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Unlock the full potential of SAP Datasphere
Our Experts Lars van der Goes and Rogier Schipper have updated our SAP Datasphere whitepaper to include the latest developments!
Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud offers many benefits
Transportation Management (TM) in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of tools and functionalities to manage your transportation processes....
SAP TechEd 2024: What's new in SAP Business AI
Ever since the release of ChatGPT back in 2023, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is steadily becoming an indispensable part in realizing business value. SAP...
SAP TechEd 2024: What’s new in SAP Datasphere?
With the explosion of Artificial Intelligence in the first half of last year, SAP’s focus in most of its software areas has been on integrating this...
SAP TechEd 2024: what’s new in SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP TechEd 2024 is already behind us, and we were excited about the possible new features coming to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) this year around. However, the...
Boosting the next step in the evolution of your data landscape: Expertum + Collibra.
Since the rebranding of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud to the now famous SAP Datasphere, SAP has prioritized collaboration not just within this solution, but has...
Expertum launches app to map internal business processes security
Expertum presents Ray, a user-friendly app that checks the risks of internal fraud or misuse of data, based on existing SAP information. With its clear...
Expertum takes the next step in growth with the choice of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud
SAP the Netherlands wrote a blog about Expertum's choice for S/4HANA Public Cloud and shared it with the media. You can read the story below.
Qrcus strengthens Expertum Group
The Limburg-based SAP service provider Qrcus joins the Expertum Group. This partnership allows Qrcus to leverage its...
In-house versus outsourced application management: making the right choice for your business
Deciding whether to manage your corporate ERP applications in-house or to outsource them can be a tough decision. Both options have distinct advantages and...
SAP Datasphere: How Elastic Compute Nodes help to manage peak-loads
One of the benefits of going to a Cloud Data Warehouse is the option to have a scalable system setup. In moments that there...
Strategic choice for SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud as Expertum enters new growth phase
Expertum, a leading provider of SAP solutions is embarking on a new growth phase. Expertum is currently operating in four countries (Belgium, the...
Managing SAP BTP with CDK for Terraform
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud technologies, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) stands out as a comprehensive platform-as-a-service offering...
Moving from Classic to Optimized Stories in SAP Analytics Cloud: what to look out for
If you are a frequent SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) user, you will undoubtedly have noticed that older Stories built through what SAP calls the ‘classic’...
Standard Embedded Help is here to help
Did you ever look for help within one of the SAP S/4HANA Fiori apps? Have you struggled to understand a specific SAP transaction or application key...
Federation, replication and transformation: Data Integration with SAP Datasphere
SAP’s data and analytics portfolio is increasingly leaning on SAP Datasphere as opposed to Data Intelligence for integration and connectivity. With the...
Partners in Technology joins Expertum Group
Dutch SAP service provider Partners in Technology joins Expertum Group, a leading player in the European SAP market. This strategic move strengthens...
Premium Outbound Integration in SAP Datasphere
Recently SAP introduced Premium Outbound Integration as an offering in SAP Datasphere. This is the way forward for customers who want to extract data out of...
SAP Datasphere and Snowflake: An (im)possible marriage? (Part II)
A few weeks ago I shared part one of this blog, in which I made a connection from SAP S/4HANA to Snowflake via SAP Datasphere and Azure Data Factory (the...
Recapping Data to Value Day: Collibra, Google and SAP take center stage together
Every year SAP organizes the Data to Value Day: an event during which it showcases customer cases using the latest of SAP technology, reaffirms its vision...
SAP Datasphere and Snowflake: An (im)possible marriage? (Part I)
It is no secret that SAP has been pushing its Datasphere solution as not just a Cloud data warehouse, but a data integration platform as well. Partnerships...
What are the benefits of collaborating across borders?
With the rise of remote work, the world has become more connected than ever. At Expertum, we undertake medium to large-scale projects both nationally and...
SAP’s new Identity Access Governance solution ensures compliant access to cloud-based applications
Ever increasing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements, prove that a professional solution is needed to adequately control SAP access for both...
Artificial Intelligence in IT: best practices
In the previous blogposts we have explored the advantages and disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning within IT, highlighting that...
Process improvement as a service: Valuable business insights and prioritized actions at your fingertips
Companies need to adapt to survive and thrive in an ever-evolving business landscape. Customer preferences are more than ever influenced by technical...
How SAP’s S/4HANA Cloud, public edition can help boost sales
Expertum believes SAP’s S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is a great choice for companies embracing a ‘fit-to-standard’, process-oriented mindset and working to...
