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			<title>Perfect Balance of Costs and Performance with SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA and PBS Nearline Storage</title>
			<link>http://www.pbs-software.com/en/media-center/news/latest-news/article/perfekte-balance-von-kosten-und-performance-mit-sap-netweaver-bw-on-hana-und-pbs-nearline-storage/index.html</link>
			<description>In its detailed solution description entitled Achieving Cost-Effective Analytics in SAP NetWeaver...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In its detailed solution description entitled <link http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-34099 _blank external-link-new-window "Opens external link in new window"><i>Achieving Cost-Effective Analytics in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse with Nearline Storage</i></link>&nbsp;about the use of SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA with SAP Sybase IQ, SAP discusses extensively about the PBS nearline solution CBW NLS IQ. While SAP HANA is used for real-time analysis, SAP Sybase IQ’s task is to analyze big volumes of historical data. The PBS nearline solution CBW NLS plays an important role here. It provides a seamless connection of the analytics server Sybase IQ to the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. The interaction of both solutions ensures a very powerful and effective performance with an efficient reduction of costs. An impressive example of its application from practice is the successful usage with an American energy supplier. Among others, this will be a topic of a lecture entitled "<b>SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA with PBS Nearline Storage with Southern California Edison" </b>on the <link 277 - internal-link "Opens internal link in current window">PBS Information Day </link>on 18 June.
Click <link http://www.pbs-software.com/fileadmin/medien/referenzen/SAP_Solution_in_Detail.pdf - external-link-new-window "Opens external link in new window"><i><b>here</b></i></link> to download the SAP paper as a PDF file.]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>PBS ContentLink also Available for Storage System KOMpliance</title>
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			<description>KOM Networks is New PBS Technology Partner</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Canadian Company KOM Networks is a world leading provider of storage management solutions for compliant data protection and retention. Its storage solution KOMpliance can very well be used in combination with PBS ContentLink, which forms a lean interface between SAP and storage systems.
PBS ContentLink has various Enterprise Content Management functions without the usual complexity which generally characterizes the ECM systems. The combination of PBS ContentLink and KOMpliance provides a cost-effective, lean but highly efficient option to store archived SAP data.
This has been tested extensively for PBS ContentLink version 3.0.4.1 and KOMpliance edition 6.4.2.1748. PBS ContentLink was installed on a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. During the tests, KOMpliance was connected as NAS and also as SnapLock variant. The tests focused on the SAP functionalities Archive link and SAP ILM, for which PBS ContentLink has been certified.
The successfully completed tests have confirmed that both solutions harmonize very well. This was the basis for the new technology partnership between KOM Networks and PBS Software for the benefit of many SAP customers, who archive close to the SAP standard and who do not necessarily need a complex ECM system. 
<span style="font-weight: bold;">About KOM Networks</span>
KOM Networks is a world leading provider of flexible, secure data archiving and storage solutions. Over 10,000 of the world’s leading corporations have recognized KOM Networks as the most logical, unobtrusive and secure way to store, access and protect their data. KOM is enabling enterprises large and small a cost-effective way to improve productivity and meet compliance requirements without altering their network infrastructure or daily business routines. The industry pioneer holds vital industry patents for electronic file lifecycle management, virtual file management and eWORM fixed content hard disk archiving. ]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Spring Newsletter</title>
			<link>http://www.pbs-software.com/en/media-center/news/latest-news/article/fruehjahrs-newsletter/index.html</link>
			<description>A few days ago we sent our Spring Newsletter. The main topic is our Information Day on June 18 at...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days ago we sent our Spring Newsletter. The main topic is our <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><link 277 - internal-link "Opens internal link in current window">Information Day on June 18</link></span></span> at the Dorint Hotel in Mannheim. The <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><link 591 - internal-link "Opens internal link in current window">Agenda</link></span></span> is available and you can now <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><link 364 - internal-link "Opens internal link in current window">register</link></span></span>. Once again we have put together many interesting expert presentations about Information Lifecycle Management in the SAP environment. In the same way as last year, it will be a one-day event with parallel presentations for ERP and BW. The presentations will mainly be held in German.&nbsp;
If you have not received our newsletter you can read it<link http://www.pbs-software.com/index.php?id=626&aC=1&rU=1 _blank external-link-new-window "Opens external link in new window"> <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">here</span></span></link>. If you would like to receive it directly next time, please <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><link 500 - internal-link "Opens internal link in current window">register</link> </span></span>on our web page. You will then also receive a personal invitation via email to our annual Info Day. We will only use your data for this purpose and will of course not pass it on to anyone else.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>PBS NAI - BEST OF 2013</title>
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			<description>The Initiative Mittelstand has awarded the title BEST OF 2013 to the PBS Nearline Analytic...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Initiative Mittelstand has awarded the title BEST OF 2013 to the PBS Nearline Analytic Infrastructure (NAI), which has already been honored with the IT Innovation Prize for the region Hesse in 2012. PBS NAI is the basis for our industry solution PBS CPOS for the retail industry, which has also been awarded the title BEST OF 2013.
