The Easy Enhancement Workbench is a development tool with which SAP applications (called Business Objects in the following document) can be extended in a simple manner.

Customer enhancements to a Business Object are defined via wizards. The Workbench then does all development work for the user; databank tables, screens and application logic are created automatically. Finally the customer enhancement is included in the SAP standard.

This also allows users without ABAP knowledge the simple possibility of extending the SAP standard.

An extension created using the Easy Enhancement Workbench does not differ technically from one created manually. In both cases transportable ABAP objects are created and the same Customer Exits, Business Transaction Events or BAdIs are implemented

The difference lies exclusively in the manner in which the objects required are created. The automation offered by the Easy Enhancement Workbench is achieved by template objects that are adapted to the extension definition and created by a generator.

The functionality of the Easy Enhancement Workbench is therefore only available for specially prepared Business Objects, mainly from the CRM environment.

The type of extension is also predefined In most cases the customer is offered the possibility to add user-defined databank tables or fields.

In most cases the extension takes place system-wide. For example, when extending a Business Object in the CRM the data exchange to the connected R/3 system is extended and a new table is also created in the R/3.

The system landscape must be set up in order to be able to use system-wide generation. The system landscape must be set up in order to be able to use system-wide generation.

You will find further information in Note 494966 and in the following sections: