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Sap Training Skyrockets It Careers And Salaries Worldwide

2012-01-29T02:36:00.001-08:00

What is SAP?

SAP- AG is a German organization and the term “SAP” refers to Systems, Applications, and Products involved in information processing. SAP-AG's business settled in Walldorf, Germany in 1972 and has steadily developed into the 3rd broadest software manufacturer in the world. SAP software is very flexible by nature meaning that the same software out of the box can be configured for a variety of industries. SAP offers popular methodologies, advanced software tools, streamlined practices and other perks making it a popular software choice among large companies. SAP educational courses are offered in many formats including on-site instructor-led classes, courses offered at SAP educational sites, e-learning websites, and most recently some new video solutions to the training challenge.

Rising Career Opportunities

A SAP trained IT specialist has a very marketable skill with ample job opportunities as well as a strong international demand for consultants. For 12 million SAP users in more than 120 countries, SAP training distinguishes the computer professional and becomes a critical success factor.

How hot is your current career path? Specialization through SAP Training can equal an opportunity to pro-actively move your functional experience and IT career to the SAP domain. Training is not only about immersing in knowledge, it’s also about creating opportunities for bettering your career. Building a career in SAP requires you to have both educational and functional knowledge. Large businesses are active in many different areas and therefore have highly varied computer career software needs. Once you acquire skill and some experience in SAP R/3 though, you have a very marketable commodity for the right company or for becoming an independent consultant in this rapidly expanding computer career.

Knowledge and Training

The primary focus of SAP training should be the acquisition of configuration skills and knowledge; Certification is secondary. A professional with core qualifications, good business process knowledge and good SAP skills can easily become a sought-after SAP consultant.

SAP training is a specialized educational experience, usually provided for a fee. Standard training provides modular-based learning and is delivered at different levels depending on system complexity. SAP training becomes an investment that enables the IT professional to stand out in a competitive market. The bad news is that conventional SAP training is usually prohibitively expensive for the individual. For corporations seeking to train key users, or their entire IT staff, a traditional on-site training course is probably best. SAP-AG offers an excellent catalog of their training courses for both small and large companies at the SAP-AG International website.

New Training Possibilities

Since training in SAP creates new high-demand careers, educators have recently developed alternatives to the traditional classroom approach. Modern video technology has enabled educators to develop comprehensive training programs on DVD video for a mere fraction the traditional cost. My personal favorites are the DVD programs which provide an amazing combination of both theory and practice on SAP systems. Any IT professional serious about a high-paying and versatile career specialty should investigate these new home training possibilities.

mixbook

2012-01-27T03:01:00.000-08:00

o and o software

2012-01-27T02:56:00.001-08:00

hyaffiliates

2012-01-27T01:20:00.000-08:00

DynamicOxygen

2012-01-24T02:06:00.000-08:00

exit junction

2012-01-23T01:16:00.000-08:00

Present Scenario, Advantages and Best Training SAP Program

2012-01-22T09:37:00.001-08:00

SAP is a software programming system which was first developed in 1970s by five IBM Engineers. This gives you various modules to manage your organization or business company in all the way and to help you in decision making. This has many more features in all fields for managing a modern corporation such as for managing MRP, Finance, Inventory Control and many more.With the advancement of modern technology and modern business policies, this has been a must today to have SAP installed in your office. Today, maximum companies are implementing SAP in their office for managing all their business respects. SAP actually in a programming system that provides you interfaces and features with their strong database that would fulfill all your requirements. It gives you a total overview of your organization with the advanced features to represent the data as you need. And for all these purposes, all the business magnets are implementing this for better result. Thus the needs for SAP experts are increasing day by day. In the other hand, as this is installed in the office, all the employees also need to be familiar with it.The companies are implementing SAP in their offices, they really need SAP experts who can solve system critical problems and also maintain the whole system safe from hackers. This is really increasing the job field of the SAP experts. Thus the need of SAP training is also increased.For having proper training, at first you need to select an area where you are expert. Actually SAP environment is different for many fields. For example, Banking and Business Organization does not need the same criteria of SAP. So you need to choose an area where you want to work. Then select the training company and then start training.But now there are many SAP training companies offering training. And obviously not all of them are expert in this field. Many offer training in eBooks, online stuffs or lectures. But actually you need a very convenient way where you can learn SAP practically by viewing and listening. Sapjuice give you videos on the SAP which will surely make you an expert in this field. With the instructive video and with instructive audio, you will surely get a full overview of SAP. Their videos will teach you how to start, how to manage, how to work, how to secure the system, how to handle critical problems and many more. These videos are made by their professional stuffs having more than 10 years experience in this field. You can first check one video before buying the full package to be sure of their product. They also give you full time online stuff so that you can consult your problem at anytime. They also offer you full money back if you are not satisfied with them within 24 hours.Today with the increasing popularity of SAP, SAP training is also in the rise. But to be an expert, you must knock in the right place.

