Business Suite - Foundation Topics

SAP is continuing to work on differentiation and harmonization of its Business Suite. We help drive down our customers' total cost of ownership by harmonizing tools, technologies and user interfaces across all Business Suite applications. The Business Suite software focuses on topics that include:    

• Harmonizing the User Experience through roll out and implementation of easy to use applications, as well as a development kit based on WebDynpro for ABAP

• Easing Customer Adoption by providing support for upgrade dependency analysis. This allows you to plan the scope of upgrade projects while identifying dependencies when upgrading a component of a system landscape.

• Simplifying Installation by automating the technical system installation process with the automatic connectivity setup giving the system administrators an overview of all systems in the landscape and their connection configuration.

• Facilitating System Integration by offering  the option to run SAP SRM on one technical instance with the SAP ERP central ECC component.

• Harmonizing access from SAP ERP to reporting databases by implementing an abstraction layer that allows to select the most appropriate reporting tool from an end-user experience no matter where the data resides.

• Featuring comprehensive information lifecycle management (ILM) that helps you to comply with legal regulations regarding data accessibility and retention. And allows you to finally shut down systems you no longer need.

• Improving User Management by leveraging SAP NetWeaver Identity Management:  Maintain authorizations by provisioning identities from SAP ERP HCM, assigning roles, integrate with SAP GRC, and push users to the backend systems involved.

• Personalized Help Center paradigm: Enables you to deploy SAP's standard documentation along with customer project specific documentation and users' own notes in parallel to the application, in a context specific way.