Blogs posted December 19, 2011

We launched our SAP community eight years ago, in 2003, with a simple goal: to help developers and other technologists connect and collaborate in order to increase their quality and success with SAP solutions. Look at the the tremendous growth and... Read More »

I wanted to finish up blogging about the Open Innovation Strategy paper I published on SCN last month by drawing attention to the value serived from getting a firm’s OI strategy to include how to ensure OI initiatives bring value the... Read More »

Starting January 2nd 2012, COIL will be leaning forward into both finishing projects with a late start in 2011 and ramping up some of the newest projects beginning early in Q1. With attending to end of year matters and staging projects for 2012,... Read More »

SAP Research, led particularly by its location in Pretoria, South Africa, has recognized the great potential in emerging economies. This potential relates not only to the chance for SAP to break into this fast-growing market but also to the... Read More »

The BI 4 \ Crystal Reports Server 2011 SDK for VS 2010 has been released. Unfortunately, integrating the SDK into VS 2010 is not as simple a precess as one would hope. In this blog, I will describe how to integrate the SDK into VS 2010. I will also... Read More »

The Supplier On-boarding exercise is pursued as one of the last steps of any Supplier Relationship Management project that I have ever been a part of. There is a reason behind this and the biggest one being stake-holder priority,... Read More »

The Sybase Unwired Platform has generated a fair amount of interest this past year from enterprise developers. But to be honest, there’s been frustration, too. The frustration comes not from the SUP technology itself, which made a huge leap... Read More »

What is happening? Importing address lists that contain ZIP codes that start with a zero can be tricky.  Often, the leading zero will be removed before Postalsoft has a chance to acquire the data.  One example of this is when a list is... Read More »

Consider a scenario where multiple measures are shown in a single report table. Now the requirement is to rank the table based on one of the measure as selected by user. I will use e-fashion universe to show how we can achieve this.... Read More »

I had an epiphany the other day. It finally became clear to me that what I was trying to do would never work. I wanted to publish a ‘sentiment analysis’ report based on Twitter, using just Data Services and some reporting tool from... Read More »