Blogs posted April 11, 2011

The interviews with Semantics at SAP and the one with Matthias Kaiser about the relevance of semantics in software (“Semantics at SAP or why apple computers don’t taste sweet“) gave you hopefully a rough idea what semantics... Read More »

Back in the day when I managed teams of BASIS and Security resources the challenge was always trying to convince the higher ups that more people were needed to man the pumps. Here are some musings on this challenge which may be relevant to more... Read More »

Put aside some time to read through this new report from Deloitte, subtitled The natural convergence of business and IT.  Here are some of the highlights for me, although I will bet you will have your own favorites: A major focus on business... Read More »

For background on data migration, check out Ginger Gatling’s blog (First look at SAP’s Data Migration Solution). As Ginger points out, our data migration offering centers around an SAP customer who’s migrating data into... Read More »

Jim DeLoach has been a pioneer and thought leader in risk management for a long time, including a successful bookand a role in the development of COSO’s ERM Framework. (He is also a good friend, whose opinion I value and... Read More »

According to IDC, by 2013, more than 1.19 billion workers worldwide will be using mobile technology. They will access sometimes sensitive data outside the secure walls of corporate headquarters. A challenge for enterprises and CIOs.  Watch... Read More »

Dear community, I’d be interested to know which technical features you would absolutely like to see implemented across all SAP brands including BOBJ and Sybase. For example, making SSO work across all our products and deployment layer (on... Read More »

There has been many highs and lows in my career, since I started working as SAP Basis Consultant since 2006. I will soon be completing 5 years as a SAP Technical Consultant. I cannot say I have seen it all but it has been quite a bit of experience.... Read More »

Often software licensing is either addressed in painful legalese or in light marketing speak. Complete and readable software licensing information is hard to find. To help our SAP Crystal portfolio cusotmers, I’ve recently updated this... Read More »

Being part of No. of Budgeting projects in South  East Asia, one of the common business requirements of Group finance/CFO is simulation of Annual Budgets   Typically the Annual Budgeting process is done based on certain Key assumptions... Read More »