{"id":2376,"date":"2016-12-02T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:56:30","slug":"bushtrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/bushtrums\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were times when you could follow the appearance of each letter on the computer terminal until, after minutes, a complete text became legible.<\/p>\n<p>If this text was then also in a meaningful context to the situation of the recipient, the data resulted in something like <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-pcgx59244b3rw37j3fb94c1fyu2zwiiu\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Information<\/span>.<\/p><div id=\"great-114004541\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"banner_26-04_29_1200x150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There is a very noteworthy book entitled: \"<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2iixqdu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-3l0f6x5yaioxkv2t1cco0owjti36olpu\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Information<\/span> - History, theory, flood<\/a>\". Bestselling author James Gleick tells how the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-v3duntusshb8q73pxeht4nreseg16yxs\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Information<\/span> became the centerpiece of our civilization today.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the words, the \"talking\" drums in Africa, through the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-rck0fe07yk4v3kzmml5ldzhe8q2q5uhl\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Morse code<\/span> to the Internet revolution, he sheds light on how the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0xt8trjxzcvso0e8rcqqa2jw8i5lk27r\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Transmission<\/span> of information shaped and changed societies.<\/p>\n<p>Gleick explains the theories that deal with coding and decoding, the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-zrqaa1fg8rntgzsmrk36jurgvirat73s\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Transmission<\/span> of content and the dissemination of myriads of messages. He introduces the well-known and unknown pioneers of the information society: Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener, Ada Byron, Alan Turing and others.<\/p>\n<p>It offers the reader new insights into the mechanisms of information exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, SAP is not an object of study for James Gleick, because here he could have described how to move very fast but backwards in the information spiral.<\/p>\n<p>SAP has managed the feat of developing two fast, on <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-gywuw9qj63fhhutti72mtkhhsmbxfxlv\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Hana<\/span> based systems with one of the oldest and most primitive data transfers: on the one hand SAP Business Suite on Hana (SoH), on the other hand the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9vxepraq1sfiey4s2n1q0p0boycbqqx5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud, but native!<\/span>-trading platform Ariba - also as the heart and drive with <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-urzjz3kieeq3dqywcbpx9x79z6mo52tn\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Hana<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>However, because in a meaningful business scenario the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-wnhzjtwj2drd8q8zafdu2srqt7qjcthp\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">ERP<\/span>-system needed to communicate with the sales platform - exchange data - they commissioned a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-6bbuc0zwd0s6n2vrhbf23c6kg6mbtjls\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Hana<\/span>-versed SAP partner and an SAP developer in India with the solution for a veritable data path.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is much closer to the technology of bush drums than to modern communication protocols, such as those used in the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-eponnw308zw6s98w9fg8jhqm2221fv7u\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Internet<\/span> are common.<\/p>\n<p>From SAP's <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-rhr2a0dhggbvzcx81wh4u7b0x6fee2rg\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">ERP<\/span>-system, the business data is transferred to the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-rofinhilcbd13nmamje5umhspqpim295\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CSV<\/span>-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-u0xupl4mdfj239qryr6hso2n0xt1ym9k\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">File<\/span> via NetWeaver PI into the Ariba-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9k17aowohg6plp2r78pp2ime1o40a36c\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Cloud, but native!<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This concept is almost as efficient as the talking drums from Africa or the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ozogzs2het8ytotcxk5gaosxyde2bwmk\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Morse code<\/span>: A <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-xfqy42rcn8ltdwv5vzjfyolq2s0kowke\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CSV<\/span>-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-txyxf5j7orttzii3nawjaj6hbjjrk7fm\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">File<\/span> is nothing more than a long string of terms, each separated by a semicolon.<\/p>\n<p>If some arguments are missing in a record, two or more semicolons follow each other. At the end of each record there is a paragraph symbol - also known as a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-l6gug0iycaabk4kn75bqetv1w71170ri\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Carriage Return<\/span>what the good old <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9jq3hnz0t85v8moz0w1f3ochk7hv5ao1\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Carriage return<\/span> of a mechanical typewriter.<\/p>\n<p>SAP thus transfers data between two of its own systems based on a concept that originated in mechanical information transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, in the SAP world, this data flow must also follow compliance and governance rules, which brings SAP NetWeaver PI (Process Integration) into play. That's right! According to SAP, the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-f1awjzxfqlee5za8m38ck53er3ju2pgb\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CSV<\/span>-<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-tgz0zes54fhjg3mk90d84p0jv4x6sfy7\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data transmission<\/span> around an integrated information process.<\/p>\n<p>NetWeaver PI takes the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-favbd0z8u1jvbd3tns0q9i8moll90p5d\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CSV<\/span>-files from the SoH system, logs everything neatly, and hands over the conglomerate of semi-colons and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-8proin0y9865qvink62r382bxwc03c68\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Carriage return<\/span> to Ariba. A contemporary replacement for bush drums?<\/p>\n<p>According to recent information, Ariba is working on a modern <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-8fnph1rlb3fcf6eyuwnsca5bdae7zuoi\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Web<\/span>-interface for the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-92lcidwxmn9xgygjzoyyam516bu16z4i\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Data transmission<\/span> from SAP systems.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of going to press, however, an end to the work had not yet been communicated - but perhaps this was due to the fact that current e-mail and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-x3u64r26nglsje18rcmkflyc0ocr25r9\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Web<\/span>-Systems old <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ingg9heobcpgwiil3xk5a2kgwytjkx22\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CSV<\/span>-files can no longer be read.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data transmission can take place in various ways. In the course of human history, countless variants have been tried out. In most cases, the new transmission techniques were better than the previous ones. SAP takes the opposite approach.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,740,25],"tags":[621,1214,694],"coauthors":[27825],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meinung","category-mag1612","category-satire-das-letzte","tag-cloud-computing","tag-datenaustausch","tag-internet","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",400,172,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-768x331.jpg",768,331,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-100x43.jpg",100,43,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-480x207.jpg",480,207,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-640x276.jpg",640,276,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-720x310.jpg",720,310,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-960x414.jpg",960,414,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",18,8,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",1000,431,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",600,259,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire.jpg",600,259,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Das-Letzte-Satire-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Daten\u00fcbertragung kann auf verschiedenen Wegen erfolgen. Im Laufe der Menschheitsgeschichte wurden unz\u00e4hlige Varianten erprobt. Meistens waren die neuen \u00dcbertragungstechniken besser als die vorhergehenden. SAP geht den umgekehrten Weg.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/opinion\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Die Meinung der SAP-Community<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/likes1612\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MAG 16-12<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/opinion\/last-and-least\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Satire: Das Letzte<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Peter M. 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