News 2012 on Sedacrivity

Umicore – SAP ABAP WebDynpro

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I started working on a new ABAP WebDynpro application at Umicore for allowing business users to approve pending changes on Environmental, Health & Safety Dangerous goods transportation data. Once approved, the changes are distributed into the respective SAP backend systems for usage on various output documents.

Game Mania – SAP Business Connector Upgrade

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Performing an upgrade at Game Mania of SAP Business Connector to the latest release — 4.8 — which may sound as a ‘surprise’ or ‘old school’. SAP did release however a new version a couple of years ago despite the fact that it declared SAP BC ‘virtual dead’ when it announced ‘SAP Exchange Infrastructure’ (SAP XI) — the predecessor of the current SAP Process Infrastructure (SAP PI) platform.

SAP Architectural Consultancy – Paris

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

On my way to Paris for a day of SAP Architectural consultancy for a company which is participating in an offering for a new public transport solution. Part of that offer concerns integration of their systems with an SAP system and as such I come in the picture for advising them on how to connect with SAP. Lovely opportunity.

SAP Integration with jQuery Mobile

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Been working on an HTML5 mobile version of the native android application I wrote. The web application is served from the SAP WebAS server and uses jQuery Mobile as the front-end layer.

Game Mania – SAP Business Workflow

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Started working on the implementation of various custom SAP business workflows at Game Mania to optimize the business processes for their purchasing department. The first workflow will replace the tedious manual process of ‘monitoring’ the preorder amount for games.

Umicore – PI End-2-End Messaging Statistics Cockpit

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Working again on the custom PI E2E Messaging Cockpit Statistics webdynpro application I wrote last year for Umicore. This application allows end-users to search for PI messaging statistics (instead of message details) so they can notice in a glance which messages are in error.

Android Application

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

At Umicore we have been doing a ‘proof of concept’ on integrating SAP functionality on a mobile device. We have written an Android native application which integrates with the SAP backend functionality via an ABAP HTTP ICF service residing on SAP PI.