{"id":55023,"date":"2018-11-23T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=55023"},"modified":"2022-05-01T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T08:29:16","slug":"shortfacts-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/shortfacts-oktober-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortfacts - October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>KPI package<\/h3>\n<p>WSW Software launches the modular, predefined KPI package \"Order Backlog\". This KPI package, which is available immediately and integrates seamlessly into an existing SAP landscape, creates out of the box a real-time view of relevant key figures on order backlog and order backlog on the desktop PC and mobile via smartphone or tablet.<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely relevant to competition, because it allows capacities for production and shipping to be planned in advance, and also increases efficiency in sales and sales controlling.<\/p><div id=\"great-353579966\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en great-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZGXMPyM-nU\" 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_1200x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The KPIs, which are visualized compactly and clearly in a cockpit or dashboard, can be refined to the desired level of detail by drilling down, if necessary to the schedule line level in the sales document, and evaluated further. Regular automatic snapshots also make the development of the order backlog visible.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>SAP Change Control<\/h3>\n<p>Revelation Software Concepts (RSC), a software partner of SAP, has further developed its market-leading SAP platform for automated change control to align the software with the changing requirements of the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the transformation, the flagship product will be rebranded as Rev-Trac Platinum, while its change intelligence software Salt will be launched as Rev-Trac Insights.<\/p>\n<p>Rev-Trac Platinum automates and performs all SAP change control procedures and tasks to deliver faster, safer and better applications that accelerate business transformation to keep pace with the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>The fully integrated change control platform facilitates the introduction of agile and SAP DevOps to improve productivity and achieve greater transparency across the entire lifecycle of SAP applications.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>AI for SuccessFactors<\/h3>\n<p>SAP has announced two new features for the SuccessFactors HCM Suite. The aim is to make day-to-day work easier and increase employee productivity.<\/p>\n<p>The new digital assistant for SuccessFactors solutions is currently being tested with a limited number of customers in a beta program. It uses machine learning and guides employees through the respective application with spoken and\/or written questions or commands and suggests individual actions.<\/p>\n<p>The digital assistant draws on the SAP CoPilot and SAP Leonardo Machine Learning bot environment and offers a dialog-oriented user interface on the desktop or mobile device. It is also integrated into team platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams and seamlessly connected to the tools that employees use on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>The digital assistant automatically learns and understands what an employee is looking for. The dialog interface can then be used to find information and initiate measures.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>International deployment planning<\/h3>\n<p>MobileX, a provider of field service management solutions, has announced version 7.0 of its field service management suite. The latest version lays the technical foundation for better use of MobileX's mobile solutions and deployment planning in an international context.<\/p>\n<p>This will make it easier to use internationalization functions in both standard and customer-specific applications in the future. The new features of the MIP for Field Service mobile solution also include a module that allows technicians to record their travel expenses.<\/p>\n<p>They can enter expenses including receipts, flat rates and mileage in the application. The data is then transferred via the MobileX SAP ERP add-on to the SAP travel expense transaction PR05 for internal accounting and posting.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>Seal of approval for warehouse management software<\/h3>\n<p>SAP's Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has once again confirmed that the Prolag World warehouse management software is fully qualified for data exchange with SAP ECC 6.0 software.<\/p>\n<p>The previous releases of the warehouse management system were already certified by SAP. The SAP seal of approval offers CIM customers and interested parties an additional level of security. Software providers who successfully complete the certification process guarantee the user that their solution complies with SAP's guidelines and interface specifications, the compatibility criteria for the hardware and the required quality features.<\/p>\n<p>In several technical tests, the SAP ICC tested warehouse processes such as goods receipt, goods issue, batch management and the Prolag World IDoc interface and confirmed the integration capability.<\/p>\n<h3><!--nextpage--><br \/>\nOne Simple Cloud<\/h3>\n<p>SAP Analytics Cloud is now equipped with new machine learning functions that help users to identify correlations in company data and make faster and better decisions.<\/p>\n<p>With SAP Analytics Cloud, users can more easily access powerful capabilities that deliver comprehensive insights and automatically identify potential problems before they arise. SAP Analytics Cloud's machine learning capabilities also make it possible to get one-click predictions of future business performance, identify risks and correlations, and automatically generate advanced dashboards and storyboards.<\/p>\n<p>Users also receive highly personalized insights into supplier and customer data. SAP Analytics Cloud offers customers seamless integration of data visualization, planning and forecasting capabilities. The platform serves as a central access point for interrelated information. This should make replication processes for reading out irrelevant and outdated data superfluous.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>Linux kernel for Azure<\/h3>\n<p>In cooperation with Microsoft, Suse has developed the first enterprise Linux kernel specifically for Microsoft Azure. On-demand instances of Suse Linux Enterprise Server 15 now run on a specially adapted kernel for Microsoft Azure, which offers improved performance and faster booting with lower memory consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The Azure-optimized kernel provides faster access to new and future Azure features, making customers' IT more agile. Suse is working with Microsoft and other partners to adapt and deploy open source solutions that enable customers to manage complex systems, reduce costs and deliver business-critical services for digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>Hyperconvergence-based solution certified for S\/4<\/h3>\n<p>The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution \"Enterprise Cloud OS Platform\" with the hypervisor AHV from Nutanix fulfills the SAP criteria for execution in Hana production environments. This enables SAP customers to benefit from the simplicity and agility of leading HCI technology and provide a modern IT architecture for SAP's relational in-memory database platform.