Blogs posted July 28, 2011

For those of us who closely watch the mobile messaging industry, SMS, the crown jewel of many operators’ data ARPU results is undergoing tremendous change.  This is a natural evolution instead of a revolutionary change.  In previous... Read More »

I am about to head to Sydney for a week of SAP as part of the SAP Australian User Group (SAUG) Summit.  Before I attend the Summit I will be participating in the Australian SAP Innojam.  I am a bit apprehensive about my contributions... Read More »

Continuing from my last blog, Caboodle – Part 8 – BOBJ4 Analysis for Office Install.   In this blog, I download and install Crystal Reports 2011 and Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0. Crystal Reports (CR) currently comes in two... Read More »

As promised (threatened?), Philippe Winthrop of the Enterprise Mobility Forum and I exchanged views about enterprise mobility this morning during SAP’s inaugural Tweetchat. I think it went pretty well: we answered almost 30 questions from and... Read More »

Scenario:   You have a report that has 2 multiple value parameters. You want the end user to be able to enter different values that will return similar customers using a parameter called CustomerLike. You also want the end... Read More »

In my career at BusinessObjects and SAP I have supported many administrators, developers, and consultants and have seen a variety of complex administration challenges for which there has not been a simple or elegant monitoring solution.  There... Read More »

Research agency Vanson Bourne surveyed 500 IT Managers and CIOs in the UK. The results follow: “88% of businesses saw data as a strategic asset to their business…” “A third of large organizations in the UK admit to having... Read More »

SAP Sourcing users use Internet Explorer to access Sourcing application. In this blog I am going to cover a minor, yet an important configuration that applies to Sourcing on Internet Explorer 8 and above.   If you are an Internet Explorer 8... Read More »

SAP’s carbon footprint is up 8% in its second quarter compared to the year-ago quarter. And “emissions per employee (or full time equivalent) increased by 3%”. “There was an 18% increase in air travel.” The firm says... Read More »

SAP Test Data Migration Server is a high-speed data extraction tool that transfers relevant business data from your SAP production system to your development, test, quality assurance, or training system. By enabling the transfer of just the... Read More »