Blogs posted August 11, 2008

“SAP Event Management is an application that supports control processes for managing events within and between companies. It consists of a set of integrated software functionality that supports five business processes: monitor, notify,... Read More »

My Team of Facilitators As mentioned previously, I have a team of students from Strathmore University, one of the top   business schools in East Africa, helping me to facilitate the class. I have/had five students working with me: Ann,... Read More »

I recently had the privilege of sitting together with some of the top global chemical industry executives. We had some highly interesting discussions about the industry and where it was going and what the current pains were for these companies. One... Read More »

Trend spotting is a common behaviour for most of us: Which applications could offer new opportunities for my career in the future? Which requirements would arise from the upcoming trends in my industry in the next years? What areas will be hot... Read More »

Update: The SDN and BPX call for proposals for SAP TechEd 2008 Berlin has been extended.  The new deadline to submit your proposals is Friday, September 12.  SDN and BPX members in India: Now it is your turn to step up to the... Read More »

Paul mentioned in his blog the different paths taken by different industries. Where some industries followed early the road of industrialization / standardization others (especially FS) took a different approach. The do-nothing approach towards... Read More »

What are the key roles and capabilities within end user IT organizations going forward? Here are my thoughts.   Lets start from the top: the ultimate mission of an IT organization is to increase the business value of the enterprise. This... Read More »

A customer was facing a problem when generating SQL scripts by using SQL. As this is a common habit in the Oracle world he tried to apply it to his MaxDB. The script in this specific case should drop views from a specified schema. Anyhow the... Read More »