White House Hiring Underscores Need to Check Resumes for Fraud

When an employer as seemingly sophisticated as the White House can miss clues that someone has falsified his or her resume, it’s likely most employers could, too. Taylor Weyeneth was recently demoted from his post as an administrative leader in President Donald Trump’s Office of National Drug Control Policy after an investigation revealed a lack of experience and misrepresentations on his resume. https://goo.gl/sVHCZt #GlobalHR #HRTech

Cloud Integration – Enabling Trace for Message Processing

It is our goal to continuously improve simulating and troubleshooting message processing in Cloud Integration. With the release of version 2.36 a new log level is introduced which collects message content in addition to the message processing log. This blog describes how this feature can be utilized and the relation to existing log levels which are described in detail in Setting the log level for message processing.

While developing or testing an integration scenario, the message processing log provides information about the status and the steps executed on a configurable level of detail. In scenarios where the message itself gets transformed during processing it can be extremely useful to monitor the message content at different stages as well.

The new log level Trace, like any other log level, can be set for a specific integration flow in the “Log Configuration” section of the “Manage Integration Content” view of the Web-based Monitor (see Product Documentation for details).

Figure 1: Setting the Log Level for an Integration Flow

In the “Monitor Message Processing” view of the Web-based Monitor the log level used when writing the log is visible in both the overview list and the details view which allows selecting the desired log from multiple ones for the same integration flow.

Figure 2: Selecting a Message Processing Log

However, there are some notable differences between Trace and the other log levels.

* Messages may contain sensitive data. Thus, access to message content is restricted to users having Business Expert role.
* Messages may contain a large amount of data. To prevent exhaustion of resources tracing expires after some time, typically 10 minutes and the message content collected during this period is retained for typically 1 hour only.

Due to these reasons the message content is not written to the message processing log but stored separately, allowing a different access level and lifecycle.

When tracing is enabled the message processing log will be written at the highest possible detail level (same as for log level Debug) and the message content gets collected and stored. After expiry of trace during an execution of an integration flow the collection of message content is stopped but the message processing log will still be written on the most detailed level. For subsequent executions, the log level falls back to the one which was set for the integration flow prior to Trace.

The time of Trace expiration as well as the previous log level is displayed in “Manage Integration Content” details.

Figure 3: Getting Trace expiry information

It is worth noting that the log level to be used is determined once at each start of processing a message. This can be useful in retry scenarios where the message processing log consists of multiple parts, one for each try. By changing the log level while such an integration flow is in Retry status, log parts can have a different level of detail and even messages can be traced regardless of the log level which was active when the integration flow was started.

For the time being the message content persisted while tracing can be viewed with the Integration Operations Feature in Eclipse only (see View Trace). Future increments will provide a similar feature in Web-based Monitor as well.

SAP recommends to use tracing in non-productive environments only.

I hope you find this new feature useful. Please feel free to comment on this blog in case you have questions or feedback. http://bit.ly/2BybBkg #SAP #SAPCloud #AI

SAP Announces Recipients of Regional Awards for Partner Excellence 2018

WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) presented 68 regional awards for partner excellence for 2018 to its top partners at the recent SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting (SAP FKOM) events held in the regions of Asia Pacific Japan; Greater China; Europe, Middle East and Africa; Middle and Eastern Europe; Latin America; and North America.

Awards were presented in a variety of categories (see the full list below), including overall sales, innovation, technology, services and solution-specific areas.

Winners of the regional awards for partner excellence for 2018 were selected from SAP’s wide-ranging partner base. Nominations were based on SAP’s internal sales data. A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determined winning partners in each category according to numerous criteria, including sales achievement and performance.

SAP congratulates this year’s top performers across the globe. Partners are critical to SAP’s success, and these awards are a testament to the amazing work and value they deliver. Together with its partners, SAP helps customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with its solutions.

