Blogs posted August 2003

This is a continuation of another ‘Communities of Practice’ – could they be the solution to better Portal content management ? around the concept of ‘Communities of Practice’. It takes the discussion to another level,... Read More »

When Shai Agassi gave his keynote at the JavaOne conference he nicely summed    up how developers are viewing SAP and their fellow SAP developers:     “Most of you in the audience know SAP as the German Giant,... Read More »

There are so many software developers out there, the majority visual basic, or C++ programmers. But, how many software developers are developers for the SAP Portal technology ? I’m sure the answer to that question is only a few hundred. It... Read More »

I may be very young when it comes to the software and Web development field, but one thing I know for sure is that in order for a product to thrive it must have excellent support. I’ve come across so many shareware and even freeware programs... Read More »

Weblogs now have their own spot in the top line navigation bar and they are also integrated into our TREX search engine. TREX? You may want to know more about it. Has someone mentioned it in a weblog post? Enter “TREX” in the search... Read More »

First, let me welcome everyone to my very first web-log. I hope you will find it and want to encourage you to comment and provide feedback so I can be more effective. A quick introduction. These days, I am the SAP Enterprise Portal Architect for... Read More »

The success of web services heavily depends on standards. Why? The key driver for web services adoption is integration, (Per the estimation of zapThinks, 70% of today’s IT budgets are dedicated to solving integration problems.)... Read More »

OK– So I’m the marketing guy for SDN, but the good news is that I’m the ONLY marketing guy for SDN. From the very beginning, SAP decided that SDN would be a “Marketing Free Zone” and that we’d insulate the techies... Read More »

Let me share with you some of the experiences I have collected over the last ten years about the developer community around SAP. When R/3 came out in mid 1992 it was shipped with an integrated development environment (ABAP) for client/server... Read More »

BPEL4WS, web services choreography, web services orchestration, web services composition, ws-transaction, ws-coordination, ws-CAF… Have you heard enough about all the dazzling buzz words in recent press releases? As developers are just getting... Read More »