We are pleased to share a guest blog post by Christoph Nagy, Managing Director of ABAP-Experts.

Driven by recent discussions, I started to wonder what’s the best configuration for the SAP Security Audit Log or short SAL. Knowing that SAL is a trustworthy security log available for SAP instances it seems to be obvious to me, that one needs or better wants to activate it. Oh, I forget to mention it’s not active by default!

Let’s go through the concept of SAL. SAP has implemented the security relevant events deep underneath the surface, within the SAP kernel. The name “Security Audit Log” indicates – a log file is written to the file system. (more…)

Excerpt from SAP BI Analysis Office – a Practical Guide by Jörg Böke

This chapter explains the terminology and basic settings for using AO in combination with SAP NetWeaver BW. (more…)

Need recommendations on SAP ABAP resources? Here are a few of our favorites that will help you improve your skills and use ABAP more efficiently and effectively. (more…)

You don’t have to take our word for it! Find out what 3 Espresso Tutorials SAP eBook Library customers have to say about the library and how they use it. (more…)

What is FI master data? Get clarity in this excerpt from Ann Cacciottolli’s book First Steps in SAP Financial Accounting (FI). (more…)

Excerpt from First Steps in SAP® Business Warehouse (BW) by Gerardo di Giuseppe.

The purpose of BI Content
Many objects are used in SAP BW to analyze company data. Defining objects from scratch represents a huge amount of work and high costs for the IT department. SAP BI Content addresses this issue by providing predefined objects that are ready to use. Thus, you should always check the BI Content before defining BW objects. The BI Content objects can be activated and used as provided or adapted to the company’s requirements.

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Recently Espresso Tutorials readers gathered for a Virtual Book Club Meeting: SAP ERP User Guide – Tips to Increase Productivity  with author Sydnie McConnell.

Listen to this recorded discussion and get tips to help you to work with SAP ERP more efficiently and effectively including parameters, selection variants, and working in multiple systems.

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Tip on using the toolbar to find data in lists by Matt Johnson, author of The SAP Material Master – a Practical Guide.

If you are in a high-volume production environment, your SAP reports can generate extremely long lists of data. While creating customized layouts can help to reduce the unnecessary information shown, they cannot help you to locate specific information within your report output. Fortunately, SAP offers several tools to assist you in refining your data output, located in the toolbar of your reporting screens (see Figure 1.9).

Figure 1.9: Reporting screen toolbar (more…)

Learn more about SAP HANA native modeling in this book excerpt from SAP BW on SAP HANA.

SAP HANA native modeling relates to the activities associated with creating views on top of database tables to depict desired business scenarios or address reporting requirements.

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We are pleased to announce our latest book release SAP BW on SAP HANA by Christian Savelli.

Explore the fundamentals of data warehousing on SAP HANA and identify what is different about running in an SAP HANA environment. (more…)

Dear Readers,
2016 was a big year for Espresso Tutorials and one that we look back on proudly — we celebrated our 5th birthday as a company and published our 100th book! (more…)

There is a lot of new terminology to learn in SAP HANA. Here are three quick definitions for need-to-know terms from The SAP HANA Deployment Guide by Bert Vanstechelman.
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