SAP Pinnacle Award 2013

Innovator of the Year”. This category is for SAP partners who co-innovate with SAP to deliver exceptional customer impact. We are very proud of this achievement, than out of the thousands of organizations across our broad partner ecosystem, only 40 achieved the status of being an SAP Pinnacle Awards finalist.

Read more about the SAP Pinnacle Award 2013 here

As an SAP Gold Partner with a deep SAP HANA expertise, we are always improving ourselves and are happy about the challenge to satisfy our customers again and again.

Do you know Sweetlets on SAP HANA? Read more here

About Sweetlets

The founding members of Sweetlets were involved in the very first SAP Portal installation way back in 2002 (SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0 together with SAP). Today, Sweetlets focuses exclusively on user-friendly business packages developed specifically for the SAP Portal – providing software and support in a wide range of industries and serving portals up to 150,000 users strong.

HANA Certificate

Read more about Click Stream by Sweetlets version 2.4 certified to run with SAP HANA on the Sweetlets website.

About Click Stream Portal Analytics

Click Stream by Sweetlets is an advanced solution for tracking the usage of SAP NetWeaver^® Portal. It offers the following capabilities and customer benefits:

• Provides reports on specific roles and groups or any other criteria
• Visualizes portal usage (e.g., user and content history) with easy-to-read reports
• Reveals hard-to-get data (i.e., resolutions, browsers, languages, etc.)
• Provides iView recording – Determines exactly which iViews are actively and actually used

A free, fully functional trial version of Click Stream by Sweetlets is available on request at: http://www.sweetlets.com/clickstream/

About Sweetlets

Sweetlets focuses exclusively on user-friendly business packages developed specifically for use with the SAP NetWeaver® Portal – providing software and support in a wide range of industries and serving portals from less than 500 up to more than 150,000 users strong. Recently there has been increased demand for BW Tree by Sweetlets.

About Pentland Firth Software GmbH

Pentland Firth achieved gold-level status in the SAP PartnerEdge^® program at the beginning of 2012. Pentland Firth owns the Sweetlets brand as well as the MEREKO brand for travel expense management in Germany. The consulting branch of Pentland Firth focuses on technology expertise such as custom data warehouses based on Oracle technology or process enablement software based on .NET and SharePoint technology.

More information

Please feel free to contact us via e-mail to , or call +49 89 59 08 37 26 to arrange an individual appointment.

Click Stream by Sweetlets: http://www.sweetlets.com/clickstream
BW Tree by Sweetlets: http://www.sweetlets.com/bwtree
Pentland Firth Software GmbH: http://www.pentlandfirth.com

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melinda.belenyi@sweetlets.com
Phone: +49 89 590837 26

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It’s 2013 and what better time to reflect back on 2012 than at the start of a new year. 2013 was a great one for Sweetlets and we wanted to share with you our top 5 favorite milestones. We hope you’ll do the same.

Swing on over to our blog to get the quick breakdown:

2012 Year in Review – Our Top 5 Favorite Milestones

From the whole team here at Sweetlets, all our best to you in 2013!

It’s 2013 and what better time to reflect back on 2012 than now. We certainly hope that 2012 was a good year for you and that 2013 is off to a great start.

This past year was a great year for Sweetlets. Here, we’ll share with you are our top 5 favorite milestones (and in no particular order as we are proud of them all).

1. World’s 10 Best Intranets – Sweetlets Customer Scott’s Miracle-Gro Makes the Cut

We kicked off 2012 with a bang. The Nielsen Norman Group announced the world’s 10 best intranets in their 12th annual design contest and Sweetlets very own customer, Scott’s Miracle-Gro Company earns a much-deserved spot high in the rankings.

2. Sweetlets SAP Portal Apps go Mobile

With mobile becoming more and more popular every day, making Sweetlets apps available for those on the move was the next logical step.

3. 1st Gold Level Partner in the SAP PartnerEdge Program

We received confirmation back in February from the SAP PartnerEdge Program that Sweetlets had accomplished “Gold”  Partner status within the Partner Type of “Software Solution and Technology Partner” due to our successful efforts with SAP.

This accomplishment put Sweetlets as the very first worldwide SSTP (Software Solution and Technology Partner) Gold Partner.

