What’s new in EA 2010, Service Pack 1

Functional extensions
An important functional extension is the new EA4ETL (Every Angle for Extract, Transform & Load) component. Using this component, system managers and developers can use the Every Angle system as the data engine for other applications. This opens a wide variety of application areas for the system. Since Every Angle is unique in its knowledge of SAP data structure and business logic, it can be a very powerful data source for many reporting and planning tools, saving developers a vast amount of time (and money!) for their developments.

The last functional extension is the new capability to obtain a kind of ‘link’ to an angle. Very handy if for example you want to share an angle with a colleague without having to send the entire angle result. You can just send the ‘Hyperlink’ string via e-mail, and when the receiver clicks on it, the EveryAngle client will automatically start and after logging on, will execute the indicated angle.

Improvements in the ease of use
Every Angle is now even more easy to use because of the following improvements:
• In the field chooser, the source of every field is clearer because next to each field is an icon indicating if the field comes from SAP, Every Angle or is custom made.
• In a matrix, one can define the ‘0’ as a separate bucket and define lower- and upper limits. For example, you want all orders above Eur 1 mio grouped together and all orders that are free of charge.
• Follow-up questions now have help texts. You can call up these texts via the right-button mouse menu.  

Configuration
Once again, a lot of energy was spent making the system more applicable in multiple situations and easier to configure. The most important change in this area is the large extension of functionality in Finance and Controlling (FiCo). Costing Documents and Product Costing are now part of the standard installation, along with objects for Commitment Management. In addition, the number of master data objects from FiCo is extended with Cost elements and Cost components. The number of references from Accounting Documents to logistic objects is extended and Parked Documents were added.

Two modules are extended and added to the standard list: Projects (PS) and Work Order Extensions. The latter is able to detect missing components in production and calculate its supply chain consequences.

System stability
Some strong improvements were made concerning system stability. For example, the FTP process is extended with functionality to resume a lost connection and compress the data, the SAP Job Class is configurable and the command line tool EAX3 is extended with a command to stop an SAP job (maybe hanging) and retry it.