PBS NAI is so far the only nearline storage solution for operative SAP systems. It is based on column-based database technology, for which the Analytics Server Sybase IQ <span style="font-size:11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;" lang="EN-US">–</span> now belonging to SAP <span style="font-size:11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;" lang="EN-US">–</span> is used successfully. Soon, our solution will also be available for the column-based Vectorwise database by Actian. This cost-efficient alternative is especially suited for small and medium-sized businesses.
SAP now also offers its own nearline storage solution called "Smart Store". Further details will be provided at our&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><link 277 - internal-link "Opens internal link in current window">Information Day</link></span></span> on June 18 at the Dorint Hotel in Mannheim.]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Award-Winning Industry Solution PBS CPOS</title>
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			<description>The Initiative Mittelstand awards the IT INNOVATION PRIZE to companies with innovative IT solutions...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Initiative Mittelstand</span> awards the <span style="font-weight: bold;">IT</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">INNOVATION PRIZE </span>to companies with innovative IT solutions and with a high utility value for small and medium-sized businesses. In this category, the jury of experts has awarded the <span style="font-weight: bold;">PBS CPOS industry solution for the retail industry</span> with the title <span style="font-weight: bold;">BEST OF 2013</span>.
According to the certificate, "this excellent product has impressed the jury and belongs therefore to the top group of more than 4,900 submitted applications. The IT INNOVATION PRIZE of the Initiative Mittelstand constitutes a bridge between IT innovations and small to medium-sized businesses. The sponsor of this year's IT INNOVATION PRIZE it the Ministry for Economy, Labor and Transport of Lower Saxony."
Further information about the innovative CPOS solution is available <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><link 615 - internal-link "Opens internal link in current window">here</link></span></span>.]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Budget Planning Made Easy</title>
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			<description>SQL CONVERSION CHECK simplifies the tracing of critical customer programs</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In times of tight budgets and limited project times the planning of upcoming archiving projects is not always easy. Especially when a variety of customer-specific programs and the related adaptation efforts have to be considered for the evaluation of the archive data access in addition to the SAP standard reporting.
The actual implementation of the PBS Archive API can often be performed via our well-proven PBS Conversion Tool and is generally not time-critical. However, the data accesses, which do not allow an automated adjustment process, are crucial for the adaptation efforts. A precise cost estimate by the implementation partner is necessary. 
Via the utility transaction /PBS/UTIL_SEARCH_SQL, customer-specific programs can be qualified according to many different organizational characteristics and can be searched specifically for individual table accesses or tables of an archiving object. The result list shows all relevant SQL accesses which correspond to the selection requirements after the completion of the analysis run. 
The conversion efforts can then be estimated using the PBS Conversion Check. The latter checks whether an adaptation of the archive access can be performed via an automated code enhancement of the PBS Conversion Tool. Using the common traffic light concept, the SQL statements, which need to be checked manually (yellow or red light) and quantified for a budget planning in consideration of the adaptation costs, are marked.
The functionality is part of the PBS standard and is available free of charge for all common releases.]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Flexible Extraction of SAP ADK Objects using PBS CONEX Flex</title>
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			<description>PBS has extended their extraction functionality of SAP data by an extraction suite that is based on...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[PBS has extended their extraction functionality of SAP data by an extraction suite that is based on SAP ADK objects. A growing number of SAP customers wish to extract data from their SAP systems that goes well beyond the legal requirements. In addition to the demand to have access to all fields of a data structure, the extraction of business subtransactions that are not always in the focus of the day-to-day activities play also a role.
