Blogs posted December 2010

Like many Americans, I depend fairly heavily on my car. Recently I started searching for the next car in my life–unfortunately, I have had quite a difficult time finding the perfect car–but the automotive industry is getting closer and... Read More »

According to Wikipedia, only 12% of resolutions are actually achieved. This fairly dismal achievement rate seems to indicate that people need to be more thoughtful about their resolutions. So says the same article, the top three most popular... Read More »

  Retailers Choose to Grow: In the retail arena, the year 2010 marks a climb out of the abyss and a return to growth and exploring the possible.  There is a willingness to investigate fresh ideas for engaging with customers.  On many... Read More »

Dear SCN Community:   It was a year without parallel.  As social media, social networking, and social commerce gained in stature in the broader marketplace, the SAP Community Network (SCN) continued to refine, extend, and leverage social... Read More »

Task Manager helps in managing different activities to be performed by the users in Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) system. Task Profile Creation being One time activity it involves lot of responsibility in creating it. Right set of... Read More »

I am posting this from my parent’s house in Trivandrum, India where I am vacationing. It used to be a different world altogether just a few years ago – but today, life in US and life in India look a whole lot similar.   2010 has... Read More »

 To understand a successful and secured configuration management system, we need to answer  the following questions:   What are configurations? Scenarios in which configurations are used? How are configurations changed? Where... Read More »

Over the holidays I have had the pleasure of spending some time in the mountains. In an ideal world, I would spend my time in the backcountry “earning my turns” instead of riding a chair lift–far too often I find my rear... Read More »

Sometimes you have to extract a large number of records from a huge database table. This was the case with a custom ABAP program that prepares F110S Payment Runs for SAP mega customers. As part of the custom ABAP program algorithm, a simple SELECT... Read More »

For those interested in mobile retailing applications, mobile money, mobile commerce and mobile banking, I have written separate newsletters on these topics. Mobile Retailing News WeeklyMobile Money News Weekly Now for this week’s... Read More »