Blogs posted July 2010

Authored by Ashvinder Rana, Data Migration Lead, Utopia, Inc.                   Many of us have been a part of various data migration projects at some point or the other. We all know data is important.... Read More »

Recent Question from Customers: “Do you have any recommendations on installing the .NET (IIS) vs Java (Tomcat) versions? I liked the ease with which we implemented the SSO hack in IIS on our XI R2 server but I’m not sure if we can... Read More »

Have you heard the IT consultant-seagull joke?  It runs something like this: Q:  Why are IT consultants like seagulls? A:  Because they have big bills and hover around squawking at you, before crapping on you and flying off, leaving... Read More »

Beware of shortcuts because they seldom are, especially when it comes to talking to your customers!  It is so tempting to follow the lead of a “savvy surrogate” when it comes to steering a software project.  After all,... Read More »

Today is the day, the deadline for the SAP Demo Jam 2010 submissions! OK we might extend the deadline for Bangalore BUT that will not be decided until next week so if you ware wanting to submit an idea for Berlin, Las Vegas or Bangalore you need... Read More »

Just wanted to put together a little blog to track the events of SAP Inside Track – St. Louis 2010.  We’ll go in chronological order.  I find I like narratives that way, the backwards episode of “Seinfeld”... Read More »

Sometimes BPC system needs to be restarted whatever the reason is. Here is what we should restart. (Note: it should be done sequentially.) 1. Stop ‘Send Governor’ service 2. Stop BPC component services (Please see below screen shot how... Read More »

What With this neat functionality business users can print electronic version of reports and / or dashboards, which means taking a snapshot of the data at that given point in time and storing it for later use.   When Cases were this... Read More »

As part of my duties as the Media Relations Manager for SAP Canada, I get to spend a lot of time with our Executives. What I do during that time varies, but it’s a lot of interview preparation, background documents, message creation and... Read More »

The clearing rule can be used to populate a value in one field from cleared item to clearing item when you clearing a open item in clearing transaction code. For example, you want to transfer value saved in BSEG-XREF1 of open item to clearing item... Read More »