What does Sales Area mean in SAP?

We often know and come across a lot of SAP specific terms but don't really understand their meaning in the functional sense. Sales area is one of those things that we just select in the pop-up while working on a SAP system and often don't really care about what it means.
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Changing skin and company logo on SAP CRM WEB UI

A typical requirement when working on a new SAP CRM implementation is to change the SAP CRM WEB UI skin or change the company logo. In this blog post, I will talk about what's all that's possible with SAP CRM skin personalisation and how. We will also see how the company logo and navigation picture can be changed in the layout of SAP CRM WEB UI screen.
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What every SAP consultant must know about business functions and activating them

This blog post covers what an enhancement package and business function in SAP is, how one can find, activate and deactivate business functions in SAP. Also covered are a few important points while working with business functions in SAP.
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Overview of SAP Organisation Model concept

This blog post covers what every SAP technical and functional consultant must know about the SAP Org Model concept. It presents a summary of what is important to know about the Org Model composition, ways of accessing it and setting up organization determination.
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Ways to Launch SAP CRM WEB UI


Launching SAP CRM can be as easy as using tcode CRM_UI, but there are other things and ways to play around with parameters to launch SAP CRM UI. Let's see how:
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Setting up the hosts file to launch SAP CRM WEB UI

You won't be able to launch SAP CRM WEB UI unless you have set up the hosts file and the browser will say 'Page cannot be displayed' until then.

SAP Hosts file

The hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names.

So, here are the steps to set up your hosts file.
  1. Go to the path  C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
  2. Open the 'hosts' file using notepad.
  3. At the end of the file, mention <IP Address of the server which can be found in Logon Pad> space <Host Name which can also be found in the URL>.

Here are the rules for the host file entry:
  • Each entry should be kept on an individual line. 
  • The IP address should be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
  • The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one space.
For any questions, please leave a comment.
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What is SAP CRM?

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a business strategy that aims to optimize the customer interactions in order to maximise the success of business.

While ERP is the backbone of SAP, SAP CRM helps business achieve 'One face to the customer'. The motto is to be customer centric.
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What is SAP?

You probably know what SAP is. But some bit of general knowledge is must. Read this post and see if you knew it all.
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