Blogs posted April 19, 2011

When the ASUG HCM community gathered in January to plan this year’s educational material for the SAPPHIRE-ASUG Annual Conference, the team looked beyond basic HR and Payroll functionality to deliver a comprehensive look at tools SAP delivers... Read More »

It’s around us, we see them, we feel them, we use them, we save them, we hone them…any guesses SAP Procurement folks. Am referring to Templates that we use inside the system, the templatization capabilities inside our suite of products... Read More »

Winshuttle launched new product offerings at Sapphire in 2010 that have the potential to revolutionize the thinking around form development for SAP environments. One of the features demonstrated there and at SAP insider conferences and ASUG... Read More »

I have thought about my first SDN blog post and felt this was the way to go.  @SAP_Jarret has a great list of the things you need to do to be an SAP Expert.  I think you also need to develop a humble and giving attitude.  Believe it... Read More »

Yesterday I was talking to one of the wicked smart software engineers I know—Dave Gustafson  (who also plays a killer trombone, BTW). Dave was talking about techniques for smart, pragmatic refactoring of code, and I couldn’t help... Read More »

Last week a colleague, who was exploring the Ad Hoc Query transaction, sought some help in configuring the query from end-to-end. I explained him the steps needed to build the Query environment for end-users. He was happy to do it by himself and to... Read More »

With SAP NetWeaver Identity Management 7.2 it is possible to use an application programming interface (API), in order to develop custom user interfaces (UI) for special end user scenarios. This API uses web standards like REST (Representational... Read More »

This is Part 12 of the Global Bicycle Inc. (GBI 2.0) story, as related by an intern. The full series begins with Global Bicycle Inc.: An Intern Adventure.   Part 12: What I Learned, What You Can Do, A Final Thank You Part way through the... Read More »

Thank god!  SAP finally put an end to the performance horror stories with IPC in large order and contracts scenario with EHP1.  I blogged about how persisted cumulative values of an order or contract in a table  solved the... Read More »

A couple of days ago on Twitter, Martin Lang asked if anyone had used the Apple Push Notification Service to push a message from SAP to an iOS device. The timing of this question was excellent, as a couple of weeks earler I had built a very basic... Read More »