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SAP performance optimization - some hints

Hi all. Let's start some BASIS related topics.If someone is interested i will post some hints and tips for performance optimizations of SAP systems related to SAP, DB and OS optimization.

SEM-BCS: Key Design Consideration for Integration points with SAP ECC

SEM BCS: KEY DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR INTEGRATION POINTS
SAP ECC Integration Points
General Ledger:
• Company Code
Key Integration Points:
- Company Code is mapped to a company ID which is the legal unit used for Consolidation. i.e., Company Code is used as part of the Consolidation Unit.
Consolidation Unit:
-Normally, there is a 1:1 relationship between company code and Consolidation ID (unit).
Key Design Considerations:
- Company code is the legal structure from which auditable financial statements are generated.

SAP facing pressure from Oracle and Netsuite

SAP is seeing pressure from all the sides. Oracle, due to the recent acquisitions has been pushing SAP down this past year. The new software sales from SAP plunged 33% last quarter, while Oracle's stock has been performing better than SAP's. It may be even losing market share as the companies start looking for alternatives to SAP because of various reasons.

SAP is "clearly losing market share," said Adam Wood, a Paris-based analyst at Exane BNP Paribas who rates SAP "underperform." "Because of the acquisitions Oracle has made recently, it's left them with a bigger product range for their existing customers."

So, maybe after all, all the acquisitions by Oracle have started showing their results.

How Google's Technology could possibly Change SAP BI

Query Execution and Efficiency is a major

concern in organizations with large amounts of data! SAP has come out with a Business Intelligence Accelerator (BIA) tool

that does a good job.. but Google's technique and architecture is still the best!

Here is what Naeem Hashmi says about BIA: