Tuesday 28 June 2011

sap competitors

SAP  at a glance

1. More than 35,000 customers, 120 countries
2. Claim #1 CRM market share leader
3. Built the client/server ERP market
4. Definite #1 ERP market share leader
5. Very impressive distribution/SCM
6. Several industry solutions
7. Netweaver, SQL and a chasm of technologies
8. Priced at the high end

Oracle at a glance

1. Over 37,000 application customers
2. Claim #1 CRM market share leader
3. #2 ERP market share leader
4. 30 year proven credibility
4. New SOA architecture
5. Deep software functionality
6. Outrageous flexibility
7. Technology is the Oracle stack
8. Priced at the high end

Microsoft at glance
1. Over 83,000 ERP customers
2. Strong SMB/mid-market solution
3. Very strong partner channel
4. Only sold through VAR channel
5. Multiple ERP products
6. ERP road map questionable
7. Solutions often vary by global region
8. MS/.Net/SQL technology
9. Low to moderately priced

Infor at glance
1. 3rd largest global ERP maker
2. Over 70,000 customers
3. Several different ERP systems
4. Vertically focused ERP solutions
5. Lean manufacturing capabilities
6. Complex and discrete manufacturing
7. Process manufacturing
8. Strong distribution and SCM
9. Low to moderately priced

Tier 1 Company
SAP
Oracle
Oracle eBusiness Suite
Oracle people soft
Microsoft Dynamics

Tier 2
sage
Infor
Epicor
Ross
Lawson
IFS

Tier 3
Baan
ABAS
Exact
Hansaworld
Syspro
Activant Solutions

Microsoft Dynamics ERP Product:

Microsoft Dynamics AX -  is a comprehensive ERP product that helps midsize and larger
organizations operate across multiple sites and countries. With a rich, flexible industry
foundation Microsoft Dynamics AX can standardize processes, provide visibility across your
business, and help simplify compliance

Microsoft Dynamics GP - Microsoft Dynamics GP offers flexible deployment options to connect
financial and operations processes, and provides fast access to relevant information using
familiar Microsoft tools

Microsoft Dynamics NAV - is an ERP product for midsize organizations that provides proven
industry-specific functionality relevant to your needs – even for the most highly specialized
industries and business processes.

Microsoft Dynamics SL - is an ERP product specialized to help project-driven midsize
organizations manage people, projects, and profitability

http://whatiserp.net/erp-report/erp-market-share-and-vendor-evaluation-2011/

Thursday 16 June 2011

Differences between SAP Netweaver EP and EPC

EP stands for Enterprise Portal – the well-known SAP Portal installation that includes all Portal components and functionality. EPC stands for Enterprise Portal - Core – is a leaner installation of the Portal that includes only the core Portal functionality without additional functionality such as Knowledge Management, Collaboration, etc

EP Core (EPC)This usage type contains the core portal capabilities that were available in the
former usage type EP. This new usage type provides more flexibility when
implementing a portal where the full enterprise portal capabilities, such as
knowledge management and collaboration, are not needed. It contains the
portal, Guided Procedures (GP), and Universal Worklist (UWL).

Enterprise Portal (EP)This usage type includes Knowledge management, Collaboration, Composite
Application Framework Core (CAF-Core), Visual Composer, Web Dynpro
extension, and .NET PDK.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Aix Basic commands to work with SAP

Hi Guys,

I hope this basic AIX commands will help you work with sap.


ls -l -> listing directory & files
chmod -> Changing the directory or file permission(rwx)
chown -> changing the directory or file ownership
mkdir -> create directory
rmdir -> remove directory
touch -> create file
rm -> remove file

Note: use man page for more details about each command {man }

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ps -> Managing the process ( ps -ef | grep -i )
kill -> terminate the process (kill -9 )

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To Display if the hardware is 32bit or 64bit
bootinfo -y

To see if you're running with a 32 bit or 64 bit kernel,
bootinfo -k

To identify the memory size:
lsattr -El sys0 -a realmem

To Display number of processor on system:
lscfg | grep proc

Displays the system name, nodename, version, machine ID.
uname -a

version, release, and maintenance level of AIX is running on my system
oselvel -r

To get ipaddress of my machine
ifconfig -a

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Working with services:
lssrc -a
refresh
startsrc
stopsrc
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Basic Logical volume command:

lsvg --> list volume group

lsvg --> Detail report of particule VG

lsvg -l --> list logical volume(lv) for particular vg

lslv --> Detail report of lv

lsvg -p --> Display the hardisk included in particular vg

lspv --> List all the physical disk

chfs -a size=+1G --> increase the file system


Cluster Basic :


