Blogs posted May 6, 2009

Data Federator is a powerful multi-source SQL engine which help you to query your information systems uniformly.In our last version, Data Federator XI 3.0 SP1 (aka 3.1), we developed a new connector to connect and query SAP BW using SQL. This... Read More »

WATCH THIS AND THEN READ-ON…  So let’s build this company together here on the SAP Community Network.  We’ve got our product — the Widget — and there’s a demand for it.   Now we need to... Read More »

As I have been using JavaScript more and more lately, I have become increasingly impressed with the power of closures . Closures aren’t available in C, C++, or Java, and as a result, they aren’t particularly well-known. Before exploring... Read More »

Up to one or two centuries ago, most people still worked in fields where they could directly see the result of their labour. A peasant would work on the field, and at the end of the day look at several nicely ploughed tracks, or know that the seed... Read More »

In the last Blog posting we talked about who IFRS would impact and some of the reasons why it isn’t simply a corporate job to take care of the implementation. Much will be discussed at SAPPHIRE and the upcoming Reporting and Analytics... Read More »

One of my passions over the last couple of years has been around the concepts and practices of continuous auditing, including management’s continuous monitoring of controls. My paper on this subject, see referenced link, has now been... Read More »

Being uncommonly modest, I waited to see what other SCNers would do.  There are some pretty cool videos out there; it looked like some of these folks had professional film editors, as well as webcams. Check’em  out here But, alas,... Read More »

Have you ever heard of Blue Ruby? No? Well…simply put, Blue Ruby let’s you run the Ruby Programming Language inside an NetWeaver ABAP Stack…good enough? It is for me of course -:) Those who know me…virtually or personally,... Read More »

Please join Storm Archer at the 2009 Sapphire/ASUG Annual in Orlando, Fl. May 11-14th. Storm will be presenting a session on the Enhancement Package Installation Process. Here is the abstract on the session: Discover how SAP’s new... Read More »

Please join Storm Archer at the 2009 Sapphire/ASUG Annual in Orlando, Fl. May 11-14th. Storm will be presenting a session on the SAP Enhanced Change and Transport System (CTS+). Below is the session information: In an SAP landscape, there are... Read More »