Sower SAP ABAP Architecture

Sower was represented at SAP Innojam 2011 in Sydney by Peter Chapman.  At the event teams have 24 hours to develop solutions using the newest SAP technologies, including HANA, Gateway, StreamWork, Gravity and SUP.

The team was successful in developing a tool to automatically generate UML diagrams from any ABAP runtime trace log.  Fully integrated into the SAT transaction, their solution generated a UML flow diagram showing objects and calls between them graphically in Gravity, where it is available for collaboration using standard StreamWork tools.

Their solution will be presented at the SAUG later this week.

I spent a very long time (more than 10 minutes anyway) trawling the internet for a decent JQuery multilevel accordion script.  How heavy is the accordion.js plugin now???

So I ended up writing my own.  It is just 10 lines, and handles unlimited nesting with no weighty plugins.  Feel free to use the code however you want.

http://sower.com.au/demo/accordion.html

We have been working closely with leading BW consultancy Innogence to build a BSP dashboard for their iRekon product.  Click here to see a demonstration of the dashboard in operation:

http://www.innogence.com/onlinedemo/index.html

The product is in production at  major BW sites in Australia and working well.

August 21, 2009. Waltham, MA.

Sower’s Technical Director has received the major prize for winning a global innovation challenge. The $USD10,000 Social Networking challenge was posted by German software giant SAP through Innocentive.com. Over 1,200 solvers from around the world registered and 3 prizes were awarded.

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Sower has developed an automated quality index to help assess ABAP code. The Sower Quality System index (SQSI) ranges form 0 to 100 and is proving uncannily accurate at distinguishing between well and poorly written code. Technical director Peter Chapman said “Code reviews are time consuming and subjective, and can be overlooked when the pressure is on to meet a deadline. Even experienced developers take short cuts when governance is weak. SQSI is an objective measure that can be mandated into the release process to ensure substandard code never reaches your production environment.”

SQSI is now a standard inclusion in Sower’s Development Environment Survey (DES), calculated for all custom developed code to help identify prioirty areas for review. The index measures consistency and readability and is not dependent on particular naming conventions.

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