Blogs posted August 2008

I Tips to make yourself stand out! the other day with this statement,   I have a bet going, not a normal bet. If I win I get to give away a very cool prize at each of the SAP TechEd locations during the RIA Hacker Night. If I lose then I... Read More »

Many organizations do not have a formal risk management program in place. And there are fewer corporations that bring risk factors into their planning and forecasting exercise. The question that arises is whether corporations should focus on... Read More »

Approaches to building a column store : There are multiple ways by which this column store described in the previouss blog can be built … Each one better than the other in terms of performance but having its own complexities and disadvantages... Read More »

An American colleague who I really admire emailed me in July throwing up her hands in despair, bemoaning the inability of an individual in America to have positive influence…to be a change agent. According to my American friend, that is a... Read More »

Turning the concept of ROLAP on its head – column based approaches : To recollect : Current ROLAP Approach : Row based Indexing and retrievalThis basically has every row stored separately and indexed according to needs / application design.... Read More »

Balancing the project language is a challenge in international projects or in projects when experts from one country work in another country. Although the English language is a very good common denominator mastered by most of us there are a lot of... Read More »

Product Material Vendor Customer Employee (PMVCE) are the 5 main master data objects currently coming as Standard Repositories with SAP MDM.   But as MDM no longer remains a new comer or a buzzword in the IT world, more and more... Read More »

Hi, On this years TechEd you can find two sessions with information about BRFplus.   BRFplus for ABAP – The Framework for Business Rules (Session ID: COMP208) Learn how to use the BRFplus framework in your applications. This session... Read More »

I hope you followed my blog series so far. If so by then you should be able to create Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence content on top of SAP NetWeaver BI and SAP ERP. This time I will focus on very important features of our BusinessObjects XI... Read More »

For someone who has never been involved in supporting a manufacturing facility, production planning can be a complete mystery. Somehow, raw materials go in, and finished goods come out, but the business processes in between and the planning... Read More »