Blogs posted May 21, 2009

Background Information Many technical systems can only receive batches of data like, for example one file with many business transactions, many master data objects (customers, materials). It may be possible for those systems to receive the data on... Read More »

In my post about “What  can be done with Enterprise Architecture” I mentioned four main areas  where I’m using successfully enterprise architecture. I already started to touch  IT planning (will dedicate posts for... Read More »

While I’m not sure if it was entirely intended, I found the joint presentation between Jim, as head of products, and Bill, as head of sales, a nice parallel for closing the gap between strategy and execution. In many organizations, there is a... Read More »

I was in the middle of a discussion with some bloggers about the collision between traditional enterprise software and social media tools. I had just remarked that Web 2.0 applications have as much to learn from SAP as SAP has to learn from them... Read More »

While there were a number of press releases this week at SAPPHIRE, today’s press conference was dominated by the announcement of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is a “self-service, search-driven, and... Read More »

Léo Apotheker began his keynote with some sobering reminders of the economic crisis: U.S. unemployment is at a 15 year high. The U.S. stimulus package is nearly $800 billion, greater than the U.S. GDP 50 years ago. The world will not be... Read More »

SAP has been making a lot of noise, since the launch in early March, about its sustainability initiatives. Sustainability also featured heavily at the recent Sapphire in Orlando during which SAP announced the release of the SAP 2008 Sustainability... Read More »

For those of you who may not have logged onto the Insight from SAPPHIRE virtual platform, I’m reproducing my blog posts from there onto SDN.  This is the inagural post: __________________________________________________   At last... Read More »

We are working for several years with various TREX versions normally without any mayor issue. But suddenly my fears came true – it happened! There is a problem with our TREX and we can’t find out what is going wrong there. So the first... Read More »