Recipients of awards for partner excellence for 2018 per region:

Asia Pacific Japan (APJ)

* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud: Cloud4C
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions: Presence of IT
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Ariba Solutions: SGN Software, India
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for Concur Solutions: IBM, Japan
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Hybris Solutions: UXC Oxygen
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for General Business Top Sell Partner: Sonata Information Technology, India
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SME Solutions: Global Infonet, India
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for Most Innovative Digital Transformation Success Story: Accenture
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Leonardo: Deloitte
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP S/4HANA: Sonata Software Limited, India
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Deloitte
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Solution Extensions: Utopia Inc.
* SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence for Partner Managed Cloud: Fujitsu, Japan

Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

* SAP EMEA North Award for Partner Excellence for Cloud ERP: CEREALOG
* SAP EMEA North Award for Partner Excellence for Human Capital Management: Edenhouse Solutions
* SAP EMEA North Award for Partner Excellence for Customer Engagement: Gfi Informatique
* SAP EMEA North Award for Partner Excellence for Digital Enterprise Platform: itelligence Business Solutions
* SAP EMEA North Award for Partner Excellence for Net-New Names: Delaware Consulting International
* SAP EMEA North Award for Partner Excellence for Innovation: Quinso
* SAP EMEA North Award for Partner Excellence for Service Partner of the Year: Capgemini
* SAP EMEA South Award for Partner Excellence for Cloud ERP: Seidor
* SAP EMEA South Award for Partner Excellence for Human Capital Management: ROFF Portugal
* SAP EMEA South Award for Partner Excellence for Customer Engagement: ICM.S
* SAP EMEA South Award for Partner Excellence for Digital Enterprise Platform: MDSap Tech
* SAP EMEA South Award for Partner Excellence for Net-New Names: Seidor
* SAP EMEA South Award for Partner Excellence for Innovation: Birchman Group
* SAP EMEA South Award for Partner Excellence for Service Partner of the Year: Atos

Middle and Eastern Europe (MEE)

* SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence for Cloud ERP: B4B Solutions
* SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence for Human Capital Management: Gavdi Deutschland
* SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence for Customer Engagement: Masterdata
* SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence for Digital Enterprise Platform: itelligence
* SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence for Net-New Names: AGILITA
* SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence for Innovation: Black Horse One
* SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence for Service Partner of the Year: T-Systems

EMEA/MEE

* SAP EMEA/MEE Service Award for Partner Excellence for High-Growth Contribution: Deloitte
* SAP EMEA/MEE Service Award for Partner Excellence for Digital Transformation: Accenture
* SAP EMEA/MEE Service Award for Partner Excellence for Cloud: Accenture
* SAP EMEA/MEE Service Award for Partner Excellence for Joint Collaboration Experience: EY
* SAP EMEA/MEE Service Award for Partner Excellence for Partner Joint Initiative: IBM

North America

* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Business One: N’Ware
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Hybris Solutions: Accenture Interactive
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions: IBM
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for Emerging Enterprises: Illumiti
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for SAP S/4HANA: Deloitte
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for SAP HANA Technology Innovation: HPE
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for Cloud Solutions: Navigator
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for Industry Services: IBM
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for ISV Innovation: Callidus Cloud
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Platform Solutions: itelligence
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for Partner Growth: Deloitte
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for Value Assurance: Deloitte
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for Solution Extension Revenue: OpenText Corporation
* SAP NA Award for Partner Excellence for Solution Extension Growth: Nakisa

Latin America (LAC)

* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Business One: Seidor
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for General Business Co-Innovation Solutions – SAP S/4HAN: BXTI
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Business ByDesign: Stefna
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Customer Engagement: ADEPCON Argentina
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Supplier Relationship Management: Vivo Consulting
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Human Capital Management: Seidor
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Systems Integrator: Accenture
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Top SolEx Partner: OpenText Corporation
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Top Growth SolEx Partner: Celonis
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Top Influencer Partner: EY
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for General Business in Brazil: Star IT
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for General Business in Mexico: NEORIS
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for General Business in Northern Latin America: MQA Panama
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for General Business in Southern Latin America: ADEPCON
* SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence for Top Overall Partner: Seidor

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