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  • WFT Cloud Announces Cloud-based Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Landscapes - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

    16 May 2012 | 5:11 am
    ZDNet (blog)WFT Cloud Announces Cloud-based Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP LandscapesSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)WFT Cloud, the first certified SAP Cloud Services Partner, continues to provide its customers significant cost savings when migrating or deploying a new Disaster Recovery solution for SAP Production landscapes on Cloud. WFT Cloud customers have greatly Riding SuccessFactors, SAP Marks Cloud TerritoryWired NewsSAP Sapphire: CEO outlines vision for 'a better future'ZDNet (blog)SAP Faces Uphill Battle On Database, Mobile,…

  • Simplement Achieves Billion Row Data Exploration for SAP SD with Sub-Second ... - MarketWatch (press release)

    16 May 2012 | 5:01 am
    Simplement Achieves Billion Row Data Exploration for SAP SD with Sub-Second MarketWatch (press release)ORLANDO, Fla., May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Simplement, Inc., a provider of simplified and streamlined data sourcing solutions for SAP customers, announced today in conjunction with SAPPHIRE NOW 2012 the achievement of sub-second response times for and more »

  • T-Systems Becomes SAP-Certified Global Provider of Cloud, Hosting and ... - Sacramento Bee

    16 May 2012 | 3:58 am
    T-Systems Becomes SAP-Certified Global Provider of Cloud, Hosting and Sacramento BeeT-Systems supports over 3.8 million users of SAP solutions worldwide, - Supports 80 percent of all SAP solution-based transactions from the cloud, - Is No. 1 provider of dynamically scalable services in support of SAP solutions, By T-Systems TROY, and more »

  • SAP Considers External Candidates to Oversee Personnel - BusinessWeek

    16 May 2012 | 2:58 am
    SAP Considers External Candidates to Oversee PersonnelBusinessWeekBy Cornelius Rahn on May 16, 2012 SAP AG (SAP), the biggest maker of software used to run enterprises, may hire an external candidate to become the executive-board member in charge of personnel, after leaving the position vacant since July.and more »

  • Asia Slumps as Greek Woes Sap Risk Appetite - CNBC.com

    15 May 2012 | 7:39 pm
    BBC NewsAsia Slumps as Greek Woes Sap Risk AppetiteCNBC.comAsian shares slumped on Wednesday after efforts to form a new government in Greece collapsed, fuelling fears that a second election in June could precipitate Athens' exit from the euro zone and deepen the bloc's debt crisis.Niall Ferguson: Will Europe Act to Avoid an Economic Cataclysm?Daily Beastall 4,998 news articles »
 
 
 
 
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  • Sexy or not, here come new SAP mobile apps

    Todd Morrison
    14 May 2012 | 2:58 pm
    ORLANDO, Fla. — SAP took the development of its Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) a step further today by unveiling a handful of new mobile applications at the kickoff of its annual SapphireNow conference. Company officials said the new apps, developed by SAP and its business partners, are designed to help users in several areas, including human resources (HR), finance, sales, mobile commerce and sustainability. More partner apps will be unveiled over the course of the conference from the vendors themselves, according to SAP. It’s all part of the business software giant’s plan…

  • What’s wrong with SAP BusinessObjects support?

    Todd Morrison
    14 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    A new survey by the U.K. and Ireland SAP User Group finds some mixed news for SAP.  The adoption rate for SAP BusinessObjects is on the rise - but a third of the entire user base isn’t happy with the technical support it’s getting. In a survey of roughly 100 SAP BusinessObjects customers, nearly a third of all customers said they thought that the technical support provided to them wasn’t as great as what they get from other vendors. When asked what specifically did they have problems with, the biggest complaints were about the quality of SAP’s online support. Roughly…

  • Some BI questions for SAP SapphireNow

    Todd Morrison
    11 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
    We’ll no doubt have a clearer idea of where SAP is taking its customers on a range of fronts by the time Van Halen hits the stage at the conclusion of this year’s SapphireNow conference, from what mobile apps are in the offing, and where SAP is going with its cloud strategy, and a range of other issues. But what might we learn about SAP’ business intelligence portfolio, specifically? I recently spoke with Gartner analyst Rita Sallam about some of the questions she’s looking to answer in Orlando. Is SAP’s new predictive analytics application easy to use? In the…