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2012-01-22T05:55:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-22T05:43:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-22T05:29:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-22T02:33:00.001-08:00

daily binary options

2012-01-22T02:26:00.000-08:00

Purchase Order History Mass Display

2012-01-21T01:35:00.000-08:00

Instead of checking your Purchase Order History one at a time, you can now mass display or print them with this customized abap report.

*
* Mass display or print Purchase Order History
*
* You can request report by :
* 1. Change date
* 2. User Name
* 3. Purchase Order Number
* 4. Vendor Code
*
* Written by : SAP Basis, ABAP Programming and Other IMG Stuff
* http://www.sap-img.com
*
REPORT ZPOCHANGE LINE-SIZE 132 NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING
LINE-COUNT 065(001)
MESSAGE-ID VR.

TABLES: DD04T,
CDHDR,
CDPOS,
DD03L,
DD41V,
T685T,
VBPA,
TPART,
KONVC,
EKKO.

SELECT-OPTIONS: XUDATE FOR CDHDR-UDATE,
XNAME FOR CDHDR-USERNAME,
XEBELN FOR EKKO-EBELN,
XLIFNR FOR EKKO-LIFNR.

SELECTION-SCREEN SKIP.
* TEXT-001 - Sorting Sequence
SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK BLK1 WITH FRAME TITLE TEXT-001.
PARAMETERS: SUDATE RADIOBUTTON GROUP R1,
SNAME RADIOBUTTON GROUP R1,
SOBID RADIOBUTTON GROUP R1.
SELECTION-SCREEN END OF BLOCK BLK1.

DATA: WFLAG,
WCHANGENR LIKE CDHDR-CHANGENR.

DATA: INDTEXT(60) TYPE C.

DATA: BEGIN OF ICDHDR OCCURS 50.
INCLUDE STRUCTURE CDHDR.
DATA: END OF ICDHDR.

DATA: BEGIN OF ICDSHW OCCURS 50.
INCLUDE STRUCTURE CDSHW.
DATA: END OF ICDSHW.

DATA: BEGIN OF EKKEY,
EBELN LIKE EKET-EBELN,
EBELP LIKE EKET-EBELP,
ETENR LIKE EKET-ETENR,

END OF EKKEY.

DATA: BEGIN OF ITAB OCCURS 50,
BEGIN OF EKKEY,
EBELN LIKE EKET-EBELN,
EBELP LIKE EKET-EBELP,

ETENR LIKE EKET-ETENR,
END OF EKKEY,
CHANGENR LIKE CDHDR-CHANGENR,
UDATE LIKE CDHDR-UDATE,
UTIME LIKE CDHDR-UTIME,
USERNAME LIKE CDHDR-USERNAME,
CHNGIND LIKE CDSHW-CHNGIND,
FTEXT LIKE CDSHW-FTEXT,
OUTLEN LIKE CDSHW-OUTLEN,
F_OLD LIKE CDSHW-F_OLD,
F_NEW LIKE CDSHW-F_NEW,
END OF ITAB.

DATA: OLD_OBJECTID LIKE CDHDR-OBJECTID.

FIELD-SYMBOLS: , .

SELECT * FROM EKKO WHERE EBELN IN XEBELN AND
LIFNR IN XLIFNR.
CLEAR CDHDR.
CLEAR CDPOS.
CDHDR-OBJECTCLAS = 'EINKBELEG'.
CDHDR-OBJECTID = EKKO-EBELN.
PERFORM GETCHGDOCS.
ENDSELECT.

IF SUDATE = 'X'.
SORT ITAB BY UDATE EKKEY-EBELN CHANGENR EKKEY-EBELP
EKKEY-ETENR.
ELSEIF SNAME = 'X'.
SORT ITAB BY USERNAME EKKEY-EBELN CHANGENR EKKEY-EBELP
EKKEY-ETENR.
ELSE.
SORT ITAB BY EKKEY-EBELN CHANGENR EKKEY-EBELP EKKEY-ETENR.
ENDIF.

