Speak Up !!

SAP has a new survey for implementing an "external facing portal".

raise your concern, suggestions etc follow this link:

SAP Netweaver Portal

Apothekerlypsed !!!

the throne is still empty ??? SAP CEO resigns !!

read this article on the economist .

SAP Business Intelligence Blogs Update..

Routine Lesson # 2


Routine Lesson # 3



Previous Update:

Routine Lesson-1
POSNR- The misleading field in ECC
Sales Order Model-1

Portal is acting weird !!

how many times have you heard an end-user complain like that ???

the Portal Guy/Basis Guy is always blamed for the system to act weird....However you as a Portal Guy have fingers to point too....

Browser
Server
Portal application
Network

there are scenarios where user complains of slow portal connection and this could be the internet speed as well.....so use the following to check the internet speed. a good Portal application should run fine depending on the way it is installed (3-10 mbps)

1.Speedtest.net Internet Speed Test
2.AuditMyPC.com Internet Speed Test
3.CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test

sometimes a user is playing an online movie and consuming the network bandwidth or an end user has christmas decorations on his browser (I mean toolbars, funny short cuts etc) OR a user is running on a browser SAP doesnt support... NOW how many fingers do we have to point ????
anyways lets get back to help them....

Also the browser can be acting funny too....so check out these tools to determine whats going on...
Browser testing tools:

1.Sun spider
2.Celtic kane
3.V8
4.iBench
5.httpwatch basic

Portal 103 updated

Portal lesson 103 will deal more on Visual Composer.
click on the links under Portal Lessons...

SAP Business Intelligence

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Routine Lesson-1

POSNR- The misleading field in ECC

Sales Order Model-1

Catch me Online !

I receive several google talk invites and I hate to decline them...so I decided to have a new widget for google talk on this blog and now you can ask me a Portal question when I am online....(the widget is located below the google voice).

SAP Portal Certificate error for SSO

“system is unable to interpret the SSO ticket received”.

If the below picture is what you see ..then you have to assume that the sky is on the ground ! here is a quick solution: READ MORE

Poor BI Performance hurts Portal Part - II

consider troubleshooting a Portal system downtime and you are unable to bring up the server ,you can log on to NWA and try to access the java system reports and notice the user activities or the slowest response time objects. you might find that one of the sever processes in yor instance , central instance or the dialog instance may be doing a garbage collection and using up all resources to bring up the server to function correctly.the system can be so slow that if you are running on a web dispatacher within the LAN, you could time out or the application could ( /irj ) time out due to a long delay in response from the server process. the next place to go is the visual administration tool which can tell you the costly object which is killing the server.on the portal, several systems that are connected to it may cause the system to come down. for example if a BI system is conneceted to the portal and if you run a scheduled report using BEx Broadcaster you can turn on a background job in BI and if the job fails for some reason you could end up with the background work process in BI running forever and this could potentially eat up resources in AS JAVA and hence bring the system down. hence, Portal need not be the one stop to identify bottlenecks. the interfaces play a huge role in its activities which goes back to the definition of Portal: an interface or one stop to access everything by using connectors to communicate with the interfaced systems.
this is the second part of the series. read the first one here

Portal Anonymous User Concept

I guarantee, that you can have the named anonymous users defined correctly based on the explanation given below:
I have done this too many times on several SPS levels and this concept has its own history.....so trust me on the below tips...


The concept of named anonymous user has always been a topic of discussion in the forums...here are some tips on this topic

READ ON....