Monthly Archives: November 2006

PHP Development in SAP

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PHP logoThink SAP Netweaver and PHP don’t mix? Think commercial development platforms don’t need any Open-Source, free and community-driven dynnamic web development scripting language? And you think why SAP should embrace an environment that stands in direct competition to its own BSP (Business Server Pages) solution?

Think again, because for a while now PHP has a small but thriving community on the SDN forum. Surely one of the big advantages of tasting the mix between SAP and PHP is PHP’s simplicity and the dissemination of PHP programming skills due to the way how it is distributed. Especially customers who have already invested into home-grown or off-the-shelf PHP solutions might appreciate this when SAP is to be considered. Netweaver/PHP collaborations could be one of the many doors that enable SAP to get deeper into the SME market.

Useful links and entry points into this area are:

SAP Professional Journal – free ABAP Guides (pt 2)

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Part 2 of the “Writing robust, understandable, maintainable, state-of-the-art ABAP programs” very much continues along the groundwork that was laid in part 1 of the free SAP Professionals Journal guide.

One problem I’ve found in the past when working on client sites is that – for various reasons – create/change access to the ABAP Data Dictionary is not always granted to external developers. This obviously poses a problem when trying to implement some of the guide’s suggestions. Part 2 is very helpful in terms of data declaration syntax, internal tables and global/local declarations.

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SAP TechEd 06 series most successful yet

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TechEd Las Vegas (from MarketWire.com)As Market Wire reported yesterday, TechEd 06’s record breaking number of participants certainly underlines its importance as the main SAP Development convention. My only hope is that future TechEd’s will be prepared for such high attendance rates should this trend continue. In my own experience, certain workshops and presentations can be very overrun at times and participants are not always guaranteed a seat at a laptop during hands-on sessions.

With regards to the attendance increase of 40% at TechEd Bangalore, it has to be said that SAP sells those tickets at quite a discount. Whilst a 3-day ticket for TechEd 05 in Vienna cost about GBP 1600, the same convention in Bangalore was offered at GBP 180.

ContractorUK on SAP contractor market

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ContractorUK.co.uk ‘s comment on the current SAP contractor market:

This growth in the average rate comes despite a fall in the hourly pay commanded by SAP consultants. This group has had a phenomenal year so far, with average rates typically well above GBP60 per hour. Rates have actually fallen by 8% in the last four weeks. Given that June and July saw increases of more than 10%, it should be clear what a volatile (if largely profitable) market this is.

The full article can be found here.