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Comparison of SAP R/3 audit tools

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Comparison of SAP R/3 Audit Tools:

  • Access Controls – Formerly known as the Virsa tools(Compliance Calibrator, Risk Enforcer, Role Expert and Firefighter)
  • Process controls – New automatic set of controls based on SAP business processes.
  • EH&S – Compliance with regaulations for emissions, disposal of assets in environmentally safe way, and in the management of chemicals, etc.
  • Global Trade Services – based on new trade regulations regarding export/import business.
  • Cisco SONA – SAP and CISCO’s partnership to secure data transfer around networks.

Governance, Risk and Compliance covers all legal, regulatory and compliance issues that today’s large entities face. It is not focussed only on security and authorisations and is not a term unique to SAP customers. (more…)

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Comparison between EXIT, CONTINUE, and CHECK

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Comparison between EXIT, CONTINUE, and CHECK






Statement
Effect

exitLeaves the current loop.
continueUnconditional jump to the end of the loop.
check exp
Jumps to the end of the loop if exp is false.

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Comparison between SAP Business One and SAP R/3

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

SAP Business One is a lightweight version of SAP R/3 released by SAP. There are several main differences between SAP Business One, which intended for Small and Medium Size company with the SAP R/3 Which known as the most popular Enterprise Resources Planning Application for Large enterprise.

Before you go through for detail comparison with SAP R/3 here is some pros and cons of the SAP Business one:
Pros:
1. The user-defined fields very suitable for a lot of companies.
2. Great import feature in the form of Data Transfer Workbench.
3. Great drill-down feature.

Cons:
1. The reports are quite terrible
2. It is not an MRP solution because it does not do any scheduling.

For more detail comparison you can see table below:

No Area SAP R/3 SAP Business One
1 Purpose Large companies Small and mid size companies
2 Architecture Three tier client/server technology. Made up of three functionally distinct layers namely: the user interface, business logic and database. Two tier client/server technology (Fat Client), All processing and business logic are carried out on the client. The result therefore is a system where logon and load balancing is a mirage
3 Price Targeted for Large Enterprise Affordable for Small and Medium Enterprise
4 Number of Module Depend on package and industry solution but typically cover more than 20 basic module e.g Financial Accounting, Environmental Health & Safety, Controlling, Asset Management, Project System, Insurance, Industry Solutions, Human Resources, Plant Maintenance, Materials Management, Quality Management, Production Planning, Sales and Distribution, Supply Chain Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Business Information Warehouse, Strategic Enterprise Management, Warehouse Management, and more than 237000 function modules, Designed for small and midsize with 14 Module e.g Administration Module, Financials Module, Sales Opportunities, Sales Module, Purchasing Module, Business Partners Modul, Banking Module, Inventory Module, Production Module, MRP Module, Service Module, Human Resources Module, Reports Module, E-commerce
5 Competitor Oracle Applications Microsoft Dynamics

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Comparison of Platforms and Databases Supported by SAP R/3

Monday, June 16th, 2008

SAP R/3 Support many platforms and database, here is some simple comparison. The platforms that R/3 can run on are shown in Table below

For example, if you write an ABAP/4 program on Digital UNIX with an Informix database and an OSF/Motif interface, that same program should run without modification on a Windows NT machine with an Oracle database and a Windows 95 interface. Or, it could run on an AS/400 with a DB2 database using OS/2 as the front-end.

SAP also provides a suite of tools for administering the Basis system. These tools perform tasks such as system performance monitoring, configuration, and system maintenance. To access the Basis administration tools from the main menu, choose the path Tools->Administration.

Table 1.1 Platforms and Databases Supported by R/3

Operating Systems Supported Hardware Supported Front-Ends Supported Databases
AIX SINIX IBM SNI SUN Win 3.1/95/NT DB2 for AIX
SOLARIS HP-UX Digital HP OSF/Motif Informix-Online
Digital-UNIX Bull OS/2 Oracle 7.1
Macintosh ADABAS D
Windows NT AT&T Compaq Win 3.1/95/NT Oracle 7.1
Bull/Zenith OSF/Motif SQL Server 6.0
HP (Intel) SNI OS/2 ADABAS D
IBM (Intel) Macintosh
Digital (Intel)
Data-General
OS/400 AS/400 Win95 OS/2 DB2/400

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