Free eBook: Building Your Future through Personal Learning
When it comes to career development, many people don’t know where to start. This short guide helps you to set out your career goals and then start the process of “life long learning” by creating a “personal learning environment”. Gavin Heaton in SAP TechEd, SAP Developer Network, Careers, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, Beginner [Nov. 19, 2009 10:49 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Competitive Pressures and Value Propositions, Is Lean the Answer?
The latest kick is Lean and Six Sigma but in most cases that will not make the difference in addressing competitive pressures or your value proposition. Focus on business drivers for your SAP implementation before the project, throughout the project, and after go-live to see real benefit. Bill Wood in Analytics, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, ERP, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research [Nov. 18, 2009 07:13 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Innovation-Speed to Market is Key
The importantance of getting ot market quickly with innovation. David Cruickshank in Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Co-Innovation Lab, Partnership [Nov. 18, 2009 05:31 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

How healthy and ‘Green’ is the food you eat?
How Eco Labels will drive consumer choices like Nutrition lables do today. Chetan Jain in Beyond SAP, Consumer Products, Ranting, Retail, Sustainability [Nov. 17, 2009 11:39 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Messages, EDI, and SAP: More Than Just Data Vessels
Welcome to the first of a series of blog postings about messages and message standards in EDI and SAP. Join me as I cover the basics of the key message standards used in EDI in an SAP environment including EDIFACT, X12, and IDocs. So stay tuned ... and I hope you enjoy the ride. Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, SAP Process Integration (PI), Retail, Ranting, Procurement and SRM, Integration and Certification, ERP, Beyond SAP, Beginner, Standards [Nov. 16, 2009 06:21 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Should the Enterprise go mobile ?
This weblog draws the interest in making business applications available to the enterprise users, which benefits you could get from these and which principles should drive the project. Faycal CHRAIBI in Beyond SAP, Business Solutions, Mobile, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI) [Nov. 15, 2009 03:54 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Academic Study Finds SAP Community Offers High Response Rates, Timely Answers, and Sense of Community
Researchers at the University of Colorado analyzed the SAP Community Network (SCN) - in particular, our discussion forums - in a study examining peer-support communities. They compared SCN to two other such communities. See their conclusions about the culture created through your community participation. Mark Yolton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network [Nov. 11, 2009 11:36 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

An unconventional use of SAP Text Analysis
SAP Research has recently released the first ever iPhone SAP application in the AppStore. The application demonstrates the power of SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis in a very surprising scenario. Read more to find out what the application does and how to get it (it's free of charge!). Dr. Marek Kowalkiewicz in Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Consumer Products, SAP Research, SAP TechEd, Search, Widgets [Nov. 11, 2009 06:51 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Thoughts on a McKinsey study on technology and workforce collaboration
A recent McKinsey & Company research study found that between 20 and 50 percent of collaborative activity is a wasted effort; their published findings proposed ways for technology to improve the quality and output of collaborative work. In this post I comment on what their findings have to say about our collaborative work in the SAP Communities. Gretchen Lindquist in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Co-Innovation Lab, Community Projects, Emerging Technologies, SAP Developer Network [Nov. 11, 2009 05:56 AM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

