Application Lifecycle Management: Planned maintenance

During the last few months, on a recurrent fashion basis, there has been a topic surfacing every now and then as it hurts our business: planned downtimes. This said, all global companies, working round the clock, with a presence on all continents, all working on a single global system/infrastructure will face the same problem. So how do you manage the planned maintenances which,... Read More

Career shifts: From module experts to process experts

Most business application consultants and experts have a high emphasis in one aspect of the solution (say finance, controlling, HR, CRM), sometimes, they even go to higher focus (marketing campaigns within the CRM) but very few of them would know what happens in the next phase of the process. They usually work in a blackbox mode knowing the input they’re getting from previous... Read More

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation – Transports whitepaper

Lately, I have been highly involved in the implementation of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for NetWeaver at a customer. As you might know (or not), this product was until, this morning, in a Ramp Up process. This is the first version of the port of the Oulooksoft product on the NetWeaver platform, it has introduced along, several new concepts to the solution, which... Read More