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  • A LiveCompare Feature is Born

    In October 2007 I watched what to this day remains the biggest demonstration of LiveCompare. Before me on two giant 30 square foot projection screens was a running LiveCompare workflow. The current action must have measured 6 feet across. Each ball in...
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  • LiveCompare SAP Certification

    With the launch of LiveCompare 2.2 we are going to re-certify the product on the latest 701 kernel from SAP. The certification tests are scheduled to be run on July 15. We usually get a preliminary report within a couple of days with official certification...
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  • LiveCompare 2.2 Ships!

    I'm very pleased to announce the general availability of LiveCompare 2.2. Followers of this blog will have a good idea of what's new and what's been improved. New product orders will be fulfilled with this release. Customers should start getting their...
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  • LiveCompare Hits Amazon

    lulu.com have opened a store-front on amazon.com. This means you can now buy hard copy product documentation through amazon.com: It is slightly cheaper to get it direct from lulu.com (the cost then just covers the printing/shipping) but I for one think...
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  • AMR Supply Chain Conference

    This week Jerry and I have been at AMR's Supply Chain conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This was my first time to Phoenix and even in May I can appreicate the hot, hot, hot weather. IntelliCorp is a vendor client of AMR and this is the first time either...
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  • ASUG/Sapphire 09

    Last week I was in Orlando, Florida for ASUG/Sapphire 09. SAP put the numbers at 10,000 in physical attendence with 8,000 connecting via the Internet. I'm told that this makes it the largest Sapphire ever. Our booth looked like this: Oh-so-neat and tidy...
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  • Love The Hub

    SAP launched EcoHub - a new community driven solutions portal - at SAP TechEd Berlin 2008. Since early 2009, IntelliCorp's products (LiveCompare, LiveModel and DataWorks) have been listed on the site. The direct links for each product are: LiveCompare...
  • Windows 7

    With Windows 7 entering its 'release candidate' phase I downloaded a copy and installed in a virtual machine. Next I took the upcoming LiveCompare 2.2 release and tried to install it. Oh dear! Our environment checker didn't recognize the operating system...
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  • Workflow Gateway Interface

    In the early days of the dynamic web a standard called Common Gateway Interface (CGI) emerged as an effective way to augment the static delivery capabilities of the web server via external programs. The web server would hand the request off to the program...
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  • SAP Experience Day

    This past week one of our customers in Chicago hosted an 'SAP Experience Day' at which they presented several sessions on how they use LiveCompare to Run and Optimize SAP . Customers and other SAP users from the area were invited and the feedback after...
  • LiveCompare 2.2: Custom Object Naming Patterns

    One important aspect of LiveCompare's SAP analysis is the way it distinguishes between custom objects and standard SAP objects. LiveCompare uses a set of naming conventions based on object type to do this. In LiveCompare 2.2, we've enhanced the patterns...
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  • SAP Upgrade: User Tcode Analysis

    Upgrades are a great time to look again at security provisioning. Natural expansion of authorizations since the last major project or first implementation will likely mean that there is quite a difference between what users have the potential to run and...
  • SAP Upgrade: Unused Custom Code

    I wrote here about using LiveCompare to fully understand the impact of significant SAP changes as part of an upgrade and mentioned that LiveCompare includes a template to identify unused custom code. It’s called U.03 – Unused Custom Code and...
  • SAP Upgrade: Impacted Used Custom Code

    With SAP systems running approximately 30% [1] custom code, it's vital that in preparing for an upgrade consideration is given to how the new version will impact our customizations. LiveCompare includes a dedicated template for analyzing used custom code...
  • Copy To Workspace

    LiveCompare ships with about 200 templates split across various categories. Often you'll find that when setting up a new workspace you'll need to copy half-a-dozen or more templates into the workspace. If you have a lot of workspaces you'll be familiar...
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