ABT ECC5.0 AND ECC6.0
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Whats new in ECC5 and ECC6? ECC7?
ECC stands for ERP Central Component / Enterprise Central Component, new version level of SAP R/3 ERP, the latest one as of June 2007 is ECC 6.0. They are also dubbed as SAP V5 and V6 or just SAP 5.0 or SAP 6.0. I think version transition time from ECC5 to ECC6 was too short, It seems like they just consolidated many component versioning in ECC6 with additional patches/support packages. I am sure it will be longer for (probably) ECC7 to come. I found at least 3 differences related to previous non-ECC version.
• new in ECC5, BW (business warehouse or named BI / business intelligence in ECC6) is integrated with ERP. So probably you may have BW and ERP in one box if using ECC5 or ECC6. You can still have BW server without ERP component by installing Netweaver ABAP engine and additional BW components (as add-on and SP).
• new in ECC5: double accounting, with double accounting you can have 2 or more ledgers in your ERP application, however in my experience in double accounting accounting using ECC5 (in one distribution company) there should be more effort and customer development if ERP going live time is different with double accounting going live time
• Java kernel was introduced in addition to ABAP kernel. ABAP kernel still the main kernel for ERP function, however for other Netweaver package component like enterprise portal (EP), java kernel is main kernel. There is a configuration called “double stackâ€
ECC stands for ERP Central Component / Enterprise Central Component, new version level of SAP R/3 ERP, the latest one as of June 2007 is ECC 6.0. They are also dubbed as SAP V5 and V6 or just SAP 5.0 or SAP 6.0. I think version transition time from ECC5 to ECC6 was too short, It seems like they just consolidated many component versioning in ECC6 with additional patches/support packages. I am sure it will be longer for (probably) ECC7 to come. I found at least 3 differences related to previous non-ECC version.
• new in ECC5, BW (business warehouse or named BI / business intelligence in ECC6) is integrated with ERP. So probably you may have BW and ERP in one box if using ECC5 or ECC6. You can still have BW server without ERP component by installing Netweaver ABAP engine and additional BW components (as add-on and SP).
• new in ECC5: double accounting, with double accounting you can have 2 or more ledgers in your ERP application, however in my experience in double accounting accounting using ECC5 (in one distribution company) there should be more effort and customer development if ERP going live time is different with double accounting going live time
• Java kernel was introduced in addition to ABAP kernel. ABAP kernel still the main kernel for ERP function, however for other Netweaver package component like enterprise portal (EP), java kernel is main kernel. There is a configuration called “double stackâ€