4. Click Stream Now on SAP HANA

We started with SAP’s new in-memory database, HANA early on. Our developing team worked closely with SAP and successfully optimized the database code of our Click Stream SAP Portal analytics app back in September. Unveiling it at the 2012 DSAG congress in Bremen in October created quite a buzz too.

5. SAP HANA – An SCN Blog Post on Testing, Adapting and Migrating from Josef Minde

The rising interest in SAP’s latest in-memory database, HANA, and the early stages in which it is at prompted Sweetlets head developer, Josef Minde to share his experience in adapting our applications to SAP’s newest high-end database. His three part series landed on the front page of the SCN.

Thanks for reading. Now take a moment and reflect on your 2012. You may be surprised at everything you have accomplished.

From all of us here at Sweetlets, we wish you all the best for 2013.

Pentland Firth Thanks you

Pentland Firth Business & IT Consulting

Without valuable clients and customers such as yourselves, there would be no IT consulting, Sweetlets SAP Portal apps and no Mereko, the latest way to reimburse your travel expenses. It really is as simple as that.

Giving Back

MEREKO – Travel Costs Made Easy

Due to the wide variety of gift acceptance policies at the companies of our clients, we have decided to take this opportunity and directly help those in need this Christmas.  Pentland Firth has cheerfully and with joy, donated to the Ärzte ohne Grenzen and the Brotzeit für Kinder in place of sending gifts.

Sweetlets SAP Portal Apps

From all of us here at Pentland Firth, Sweetlets and MEREKO, warmest thoughts and best wishes for the holidays and in the New Year.

About Ärzte ohne Grenzen

From the Ärzte ohne Grenzen site:

“MSF is an independent international medical relief organisation, with 19 sections worldwide. For medical aid operations throughout the entire world, MSF is on the lookout for volunteers who are willing to provide some of their time and skills to those in need.

When large-scale epidemics occur, when areas in crisis are too dangerous for many others, then the medical teams from MSF are there to ensure that the affected population can count on continuous care in order to meet their most basic health-care needs. They organize basic medical care, treat the injured, carry out vaccination campaigns, train local medical staff and build up medical infrastructure. In long-term aid projects they dedicate themselves to the fight against diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, sleeping sickness, and HIV/AIDS”

About Brotzeit für Kinder

Brotzeit für Kinder

The Brotzeit Association is a nonprofit organization which provides for all kids, a “bread-breakfast.” A simple but balanced breakfast with milk, cereal, fruit, bread, sausage, cheese, jam, organized and prepared by “active seniors” in cooperation with the school administration.

Many parents do not take the time and more for their children. The end result … the children suffer. Therefore, Brotzeit für Kinder’s solution – give time.

In addition to the “bread-breakfast,” active seniors help children:

• in the preparation and receiving of breakfast
• with homework and hours of care
• in stressful situations
• in leisure activities (sports, culture, etc.)

ASUG Webcast: “SAP Portal Usage Monitoring with Click Stream by Sweetlets”

• Date: November 29, 2012
• Time: 10:00 AM CT / 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT / 9:00 AM MT
• Duration: 1 hour

Register here

Note: Attendees must be ASUG members to attend the webcast as access to these sessions are a benefit to members. Please create an ASUG.com login/profile to take part if you don’t have one already.

What the Webinar Will Cover

Extracting usage statistics from within the SAP NetWeaver Portal is a routine operation for savvy IT and portal admins who like to have a handle on exactly what is happening within their portal. However, this can be a very time consuming and costly process without the right tool(s). Thankfully, Sweetlets developed an SAP Certified, plug-n-play portal app called Click Stream analytics, to solve this pressing problem. We’ll prey apart this business package and take a deeper look at what makes this app so easy to use when gathering your vital portal statistics.

• Why UME and PCD-based reporting is best – Unlike generic Web analysis tools, Click Stream’s extensive filter options enable you to track portal usage based on specific roles, groups and many other criteria related to your portal. The filtering functions take full advantage of the UME and PCD to deliver accurate information …

• Hard-to-get technical information about portal usage – Why reports such as screen resolution, browsers and languages help your team develop content specific to your users …

• iView recording – Determine which iViews your users are actively using, not just the ones displayed …

• Top daily/weekly/monthly reports – We’ll show you how to define your top reports in an easy to read format, save your results as snapshots, and customize the report styles with Click Stream’s extensive reporting capabilities. This one feature alone will save you many hours over the course of a week or month.