<\/p>\n<p>Nutanix has proven the performance and scalability required for successful enterprise Hana deployments, as well as simple day-2 operations in SAP environments. This includes the ability to deliver good throughput rates with minimal latency and ensure high availability during periods of heavy database usage.<\/p>\n<p>SAP customers can use the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS platform in production and non-production environments to quickly deploy, easily scale and simplify management of their IT infrastructure to accelerate time to value for SAP Hana and other SAP applications.<\/p>\n<h3><!--nextpage--><br \/>\nCertified intralogistics<\/h3>\n<p>SAP Germany has awarded SSI Schaefer the SAP Recognized Expertise certificate, confirming the intralogistics specialist's high level of expertise in SAP solutions for supply chain management.<\/p>\n<p>The award of the seal of approval underlines the success of the long-standing cooperation between SAP and SSI Schaefer, which is also confirmed by the continuously growing number of SAP applications implemented. Building on the official SAP partnership as a \"Service Partner\" and \"Value Added Reseller\/Channel Partner\", the additional SAP-recognized expertise draws the attention of potential customers to SSI Schaefer's competence in the area of supply chain management.<\/p>\n<p>This applies to both the product know-how and SSI Schaefer's experience in project implementation and support. A prerequisite for certification is experienced and qualified consultants in the company as well as reliable and effective implementation of SAP solutions.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>SAP Ethics Advisory Board for AI<\/h3>\n<p>SAP is the first European technology company to develop its own guidelines for artificial intelligence (AI) and has created an external advisory board for the ethical use of artificial intelligence. The committee of experts from science, politics and industry ensures the implementation of the guidelines and is to develop them further together with the SAP AI Steering Committee - a group of SAP executives from the areas of development, strategy and human resources.<\/p>\n<p>The new guidelines, the external committee and the internal committee form a control framework to ensure that the integrity of the company and trust in all SAP solutions are maintained, even with AI solutions supported by SAP Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>As the market leader for business software, SAP supports over 400,000 customers, and 77 percent of all transaction revenue worldwide is generated via an SAP system. SAP solutions and applications influence the lives of billions of people every day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Shortfacts - october 2018\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55024\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethik-Beirat-Begleitfoto.jpg\" alt=\"Ethics Advisory Board accompanying photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethik-Beirat-Begleitfoto.jpg 800w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethik-Beirat-Begleitfoto-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethik-Beirat-Begleitfoto-100x80.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethik-Beirat-Begleitfoto-480x383.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethik-Beirat-Begleitfoto-640x511.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethik-Beirat-Begleitfoto-720x575.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>SAP becomes name sponsor of new sports arena<\/h3>\n<p>SAP has secured the naming rights to the future multifunctional sports arena in Munich. In addition, the global market leader for business software is supporting the construction as a technology and innovation partner.<\/p>\n<p>The new arena in the Olympic Park is being built by Red Bull to optimize the infrastructure for professional sports clubs, youth development and public mass sports. The main users of the new building on the Olympic site in the Bavarian capital are the German basketball champions FC Bayern Munich and the German ice hockey champions Red Bull Munich.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there is a comprehensive ice time contract with the City of Munich for three other stationary ice rinks for training purposes and public skating.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>Corporate forest in Kenya<\/h3>\n<p>As part of the company's tenth anniversary, Projekt0708 has established a corporate forest in Kenya. Together with the digital platform Treedom, the first ten trees - symbolizing the ten years - have already been planted. A further 90 trees will follow.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"We want to anchor the topic of sustainability and social responsibility even more firmly in our corporate culture in future\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>explains CFO Michael Scheffler.<\/p>\n<p>The IT consulting company, which specializes in SAP cloud solutions for HR and HCM, has also become a forester, so to speak. With the digital CSR platform Treedom, Projekt0708 has created its own corporate forest in Kenya, which will continue to grow and flourish with the help of partners and employees.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>SAP Business ByDesign for vacation<\/h3>\n<p>The leading search engine for vacation homes, Holidu, recently introduced the cloud ERP solution SAP Business ByDesign. The implementation partner is the 100% cloud company all4cloud from Viernheim.<\/p>\n<p>With SAP Business ByDesign, Holidu uses a scalable solution that positions the company well for its rapidly growing international business. To further increase its agility, Holidu has also decided to use SAP Cloud Platform Integration.<\/p>\n<p>This means that non-SAP systems, cloud applications and data from external partners can be connected flexibly and easily to drive the business forward.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h3>SAP IBP for life science companies<\/h3>\n<p>The Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical company Lonza has opted for SAP Integrated Business Planning from Camelot ITLab. SAP Integrated Business Planning enables Lonza to react quickly and agilely to market changes.<\/p>\n<p>As a leading supplier to the life sciences industry, Lonza expects to benefit from increased transparency in its global supply network. Lonza is one of the world's leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, biotech and specialty ingredients industries.<\/p>\n<p>Lonza's Bioscience Solutions division aimed to implement supply planning processes based on best practices from Camelot and SAP Integrated Business Planning. Camelot ITLab develops, sells and supports the implementation, with a precisely defined project scope and consulting services to flexibly meet the requirements of each customer.<\/p>\n<p>By implementing SAP Integrated Business Planning, Lonza aims to benefit from streamlined and integrated planning processes and achieve greater efficiency throughout its supply chain.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to minor news as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked. 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