How our implementation at Versuni succeeds through bringing business value to the enterprise by challenging business requirements
At the end of 2021, Expertum was asked by Philips Domestic Appliances to fulfil the role of solution architect with the responsibility for integrating...
Time to prepare for mandatory e-invoicing
As of 2026, all companies worldwide will need to invoice electronically, no longer via simple PDFs but through certified secure trade systems. Here is what...
Artificial Intelligence in IT: pitfalls and limitations
In the previous blog post, we have looked at Artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential within IT. Particularly, we have seen that the presence of AI and...
Putting the Data Intelligence in SAP Datasphere: a stepwise demo of Replication Flows with S/4HANA, BigQuery and Azure
Like all of SAP Datasphere’s regular updates, the most recent 2024.4 release added a slew of new functionalities into the solution. At Expertum, we...
Dialog Processing in SAP S/4HANA
In SAP S/4HANA, the end user uses the frontend (SAP GUI) to connect the dispatcher of the application server.
Artificial Intelligence within the IT: the benefits and its potential
In the last couple of years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has drastically and permanently impacted our way of living. Think about face recognition that we...
Transport issues, a thing of the past with these SAP ALM tools
Can you remember the number of times you investigated return code 8 (RC=8) or 12 when importing transport requests in SAP? Or how often you debugged ABAP...
SAP S/4HANA: Database Administration Tools You Should Know
SAP S/4HANA is supported on SAP HANA, an in-memory database capable of handling large amounts of data in real-time. This is where all business and...
Deadlines for country-specific e-invoicing are approaching fast: are you ready?
For global companies, the trend towards digital transformation and e-invoicing is accelerating as the regulatory landscape is continuously increasing and...
Expertum's AWS Partnership: Elevating Your RISE with SAP Experience
Many software providers are moving towards a subscription-based model in a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. SAP is no different with its Cloud first...
How to Create Clients in an SAP S/4HANA System
The first step in setting up a new client in SAP S/4HANA is to create its definition. This is done with Transaction SCC4.
How to Make the Most of an SAP S/4HANA System Conversion (Q&A)
Recently, Mark Mergaerts, Bert Vanstechelman, and Nick Mahieu, SAP S/4HANA project experts from Expertum and co-authors of SAP S/4HANA System Conversion...
SAP Datasphere unleashed
SAP announced the evolution of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) into SAP Datasphere during its ‘Data Unleashed’-digital event.
SAP TechEd 2023: What’s new in AI and Data & Analytics
On November 2nd and 3rd SAP had their annual TechEd event for developers, architects and decision makers...
Navigating the World of SAP Workflows: Tips and Best Practices
Some things are timeless and so are SAP Workflows. As they serve many business needs and their low-code allows easy integration, many customers simply love...
Hunkemöller and Expertum winner of the SAP Best of Customer Succes award 2023
We are incredibly grateful and proud that yesterday our client Hunkemöller and Expertum were awarded with the SAP Best of Customer Success Award 2023 in the...
SAP S/4HANA Conversion: What Is the Software Update Manager?
The conversion to SAP S/4HANA is carried out by the Software Update Manager (SUM). SUM is a tool that performs software maintenance for your SAP systems.
Be aware of SAP ERP’s upcoming end of mainstream maintenance and take action now
As SAP has been communicating extensively for a while now, their support for SAP ERP runs until 31 December 2027, followed by an optional extended...
Sofindev invests in leading SAP consulting company Expertum
Expertum concludes a strategic partnership with Sofindev. The partnership between Sofindev and Expertum, a leading player in the SAP consulting market, will...
Navigating ERP software: embrace agility with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud
As technology and business needs continue to evolve, the traditional ERP software landscape has been undergoing a significant transformation. With the...
Your journey to the cloud: The different steps of a RISE with SAP Cloud integration
Embarking on the journey to integrate RISE with SAP, the cloud offering with SAP S/4HANA, and become an Intelligent Enterprise is a strategic decision with...
Idelco Insulation gold award winner on the SAP Best of Customer Success 2023
SAP puts great importance on helping businesses grow with their solutions. Their Best of Customer Success Awards celebrate customers’ successes and reward...
Becoming an Intelligent Enterprise with RISE with SAP
RISE with SAP is a Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS), which bundles several products and services to help businesses in their journey towards the...
Efficient ABAP programming: How to work with Eclipse in SAP
Programming in SAP has changed a lot in recent years. For some years now, there has been the possibility to connect your company's or customer's SAP system...