Attendees are also able to submit any questions throughout the webcast using the Q&A panel on the right side of the screen. Take this opportunity to talk to a couple of portal experts on how to get the most out of your SAP Portal.

Webinar Speakers:

• Frank Heinrich, Owner, Sweetlets SAP Portal Apps & Pentland Firth Software
• Josef Minde, Head Developer, Sweetlets SAP Portal Apps

For more event details, please contact

And here is the registration link again.

About ASUG

(From the ASUG website) The Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) is the world’s largest independent SAP users’ group. We represent more than 130,000 individuals at 3,500 companies in 17 industries across the SAP ecosystem; customers, as well as partners and solution providers.

About Click Stream SAP Portal Analytics

Click Stream – The very first alternative to the standard SAP Portal Activity Report (PAR) and Activity Data Collector (ADC) for tracking your portal usage.

• Create reports on specific roles and groups or any other criteria
• Determine your portal usage (user and content history) with easy to read reports
• Discover hard to get data (i.e. resolutions, browsers, languages, etc.)
• iView Recording – Determine exactly which iViews your users are actively & actually using
• SAP Certified Solution – The first and only complete usage analytics tool developed solely for the SAP Portal

Download your free, fully functional version of Click Stream now

About Sweetlets

The founding members of Sweetlets were involved in the very first SAP Portal installation way back in 2002 (SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0 together with SAP). Today, Sweetlets focuses exclusively on user-friendly business packages developed specifically for the SAP Portal – providing software and support in a wide range of industries and serving portals up to 150,000 users strong.

Special SAP HANA Presentation with Philips and Telemundo

“Innovate with SAP HANA and a New Program to Spark Entrepreneurial Spirit”

Firstly, we aided in a presentation with Philips International and Telemundo. The session titled, “Innovate with SAP HANA and a New Program to Spark Entrepreneurial Spirit”  discussed breakthrough solutions that supported real-time social media analytics, strategic planning, and more, using SAP HANA for in-memory computing.

Philips and Telemundo Presentation – Madrid TechEd2012

SAP was filming the presentation professionally and mentioned that it will be publically available in due time after the show. If you wish for more information on this topic, please contact us.

SAPPHIRE NOW / TechEd 2012 Madrid Wrap-up

SAPPHIRE has always been huge – many booths from partners and many client presentations. And as with every show we attend, we are always go home with a few thoughts. Below are a few notes and what our impressions were from this year’s event in Spain:

• SAPPHIRE NOW / SAP TechEd Madrid had 11,000 participants
  • By comparison, Orlando SAPPHIRE / ASUG in May 2012 saw 15,000 and TechEd Las Vegas had 6,000 visitors
• The SAP Portal team was very happy with attendance. Portal hands-on workshops where almost booked out. One was with 100 participants; the other in the morning had around 70.
• Clients where asking very good questions around the portal
• Portal for mobile was very important for clients, many questions and feedback at Q&A booths
• Cloud Portal is still very important for SAP and also requested from clients
• Rumors were spread around the next Portal 7.4. (Unfortunately we cannot disclose detailed information about that)
• Microsoft had quite a bit of attention with their new surface tablets – even featured by SAP in the key note presentation

For those of you interested in watching the replays from both the Madrid 2012 conferences check out the links below:

• SAPPHIRE NOW video replay
• TechEd 2012 video replay

See you at the next show …

Click Stream Analytics app dashboard in Philip’s SAP Portal

Philips’ traffic report – Pageviews vs Users vs Login’s

Resolution distribution according to portal pageviews and users

Pageviews per login – Some valuable insight here

Countries report from Click Stream Analytics

SAPPHIRE NOW – Madrid TechEd 2012 floor area

About SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd Madrid

SAP’s once a year technical education conference, TechEd, offers hands-on workshops, demo-driven lectures, and Q&A sessions on the latest developments in analytics, mobile, cloud, database, in-memory computing (including SAP HANA) and much more.

