Blogs posted April 27, 2011

In Guerrilla Tactics for SAP’s OnDemand ‘Go to Market’ Strategy of the history of River – SAP’s new OnDemand PaaS platform, I found old documents, forum posts and other content from Coghead that provided interesting... Read More »

Mastering Configuration in short time is not just a fantasy, its achievable! A good news for beginners, I’m sure. While some know the trick, for others the “how” is still a mystery. Copy – Paste – Change!   My... Read More »

The data flow concept has been significantly improved with SAP BW release 7.0. Customers have got used to this new concept and are looking for examples, templates, best practices in BI Content, or they even want to use state-of-the-art BI... Read More »

As heavy, pre-defined processes lumbered under their own weight, new methodologies have much more cache: Agile. Lean. They even sound aspirational. Of course we all want to be agile. And we all want to be lean. However, you can get carried away.... Read More »

Purpose: The primary purpose of this blog is to demonstrate how a skilled person can solve problems quickly and efficiently than by several groups. I don’t suggest one person could solve all problems in all situations. The point I’m... Read More »

I wasn’t really in the mood to talk/blog about hockey or my favourite NHL (National Hockey League) team, the Vancouver Canucks, these past couple of weeks. That’s because after winning the first 3 games in the playoff series, they went... Read More »

Gartner’s annual assessment of Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem for 2011 features SAP Ecohub member, Winshuttle, among the vendors producing technology that requires scrutiny by any SAP shop that is concerned about containing costs,... Read More »

How can we have a productive conversation about risk management unless we use the same language? One of the terms that serves as much to confuse as clarify is “risk appetite’. What does it mean, and how does it differ from risk... Read More »

About a year ago, Michael Rasmussen and I made a presentation to the Society of Actuaries’ Risk Symposium on the topic of “Creating a Risk Management Culture”. (PDF of slides is available here.) I have always felt this was a... Read More »

Well,….. it is this time of the year….   For me the “conference season” starts and yes it did officially start in March with the SAP Insider BI / IT conference but the real start of the “season” is always... Read More »