  • SAP and Oracle get bloody over HANA and in-memory

    Todd Morrison
    3 May 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Who needs pay-per-view boxing when you can watch two of the world’s largest tech companies hold their own enterprise software version of Fight Club, with millions of dollars in future sales at stake? SAP, which has typically jabbed Oracle not by name but with thinly-veiled references in the past, has decided to go toe-to-toe with Oracle over its claims about the cost and validity of SAP’s HANA in-memory database platform. “Traditionally at SAP, we’ve taken the high road when it comes to responding to these claims, as nearly 100% of what Oracle says is inaccurate and…

  • SAP and the art of dashboarding Zen

    Jacquelyn Howard
    26 Apr 2012 | 1:37 pm
    By the end of 2012, SAP plans to deliver Zen, the code name for the new addition to the SAP BusinessObjects Analysis suite that allows users to create HTML5 apps and dashboards. Although Xcelsius (aka SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards), has mobile dashboard functionality, it requires Flash, leaving out iPad users, since the Apple iOS does not support Flash. HTML5 works across a wider variety of mobile devices. In the recent “Most Important Xcelsius Webinar of 2012,” Mico Yuk of Everything Xcelsius noted that 82% of attendees were not familiar with SAP Zen, so here are some key facts:…
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  • SAP Mobility Pre-Sapphire Roundup - Field Views and Developer Opinions

    Jon Reed
    5 May 2012 | 2:33 pm
    In this taped Google + Hangout, Jon Reed of www.JonERP.com talks with John Appleby and Oliver Rogers of Bluefin Solutions, as well as John Moy, SAP Mentor from Australia who has authored some important blogs on mobility at http The guys talk about SAP mobility projects in the field before breaking down the issues with SAP mobility development. The guys cover recent mobility announcements and what they are looking to learn at Sapphire Now Orlando. Click on the link for the full text/media - @jonerp

  • SAP, Transparency, and Sponsored Content - an Impromptu Debate with Jonathan Becher, SAP CMO

    Jon Reed
    29 Apr 2012 | 6:56 am
    During a recent trip to Palo Alto, Jonathan Becher, SAP CMO, agreed to chuck the script and have an impromptu debate on brand journalism, disclosure, and sponsored content with Jon Reed of www.JonERP.com. Becher also shared the launch of SAP's new thought leadership site blogs.sap.com and the guys hash out how this new site fits into the discussion. Note: Bob Evans, mentioned in this video, is no longer an SAP employee. Click on the link for the full text/media - @jonerp

  • Sanjay Poonen on SAP Mobile Development

    Jon Reed
    22 Apr 2012 | 6:50 am
    On April 10, 2012, SAP updated its database and mobility strategies with a series of product announcements, already analyzed in a post by Dennis that Jon contributed to. But what the news mean to the aspiring SAP developer who has often found themselves  on the outside looking in? The day ... Click on the link for the full text/media - @jonerp

  • SAP's announcement of hosted Business One at CeBIT was expected, but the pronouncement that B1 wa...

    Jon Reed
    29 Mar 2012 | 4:00 pm
    SAP's announcement of hosted Business One at CeBIT was expected, but the pronouncement that B1 was now "multi-tenant" was not expected. That announcement did not make the press release, but it was mentioned in a number of articles quoting SAP at the time. That multi-tenancy proclamation set off a firestorm of blogs because multi-tenancy is a distinction that matters. Exactly how much it matters and what the definition means is another debate.Bring on SAP's +Richard Duffy, who stepped into the fray with a blog comment on +Dennis Howlett's post…

  • The Pros and Cons of NetWeaver Gateway - Four SAP Mentors Talk SAP Developer Engagement

    Jon Reed
    20 Mar 2012 | 8:29 am
    NetWeaver Gateway - is it a way to engage a whole new generation of SAP developers, or just another way to integrate with SAP back end systems? Gateway has become a focal point for the issue of developer engagement at SAP, not to mention licensing models for customers. In this taped Google Plus Hangout, Jon Reed of www.JonERP.com talks to fellow SAP Mentors Graham Robinson, Ethan Jewett and Owen Pettiford on the myths and realities of NetWeaver Gateway, and the potential it may hold for new SAP development (and business) models. Click on the link for the full text/media - @jonerp
 
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  • Closing a social transaction. Musings on e-commerce and copyright.

