News 2012

I started working on a new ABAP WebDynpro application at Umicore for allowing business users to approve pending changes on Environmental, Health & Safety Dangerous goods transportation data. Once approved, the changes are distributed into the respective SAP backend systems for usage on various output documents.

Performing an upgrade at Game Mania of SAP Business Connector to the latest release — 4.8 — which may sound as a ‘surprise’ or ‘old school’. SAP did release however a new version a couple of years ago despite the fact that it declared SAP BC ‘virtual dead’ when it announced ‘SAP Exchange Infrastructure’ (SAP XI) — the predecessor of the current SAP Process Infrastructure (SAP PI) platform.

On my way to Paris for a day of SAP Architectural consultancy for a company which is participating in an offering for a new public transport solution. Part of that offer concerns integration of their systems with an SAP system and as such I come in the picture for advising them on how to connect with SAP. Lovely opportunity.

Been working on an HTML5 mobile version of the native android application I wrote. The web application is served from the SAP WebAS server and uses jQuery Mobile as the front-end layer.

Started working on the implementation of various custom SAP business workflows at Game Mania to optimize the business processes for their purchasing department. The first workflow will replace the tedious manual process of ‘monitoring’ the preorder amount for games.

Working again on the custom PI E2E Messaging Cockpit Statistics webdynpro application I wrote last year for Umicore. This application allows end-users to search for PI messaging statistics (instead of message details) so they can notice in a glance which messages are in error.

At Umicore we have been doing a ‘proof of concept’ on integrating SAP functionality on a mobile device. We have written an Android native application which integrates with the SAP backend functionality via an ABAP HTTP ICF service residing on SAP PI.