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Excerpt from SAP BW/4HANA and BW on HANA by Klaus-Peter Sauer and Frank Riesner.

Before you make the decision to use SAP HANA as the database for your Business Warehouse — or at the latest when you actually make the decision — you should address topics such as the sizing, migration, housekeeping, and data center operation of SAP HANA as the database for your BW system.
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What is SAP S/4HANA?

E-Books for SAP SoftwareWhat is SAP S/4HANA? 
S/4 HANA is the next-generation SAP business suite (short for SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA), similar to the transition between R/2 and R/3. It is built on SAP HANA, with modern design principles and user interfaces. It also offers tremendous simplifications and innovations. With
the massive technology improvements provided by HANA, the business suite can now combine many tools and tables that had to be maintained separately in the past. For example, in the past, integration among different systems (e. g., ERP, CRM, SCM) had to be done by replicating data between several systems. Now, they can now all run quickly and easily on the same database. This can help drastically improve an organization’s data footprint. (more…)