    Thomas Otter
    5 May 2012 | 2:41 am
    A couple of days ago via Microsoft’s arbiter of all things cool,  Steve Clayton,  I saw this poster.  (If you like it, buy it too). The poster has gone viral, no doubt bringing a wry but slightly painful smile to anyone filling in travel expenses or CRM system screens, or thinking about tidying the garage. Within  a couple of  clicks I was able to contact  the artist, Brad Rose, and via the collective art website, Big Cartel, order and pay for the print.  It will be gracing my office wall  some unspecified time in the future when I get around to having it framed.    The…

  • What is Germany getting right?

    Thomas Otter
    24 Apr 2012 | 2:04 am
    (cross posted from my Gartner blog) Andrew McAfee recently posted on the dire state of graduate employment in the US. His work on the impact of technology on employment is well worth a read, I reviewed his book here. Here in little old Germany, the graduate job market is rather different. Unemployment among graduates in Germany one year after leaving their institution is at 4% and below, compared with a seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate of 5.9%, according to a survey by HIS-HF, a higher education statistics agency. So what is Germany doing right? Despite Euro doom and gloom talk,…

  • Of Rhinos, old friends, Mountain bike rides.

    Thomas Otter
    12 Jan 2012 | 9:57 am
    This clever and moving video arrived on my facebook wall a few days ago. It is worth taking a moment to watch it. And then this morning a dear friend from South Africa pinged me that he was seeking sponsorship, raising money for the Wildlands Conservation Trust.  David got me into cycling many years ago, introducing me to the joys of the high end bike shop, and the Berkshire and Surrey countryside.  After years of hanging on his back wheel, the least I could do was sponsor him while he rides his mountain bike around Giant’s Castle. If you would like to help, head over to…

  • On Corporate Burghers

    Thomas Otter
    11 Jan 2012 | 6:02 am
    Cross posted on my work blog. While taking a break from a flurry of  inquiry calls about ERP upgrades vs SaaS replacements,  I ambled over to facebook with Nespresso in hand.  A few years ago I met Dave Duarte, who  introduced me to  the Ogilvy Digital Academy   in South Africa. There is a lot of innovative stuff going on in the land of my youth, so I follow the SA scene  on  Facebook and on Twitter.  South Africa has had a lot of innovative advertising over the years, and I’m pleased to see this has well and truly moved over into the social side of things.  Today’s…

  • Employee branding. Some assembly required.

    Thomas Otter
    4 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Cross posted on my work blog. I stumbled on this brilliant video today (hat tip to @williamtincup).     This is one of the better examples of linking corporate and employee branding for recruitment I have seen. Low cost Innovative Targeted Measured (note the stats at the end). It cleverly reinforces the corporate and the employee brand.  I wrote a note several years ago now (client link here) where I stressed the need for organizations to get marketing and HR to work more closely together on recruitment branding. This is probably the best example I have seen of a company doing…
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  • Why I think coding is not creative

    Michael Koch
    2 May 2012 | 6:09 pm
    Can we please stop talking about “creative programming”? Many years ago, I had a cartoon pinned up by my office desk. It was a caricature of a pianist-like dressed man, sitting by a PC. Over the course of several sketches he got more and more excited, hitting and bashing the computer keyboard in ecstasy. The final frame showed him throwing back his hair, a satisfied smile on his face. He seemed exhausted, but happy. Alone, yet in awe of his work. Underneath the cartoon it read in German: “Der kreative Programmierer” (the creative programmer). Fast forward to 2012 and this…

  • Technology Forum, UK, Day 1 – a summary

    Michael Koch
    21 Mar 2012 | 2:03 pm
    At a time when lots of my Mentor colleagues are at SAP’s internal DKOM events, I had the opportunity to attend SAP’s semi-public UK Technology Forum in St Albans on March 21st and spent day 1 there, mainly focussing on information around User Interfaces and Netweaver Gateway. As a regular TechEd visitor, events such as this are not providing you with a raft of new items around SAP products, but instead give you with a gut feel for the local customer and developer community. I have yet to see this evening’s Demo Jam, but so far it’s been a worthwhile trip, which is…

