Blogs posted January 2010

The following are excerpts from an article I wrote for the Oct/Nov/Dec 2009 issue of SAP Insider magazine.  The full article can be found at http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/.   New Cost-Effective Delivery Options from SAP Education   Many... Read More »

Mobile Devices We all know the mobile market is exploding and we have seen sales projections by market analysts suggesting sales of smart phones  will increase from 190M to 250M+ in 2010. We can also expect “new” devices  like ... Read More »

In my previous blog post I have discussed the principles of BPM maturity models and the definition of BPM maturity levels. A BPM maturity check can analyze your current BPM capabilities. The goal can be to benchmark with other companies within the... Read More »

…to a quick-to-value EA practice. This past week I attended a local PMI dinner meeting where a friend of mine who was speaking on the evolution of Project Management, Business Architecture, and Service Management in the IT Organization.... Read More »

Earlywatch Alert Reporting The measure of any good Support Team is how quickly they react to disruptions in business oprerations. This ALM functionality teaser will demonstrate how you can grant yourself more reaction time by producing an early... Read More »

Apache Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME)  has been associated with the SAP Ecosystem since its inception about18 months ago.  For those who are interested in reading about the project’s history, I’d suggest using the following SDN... Read More »

2009 was a watershed year for the BPM program here at SAP.  We brought to market SAP’s first true BPM offering, SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management 7.1 at Sapphire.  In the little over half a year that the product has been generally... Read More »

Trend  #8 – Profitability Performance  While past decade saw Budgeting, Planning and financial consolidation as the core business process surrounding Performance Management, the biggest business problem that LoB and CFOs would like to analyze... Read More »

As you might have noticed, there is an area on the SDN Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) landing page dedicated to the business value and justification of application life-cycle management. This area goes beyond the function and feature... Read More »

I was working on the MDM business content. When I import reference data regions.xml, get error “Socket error”. I has checked  ALL component is the same version. (Note 1345858) The MDM server is on windows 2003 x64. Later I installed... Read More »