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Fiori Elements can save development time and provide a consistent user experience across SAP Fiori apps, if you know a bit about what's under the hood. Fiori Elements — formerly smart templates — and smart controls are  standard UI components  for applications delivered with the SAPUI5 JavaScript library, including SAP Fiori apps. They rely on local "annotation" files or annotations delivered via OData services to define their smart template behavior, rather than requiring behavior to be defined in JavaScript. The approach has advantages and restrictions compared to developing completely custom front-end applications that developers and managers should be aware of. Its main advantages are that it reduces the cost and time required for application development and maintenance, and helps provide a consistent and robust user experience to business users. Fiori Elements and smart controls allow developers to focus more on carving out OData services and enhancing the se...

Business intelligence (BI) is essential for business growth and competitive advantage, yet reaping benefits from BI requires more than implementing the technology that enables it.  In fact, deploying the technology is the easiest part of any BI initiative, according to Boris Evelson, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research. Getting the personnel and processes portions right are much more challenging, he says. As such, organizations must addresses personnel and processes as key facets of their BI strategy if they want to be successful. Moreover, BI strategies should be broken down even further to address ownership and continual improvement as well.  Following are seven essential components of any successful BI strategy, according to several BI experts. 1. Give business ownership over BI Organizations that place BI in the hands of business users have greater success rates than those who confine BI within IT, Evelson says. This may mean emb...

API management is the process of publishing, documenting and overseeing application programming interfaces (APIs) in a secure, scalable environment. The goal of  API management  is to allow an organization that publishes an API to monitor the interface’s lifecycle and make sure the needs of developers and applications using the API are being met. 1. API management software tools typically provide the following functions: 2. Automate and control connections between an API and the applications that use it. 3. Ensure consistency between multiple API implementations and versions. Monitor traffic from individual apps. 4. Provide memory management and caching mechanisms to improve application performance. 5. Protect the API from misuse by wrapping it in security procedures and policies. API management software can be built in-house or purchased as a service through a third-party provider. A growing open API movement, spearheaded by big name companies like Facebook, Google and ...

Technology continues to innovate, and business is evolving with it. Because companies and individuals are able to interact globally to conduct business, client bases have grown too expansive and complex to be easily managed with a paper Rolodex. However with the development of Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) systems, companies can effectively manage interactions with current and future customers. Sophisticated CRM systems not only manage account and contact information, but track and forecast sales in one central location. In particular, sales and marketing departments have benefited most from integrated CRM systems. Many companies offer CRM services including Microsoft (MSFT),Oracle (ORCL), SAP (SAP) and Salesforce (CRM)Salesforce.com IncIn particular, Salesforce remains the industry leader in CRM systems and customer solutions. Primarily utilized in the cloud, Salesforce offers customers the ability to integrate reporting, process controls and visibility of ongoing proj...

JMeter records mobile application requests on HTTP(S) Script Recorder and it has features to prepare and run our mobile application performance test scripts. All we have to do is to configure JMeter and Mobile device. In JMeter, we can test both iOS and Android native applications. Steps to Configure JMeter: Go to apache-jmeter-3.1/bin folder and start the jmeter.bat (Batch) file. Right click on “Test Plan” > Add > Threads User(s) > Thread Group. Right click on “Thread Group” > Add > Logic Controller > Recording Controller. Right click on “Thread Group” > Add > Listeners > View Results in Tree. Add HTTP(s) Script Recorder to Workbench by selecting Workbench > Add > Non-Test Elements > HTTP(s) Script Recorder option. Add Port value as 8080 and click “START” button in script recorder. The JMeter proxy will be started on localhost. Next, we need to configure the mobile device as per the following steps. iOS Device Proxy Configuration: ...

Oracle and Workday are battling each other to gain an edge in the human capital management market. Here’s how their suites of cloud HCM applications stack up against one another. The business applications market is loaded with vendors pushing cloud-based human capital management tools that streamline and automate tasks commonly performed by HR teams. Two products in particular have emerged as major players:  Workday  Human Capital Management and Oracle HCM Cloud. For several years, Workday and Oracle have gone toe-to-toe in an attempt to dominate the HCM market, with a winner yet to emerge. Both of their cloud services offer extensive sets of features that continue to evolve and expand, and the differences between the two suites are quickly becoming less apparent. To draw a distinction between them, let’s take a closer look at Oracle HCM Cloud vs. Workday HCM. Workday HCM Workday was founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, former top executives at a...

In my 26 plus years of experience, I would contend that the best  SAS administrator would be an individual with a deeply skilled understanding of server and/or desktop administration, as well as SAS software usage.  For SAS solutions to be implemented and work optimally, three key components need to be configured and managed effectively: Software to hardware installation. Metadata management. User configuration and access. Administering all three components generally requires skills and training with server and desktop administration, in addition to SAS software configuration, including Metadata.  The arrangement and administration of the organization’s IT infrastructure will have a direct impact on the human resources that are used to handle each of the components. This person must understand the hardware and software interactions in order to optimize the system settings that will drive out the best solution performance and ensure proper integratio...