  • So if you’re at SAPPHIRE NOW / TechEd Madrid…

    Michael Koch
    6 Nov 2011 | 2:05 pm
    … and you spot me either rushing from session to session or in deep conversation with someone, I urge you to interrupt me for a chat. You’ll recognise me by the “@PIXELBASE” Twitter handle on my SAP Mentor shirt. Independent SAP Development Consultants like myself can be less influenced by the latest trend and fashion, because our work is very often based on current customer project requirements. I therefore tend to be more pro customer-side, trying to “keep it real” and end-user relevant. Having said that, it’s also important to get a glimpse of the…

  • SAP Development: having the guts to be great

    Michael Koch
    1 Nov 2011 | 5:15 pm
    Some of you might have seen Hugh McLeod’s picture about producing something “amazing”. As it happens, today I had a work discussion that touched on just that. We were faced with the choice between something that ticks the “timescale” and “achievement” boxes and something that ticks the “appealing” and “users will love it” boxes. Suffice to say what the obvious business decision was… once again, Quality was Job One. I see this at a lot of SAP sites. The implementation team knows that users are not particularly happy with…

  • interesting conversation on SAP Outsourcing

    Michael Koch
    31 Oct 2011 | 6:31 pm
    Fellow SAP Mentor Vijay started an interesting post series on Offshoring and Outsourcing over on his blog. His first edition deals with a little bit of SAP Offshoring history. A trip down memory lane so to speak. Vijay provides some very interesting insights into an industry that has seen a lot of growth in recent years, but is also slated for not always providing best value for money. Nowadays outsourcing of SAP resources has become commonplace. Standards and SLAs have improved the overall service provided. However I have yet to speak to a client who wholeheartedly loves it. Most of them do…
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  • NoSQL Jobs market gets real. Mongo exploding.

    James Governor
    11 May 2012 | 7:11 am
    Tweet MongoDB Job Trends Mongodb jobs Mongo is the SF architect’s default database choice, and not surprisingly its trending heavily on Indeed.com. Other NoSQL technologies are seeing similar growth- interestingly Jan 2010 seems to have been the trigger when NoSQL become a significant job trend. The graph below isn’t a scientific or comprehensive list of NoSQL technologies- I just thought it made the point about the date inflexion point. Anyone know what happened that month to kick things off? I should also dig in on location – to see where these Mongo jobs are.  …

  • Microsoft Open Technologies: It’s The Engineering, Stupid. On Windows, Redis, Github and Working With and Like Open Source

    James Governor
    27 Apr 2012 | 12:12 pm
    Tweet When Microsoft set up its Open Technologies subsidiary a couple of weeks back there was a flurry of coverage about the initiative from an IP management perspective, some positive, some negative, but generally looking at the  procedural and legal implications of the new organisation. Its no surprise that the industry views Microsoft IP initiatives in terms of weaponry – Microsoft clearly enjoys and understands better than anyone the advantages of IP management and licensing – just witness the recent cheeky arbitrage in buying a bunch of patents from AOL and selling them on…

  • On Critical Mass: What now for OpenStack?

    James Governor
    20 Apr 2012 | 11:03 am
    Tweet At first glance OpenStack, the open source IaaS project for building private and public clouds, is an unstoppable juggernaut – everybody is doing it. Last week OpenStack took the important step of creating a Foundation to manage affairs without being too closely tied to one vendor – founding members are Platinum: AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE Gold: Cisco, ClearPath, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing, Yahoo! But more members doesn’t automatically lead to more success. The more…

  • So You Outsource

    James Governor
    20 Apr 2012 | 9:31 am
    Tweet Handing over developers to an SI. They promptly resign, and somehow you’ll maintain quality at cost. Good luck with that. #newkingmakers, a follow up to Bjarne Stroustrup on Corporate Programming. Things Are Getting Better. New Kingmakers IT is talent management.

  • Bjarne Stroustrup on Corporate Programming. Things Are Getting Better. New Kingmakers

    James Governor
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:33 am
    Tweet “Corporate programming is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate ‘culture’ with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.” Bjarne Stroustrup, the Father of C++ Another Robert Brook share. I think things are getting better for developers – or as we think of them at RedMonk – the Talent. If great engineers get treated like shit…
 
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  • The driver's seat for BPM

    10 May 2012 | 12:19 am
    BPM is finally beginning to find its feet within enterprises. Unfortunately it seems that BPM initiatives are often driven by IT, while BPM is a holistic management discipline that should be business driven, measurable and delivering direct value.