Predicting the Future of Predictive Analytics as an Enterprise Suite Product
Some five years ago Gartner classified Data Mining as immature technology in Business Intelligence (BI). 5 years later I am revisiting that judgment and provide my two cents about the strategic value of Predictive Analytics solution for the large enterprise software vendors. Shuki Idan in Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Professional Services, Analytics, CRM [Nov. 11, 2009 05:19 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Virtualization, Sustainability and Selfishness
How sustainability within SAP landscapes provides business benefits, which means you can focus on the bottom line, and save the planet at the same time! John Appleby in Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Portal (EP), ERP, Sustainability [Nov. 10, 2009 01:09 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Gaming, Online Business and SAP.
What we can learn from user experience and emotion within the gaming industry when are focusing on online business? Pim de Wit in Beyond SAP [Nov. 07, 2009 01:34 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Café Innovation – How about an SAP App store?
In this age of people-centric technology, the iPhone revolution has brought about new business models and innovative ways in which people seek to conduct routine business. Fueling this is the availability of an increasing number of “apps” that are a result of a community-driven approach to make the mobile experience more meaningful. Enterprise application of this approach is picking up. Possibly, it is only a matter of time before we see a plethora of “apps” serving those that have enterprise needs – including those serviced by SAP functionality. Puneet K. Suppal in Beyond SAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP xApps, SAP Developer Network, Mobile, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Standards [Nov. 06, 2009 11:49 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Master of One . What Next ?
This blog has come out of some of my doubts and apprehensions on been handling a single module for quite some time Gajesh Nagesh in Beginner, Beyond SAP, ERP [Nov. 06, 2009 02:23 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Tech Skills Chat with JonERP - A Follow-on Story
Inspired by the Tech Skills Chat podcast from the Enterprise Geeks, here's a little story, and one piece of simple advice on how to progress in the SAP world. DJ Adams in Beyond SAP [Nov. 05, 2009 02:24 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

What's Your Big (Education) Idea?
Using IdeaShare from Learning on Demand by SAP, you can share your ideas on the future of learning. Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP [Nov. 02, 2009 02:31 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Which IFRS are needed for your SEM-BCS?
A look at which IFRS and IAS statements are most relevant to BCS. greg misiorek in Beyond SAP, BI Accelerator, Business Intelligence (BI), International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) [Nov. 01, 2009 12:41 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

BPM in Ten Years? My Best Shot
At SAP TechEd 2009 Vienna, I met Chris Horak, who told me that he wondered what the future of Business Process Management might look like: “What will the successors of today’s BPM and ERP software in 10 or 15 years look like?” I took up the challenge and gave the matter some thought. Here's my best shot at it. Thorsten Franz in Beyond SAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Ranting, ERP, Emerging Technologies, Business Rules Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Universal Worklist [Oct. 31, 2009 04:15 PM | 16 Comments | Permalink]

SAP and Web 2.0 -- Since the Beginning
SAP sponsored the Web 2.0 Summit this year for the very first time -- and you might have seen Marge Breya giving the same live demo that she gave to the Web 2.0 audience at SAP TechEd this year. Has SAP "arrived" at "Web 2.0" at last? Or is Web 2.0 just catching up now? Moya Watson in Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, Mobile, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Oct. 30, 2009 01:59 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

The Real Reason Executive Participation Creates SAP Project Success
Successful SAP projects occur with executive involvement because of the nature of their role of setting direction, creating long term goals, and developing strategy. This is the hidden reason that is often overlooked--, it is their strategy "imprint" on the project that changes the dynamics. Their forward looking insight provides more possibility for satisfied customers and successful implementations than the more common reasons of authority or visibiity. Bill Wood in Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Solutions, CRM, ERP, Manufacturing, Professional Services [Oct. 30, 2009 08:05 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

sharing source, open source, .... a license to copy ?
Once upon a time, before the Dinosaurs were told to go away and die, there was code sharing ..... Martin English in Beyond SAP, Open Source [Oct. 29, 2009 11:35 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

WWW = Way to a Wiser World!
Based on my search in the internet on the topic of Orgaanizational Wisdom I tend to form a view that the publication of these two books, one in 1998 and the other in 2007, the presentation by JPCarlisle in 2006 and many more resources in the web may be considered as an indication of the recent progress in the subject. The Chicago University's Arete Initiative and other initiatives by individuals reflected by the number of websites may certainly be taken to indicate the interest and concern with the subject. Hence we may reasonably conclude that the 'Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom' trajectory appears to be becoming an interesting area of study. This seems to give hope that IT would eventually help a wiser world dawn as a continuum of processing of data, information and knowledge so far. Anbazhagan Sam Venkatesan in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Rules Management, Sustainability [Oct. 28, 2009 07:33 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Blue Shirts aka how to spot an SAP Mentor at SAP TechEd
Not all innovations are technical, actually one of the most fascinating ones, at least to me, you can witness right now at TechEd: The blue rugby shirts that the SAP Mentors are wearing. Mark Finnern in Beyond SAP, SAP TechEd [Oct. 26, 2009 10:06 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Why was good to be an SAP Mentor at TechEd Phoenix 09
I was an SAP Mentor at TechEd Phoenix 09...and you? Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Community Day, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Oct. 26, 2009 07:21 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

