Blogs posted April 1, 2011

Last weekend, I went up to Chateau Montelena in the Napa Valley to pick up a case of Cabernet Sauvignon that I had purchased two years ago through their wine futures program.  Selling wine futures is something that we have seen in Europe for... Read More »

So you want to create a simple application in PowerBuilder .NET to view, export and print Crystal Reports? Well this is the information for you. This will be a step-by-step guide in how to accomplish just that. Part One – Setting up the... Read More »

With the latest Rate Case you may have seen where the USPS has decided to discontinue Standard Mail Stamped envelopes.  You may ask what this means for you.  According to the Federal Register all this means actually is that your... Read More »

 Introduction    As we all know BIA has become an important hardware tool in enhancing the performance of the BI reporting functionality, there are still few stubborn attributes of this hardware component especially in estimating... Read More »

Ever wondered what naming conventions should one follow while creating planning objects like Aggregation Level, Filters, variables, functions etc. during the development of a BI Integrated Planning Project?  I did, when I started my first... Read More »

The Duet Enterprise proposition is multi-faceted. It is a product with ready-to-use functionalities. It is a composition environment for constructing your own solution by composing delivered functional and technical building blocks, e.g. SharePoint... Read More »

Implement New Data Classes in the technical Settings & Change the Data Class of a SAP Table  1. Create a new memory area in the Database  First create a new memory area, for example, a tablespace, in the database. This tablespace... Read More »

SAP, in a strategic initiative to find a funny April Fools Day posting, announced today their first live intergalactic customer on SAP Business ByDesign, Starfleet of Alpha Centauri. “Mmmmzzzt.  We are proud to announce that the... Read More »

I have a new laptop. That’s the good news. It’s a most up-to-date machine, using Windows 7 and Excel 2010 (64bit). As you all know the maintenance for SAP GUI 7.10 ends in April 2011. So I downloaded the latest SAP GUI 7.20... Read More »

I pose the above question to start a discussion on the why’s and how’s of an enterprise energy management strategy.   With the recent unrest in the Middle East and northern Africa combined with the increasing energy demand from... Read More »