Blogs posted July 2008

We usually plan our year around the SAP TechEd event so in about 10 mins our “year” comes to a close, from August 1, 2007 until July 31, 2008 was the current year and that ends in about 10 mins in Palo Alto. This of course means that... Read More »

Next week I’ll be giving a talk on “Open Source Software Businesses and Developer Careers” at Agile 2008. Here is the abstract: Open source is changing how software is built and how money is made. This talk discusses the... Read More »

Just a couple of days ago I read an article on energy conservation and the reduction of energy consumption in chemistry industry. The article will be published in the August edition of “Chemical Engineering“. The link is now (August 13,... Read More »

The interest of our customers and partners in SAP CRM 2007 and its new User Interface has been tremendous in the past months. Listening to our customers and partners wishes we made our User Interface Guidelines for CRM 2007 are now available... Read More »

…By Evaluation of Controlling Attributes of the Managed Identities In this blog, we will improve a common business roles scenario by proposing business roles based on the controlling attributes of the business roles and of the requester.... Read More »

I’ll try to give an answer here to a question which users tend to ask: “Wouldn’t it be possible to display directly in the XI message monitor an additional field containing … whatever.“. Here whatever could mean an... Read More »

Below are few issues and their workaround during the SPNEGO Configuration on SAP EP 7.0 SP14 & Microsoft LDAP Server which I faced:   1) You still get the login page even after complete SPNEGO Installation and configuration. Reason... Read More »

What are your main investments in 2008/2009? This question is asked to a lot of CIOs these days. Many companies are planning a major ERP upgrade and doing first steps in a SOA based environment. These strategies are well aligned with business... Read More »

Introduction Almost all SAP implementations require to certain degree a custom ABAP development. Some custom development projects are very small and involve one or two ABAP programmers implementing user exits or enhancements. Some are very large... Read More »

This blog shows how you can easily modify a sap standard report to your own company specific report with SAP NW IdM under a MS SQL server. The generated report will be contain information about the identity store and the propsing business roles. In... Read More »