Technologies & Products
SAP Cloud Platform Integration and the Rise of Hybrid
XI.....PI.....PO.....CPI.... it can be difficult to keep up with SAP’s acronym soup sometimes - so I didn’t feel too guilty when I was ...
SAP Automation
How DevOps Automation Enables Effortless SAP Audit & Compliance
As the number and complexity of regulatory rules and guidelines grow across the world, companies are under increasing pressure to find ...
Technologies & Products
Optimizing Agile: Five Steps to Better Sprint Planning in SAP
Here at Basis Technologies, we believe in the power of agile development and DevOps tools to revolutionize SAP workflows, so much so that ...
Agile & DevOps
How to Build an Automated Agile Workflow in SAP
Discover how SAP-specific automation helps you to implement agile practices for SAP. Agile is a software development methodology that ...
Technologies & Products
ActiveControl’s Rules Engine: Powerful, Customized SAP Approvals
Last week I ran a remote Webex session with my consulting peers to walk through the new features in ActiveControl 8.40. Whilst I was ...
Technologies & Products
Transports for Copies: A Love/Hate Affair
For SAP teams, Transports of Copies (TOCs) tend to be a lot like Marmite, the (in)famous UK spread. Which I suppose I’d better ...
SAP Automation
Accelerating SOX compliance with SAP automation
Ahhh - the great Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was working in IT with a US investment bank ...
Technologies & Products
Are you ensuring that your project landscape is kept up to date with all SAP changes?
Retrofit. Dual Maintenance. Rekeying. Three different terms for a vital activity in any multi-track (or 'N+N') SAP landscape setup – ...
Technologies & Products
ActiveControl 8.0: A Powerful New Rules Engine
The best things in life are always worth waiting for. No, I am not talking about Scottish independence. Or even Manchester United doing ...
Technologies & Products
Automation Chemistry: Integrating ActiveControl with SAP ChaRM
ActiveControl has integrated for many years with a large number of the ITSM tools used by SAP customers. Think well-known solutions ...
Technologies & Products
Don’t let a P1 become a Major Incident in SAP
Don’t tell our developers... it’s a sentence I’ve heard numerous times from Basis Technologies customers over the years. It ...
Technologies & Products
5 new ActiveControl features that take you closer to DevOps for SAP
What do global leaders in consumer goods, banking, generic pharmaceuticals, agricultural irrigation, and telecommunications all have ...
Technologies & Products
8 ActiveControl features that our customers love (and make their lives a lot easier) - Part II
A few weeks ago I posted eight of the popular features of ActiveControl that help enable our customers to deliver change quicker and ...
Technologies & Products
8 ActiveControl features that our customers love (and make their lives a lot easier).
Nothing gives me a warmer feeling inside when I am doing a pre-sales demo or kicking off a new ActiveControl implementation, and somebody ...
Technologies & Products
3 things we have learned from previous ActiveControl implementations
Whilst helping to fill in an RFP questionnaire at another large SAP customer that is currently going through its internal procurement ...
Technologies & Products
ShiftLeft your potential SAP issues. Even further.
It’s party season around my house at the moment. Both my daughters were born around this time of the year, which means all the children ...
SAP Automation
Is your SAP Change and Release process fit for purpose?
Is your SAP Change and Release process fit for purpose? As part of her ongoing efforts to get me healthier, my wife got me a Fitbit for ...
Technologies & Products
SAP delivery at hyperspace speeds
Warning: stop reading this now if you don’t like Star Wars. I recently stumbled on the eBay market for ‘retro’ children’s toys ...
Events
Want to meet a DevOps A-Lister at UKISUG this month?
I have been working with another large SAP retail customer this past couple of months. Operating in the fast-moving retail sector (they ...
SAP Automation
Are you ready to move to more continuous SAP delivery?
I have been doing quite a lot of demos and workshops recently where potential customers keep asking me the exact same question: I have ...
Technologies & Products
The ticket to greater SAP production stability
Last week whilst getting the bus home from work as I always do, the bus terminated for some unknown reason and myself and around 30 other ...
SAP Automation
Dirty Nappies and better SAP Change Management
The birth of my second daughter this week has definitely reminded me of the importance of good timing and the value of sleep. I really ...
SAP Automation
Want to be part of the SAP A team?
In the words of Hannibal from the A-Team – “I love it when a plan comes together.”.... This past fortnight I have been over in ...
SAP Automation
Going spreadsheet blind delivering your SAP projects?
In one of my old jobs, I pretty much lived in Microsoft Excel. Every day, five days a week - and sometimes even weekends - I had to ...
Technologies & Products
What Brussels sprouts taught me about SAP Change Control
My wife makes me a glass of freshly squeezed juice before I come to work most mornings. And I am not talking about orange juices and apple ...