LOOP AT ITAB.
CLEAR: INDTEXT, EKKEY.
CASE ITAB-CHNGIND.
WHEN 'U'.
INDTEXT(50) = ITAB-FTEXT.
INDTEXT+51 = TEXT-020.
CONDENSE INDTEXT.
WHEN 'D'.
INDTEXT = TEXT-021.
WHEN 'E'.
INDTEXT(5) = ITAB-FTEXT.
INDTEXT+51 = TEXT-021.
CONDENSE INDTEXT.
WHEN 'I'.
INDTEXT = TEXT-022.
ENDCASE.
RESERVE 4 LINES.
IF WCHANGENR NE ITAB-CHANGENR.
WCHANGENR = ITAB-CHANGENR.
EKKEY = ITAB-EKKEY.
WRITE:/ ITAB-UDATE UNDER 'Change Date',
ITAB-UTIME UNDER 'Time',
ITAB-USERNAME UNDER 'User Name',
ITAB-EKKEY-EBELN UNDER 'PO No',
ITAB-EKKEY-EBELP UNDER 'Item',
ITAB-EKKEY-ETENR UNDER 'Sch No',
INDTEXT UNDER 'Changes'.
ELSEIF ITAB-EKKEY NE EKKEY.
WRITE:/ ITAB-EKKEY-EBELP UNDER 'Item',
ITAB-EKKEY-ETENR UNDER 'Sch No',
INDTEXT UNDER 'Changes'.

ENDIF.

CASE ITAB-CHNGIND.
WHEN 'U'.
ASSIGN ITAB-F_OLD(ITAB-OUTLEN) TO .
ASSIGN ITAB-F_NEW(ITAB-OUTLEN) TO .
WRITE: / TEXT-023 UNDER 'Changes',
.
WRITE: / TEXT-024 UNDER 'Changes',
.
WHEN 'E'.
ASSIGN ITAB-F_OLD(ITAB-OUTLEN) TO .
WRITE: TEXT-023 UNDER 'Changes',
.
ENDCASE.
SKIP.
ENDLOOP.

TOP-OF-PAGE.
WRITE:/ SY-DATUM,SY-UZEIT,
50 'P U R C H A S E O R D E R H I S T O R Y',
120 'Page', SY-PAGNO.
WRITE: / SY-REPID,
60 'Purchase Orders Changes'.
SKIP.
ULINE.
IF SUDATE = 'X'.
WRITE:/001 'Change Date',
014 'Time',
024 'User Name',
038 'PO No',
050 'Item',
057 'Sch No',
065 'Changes'.
ELSEIF SOBID = 'X'.
WRITE:/001 'PO No',
013 'Item',
020 'Sch No',
028 'Change Date',
041 'Time',
051 'User Name',
065 'Changes'.
ELSE.
WRITE:/001 'User Name',
015 'Change Date',
028 'Time',
038 'PO No',
050 'Item',
057 'Sch No',
065 'Changes'.
ENDIF.
ULINE.

FORM GETCHGDOCS.
CALL FUNCTION 'CHANGEDOCUMENT_READ_HEADERS'
EXPORTING
DATE_OF_CHANGE = CDHDR-UDATE
OBJECTCLASS = CDHDR-OBJECTCLAS
OBJECTID = CDHDR-OBJECTID
TIME_OF_CHANGE = CDHDR-UTIME
USERNAME = CDHDR-USERNAME
TABLES
I_CDHDR = ICDHDR
EXCEPTIONS
NO_POSITION_FOUND = 1
OTHERS = 2.

CHECK SY-SUBRC EQ 0.
DELETE ICDHDR WHERE CHANGE_IND EQ 'I'.
CHECK NOT ICDHDR[] IS INITIAL.
LOOP AT ICDHDR.
CHECK ICDHDR-UDATE IN XUDATE.
CHECK ICDHDR-USERNAME IN XNAME.
CALL FUNCTION 'CHANGEDOCUMENT_READ_POSITIONS'
EXPORTING CHANGENUMBER = ICDHDR-CHANGENR
IMPORTING HEADER = CDHDR
TABLES EDITPOS = ICDSHW
EXCEPTIONS NO_POSITION_FOUND = 1
OTHERS = 2.
CHECK SY-SUBRC EQ 0.
LOOP AT ICDSHW.
CHECK ICDSHW-TEXT_CASE EQ SPACE.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING ICDSHW TO ITAB.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING ICDHDR TO ITAB.
MOVE ICDSHW-TABKEY+3 TO ITAB-EKKEY.
APPEND ITAB.
ENDLOOP.
ENDLOOP.
ENDFORM.
*
* END OF PROGRAM

