Blogs posted October 2010

Another installment in the “Dear aBI” series of posts where some BusinessObjects Community Experts take a question from a Community Member, take a stab at answering, and open it up for discussion.  I’m considered an expert... Read More »

Prologue: There was a time when I used to use XML Spy trial versions to help me test my SOAP scenarios. Then one day someone recommended SOAPUI. I fell in love….. Chapter 1: A Disclosure Most of us use SOAPUI as a test tool for testing... Read More »

Improve Company bottom line through using Profit and Cost Management Analytical Applications I have been responsible for implementing net profit and cost management solutions in a few companies and seen each one rapidly improve their bottom line... Read More »

Reference Data are records which will be used in planning functions  but cannot be changed while execution. In BPS, we don’t have the concept of Reference Data. All Data Executions were  processed “Without”... Read More »

A new smartphone app aims to bring a little peace of mind to parents this Halloween. This yearly ritual can also be a source of anxiety for parents as they let older kids traverse the dusky neighborhoods on their own.... Read More »

Microsoft Corp’s resident visionary and departing software chief, Ray Ozzie, has urged the company to move on from its Windows and Office roots and imagine a “post-PC world” of simple, global Web... Read More »

A couple of months ago I found an interesting programm that listed all user exits that could be used in a transaction. I wrote this in the blog:   Looking for user exits for a specific transaction?   Now I found one even better:... Read More »

Blog update 11/01/2010: podcast added! Hey folks – the ten minute podcast I taped with Leo that goes along with this video blog is now up as well. It’s a raw file, I even kept in the part where I butcher Leo’s name... Read More »

Worth reading? Rare in customer systems, inevitable in development systems: ABAP runtime errors cause dumps. Keep on reading to learn how to access detailed information on ABAP runtime errors that recently occurred, even in the unlikely case that... Read More »

SAP MII Backuper an application that I have developed which can take unattended backups of the Configuration & Projects of any SAP MII system above 12.0. Though the method of taking backups varies between SAP MII 12.0 and system greater than... Read More »