We proudly present our February issue of the ACSU newsletter, the first issue of Year 2010. First of all, we would like to wish all our members and friends a Happy 2010 Chinese New Year! Thank you for your support to us in the past year. Starting from now on, we will make our newsletter more regular with one issue every month.
We always welcome any suggestions or ideas from you. If you would like to share with us an interesting topic or article, just write to us.
This issue includes the review of first Beijing event-"ERP 6.0-New General Ledger & Localization Aspects“, internal and external news and much more.
Offer of 6-months trial period for ACSU potential members Now we are offering a six-month trial period for all companies who are interested in our organization. During this period, one person of each company can enjoy the member price when attending our event. After the six-months-trial period, each company can decide whether to continue the ACSU membership and pay for the membership fee or not. It's a great opportunity to gain and share knowledge and experience within the Chinese SAP Community, meanwhile to enlarge your social network in this area. Take action and join us now!
Media Cooperation with CIO Insight As one of the core media of Ziff Davis, CIO Insight was founded in year 2001. The target group of this magazine is CIO/CTO/technology V.P. It was voted as one of the top 10 American business magazine. At the end of Year 2006, it was introduced to China. ACSU now cooperates with CIO Insight to promote each other.
First North China Chapter Event As ACSU's first North China Chapter event in Beijing, "ERP 6.0——New General Ledger & Localization Aspects" was successfully held on Feb. 4th in Beijing Landmark Hotel. ACSU's media partner, CIO Insight reported this event. Read the review (in Chinese) .
Next General Meeting: SAP SCM solution workshop (Shanghai) The next General Meeting of the ACSU will be held on March, 2010(Week 11). The agenda will be set up as soon as it's confirmed. Please click here for more information.
Next General Event: Webinar——"Reformat SAP background reports in to Excel"
Reformatting spool reports or background reports from SAP in to Excel or other PC formats such as PDF or HTML could sometime be a very lengthy and expensive process. This webinar which will be held on 4 P.M., March 23rd,will demonstrate to you that achieving the above is not as difficult and time consuming...View details
Call for speakers and topics
The ACSU events are a collaboration of SAP users who share their knowledge with each other.Therefore we are constantly looking for speakers or topic suggestions. We will try our best to meet the demand of our members to make the ACSU as customized as possible. Simply write an email to Angela.Wang@sapuserschina.com or visit our "Call for speakers" page: and fill in the form for your topic or speaker request . We will try our best to create an event or integrate the enquiry in our existing agenda. See upcoming events...
Interview with Mr.Roberto Custodio from ZF (China)Investment Co., Ltd. In this issue, we'd like to introduce to you our ACSU board members, Mr. Roberto Custodio, IT Application Manager of Asia Pacific, ZF (China) Investment Co.,Ltd., who has around 13 years experience in the IT/SAP business, he will share with us his opinion on SAP implementation in China and how ACSU can support companies in China by utilizing the experience of SAP community in China Read the full interview
Question of February: How difficult is it for you to extract information from your SAP system for analysis? Is it diffcult to extract information from your SAP system? We would like to know your situation.Take the survey
The result of question of January-"IT Budgets" has been published on our website, check the results
We suggest you to read "A Practical Guide to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.0 " . This book is intended to provide a comprehensive and practical understanding of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0, utilizing a real-world, scenario-based approach to detail the core, fundamental components and features. You'll learn about the primary features and functions of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0, including architecture, data modeling, data extraction, data staging, and more.Book information: (author) Bharat Patel, Amol Palekar, and Shreekant Shiralkar , (pages) 697, (publisher) SAP Press, (ISBN) 978-1-59229-323-0 , (English) More book information
In SAP system, if some text of the field have duplicate items or unclear descriptions, we can use field key to help us to choose.Our tip of the month will show you how to use Field key to help choosing in SAP System. Read our tip of the month
Please let us know, if you have any tips for us SAP users you would like to share that can make our work easier and more comfortable. We would be more than happy to publish it in this section. Just write an email to Angela.Wang@sapuserschina.com
SAP Announces Subsequent Changes to Executive Board and Management in Support of New Co-CEO Structure: WALLDORF, Germany - February 11, 2010 - In support of the recent appointments of Co-CEOs Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced subsequent changes to its Executive Board and management structure. In today’s meeting of the SAP Supervisory Board...Read Article...
SAP's new CEOs need to show vision, clear product roadmap to customers, observers : By Courtney Bjorlin - February 08, 2010 - In order to restore trust in its customer base, SAP's new CEOs need to deliver a coherent SAP product roadmap and vision, with a goal of lowering the total cost of ownership of running its applications, several industry observers and analysts suggest. .. Read Article...
SAP Standard support decision hinges on inflation, fees Results: By Courtney Bjorlin - February 02, 2010 - SAP customers considering a move back to Standard Support must weigh factors such as the rate of inflation and waived fees for extended support on older releases -- factors that could bring the two options to a similar cost over the next few years. Read Article...