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2012-01-21T01:16:00.001-08:00

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2012-01-21T01:16:00.000-08:00

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2012-01-21T01:14:00.001-08:00

forever living health products

2011-07-06T09:18:00.000-07:00

cosmetics

2011-07-06T09:16:00.001-07:00

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personal care

2011-07-06T09:15:00.001-07:00

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weight management

2011-07-06T09:14:00.002-07:00

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bee health products

2011-07-06T09:14:00.000-07:00

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nutrition

2011-07-06T09:12:00.001-07:00

https://www.foreverliving.com/retail/entry/Shop.do?store=IRL&language=en&categoryName=Nutrition+R&distribID=910002067616

aloe vera health drinks

2011-07-06T09:11:00.000-07:00

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skin care

2011-07-06T09:10:00.001-07:00

https://www.foreverliving.com/retail/entry/Shop.do?store=IRL&language=en&categoryName=Skin+Care+R&distribID=910002067616

SAP- Material Management (MM) Notes

2010-09-19T10:19:00.000-07:00

Module Functions:

(MM) Materials Management – the module where (finished goods, raw materials and consumables) are managed for both quantity, price, month end inventory cutoffs and balance. Materials Management is inventory management, purchasing, invoice verification, warehouse valuation, Material master and materials planning.

Organizational Elements (Structures) – Materials Management
1. Company Code
2. Plant
3. Storage Location
4. Material / Product Grouping

Organizational Elements (Structures) – Procurement
1. Company Code:
Represents an independent accounting unit with Balance Sheets and P&L Statements
2. Plant:
An organizational element within a company. A plant produces goods and/or services. A plant can be a manufacturing for a distribution facility.
3. Storage Location:
Unit that allow the differentiation of material stocks within a plant
4. Purchasing Organization:
Unit structured to negotiate the general conditions of purchase for one or more plants or companies. Pricing conditions are set at this level
5. Purchasing Group key for a buyer or buyer group responsible for certain purchasing activities. Note: this element cannot be assigned to a purchasing organization.

Documents and Transactions
1. Purchase Requisitions
2. Purchase Orders
3. Goods Receipts Postings
4. Vendor invoice Posting
5. Other

Procurement Master Data
1. Material Master:
Contains and defines all data to manage materials. Used as a source of purchasing information and inventory valuation.
2. Vendor Master:
General, Accounting and Purchasing data necessary for processing business transactions and corresponding with vendors

ERP Comparison on SAP Business One and MS Navision

2010-09-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

Sap B1 and MS Navision ERP softwares come with lower cost of ownership and facility of customization according to user's needs. Both of these ERP applications focus on mid size companies. These ERP applications also come with add on tools to enhance there working.

Sap B1 has 14 modules covering all the aspects of mid sized company. Administration module of Sap B1 contains options to configure the application and issue rights to access to other users. Apart from this module there is financial module to perform finance related and accounting activities, sales opportunity module where details of existing or possible customers is maintained, business partner module for maintaining details of vendors, customers and leads, sales module, purchase module, banking, inventory, human resource, production, MRP and Service modules for conducting related activities. E-commerce module allows the users to sell and buy their products online and give their organization 24 hrs online working benefits. Web CRM module provides facility to sales people to interact with existing and possible customers and also to submit details related to support given to any existing customer. Reporting module of Sap B1 contains pre-defined and user defined reports where customer can even design the reports in the format most suitable for him to understand.

Sap B1 also comes with extra add on tools at no extra cost like fixed assets synchronization with MS outlook or XL reporter. Sap B1 works on modern 2 tier architecture and has extremely easy user interface. Data access security, configuration of look-up windows, controlling the display of data in transaction screens are extremely easy to do with no IT skills.

MS Navision also comes loaded with options covering all the areas of a mid size and small company with customization, add on tools and support modules. MS Navision contains modules like financial module with options of general ledger, human resource account payable and receivables, cash ledger, fixed assets, consolidation, budgeting and reporting and project management. Distribution module contain inventory management, returns, pricing for sales and purchase, warehouse management, order processing, inventory costing, shipment and delivery and automated data capture system.

