Blogs posted July 8, 2011

The SAP eco-system is in a very exciting period of time where there is a rapid accumulation of industry technologies and community-based paradigms are driving the way forward. In Australia – for a developer like myself, the reinvigorated... Read More »

Customers who recycle their RAS servers periodically may notice that sometimes even though the RAS server is up and running per the CMC or the CCM that it will refuse a crystal reports job like it would if it were down. There may be instances where... Read More »

Good to see you again, folks! This time I would like to talk about the freight as an issue for the PIS/COFINS. The ECD – PIS/COFINS file layout is divided into some greater groups, and freight nature is located in Group D, register... Read More »

It was Ben Franklin who once said “in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” If Ben were alive today, I wonder if he’d modify his now-legendary quote to include gamification. I’ve delved into... Read More »

If you followed the series of blogs about Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager (e.g. about how to monitor an  Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Order to Cash, Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Procure... Read More »

If you asked a majority of people who will be SAP’s biggest competitor in the coming years my guess is the names Oracle and Salesforce would be the two most commonly mentioned. If I had to place a bet I would say the right answer is Workday... Read More »

In this week’s edition I’ll try to describe how we work around some performance issues we experienced in the lab when accessing IBM i file systems as Windows 7 mapped drives. Windows 7 and mapped drives to IBM i In recent... Read More »

Don’t Just Manage Your Trade Promotions — Optimize Them       The expense of promotions represents the second highest single line item in the corporate budget, after the cost of goods. So ensuring that... Read More »