Blogs posted December 13, 2011

Introduction A s you might have noticed I have put some time in creating a banner for this blog. This is part of my new plan to deliver better quality blogs. Finding the right information is often considered to be challenging. That’s... Read More »

To understand if these components cover most of the HR processes, let’s first see what are the common HR processes used by today’s businesses and then compare these with SAP coverage. We could, for understanding purposes, classify... Read More »

SAP HANA is a modern platform for real-time analytics and applications. It enables organizations to analyze business operations based on large volume and variety of detailed data in real-time, without any delays. Take a look at the SAP HANA... Read More »

If you have a date field on your report, you may have days missing on the report. Sometimes there may be a need to simply display the days that are missing so that the sequence is not interrupted. For example, your report may look like... Read More »

At the SAP Influencer Summit on Tuesday, the company touted its  mobile milestones and achievements for 2011, while promising major  upgrades and improvements to its mobile software. Below are a bunch of slides from the keynote... Read More »

If you have data fields representing latitude and longitude and wish to calculate the distance between two points, you can use a Haversine calculation to approximate that distance.   In Crystal Reports there is no built in function that does... Read More »

Are you an SAP PI consultant? Have you ever thought what will happen when one day you search about “SAP PI Consultant” role on Google and Google says this? :-/        Don’t worry, this won’t happen... Read More »

I am very excited to blog about this comparison and positioning paper about existing SAP workflow and orchestration technologies. This paper is the result of a long research and review process involving multiple people within SAP (Product... Read More »

<disclaimer: this blog post got lost on SCN migration and is now restored back to the right space. Features of system recommendations have been improved in the meantime, however, the blog post content is still valid / sentiment is still correct... Read More »

What retailer’s name would you insert?  Mine would be “Chicago Cabbie.”   Yes, my #1 customer experience in 2011 is from my taxi driver, who has taken the notion of a retail “storefront” beyond the next... Read More »