Manufacturing module comes with facilities to perform activities like production orders, supply planning, bill of material, demand forecasting, capacity requirements planning and manufacturing costing. CRM has facility to contact, campaign, task, document and opportunity management with interaction log, contact classification and outlook client integration. E-business solutions provide commercial portal and commerce gateway, commerce portal
gives a platform for customer, vendors and partners to self service while commerce gateway is to perform transaction with in the application.

Enterprise Resource Planning

2010-08-30T23:46:00.000-07:00

SAP has been the dominant solutions provider in the ERP space for some time; having over 40,000 customers worldwide, across 120 countries and 25 industries. A significant portion of the Fortune 500 companies in the US make use of SAP for day-to-day transactional and operational processing.

An ERP system typically exhibits the following features:

· Packaged software

· Integrates the majority of a business’s processes

· Processes the majority of organizations transactions

· Uses a data warehouse

· Allow access to data in “real time”

· Integrates transaction processing and planning activities

SAP has all the features that an ERP system should have. It does all that an ERP systems needs to do and also a lot more than expected. It has a modular functionality, which enables the system to provide solutions to all the key aspects of the business.

SAP provides a wide range of solution, from finance, to human resources management, to ware house supply management, to supply chain, to online and offline sales management. All these functions are reconfigurable /customizable according to the business needs.

Though SAP possesses such amazing features and fulfills its role as an ERP system, there is a still lot of double handling of data or manually (re)entering data into SAP, plus corporate data continues to reside in spreadsheets. Updating data in spreadsheets into SAP remains a significant challenge. Many business departments waste resources by manually entering data into SAP system, the data that is entered into SAP can be error prone and be of poor quality.

There is a better way! A software solution that works the way you do, in essence link Excel and SAP seamlessly, so that data entry occurs in Excel only once. Once entered in Excel the data is automatically updated in SAP and vice versa. The user is able to use Excel like an alternative front end to SAP.

Users would require a minimum of features like:

· Create New Spreadsheets: Helps users to create a new workbook of data or use a existing template sheet and just add data into it.

· Develop Custom Templates: Users can develop customer specific templates, defining the meaning of each column and row in the worksheet, create user specific labels and headers and define formulas.

· Upload to SAP: Upload excels data to SAP.

· Download from SAP: Download data from SAP to an Excel Spreadsheet/Template, including history and master data. This is the same Spreadsheet/Template that will be used for the upload process.

· Advance Error Checking: A key differentiators from a simple load program. Standard SAP error messages are passed back to Excel, therefore the user sees it exactly as if they had made the input directly into SAP.

· Integration with SAP Security: Users must be SAP users and have the relevant security objects assigned to their User ID to make to upload or use SAP data through the Excel to SAP Software.

· F4 Style Look-ups: Users can perform SAP F4 Style lookups either to Master Data available in their spreadsheets or into SAP.

· SAP System Selection: Ability to select which SAP System processing will take place with. DEV/TST/PRD.

· Multiple Sheet Processing: Users can process multiple sheets at once. Through the multiple sheet configuration form, users can identify which sheets to process and the processing task.

· Use of Excel Functionality: Users can enter data either as a manual number, a formula or a reference to another sheet.

Boomi Unlocks The Cloud With Solr

2010-08-30T23:42:00.000-07:00

Founded in 2000, Boomi provides integration between on-premise applications -- such as SAP or Oracle -- and off-premise SaaS applications like Salesforce.com, Taleo, or NetSuite, which are often running on public cloud services (like Amazon EC2, or on platform-as-a-service providers such as force.com and Intuit Partner Platform). Boomi helps their customers tie together these applications to create integrated business processes that span multiple applications in and out of the cloud, tracking the flow of data inside and outside of the corporate firewall. It manages complex work flows across multiple applications and locations, adhering to strict constraints for data control, ownership, and compliance.

To handle these requirements, and deliver data visibility and governance, Boomi developed an innovative multi-tenant cloud integration platform built on Apache Solr using services and expertise from Lucid Imagination. The resulting implementation puts Solr’s data-source virtualization capabilities at the heart of Boomi’s business process model.

Challenges
A detailed view of business execution information is essential for application and data integration – any time data is moved from one application to another, key information must be captured, such as the time it takes to move the data, the amount of data processed, and verification of transaction success.