  • SAP HANA update

    30 Apr 2012 | 9:27 am
    SAP just released their first quarter results for 2012, looks like it's been a very good quarter, Revenue from SAP HANA ("in memory db" solution for BIG DATA) is....

  • SAP NetWeaver Portal as SAP GRC 10.0 Front-End

    29 Apr 2012 | 11:55 am
    Learn how to configure SAP NetWeaver Portal to access the work center for SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0, SAP BusinessObjects Process Control 10.0, and SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management 10.0 using single sign-on.

  • Operation of Risk Terminator in SAP GRC AC 10.0

    29 Apr 2012 | 11:51 am
    Three scenarios that simulate risk analysis for role maintenance and user role provisioning with Risk Terminator in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0.

  • Set up of Risk Terminator in SAP GRC AC 10.0

    29 Apr 2012 | 11:47 am
    The Risk Terminator is a service that runs in the SAP ABAP back-end system and generates exceptions when defined segregation of duties (SoD) access risks are violated.
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  • How to Improve Firefox Performance

    Sap Nwnewbie
    15 May 2012 | 9:54 am
    The performance of Firefox can be improved by simply defragmenting its data files. By adding a script to run every time you start your computer, you can keep the files defragmented. Download sqlite from http://www.sqlite.org/download.html and place it in C:\Windows folder. Open notepad and copy these lines into it. Replace <YOUR_USER_ID> and <YOUR_PROFILE_FOLDER> with the actual values relevant to your system: cd C:\Documents and Settings\<YOUR_USER_ID>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<YOUR_PROFILE_FOLDER>for %%i in (*.sqlite) do @echo VACUUM; | sqlite3…

  • Functions in UNIX Shell

    bloggerV
    24 Mar 2012 | 1:54 pm
    Functions in any programming language help you break down the script into logical subsections. UNIX shell lets you use functions. Let's look at an example function called hello. Here is how we define hello function: [user19@localhost ~]$ hello() { > echo hello. please enter your nme > read name > echo welcome $name > } To call function hello, simply call it by its name: [user19@localhost ~]$ hello hello. please enter your nme user1 welcome user1 You can list the functions that you have defined using set command. [user19@localhost ~]$set tmpid=509 hello () {     echo…

  • OutOfMemory Error due to XSLT Transformations

    Sap Nwnewbie
    11 Mar 2012 | 7:53 am
    XI uses caching to speed up XSLT transformations. The mappings structures (transformer objects) that are already generated are stored in a mapping pool for reuse. Whenever a mapping is required, a transformer object is required to execute the mapping. Therefore the mapping pool will store as many transformer objects as the number of messages being mapped. By default the maximum number of transformer objects is set to 20, which means that this limit is reached when 20 messages are being mapped using the same XSLT logic. Storing these transformer objects in heap can degrade performance or cause…

  • Audit Log for Successful PI Messages

    bloggerV
    6 Mar 2012 | 2:07 pm
    PI 7.1 does not persist the audit logs for the messages that are processed successfully. The audit entries are available in memory for successful messages, but they are deleted once cleanup is done or if there is a restart. If you want to persist the audit logs to database, change the property messaging.auditLog.memoryCache in com.sap.aii.af.ms.svc service to false. 

  • Using LOB Securefile Conversion to Improve XI Performance

    Sap Nwnewbie
    4 Mar 2012 | 1:13 pm
    XI/PI stores the XML data into LOB fields in the following tables: SXMSCLUP, SXMSCLUP2, SXMSCLUR, SXMSCLUR2, XI_AF_MSG/BC_MSG. LOB data has always been a source of performance problem when performing transactions on these tables. Oracle 11g has introduced a new way of storing LOB data to improve performance. The LOBs stored with the new approach are called SecureFile LOBs. The traditional LOBs i.e the LOBs before developing SecureFile are called as BasicFile LOBs. You can convert the above mentioned tables from BasicFile LOBs to SecureFile LOBs using BR Tools (7.2) to benefit from the…
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