Determine the cluster name and networks
/usr/es/sbin/cluster/utilities/cltopinfo

Cluster Service status

/usr/es/sbin/cluster/utilities/clshowsrv -v

/usr/es/sbin/cluster/utilities/cldump


To identify the volume group which comes under cluster

1.) smitty hacmp
2.) logical volume managment
3.) shared vg
4.) list shared vg

Tuesday 14 June 2011

To Reset Administrator Password through Config Tool

It may sometimes happen that a user enters the wrong password a number of times (by default, 3) and if that user is the administrator, then the administrator user is locked. This prevents all sorts of things happening. To unlock the administator, use the following process
You need to use the Config Tool and the process is:

1) Go to the Server Installed path i.e. usr\sap\\\J2EE\configtool\
2) Choose configtool.bat and start it.
3) Under Global Server Configuration, choose Services.
4) Find com.sap.security.core.ume.service, click it.
5) Under Global Properties, find ume.superadmin.activated
6) Set the Custom value to TRUE. Click on SET to apply the new value
7) Apart from that, you have to set another property i.e.
8) ume.superadmin.password, define some password.The password that you are defining is for SAP*. save the changes.
9) Restart the cluster / server. Issue the command stopsap to do so.
10) Log on to Portal with SAP* as user and the defined password.
11) Create a User with Super Administrator role.
12) Go back to Config Tool and set the Custom Value as default value i.e. FALSE. save the changes.
13) Restart the Server.

Incase if you deploy a Application i.e. a Webdynpro or PAR and the Admin Password is not configured properly or is locked then

1) Go to Config Tool.
2) Choose Secure Store, right click.
3) Choose Admin\Passowrd\Systemid\
4) Set the Password value, choose add and save.
5) Restart Server.

If you are able to logon to Visual Admin , You can create a new user and assign him administrator group or Reset password .

1) Go to the Server Installed path i.e. \usr\sap\\\j2ee\admin\go.bat Or in UNIX /usr/sap///j2ee/admin/go .
2) Choose go.bat / go and start it.
3) Under Cluster ->Server, choose Security Provider .
4) Select Tab 'Runtime' and Inner Tab 'User Management' , Click Create User .
5) And then assign to group Administrators .
6) No Need to restart J2EE engine , Open http://:/irj/portal .
7) Now you can User Administration Identity Management , Search for Administrator user and Unlock it . etc ....

Friday 10 June 2011

SAP LOGON SCREEN

How To Change LOGON Screen for ABAP stack?
Go To transaction SE 61
Set document class to general text
Put the name of the file like “z_logon_screen_info” and create the file
Now there will be a word document shown
Put the info of your company see the example below
@A8@ Name of Company

@KR@ SAP IDES 6.0 EHP4

@0S@ Clients Available On This System:
@01@ 800 – (you can put description of client)
@01@ 810 – (you can put description of client)
@01@ 811 - (you can put description of client)
@01@ 812 - (you can put description of client)

@0S@ Technical Details:
IP Address: x.x.x.x
System ID: xxx
System No: xx

@PO@ OS: Windows Server 2008
@PO@ DB: IBM DB2 9.7
For using different icons(likeA8,PO,0S used in example) you can run and execute report ‘RSTXICON’ in sa38 tcode.
For more info use OSS NOTE 205487

Save the file
Save active
Logoff and Logon
You will be able to see the customized logon screen
 
Thank you Sathyathisss for your valuable information
Enjoy ( POWER PLAY !...)

Thursday 9 June 2011

ST03N - User statistics Report

1.)STAD and/or ST03N will provide you with statistics when users have logged on, what transactions they  ran, how many memory that consumed and so on.


2.) Licensewise (=USMM) you may be after the 'valid from date' or when was the last-logon-date of a specific users. These are informations you can get in USMM and SUIM -> User -> By Logon Date and Password Change.

Monday 6 June 2011

SGen

1.) Use sgen once you installated new system.
2.) sgen improves the system performance .
3.)By using the SGEN function, the end user will never have to wait for compilation when using the  SAP system
3.)T-code sgen
4.)Select first option & select required component
5.)keep an eye on tablespace , some time it reaches 100%, it may lead to system hang.

Below link will help you to understand the sgen options:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm32/helpdata/en/b1/52583c65399965e10000000a114084/content.htm

Wednesday 1 June 2011

Procedure for extending the File system in LINUX:



1.) #vgdisplay ( Identify the proper vg for particular File system )
2.) #PE (Check total number of free PE )
3.) #lvextend -L +1G <file system>
4.) #resize2fs <file system>
5.) df -h


use below link for LVM Baisc idea:
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/features/lvm2/