Simplify troubleshooting with App Support on SAP Fiori Launchpad
Encountering an error can slow down your work. To make the whole troubleshooting experience smoother and less frustrating, SAP created the highly practical...
Shedding light on SAP S/4HANA Service
As SAP will be sunsetting its support for the classic SAP ERP and SAP CRM applications in 2027, as well as its customer service application on SAP S/4HANA in...
The future is here: SAP Cloud ALM
On 28 and 29 March, Expertum’s Jean-Paul Knop went to St. Leon-Rot in Germany for the SAP ALM Partner Conference 2023. In this yearly event, SAP ALM...
Expertum winner of the SAP Business Technology Platform Partner of the year Award
YES! We are incredibly proud to have won the SAP Business Technology Platform Partner of the Year award this evening. This special award was presented to us...
Introducing the Expertum Application Model
In today's modern application development, it's becoming increasingly important to have proper state management and easy read/edit modes in apps. Expertum...
Is the public edition of SAP S/4HANA cloud the right fit for you?
In its current ERP software offerings, SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides two main options, the private and the public edition. Naturally, customers may be wondering...
The switch to Daylight Saving Time in SAP
For most humans, the switch to Daylight Saving Time (26th of March at 02:00 in the morning) just means one hour less sleep. But for software applications,...
Discovering the value of SAP’s API Business Hub for SAP S/4HANA
An introduction to using SAP S/4HANA APIs and API Business Hub to build future-proof integrations between your SAP and non-SAP systems.
Running a native UI5 desktop application
Having a dedicated desktop application can improve the user experience. To achieve this, we want to use the
How to Start and Stop an Instance of SAP HANA
In this blog post, we’ll discuss starting, stopping, and restarting an instance of SAP HANA.
XP Recap: Innovation and Development @ SAP TechEd 2022
As stated by my colleague Lars van der Goes, SAP TechEd 2022 again was a mostly online event, only...
XP Recap: Data & Analytics @ SAP TechEd 2022
In spite of no lack of turbulent events this year, 2022 has been the time for many of us to mostly return to the way we lived our lives before the COVID...
Benefits and challenges implementing SAP SuccessFactors (Part 2)
In my previous Blog (Part 1) the possible transition strategies from SAP HCM to HCM for SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors were explained. In this blog I...
The switch to standard time or winter time in SAP
For most humans, the switch to standard time just means an extra hour of sleep. But for software applications, the consequences are less appealing. Software...
Search for existing CDS views
Thanks to SAP HANA new powerful tools became available for developers to retrieve data from the database: ABAP CDS. With the advent of SAP S/4HANA, even more...
How to enable Basic Authentication for Cloud Integration on SAP Cloud Foundry
This blog describes how to set up inbound communication using Basic Authentication when using SAP Cloud Integration in the Cloud Foundry environment, as this...
What Is it Like Being an SAP HANA Database Administrator?
In this post, let’s discuss the day-to-day tasks of an SAP HANA database administrator and how to get yourself started down that career path. What does an
SAP HCM transition strategies (Part 1)
SAP offers two solutions for SAP Human Capital Management (SAP HCM): SAP HCM for S/4HANA and SuccessFactors (Cloud). In this blog (part 1), I will share my...
Prepare for Planning with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud & Analytics Cloud
A few weeks ago SAP introduced the bi-directional integration between SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). This feature, currently...
SAP Planning in the Cloud - Stand-alone or Live Connection
SAP Analytics Cloud has been the strategic choice for planning within SAP's portfolio for several years now. Based on our experience working with both the...
Growing IT organically: how Ecotone migrated its BI environment to SAP BW/4HANA
Earlier this year, Ecotone finalised its journey towards SAP BW/4HANA...
Master data attribute recommendation using SAP AI Core and T5 transformers
Master data maintenance is a time-consuming activity for many businesses. Companies like retailers selling large amounts of different articles or...
Full Maintenance Scope with SAP S/4HANA Asset Management
The role of the Maintenance Department is often underestimated as playing only a supporting role in production companies. As a result, these departments...
Domo Chemicals Bronze Winner of the SAP Best of Customer Success Awards 2022
With the Best of Customer Success Awards, SAP is putting the spotlights on customers their SAP implementations with measurable results. Every year customers...
Balancing cost and performance with SAP HANA Data Tiering
SAP HANA is an in-memory database and is only supported on certified hardware. By requiring certified hardware, SAP is making sure that core-to-memory ratio...
