Blogs posted May 2009

The system landscape directory application, normally referred to as the SLD, is hosted on any AS Java system in the customer’s site.  It can be a central point to store data about the physical systems that are installed, plus... Read More »

 A number of people have noted that the current version of the .Net viewer and Crystal Reports runtime that were available to use with SAP Business One did not have the ability to render Flash content.  So when launching a... Read More »

(originally published at www.sybase.com in May 2009; moved to SCN in December 2012) Migrating an ASE server or ASE database to a different platform has become more common over the years with the growing popularity of platforms like Linux and... Read More »

The SAP Inside Track Palo Alto 2009 is a day of community organized sessions, many  held by SAP Mentor Initiative  living in the Bay Area for people in SAP technical and functional roles.    This is where the Bay Area and... Read More »

This year was the most lightly attended SAPPHIRE in years, and I don’t believe the H1N1 virus had much to do with it. But the attendees were a very serious bunch. They were focused on solutions and had specific questions and needs. The SAP... Read More »

Thanks to Richard Hirsch for his blog Guided Procedures Explorations: Process Runtime Dashboard   (The specified item was not found.). The code was very helpful in writing this application. A Generic Tool for Process Monitoring: This... Read More »

This blog has been some time in the making.It had been a new year resolution that I should put pen to paper or rather ‘keystrokes to blog’ about experiences in migrating data in the Utilities industry. The business scenario behind one... Read More »

To continue our exploration of the VAT 2010 changes outlined in previous posts, I thought I would highlight the business advantages and challenges from the 2010 Changes:  Business Advantages from the 2010 ChangesThe most prominent advantage of... Read More »

Webcast connection information:Co-Innovation (COIL) room sessions are available here: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/coil/  Orion room sessions: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/orion/  North Star sessions:... Read More »

Internet search engines changed people’s expectations concerning information access, which in turn impacted people’s expectations for BI access. I see three business drivers for the convergence of BI and search. The first is making... Read More »