Doing more with less: usability and features
Find the fine balance between ease of use and depth of functionality, to increase value for your customers and profits for your offering. Chetan Jain in Beyond SAP, Business Solutions, Consumer Products, CRM, Ranting, Retail [Oct. 26, 2009 05:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Community-focused BPM: Lessons Learned from SAP’s Enterprise Services Community
This blog continues my exploration of Social BPM and focuses on the problems associated with BPM communities as well as suggests a possible basis for successful BPM work in this context based on the experience gained in the SAP's Enterprise Services Community. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Ranting, SAP Research, Standards [Oct. 22, 2009 08:33 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

My SDN(SCN) Story
This blog is all about my experiences and association with SDN/SCN over the last 4 years. Ravi Kanth Talagana in Beyond SAP, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 22, 2009 08:17 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Wave, Web Dynpro, and the Magic Glue: Google Wave and Web Dynpro Integration Part 1
Google Wave is here, and many active contributors from SCN have been swarming all over it, using it, experimenting, programming against its API, and discussing possible use cases and their business value. I have been working on the topic of Web Dynpro integration: How can we integrate waves and Web Dynpro? And what does this mean for the future of enterprise software? Thorsten Franz in Application Server, Visual Composer, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Ranting, Interoperability, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Emerging Technologies, Composition Environment (CE), Business Suite 7, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP, Web Dynpro [Oct. 21, 2009 02:58 PM | 12 Comments | Permalink]

Join my Expert Networking Sessions at SAP TechEd 09 Vienna - RESCHEDULED
Are you making the final arrangements for your trip to SAP TechEd 2009 in Vienna? I look forward to this exciting event which is, for me, the highlight of the SAP year. Please join me for two open discussion events in the Clubhouse networking lounge on Web Dynpro as OpenSource and Custom Development with SAP NetWeaver. Note: I had to reschedule both sessions - the updates times are in the blog. Thorsten Franz in ABAP, Application Server, Beyond SAP, Community Day, Composition Environment (CE), Interoperability, Java Programming, Web Dynpro [Oct. 20, 2009 07:21 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Getting the Juicy Goodness Out of Personal Learning
This is how you can constructively use your personal learning environment to grow your SAP career. Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 19, 2009 10:41 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP TechEd Phoenix 2009 - My blogging review
SAP TechEd Phoenix 2009 is over...here are my thoughts... Alvaro Tejada Galindo in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Community Day, Emerging Technologies, SAP Developer Network, SAP Network TV, SAP TechEd, Scripting Languages [Oct. 19, 2009 08:21 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Trying to relate SAP Notes to one another
SEM-BCS SAP Notes greg misiorek in Business Process Modeling, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Standards [Oct. 19, 2009 05:48 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

A Billion for a Billion
For the first time in human history, the number of hungry people worldwide will exceed one billion this year Ignacio Hernández in Beyond SAP [Oct. 17, 2009 12:18 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