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is SAP’s next generation, Cloud-based data warehouse solution. It is part of Walldorf’s HANA Cloud Services triumvirate, together...
The switch to Daylight Saving Time in SAP
For most humans, the switch to Daylight Saving Time (27th of March at 02:00 in the morning) just means one hour less sleep. But for software applications,...
Why every data migration project needs a solid team
Data migration is key to the success of an SAP S/4HANA or any other IT-system implementation. Preparation is indispensable for a successful Data Migration...
Expertum is nominated for Trends Gazellen 2022
For the second year in a row, Expertum is nominated as Trends Gazellen in the category of large companies in Brussels.
App development with the No-code platform AppGyver
In this year’s SAP TechEd (2021), a lot of topics were about the Business Application Studio (BAS) and how to accelerate application development with...
Are you ready for the Euro conversion in Croatia?
Now that 2022 already has started, I have written a blog about the Euro conversion in Croatia. January 1st 2023 is an extremely important date financially....
Explainable forecasting using HANA and APL
Last week our colleague Dirk Kemper (Data Science and Analytics Consultant) wrote a technical blog about machine learning at true scale, with SAP HANA's...
Large-scale forecasting using HANA, APL and Node.js
For our XP Tech blog from Expertum our colleague Dirk Kemper (Data Science and Analytics Consultant) wrote a technical blog about machine learning at true...
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: A post-TechEd round-up
This year’s SAP TechEd was the second edition held exclusively online; a format that undoubtedly holds both advantages and disadvantages for everyone....
Six Reasons S/4HANA Condition Contracts are a Huge Upgrade
Condition Contracts are an exciting addition to S/4HANA’s toolkit, allowing granular control of the rebate, commission and royalty agreements you manage for...
The switch to standard time or winter time in SAP
For most humans, the switch to standard time just means an extra hour of sleep. But for software applications, the consequences are less appealing. Software...
'Fitcoins' launched in Belgium
Kokoro, a Belgium based company that assists organisations in their well-being policy, launched the 'fitcoin', a digital currency to reward employees for...
Why preparation is the most important ingredient of a successful data migration project
Data migration is an indispensable part of the transition to SAP S/4HANA. Without accurate data, all investments in SAP's ERP flagship are worth nothing. In...
Why you should switch to Bank Reconciliation in SAP S/4HANA 2020
Are you ready to take advantage of significantly simplified Bank Accounting in SAP S/4HANA 2020? This article outlines what’s improved and shows you how to...
Tech Alert: Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft released mandatory security updates for several Windows versions including 10, 8.1, 7, and Server editions to patch the 'PrintNightmare' exploit.
Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud
For some time now, SAP SAC (Sap Analytics Cloud) has been the strategic choice for planning. SAP Business planning and Consolidation for S/4HANA and SAP...
Tech Alert: Major Security Alert for All SAP ABAP Platforms
On 8 June SAP has issued note 3007182 - [CVE-2021-27610] Improper Authentication in SAP NetWeaver ABAP Server and ABAP Platform, describing a major...
Taking the temperature: An updates analysis of SAP's data & analytics strategy
In the past year-and-a-half, with the world facing a pandemic like never before, companies across the globe have seen the workload on their IT systems...
Review Azure services certificate authorities
Microsoft is updating its Azure services to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates from a different set of Root Certificate Authorities (CAs).
Expertum is nominated for trends gazelles 2021
We can proudly say that Expertum is nominated for Trends Gazelles 2021 in the category big companies in Brussels.
Hybrid and embedded: how the future of SAP analytics is blazing a trial for the intelligent enterprise
Hybrid. Embedded. Intelligence. If someone would ask me to describe the past few weeks of SAP’s Analytics webinars, these would be the first three words that...
The Expertum way: switching to SAP S/4HANA in four simple steps
As companies around the world switch to SAP S/4HANA, you may be wondering whether you should be doing the same. The answer is simple: you can, and this is...
Managing an SAP S/4HANA project: 8 things to keep in mind
The switch to SAP S/4HANA may seem like a big shift. In terms of functionality, it is. But when it comes to project management, rest assured: many key...
Recon: critical vulnerability affecting all SAP systems
A vulnerability has been discovered, which makes it possible to create SAP users with maximum privileges without the need to authenticate. The vulnerability...
SAP S/4HANA service
SAP CRM on premise is currently widely adopted by many companies throughout the world and SAP continues to support this solution, as currently known through...
Analytics in SAP S/4HANA explained
Traditionally there has always been a strict separation between analytics and transactional work. Partly this was due to technical separation of live...