What Is Skills Management All About?
This is first in a series on Skills Management. It includes discussions on the establishment of a skills management program, skills assessment process, skills architecture, skills library, best...
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MIT Critical Data Marathon: SAP HANA Enables Medical Insights; Great Video...
SAP sponsored a Hackathon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on January 4-5, 2014 in which medical professionals and data scientists teamed up to use SAP HANA to...
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My New Year’s Resolution Is Made of Sand. And It Might Make My Boss Mad.
Writers, like dieters, know that you never, ever talk about what you’re “working on.”It’s the surest guarantee that your article, essay, or story will soon be neglected. Your word count will freeze....
View ArticleJoin us at the 2014 SAP Environmental, Health and Safety Conference, Feb. 18-19
Proactively managing environmental and operational excellence initiatives together can be pretty tricky for O&G operations. Your success depends on how current and reliable the information you...
View ArticleDo grumbles in your finance department betray too much reliance on paper? Part 2
In my last post I began exploring the typical complaints you might hear within a finance department if staff are being hampered in doing their jobs by having to follow manual, paper-based processes....
View ArticleSAP HCM Enhancement Packages – Implementations – Key things to remember
Hello, Always been wondering that so many enhancement packages getting’s released and we have questions like – what/ which Enhancement packages to choose or when to choose or do we required to...
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Announcing ASUG BI 2013 Community Survey Results
The ASUG BI Community (ASUG Volunteers, our SAP Points of Contact) says “Thank You” to everyone for taking our survey and sharing their feedback with us. 181 of you responded to our questions and we...
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The Future of Integrated Reporting
I was asked by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) to write a guest blog entry about Integrated Reporting. CECP was founded by the actor Paul Newman in 1999 and its members are an...
View ArticleWhy isn't there a delta course for SAP HANA Technology SPS07?
That's a question I hear often from my 'old' students. And it's a justified question, because as we all know SAP HANA is evolving and developing at a tremendous pace. Things that weren’t possible in...
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Life Cycle of an Integration Flow and Tips
Hi All,I am working on the iFlow Eclipse Tool in SAP NWDS.To be honest I love this one more than the beloved traditional Java swing based Tool.I would like to share my understanding of the life cycle...
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Has the Era of Greenwashing Passed?
I should have bought a Hummer when I had the chance. I could drive it without feeling any guilt. Know why? Because I hardly ever drive. I work from home most of the time. And even if I have to go into...
View ArticleUnderstanding Security and Rights recording from Teched 2013
If you missed it, the recording for my TechEd 2013 topic on managing rights in 4.1 is available here.
View ArticleCustomer Expectations: Mobile User Experience
As we start out 2014, I think back on the many projects in Mobility that we've done this past year. Some were long, some were short, some were somewhere in between, but all shared one thing in common...
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The Big Data of You
In 2006, TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year was “You.” It was recognition of the global surge in online sharing of personal experiences fueled by our participation at YouTube, Wikipedia, and other...
View ArticleSAP Recognizes Vietnam’s ERP Solutions
FPT Information System Company (FPT IS) and Germany-based software provider SAP launched their enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for Vietnamese steel companies on January 6. Called FPT SAP...
View ArticleOptions for Processing E-Mail in the SAP CRM Interaction Center
There are numerous options for email handling in the SAP CRM Interaction Center. You can route emails to a shared inbox where a team of customer service agents take turn picking the next message from...
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SUSE Linux Gives SAP HANA® Wings
Over 2,100 companies of different sizes and from all sectors of industry already use SAP’s in-memory appliance, HANA – benefitting from quicker transactions, analysis, planning, as well as forecast and...
View ArticleBODS alternatives and considerations
1.SQL transformWhen underlying table is altered (add/delete columns) in database the SQL transform should be "UPDATE SCHEMA"If not this will not pull any records from the table and it neither error nor...
View ArticleThe day that changed a generation and beyond
Today 7 years ago, Steve Jobs took to the stage introducing to the iPhone and changed the smartphone industry and our mobile lives forever. Before that date the the smartphone market was small &...
View ArticleGlobally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
Currently many different countries have different systems for classification and labeling of chemical products, and multiple systems can exist within the same country. Not only has this been expensive...
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