How Lean, Agile and Scrum will shape your company of the future
Lean, Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting adopted across industries. This is an interview at #SAPTeched09 on this topic Dagfinn Parnas in Beyond SAP [Oct. 16, 2009 10:03 AM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Mentors : Now on your Windows Mobile
The SAP Mentor' Theme : Coming to a Windows Mobile near you... Abesh Bhattacharjee in Beyond SAP, Community Day, Emerging Technologies, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, Widgets [Oct. 16, 2009 04:50 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Global SAP Co-Innovation Lab Network's Contribution to Sustainability
Learn about SAP Co-Innovation Lab's Contribution to the emerging theme of Sustainability. Joachim von Goetz in Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab, Partnership, Sustainability [Oct. 16, 2009 12:19 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Partners Speak Out on SCN
Some SAP partners recently reflected on the value of participating in the SAP Community Network. In short, participation offered the technical and business resources that allowed them to stay current, solve problems fast and deliver their products on time and on budget. SCN also provided them a vehicle to demonstrate thought leadership and build reputation so as to generate leads. Read their comments... Vicki Shipkowitz in Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, EcoHub, Partnership, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Oct. 15, 2009 02:26 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Blogger roundtable with SAP Research
Interesting discussion of two SAP research projects James Taylor in Beyond SAP [Oct. 14, 2009 04:13 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP TechEd 09 - Day of User Community
The ASUG Arizona chapter meeting happened during what would have been SAP TechEd Community Day. I went to many of the sessions, met old friends and made new ones. Jim Spath in Beyond SAP, Community Day, SAP Solution Manager, SAP TechEd [Oct. 13, 2009 03:44 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Project Management Courses Come to Learning on Demand by SAP
Learning on Demand by SAP extends course offerings with Project Management and Business Analysis courses via ESI International. Gavin Heaton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, ERP, Organizational Change Management, Professional Services, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 13, 2009 02:02 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

"Co-Innovaton Lab" as new Blog Category
learn about SAP's newly introduced blog category of 'Co-Innovation Lab' Joachim von Goetz in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab [Oct. 13, 2009 12:39 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Business Handhelds, the Consultant's friends
Mobile Accessibility - two words that an IT Consultant can't get enough. Normally, clients will call the one they used to access promptly. This post is about tips to enhance your presence to your clients, using a modern Business Handheld Adam Szigeti in Beyond SAP, Mobile [Oct. 12, 2009 03:45 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Mapping IDocs to X12 Transactions and EDIFACT Messages
It's an inexact science perhaps but we can provide a base cross-reference between SAP IDocs and X12 transactions and EDIFACT messages. Emmanuel Hadzipetros in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, ERP, Integration and Certification, SAP Process Integration (PI) [Oct. 12, 2009 03:26 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

The SOA Restaurant
The following weblog is an attempt to explain SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) in a lighter vein, using an anology between SOA and a restaurent. This blog can be useful to understand the rather absract nature of the concept SOA. Ravi Kanth Talagana in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture [Oct. 12, 2009 03:25 PM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

Web 2.0 is a fad, make room for Web C3
In a collaboration between Craig cmehil and Lee Provoost we bring you our thoughts on Web 2.0, the future and what we call Web C3... Craig Cmehil in Beyond SAP [Oct. 12, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Idea for EcoHub: 'Try Me' Functionality for Processes
This blog discusses the possibility of 'test-driving' EcoHub-offered processes and describes a few other existing examples of such functionality in other cloud-based environments. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, EcoHub, Ranting, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Oct. 11, 2009 08:06 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SPIDERMAN is working in my system or a bug in the debugger?
This blog focuses on a feature of the new ABAP debugger that could be dangerous if you have the S_DEVELOP / DEBUG authorizations in a productive environment Andrea Olivieri in Beginner, ABAP, Beyond SAP, ERP, Security [Oct. 09, 2009 05:49 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Twitter + SAP Community + TechEd + Folks to Follow
Get fully connected and richly informed. Whether you're new to Twitter or an experienced pro, here are some guidelines, best practices, links, resources, and people to follow. Also: a preview of Twitter at SAP TechEd. Mark Yolton in Beginner, Beyond SAP, SAP TechEd [Oct. 08, 2009 07:43 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Web Dynpro as OpenSource: Built on NetWeaver, Runs Everywhere
Should Web Dynpro Java become OpenSource software? What’s in it for customers, partners, and SAP? A lively discussion is going on about these topics – here is my take on it. Thorsten Franz in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Composition Environment (CE), Interoperability, Java Programming, Ranting, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd, Web Dynpro [Oct. 07, 2009 03:41 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Are Controls and Security Synonymous? Not really.
Every so often I see a comment on a blog or in a forum suggesting that security and controls are essentially synonymous. In my experience such a simplistic view is how security gets dumped on for controls failures. See if you agree with my logic. Gretchen Lindquist in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Security, SAP TechEd [Oct. 07, 2009 10:46 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]