SAP Cloud terminology refers to the specialized vocabulary, acronyms, and service names used to describe SAP’s cloud ecosystem. Since SAP transitioned from a traditional on-premise model to a so called "Cloud First" strategy, many older terms have been renamed or evolved. Below list below doesn’t meant to be complete or exhaustive. It just serves as a quick intro into cloud terminology that SAP

Among ABAP class CL_RSAR_FUNCTION there are also other useful places of ABAP code important to BW development. This time I picked up Function Group RS_GENERAL. It bundles generic helper function modules that are reused across SAP. It contains following Function Modules: RRSV_SYSTYPE_GET                    &

Year 2025 was full of challenges for me mostly at personal and family front. However, as the year 2025 draws to its close I want to conclude it with a little bit of fun. Earlier this year there was an SAP Note 2440630 circulating within posts and discussions on social media. It was painted as a humorous/novelty entry titled something like “Accident at work: Growling noise in the stomach area.”

Many customers I worked for were looking for a reply to this question. The thing is that it goes beyond the SAP BW’s usual "BW Support Strategy" according to which – a quote from SAP Note: To assist SAP in providing an optimal level of support it is important for the customer system to be up to date. For this, SAP recommends running the latest (or latest – 1) BW Support Package available on the

The term SAP GxP refers to the use of SAP software in highly regulated industries. These include, in particular, pharmaceutical, medical technology and biotechnology industries (also known as the life sciences industry). In these industries, very specific and strict regulatory requirements apply to products - and therefore also to the processes and systems used to manufacture them. Means in

I wrote about the ABAP class CL_RSAR_FUNCTION a long time ago here. In a nutshell it provides a collection of static utility methods for common data transformations and calculations, particularly focused on date and string operations. The methods can be called directly without instantiating the class. Now in a BW4/HANA based BW system there are few more methods added into the class. ALPHA 

When migrating SAP NetWeaver based ABAP stack server from any DB to HANA DB there are a few steps to be done prior to the migration with the respect to the ABAP code. First there are functional modifications to the custom ABAP code to be analyzed. Those are places in the code that leverages specific DB features that need to be adjusted for the HANA DB. As an example, these are Native SQL

Help site of SAP – help.sap.com basically contains a documentation for SAP products. On top of that there is a suite of pages so called Support Content. What is meant by that is additional content provided by SAP but not considered the documentation as defined by the applicable SAP General Terms and Conditions. Main page of the Support Content is: help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT Let’s explore

There is a different call of ABAP method that executes the BW transformation introduced for cloud based BW systems. It can be spotted in method TRANSFORM of class CL_RSTRAN_TRFN_CMD. First there is a check if the BW is cloud based system. If so the request parameter (i_r_request) that is passed to a method call is l_r_request_cloud. In case it is on-premise based BW system the value of the same