Blogs posted July 29, 2011

Have you ever worked with a software without getting to the point that you didn’t know how to achieve something specific with it? Yeah, me neither. Sometimes you just need help, right?It will be the same with Business ByDesign. Even though we... Read More »

With a recent request, I needed to provide a countdown for a dashboard contest that could not be hacked. If you need the current time in a dashboard, the Excel formula is NOW() is useful for many scenarios. The problem NOW(), is a local PC... Read More »

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is the technology of choice for thousands of organizations that desire an approachable entry point into business intelligence. A dashboard can provide a wide range of capabilities, all wrapped up in a simple and... Read More »

The African Cashew Initiative (ACi) is a project aimed at helping small-scale cashew farmers in Ghana increase their productivity and income by offering training programs and materials. SAP Research is one partner in the project, which is co-funded... Read More »

I have been working on Crystal Reports .NET application but never knew the Object Model used by me for programming. The object models in the SDK not only expose the report objects but also manipulate them.  Learning about object models has... Read More »

Are you a Specialist or a Generalist?   I came across a very interesting discussion that happened between two groups of team members. I found it very interesting and made me pause and think if I fall under specialist, generalist or... Read More »

V3 has put together the Top 100 Technology Tweeters, for those of you new to Twitter, or looking for some inspiration on who to follow. Our very own Oliver Bussmann made it onto this list.Take a look here.

In this podcast Dan McWeeney & Ed Herrmann are interviewed by the two TechEd Demo Jam coaches, Tobias Queck and Sebastian Steinhauer.   Dan McWeeney works at Adobe Systems as a Solution Architect. He is currently working on a new... Read More »

Let me first explain a bit more about SAProuter and what it is then I can get into how it will impact SAP BusinessObjects. SAProuter controls the access to your network, acting as an application gateway. As such, it is a useful enhancement to an... Read More »

There are hundreds of “green” iPhone apps. Many of them are junk. Some of them actually can help you live more sustainably. Here are a few I think are cool. Walkscore“Find a walkable place to live.” Of course it is good for... Read More »