SAPPHIRE NOW focuses on learning detailed best practices from other SAP customers and presents a great opportunity to gain valuable insight from SAP users specific to your industry.

For more details on the conference, see the home page of SAPPHIRE NOW & SAP TechEd Madrid 2012

SCN Blog Posts – A Three Part Series

In Josef’s SCN blog posting, he aptly breaks down the Sweetlets’ adaptation process into a three part series:

1. “How We Tested SAP HANA With the Free Trial on AWS“
2. “How We Adapted our Existing Application to use HANA Instead of Standard Databases“
3. “How We Migrated an Existing Oracle Database to SAP HANA”

SCN Technology Newsletter Nov 2012 Feature

And due to Josef’s great content, SAP featured the first HANA article in their Technology News @SCN November 2012 issue.

SCN Home Page Feature

Josef’s first two postings were also featured on the home page of SCN. See pictures below.

Josef Minde’s blog post on testing SAP HANA with the free trial on AWS featured on the SCN homepage

And on the iPhone:

SCN homepage image via the iPhone of Josef Minde’s SAP HANA blog posting

Enjoy the read. Please send us any questions or comments.

**Nov 22, 2012 UPDATE: The show is over. Get closing thoughts on our blog – SAPPHIRE NOW – TechEd 2012 Madrid Wrap-up.

The Latest Portal Developments from Sweetlets

The developing team at Sweetlets have been working hard to bring a wide variety of portal topics to the NW Portal space such as:

• Mobile device optimized front-ends for Sweetlets applications …
• BW Tree App – The best tool to retrieve all your reports of an end-user at run-time, then displayed neatly in an organized tree -  a hot topic for us at the 2012 German user group (DSAG) conference …
• SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.30 – The most recent developments around the new 7.30 portal …
• SAP HANA – Our very own Click Stream SAP Portal analytics app is now running on SAP’s new in-memory database …

Meet Sweetlets

If these topics are of interest to you or your company, let’s meet. Face-to-face is a proven way to accelerate any project and talking to one of our SAP Portal experts can give your portal the boost you’ve been looking for. Simply send us an with a few potential time slots and one of our team members will get right back to you.

(TechEd appointment link)

Join Our Special SAP HANA Session at SAPPHIRENOW Madrid

Learn how Philips International and Telemundo built breakthrough solutions to support real-time social media analytics, strategic planning, and more using SAP HANA for in-memory computing. Discover the new SAP Startup Focus program created specifically to help entrepreneurs achieve innovations with SAP HANA.

• Title: “Innovate with SAP HANA and a New Program to Spark Entrepreneurial Spirit”
• Session ID: DT5183
• Date: Wed, November 14, 02:30 pm – 02.50 pm
• Room: Database and Technology Theater
• Speakers: Twan Janssen and Borja Perez

For other great presentations, check out ASUG’s Agenda Builder

SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd Madrid Nov 13-16, 2012

SAP’s once a year technical education conference, TechEd, offers hands-on workshops, demo-driven lectures, and Q&A sessions on the latest developments in analytics, mobile, cloud, database, in-memory computing (including SAP HANA) and much more.

SAPPHIRE NOW focuses on learning detailed best practices from other SAP customers and presents a great opportunity to gain valuable insight from SAP users specific to your industry.

For more details on the conference, see the home page of SAPPHIRE NOW & SAP TechEd Madrid 2012

And don’t forget to with our portal experts.

We look forward to see you there. Safe travels.

**Nov 22, 2012 UPDATE: See what we thought of the show. Get closing thoughts on our blog – SAPPHIRE NOW – TechEd 2012 Madrid Wrap-up.

Main SAP TechEd 2012 Topics

The main SAP topics at TechEd 2012 included:

• HANA
• Analytics
• Mobile
• Cloud

Click Stream Analytics on SAP HANA

Our portal experts Josef Minde, Steffen Bunzel and Melinda Belenyi stood out above the rest of the crowd wearing their Sweetlets’ trade marked, orange polo shirts at the conference. They made the trek all the way from Munich to educated customers at the 3rd party table of SAP’s main HANA booth and sessions related to the SAP NetWeaver Portal and SAP HANA.