With key new applications moving out into the cloud, IT organizations must be able to manage the information inside the company and inside the cloud simultaneously, as though they were in a single environment. In order to achieve this kind of centralized control and governance for its customers, Boomi needed to have all its customers on a single instance of its platform. Were monitoring to be decentralized, users would be forced to remember which integration was running in which environment, and have to switch from one to the other, propagating changes manually and fragmenting the integrated view they had turned to Boomi to create in the first place.

Boomi achieves its pinpoint accurate visibility into transactions across applications by processing and synthesizing integration data from log files. As a result, their platform had to be able to scale to billions of log files while delivering mission-critical reliability for customers. Its use as a tool to monitor mission critical business process through the cloud could not tolerate slowdowns.

Speed was a concern on two fronts. First, the logging-and-searching service is characterized by frequent commits to make the data available for search; every 5 seconds or 10,000 transaction messages. Second, customer queries had to meet an aggressive performance threshold. Finally, customer queries about application events could not be slow Boomi decided against using a database approach due to scalability requirements to billions of documents, high cost of ownership for databases, and the requirement for dynamic customer queries and metadata.

To build a single integrated multitenant platform, Boomi decided to use Apache Solr to monitor and search transaction logs, and deliver the information for a timely, integrated view of business process execution for applications in and out of the cloud. Boomi asked Lucid Imagination to review its Solr implementation for current best practices, to provide recommendations on performance, prepare headroom for future scalability, and ensure fault resilience for business continuity.

Solution
Solr is integrated deep into the platform that Boomi provides for customers to achieve an integrated view across applications in and out of the cloud. They now have hundreds of customers who use this platform to monitor their business process applications, by harvesting, parsing, and indexing log data across many applications, and then presenting a consolidated business process view to each individual customer for each customer’s individual process.

Today, Boomi customers rely on Solr searches to monitor and verify cloud application activity and workflow events via a web interface, through RSS feeds.

There are between two to ten million log transaction generated daily and each may trigger two or more Solr entries. Boomi maintains a rolling 30-day record of log entries. At any point in time customers can:
• Tell what business process transaction is running
• Determine if the cross-application transaction worked or failed
• Access this information securely from anywhere they have access to a web browser
• Track how application data is changed, and what systems changed it

The Lucid Imagination engagement centered around a search Health Check, with specific recommendations for improving performance. For example, because the http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Marketplace/Business-Use-Case-Studies/Lucid-Customer-Business-Use-Case-Solr-Application-Mo target=”_blank”>search application had its schema configured to search strictly for exact matches, Lucid recommended performance adjustment settings, such as turning off functions related to relevance or other analysis, to conserve memory and disk space, along with implementation methods for these suggestions to keep the overhead of development and maintenance low. A critical success factor was tuning Java garbage collection to be well-synchronized with the performance-intensive index commit requirements to avoid contention. The team also identified unused Solr server components that could be removed, further improving maintainability of the search application.

A server hardware audit showed that while CPU performance was generally good, a memory upgrade would prevent out-of-memory errors, addressing the ongoing growth in index size. Lucid also offered direction on how to improve the performance of the RSS feeds. Because most RSS readers cache results and update automatically on a daily basis, storing a week’s worth of data is unneeded – only a day or two would be sufficient.

Scalability is a key focus for Boomi. Because they have a very aggressive commit window (5 seconds or less from log generation to index search availability), the team recommended ongoing testing of the replication scheme to assess whether the existing replication scheme could keep up, and identify the inflection point for horizontally scaling out the Solr implementation. To plan for expected growth, the Lucid team offered several recommendations for ongoing load testing to expose existing bottlenecks. As Boomi’s market is very dynamic, a forward-looking plan with broad-based strategies and tactics were needed to address multiple scenarios: analyzing different indexing architectures, and evaluating distributed search, and mixing workloads.

Lucid’s assessment included several specific recommendations for performance tuning and optimization that avoid unnecessary re-indexing of the data. These included faster range searches and query filters, partial index optimization, and omitting term frequency and position, to save disk space and accelerate both index and query performance.

Given the centrality of Solr search to Boomi’s integration capability, the Solr implementation had to ensure it could meet aggressive uptime service level objectives. To address these risk management needs, the Lucid team made several recommendations on improving configuration resilience and backups, tailored to the constraints of the application log monitoring implementation.

Boomi’s platform is now performing flawlessly, delivering outstanding performance and scalability, with customers able to seamlessly integrate, monitor, and manage their internal and cloud-based applications.