You can simply select tables and fields that should be taken into account for an extraction via drag and drop using PBS CONEX Flex. A great deal of attention was given to selecting all tables of a business process. Basis for this are ideally the object tables of the respective SAP archiving object.
Apart from the classical extraction target that is the file output in SAP AIS format (Audit Information System), data of an extraction run can also be defined in an SAP standard table for a further data processing in local PC applications, or on the other hand the data can be defined in the PBS Nearline Analytic Infrastructure for an extremely fast data access. Data basis for the extraction is always the business process data from database and archive.
The PBS CONEX Flex Suite currently supports 5 SAP solutions:
<ul><li>SAP ERP Core with more than 50 extraction objects</li><li>SAP Real Estate Management (SAP RE) with 10 extraction objects</li><li>SAP Flexible Real Estate Management (SAP RE-FX) with more than 10 extraction objects</li><li>SAP IS-U/CCS with 50 extraction objects </li><li>SAP FICA Contract Account with 34 extraction objects</li></ul>
You can use the PBS CONEX Flex Suite independently of other PBS products.]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Simplified Data Transfer via PBS Data Export Interface</title>
			<link>http://www.pbs-software.com/en/media-center/news/latest-news/article/vereinfachter-datentransfer-mit-pbs-data-export-interface/index.html</link>
			<description>Data extractions via the PBS Data Export Interface can now be speeded up significantly.  Via...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Data extractions via the PBS Data Export Interface can now be speeded up significantly.&nbsp; Via transaction /PBS/CFI_FTP it is now possible to transfer SAP AIS files directly from the SAP system, in other words the application server, to the target directory of the frontend.
To execute such a controlled FTP file transfer, key users from the user department need a special SAP authorization.
All files pending for a transfer are mentioned firstly in a default list and can then be selected by the persons responsible and transferred to the frontend.
The benefits are obvious: the user departments are responsible for the professional control of the extraction scope and the system administrators are relieved from this load.
The functionality is available for the PBS archive add on CFI and the Database Export Interface from SAP release 4.6C.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>PBS Table Analysis for SAP Archive Data</title>
			<link>http://www.pbs-software.com/en/media-center/news/latest-news/article/pbs-tabellenanalyse-fuer-sap-archivdaten/index.html</link>
			<description>Many companies initially start archiving SAP data using the SAP table analysis TAANA. The SAP tool...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many companies initially start archiving SAP data using the SAP table analysis TAANA. The SAP tool can provide valuable hints about the structures of the dataset when for example analyses regarding organizational units and time periods are performed. The results of these analyses are normally used as basis for the ideal scheduling of write processes of the SAP data archiving or generally for the analysis and verification of business processes.
However, this approach is not sufficient. For business issues which affect the complete dataset, the integration of already archived data is essential. 
The reasons for an extensive data screening can be very varied:
<ul><li>The costs of the data storage need to be broken down per organizational unit.</li></ul>
<ul><li>The volume of migration objects (SAP ILM, chart of accounts conversion, mergers, company splittings) need to be quantified before starting the project.</li></ul>
<ul><li>A specific search for individual data records based on business limitations of the analysis table is required.</li></ul>
For all such issues PBS provides the functionality /PBS/TAANA as of now. The data from the corresponding archiving objects is analyzed in addition to the database data. The functionality of the PBS counterpart PBS/TAANA corresponds to the SAP standard. The transaction /PBS/TAANA will be provided as a PBS basis utility to all existing customers and is delivered with the next customer patch. An advance delivery can be requested via the PBS Helpdesk.
In this context, we offer also the program PBS/TAAN_PROCESS_MULTIPLE, which enables the evaluation of several archived tables in an analysis run.]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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			<title>First PBS employee honored for 20 years of service</title>
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			<description>The year 2013 has just begun and PBS can already announce an anniversary. Walter Steffen celebrates...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The year 2013 has just begun and PBS can already announce an anniversary. Walter Steffen celebrates his 20 years of service at PBS. Congratulations!
"Being the first employee is something very special" says Walter Steffen about his anniversary and he knows what he is talking about. Not everyone has the opportunity in his professional life to be part of and contribute to the development of a company from literally a 'garage firm' to a well-established software supplier for international big corporations. Walter Steffen leaves no doubt that he will remain actively involved at PBS. The 'creative freedom' in the software development and the direct contact with the PBS customers are enough motivation to focus already today on the next anniversary.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
			
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