Backup For SAP

This Blog talks about the ways and the significance of backup.

Storage is energetic to any computer system. It is doubly vital to an ERP system which serves as the memory for the business. Lose that memory and you’re out of business.

Backups are copies of all the important data on your system taken and preserved in such a way that you can recover your data no matter what happens. Making backups and being sure you have good ones is a best business practice. Typically an SAP system will have one or more storage administrators to take care of storage and backup systems. However as manager of the SAP system it’s important that you understand the basics of backup because it is so intimately connected with running a successful SAP system

Basically, ‘backup’ refers to three different things, only one of which is truly backup. There is short-term backup, which preserves a copy of the document for a short time, typically a week or two. There is true backup which saves a copy for a year or so. Then there is archival backup which saves important data permanently – or at least for five years.

Best Practices in Regression Testing

Practice 1: Regression can be used for all types of releases

Regression testing can be applied when

We need to measure the quality of product between test cycles (both planned & need based);
We are doing a major release of a product, have executed all test cycles, and are planning a regression test cycle for defect fixes; and
We are doing a minor release of a product (support packs, patches, and so on) having only defect fixes, and we can plan for regression test cycles to take care of those defect fixes.
There can be multiple cycles of regression testing that can be planned for every release. This applies if defect fixes come in phase or to take care of some defect fixes not working with a specific build.

Performance Testing in Agile Environment

                                     Performance Testing in Agile Environment

Overview

This article will help you gain a closer understanding of how you can integrate performance testing in Agile processes. Performance testing is an essential activity in all software development projects, including Agile ones. From initial planning to production analysis, application performance drives the development of better software iterations and releases. Application owners, stakeholders, developers, and testers should make performance a key consideration in every sprint, or iteration, in Agile development.

Like HCL Technologies, Hexaware in IT pack: Anish Damania

In a chat with ET Now, Anish Damania, Head-Institutional Equity, Emkay Global Financial Services, shared his views on IT stocks.

What is it that you like out of the IT pack?

Clearly, our preference is also towards the IT. We like HCL Technologies and to some extent couple of midcap stocks with Hexaware at this point of time also figuring in that list. This year you are going to see some more optimism coming into the earnings stream as compared to last year in IT and given the fact that some domestic businesses are not growing the way they were expected, there has been a shift of weightages from FMCG into IT.
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Hexaware CY 2012 revenues up 34% in Rs terms and 18% in $ terms

Mumbai – February 11, 2013: Hexaware Technologies Limited, a leading global provider of IT, BPO and Consulting services has reported in-line performance for the fourth quarter of the calendar year ended December 31, 2012.
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Hexaware says not lost any clients, shares jump

Hexaware shares gained as much as 4 per cent on Monday after the mid cap IT outsourcer termed as baseless and malicious rumours that the company had lost one of its large clients.

Hexaware shares had fallen over 8 per cent in the last week against a 1 per cent gain on the broader BSE IT index. The stock traded 3 per cent higher at Rs. 83.20 as of 12 p.m. on the BSE.

"Hexaware categorically states that such speculation is false and mischievous. The company...has not lost any clients nor has it encountered any adverse outcomes in the recent deal pursuits. Hexaware continues to win new business and add new logos across all its major focus areas consistently," the company said in a statement to the BSE.

Hexaware is on course to meet its 18 per cent year-on-year revenue growth guidance for calendar year 2012, the company added.

The company is due to report its earnings for the three months to December 2012 on February 11, 2013.

Trade in Hexaware Tech, Polaris after results: Sukhani

Trade in Hexaware Tech  and Polaris after results, says Sudarshan Sukhani, s2analytics.com.

Sukhani told CNBC-TV18, “Hexaware Tech is bottoming out. It had been suggested as a buy after a long time some days ago also and the same for Polaris. We had these big moves in Polaris, but that is something that is unavoidable, because midcap IT suddenly took off. If somebody has the courage then takes the trade after results, not before.”

On Jan 21, Hexaware Technologies closed at Rs 90.45, up Rs 1.45, or 1.63%. It has touched an intraday high of Rs 91.25 and an intraday low of Rs 88.25.

It trades 36.3% below its 52-week high and 12.5% above its 52-week low. Market capitalisation stands at Rs 2,682.25 crore.

                                                 

Go long in Hexaware Technologies: Sudarshan Sukhani

Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com is of the view that Go long in Hexaware Technologies  .

Sukhani told CNBC-TV18, "Hexaware Technologies gives the sense that it is bottoming out. Midcap IT is doing well. I would be long in it if I wanted to go for midcap IT stocks. When you trade a stock like Hexaware on the long side we must be careful to keep and follow and obey our stop losses."

The company's trailing 12-month (TTM) EPS was at Rs 7.85 per share. (Sep, 2012). The stock's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio was 11.51. The latest book value of the company is Rs 28.97 per share. At current value, the price-to-book value of the company was 3.12. The dividend yield of the company was 4.43%.

The share touched its 52-week high Rs 142 and 52-week low Rs 80.40 on 14 September, 2012 and 24 January, 2012, respectively. Currently, it is trading 36.44% below its 52-week high and 12.25% above its 52-week low. Market capitalisation stands at Rs 2,676.32 crore.

Hexaware Technologies (Rs 93.4): Buy

 

January 15, 2013:

We recommend a buy in Hexaware Technologies from a short-term perspective. It is apparent from the charts of the stock that after registering a multi-year high at Rs 142 in mid-September 2012, the stock peaked out. Since then, the stock has been in a medium-term downtrend. While trending down, the stock decisively breached its key supports at Rs 110 and Rs 100 in November and December respectively. However, the stock's significant support at Rs 85 arrested the decline in late December.

Triggered by positive divergence in daily relative strength index and cushioned by support area, the stock reversed direction and started moving higher. After breaching the 21-day moving average the stock emphatically broke through its immediate resistance at Rs 90 by gaining 4 per cent on Tuesday. Near-term trend for the stock is up. We notice that there is an increase in daily volume over past three trading sessions. The daily RSI is moving higher in the neutral region towards the bullish zone and weekly RSI has entered the neutral region from the bearish zone. The daily moving average convergence divergence indicator has signalled a buy and is moving higher in line with the stock price.

Further, the daily price rate of change indicator is featuring in the positive area implying buying interest. Taking a contrarian view on the stock, we are bullish on it from short-term perspective. We expect its rally to prolong and reach our price target of Rs 97 or Rs 99 in the approaching trading sessions. Traders with short-term perspective can consider buying the stock with stop-loss at Rs 91.5.

Buy Hexaware Technologies: Thununguntla

Jagannadham Thununguntla of SMC Global is of the view that one can buy Hexaware Technologies.

Thununguntla told CNBC-TV18. “ Hexaware Technologies at Rs 90 is a good contrarian bet wherein entire market is bearish on Hexaware, but what we have to see is that they have given a revenue guidance cut of about 2 percent and there is an expectation of a profit margin squeeze as well. Having said that at the current price the stock is trading around 8-8.5 PE multiple and if you adjust to the cash on the balance sheet the PE multiple will reduce further.”

He further added, “Hexaware Technologies is a zero debt company. I believe that at Rs 90 it makes a good sense. If you can average I think it makes sense to average also at this level. I think the stock should show decent performance. First quarter of the 2013 calendar year there can be some margin squeeze when they publish their financials. But I think it maybe a temporary phase. Eventually Hexaware can be a good buy and moreover there is always an anticipation of some deal happening in the stock should keep the upsides open. So all in all at Rs 90 it should be an opportunity to average.”