Sap Se

Sap Ag

Torsten Kamenz

Andreas Kemmler

Ioannis Grammatikakis

Martin Zurmuehl

Marcus Wefers

Ralf Halbedel

Marko Degenkolb

Michael Schaffrath

Thierry Lieu

Abdelhak Nezzari

Reinhold Konnerth

A computer system includes a first database system that includes a plurality of tables, and a second database system that includes a subset of the tables in the first database system. The system identifies a plurality of reports that are currently generated using the second database system. The system also identifies a plurality of reports that are not currently generated using the second database system, but that are capable of being generated using the second database system, and displays a list of these reports on a computer display device. In an embodiment, the system further replicates one or more tables that are required for generation of additional reports from the first database system to the second database system.

Enhanced reporting system

A method of adding a program module to an installed program code. A data object having an interface for importation of data into and exportation of data out of the data object, the data object further comprising the program module, a switch identifier and a specification of a call to be inserted into the installed code is provided. Insert the call as specified by the specification of the data object into the installed program code and receive a setting for the switch from a user and storing the setting in a database table.

System and method for modular business applications

Methods and systems provide integrated reporting for analytics. A flexible solution may be provided via an integrated delivered reporting model for various deployment scenarios. A customer landscape can vary, e.g., including an on-premise product, an on-demand product, or a combination thereof. The products may originate from more than one vendor. A report may be generated based on a virtual data model (VDM) and be compatible with a variety of scenarios and views for cross-reporting. A report may be generated for various deployment scenarios. A report may be generated for data stored in a relational storage apparatus (e.g., a database) with data structure(s) reflected in a corresponding VDM. Methods and systems provide automatic deployment of VDM parts into different storage apparatus/schema and automatic set up of relevant mapping, e.g., schema mapping.

Integrated reporting for on-demand and on-premise solutions

Disclosed embodiments provide a system, machine-readable medium, and a method that may test computer application functions. A system provides for testing a computer application function by analyzing a testing characteristic of the computer application function information. Based on the analysis of the testing characteristic, the computer application function may be activated for testing in any one of a plurality of test environments. The test environment is selected according to the testing characteristic that indicates the effects that the testing of the selected computer application has on the test environment. This allows users to select a test environment based on the effects that it has on a test system.

System and method for reversibility categories and characteristics of computer application functions

A method of providing tailored add-on applications to an underlying foundational software suite that frequently receives updated versions that would otherwise overwrite changes in the foundational software that are required by the tailored add-on. Instead of functional changes to the foundation, the tailored add-on makes a fairly uniform and simple change in the place of each needed change, by inserting a call to an add-in definition object. The add-in definition object then contains code for performing the functionality needed by the add-on application. The add-in definition object is down-ported to all supported versions of the foundational software. The calls of the add-in definition object are integrated into the foundational software in a way which minimizes conflicts, allows for concurrent implementation while maintaining a clear separation between foundational code and modified code, and minimizes ongoing maintenance development of the add-on application's conflicts with the foundational application.

A system receives database tables from a plurality of computer systems. Each of the database tables is associated with a particular computer system. Each particular computer system is associated with a particular schema. The database tables are stored in a computer storage device according to the particular schema of the computer system with which each database table is associated. Database views are created and stored. Each of the views is associated with a particular schema. A configuration table according to the particular schemas of each of the computer systems is generated. The configuration table is displayed on a display device. A selection of one or more schemas is received from the display on the computer display device. The database view from one of the selected database schemas is used as a template to generate a view for all of the selected schemas.

This disclosure includes a method, a system and a computer readable medium. The method includes receiving a data model configured to model data in a first database schema in a database system, using the received data model to generate a first data view of a first instance of the first database schema in the database system, including referencing, using a first view variant, one or more data tables including the first instance of the first database schema to generate the first data view, and using the received data model to generate a second data view of a second instance of the first database schema in the database system, including referencing, using a second view variant, one or more data tables including the second instance of the first database schema to generate the second data view.

View variants in database schema mapping

Schema mapping is provided at several levels of granularity to generate views from a data model. The schema mapping allows for the database tables referenced among the data views contained in the data model to come from a collection of several physical schemas, even though the data model may comprise a single authoring schema.

Schema mapping based on data views and database tables

Database content provisioning includes a broad base shipment as an initial release of database content. The database content may then be incrementally enriched with specific enhancements, which may be delivered as updates. Shipping variants for delivering upgrades include delta installations, and in some embodiments, may include full installations. Changes to an existing database object in activated database content may be treated as a new database object, and may include a reference to the existing database object. The user is notified of the new database object, but the new database object is otherwise not activated, thus ensuring stability of the activated database content.

Optimized database content provisioning

A system, computer readable medium, and method for automatically testing computer objects affected by an update package. The exemplary method may compare computer objects/instances in an update package with those of the installed version of the computer application. A set of computer objects that have changed in the update package as compared to the installed version may be generated. The changes to each of the computer objects in the set of changed objects may be analyzed to determine if an automated test is related to the changed object. If an object has a related automated test assigned to it, the object may be placed in a separate list for testing. The automated tests of the changed objects in the separate list may be organized into a test plan. The automated tests may be executed according to the test plan. The system may have servers and computer processors to implement the method.

System and method for reducing test effort by object risk analysis

Various embodiments include at least one or systems, methods, and software providing abilities to automatically generate a test plan that mitigates risk involved in testing less than an entirety of a software system following modification. Some embodiments operate to allow a user to influence the scope of an optimized test plan while also reducing a number of tests and test execution effort involved. Such embodiments may identify portions of the software system to test and portions of the software system that will not be tested in a manner that reduces a total testing effort involved. Reductions in testing effort are performed in generation of the test plan in view of testing preferences which are utilized not only to reduce the total effort in executing a test plan, but also does so to optimize the test plan.

System test scope and plan optimization

Embodiments of the present invention may provide 'undo' (e.g., rollback) features, along with data management simplification features, to an update package model of software suite development/evolution. New functions, which may have disruption effects for customers, may be installed into the core configuration data with inactive switches. Upon activation, a switch status may change, and a query filter may use the activated function (e.g., as associated with the switch ID). Original functions may be maintained, giving the user the ability to deactivate an activated function, and thereby reverting the system back to the prior configuration status.

System and method for business function reversibility

Embodiments of methods and systems for database viewing, create a copy of a vendor view in a customer view layer that is present between an interface layer and the database layer. In certain embodiments this copy of the vendor view may contain no customer specific logic, simply serving as a 1:1 projection in the customer view allowing the vendor to track customer access to particular vendor views. According to some embodiments, the copy of the vendor view may be changed to create a modification view. Changes are applied to the modification view only, leaving the original vendor view unchanged with a link to the stored modification copy. This link can be used to adjust the modification copy whenever a hot fix or a new version of the 'modified' database content is installed to the customer system. Embodiments may support consumer extensions to the vendor views and/or to the database itself.

Database view systems

A computer-implemented method for selecting one or more functions for display is provided. The selection may be performed via an implementation guide that is a hierarchy comprising nodes. A node may represent one function. The method may comprise retrieving a first list of switches in response to selection of a function, extracting one or more switches from the first list such that the extracted switches include function switches and/or conflict switches, determining whether each of the extracted switch is an active conflict switch and, if yes, adding the active conflict switch to a second list of switches. After removing all switches from the first list or having added all of them to the second list, the method processes the second list to determine which functions can be executed on the processor without conflicts and presenting a function GUI element representing a function determined to be executable without conflicts.

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