SAP and Sweetlets on the ISV part of the main HANA booth

An exciting event for us – a live demo of Sweetlets Click Stream portal analytics on HANA was available in SAP’s exhibition area. We were happy to report that Click Stream was very well perceived by customers, other 3rd party vendors, and by our friends at SAP.

On Monday prior to the main event, there were some pre-conference workshops for customers, a partner summit for 3rd party firms and developers demonstrated their coding skills at SAP’s exciting InnoJam.

SAP HANA Overview at TechEd 2012

Here are a few interesting details we learned about during the sessions on SAP HANA:

• Currently SAP is the biggest Oracle reseller.
• HANA is considered as “Hasso’s new platform” and built to replace traditional disk based databases such as Oracle.
• At the SAP labs in Palo Alto, SAP is using a HANA test system with 100 TB of physical RAM which was built in collaboration with IBM. According to SAP’s marketing, SAP was able to load 1Petabyte of compressed raw data into this system with tables of up to trillions of records and produced a maximum insert rate of 2 million records per minute.
• Certified SAP HANA servers are available to customers with up to 1GB of RAM per node and up to 16 nodes in a cluster.
• SAP expects certification of bigger systems upon request by customers.
• SAP does not support multiple applications on one HANA server for productive use – exceptions are explicitly mentioned in a white list in notes 1661202 and 1666670.
• The only ETL tool that is currently certified is Data Services (which comes along with Business Objects).
• A replication of existing data can be done using the tool Landscape Transformation.
• The formerly recommended Sybase Replication Server can no longer be used due to legal constraints for databases other than IBM DB2.
• Customers are not allowed to install SAP HANA on virtual machines and virtual on premise installations are not yet planned.
• Currently, SAP has released Business Objects and BI on HANA.
• BI on Java is currently not supported on HANA, but support is planned for BI7.4.
• It will take SAP some more time to migrate the entire business suite to HANA, but this is planned and started.
• Next to SAPs applications, there are also 3rd party apps like Click Stream available for HANA. Some customers have also built their own specialized applications.
• Data are loaded into the RAM only at the first access.
• Pre-loading of data during database start-up needs to be configured manually.
• As soon as data are in RAM, they remain there until the configured maximum RAM utilization is reached.
• When a query becomes slow in HANA, the EXPLAIN PLAN is a good tool for performance tuning.
• According to SAP, performance optimization of database queries is required on HANA as soon as a query processes 2 billion records or more.
• So far SAP claims to have 600 HANA customers, 300 productive installations and 400 million dollars of revenue from HANA.
• Next to HANA on premise, SAP just came out with a cloud based offering at cloud.saphana.com for 99ct./min. in the Amazon cloud.
• A cloud instance allows up to 22GB of data.
• Starting with the next service pack of SAP HANA, the HANA application services offer basic web access to data. This includes easy to configure oData services and the option to use SAP UI 5 and client or server based JavaScript.

On Premise Portal, Cloud Portal and Mobile Readiness

A total of 80 hours of sessions presented the latest news about the traditional on premise portal, the cloud portal and mobile readiness of these platforms:

• A free trial of the on demand portal is available for a limited evaluation.
• SP8 of the on premise portal includes a tablet framework page.
• The smartphone framework page got a new theme in SP8.
• SP8 makes it easy to upload and modify CSS files and images in a web resource repository in the portal content directory (PCD).
• In future releases SAP plans to improve the integration of native applications into the mobile portal frameworks as well as an adoption of SAP UI 5 instead of plain jQuery, which is used as of today.

We already look forward to next year’s event.

SAP TechEd 2012 Las Vegas Conference Details:

Where: The Venetian|Palazzo Congress Center, Las Vegas
When: October 15–19, 2012
SAP Resources:

• SAP TechEd 2012 home
• SAP TechEd agenda overview
• Virtual SAP TechEd

About SAP TechEd

SAP TechEd is the premier SAP technologies conference offering with a focus on SAP NetWeaver, analytics, and mobile platforms. Also showcased, the latest developments in analytics, mobile, cloud, database, and in-memory computing.