Benchmark des salaires des experts SAP au Maroc
Suite à l’enquête menée auprès de 58 experts SAP au Maroc, vous trouverez ci-dessous les résultats et analyses issues des données collectées. Je vous en souhaite une bonne lecture. Benchmark des salaires des experts SAP au Maroc Read More
In Memory technology – New applications
SAP has been presenting over the last year its new breakthrough technology called HANA, which is basically based upon In-Memory processing. The values are multiple: smooth integration of the software and the hardware in order to enhance the processing of information. The first applications were naturally in the Business Intelligence field, where executives and operatives always looked for up-to-date, nearly realtime, information on various areas. But... Read More
The future of SAP environments architecture
Application Architecture is one of these complex topics sustaining long conversations, with as many views as participants (sometimes even more). Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing, Everything As A Service, to cite just these have been the buzzing words this last decade, and by now every CIO has an on-going strategy involving at least one of them. SAP, just like many other vendors, embraced these paradigms, making its software comply... Read More
Impressions after the SAP TechEd 2010 Demo Jam in Berlin
This video has been shot by Martin Gillet (@mgillet) right after the demo jam during the SAP TechEd in Berlin. Enjoy the bits. Read More
SAP’s Minimized Downtime Strategy for Upgrades
Photo: Courtesy of Sterling Ely (DogFromSpace @ Flickr) Besides the innovation brought to the SAP world with Mobility and RIAs over the 2009 – 2011 period, another major trend for this trinity is upgrades. Fact: 4.6C is running out of support soon and many customers cannot delay it anymore. They will have to upgrade and for manydo Unicode conversion. While many have already taken a step ahead, many are still waiting to find the right opportunity... Read More
[Joke] Monkey programmers and consultants
A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, ”I’ll have that monkey please”. The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop, and took out a monkey. He fit a collar and leash and handed it to the customer, saying, ”That’ll be $5000”. The customer paid and walked out with his monkey. Startled,... Read More
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, obviously, will impact the daily activities of your workmates, as... Read More
Google Wave invites
Thinkervine is glad to offer to those who wish Google Wave invites. By now, these have been rolled out to pretty much most of you, but if some still don’t have one, feel free to leave a comment to request one (make sure to input your Gmail account in the e-mail field). 26 invites are available. If you don’t know what Google Wave is, check out the videos below: SAP Research developed an application, named Gravity, leveraging the Google... 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 phase, how to process it before serving it to the next phase. This... Read More
Why do Business Applications need a RIA ?
With the advent of Web 2.0, web applications, thin applications and Software as a Service have lead to a fast development of Rich Internet Applications, in particular the user interface (UI) and usability. Whether they are based on AJAX, Flex or Silverlight, they all have a common purpose: provide an improved user experience through a thin client, at least comparable to fat client’s if no better. Along the years, many software providers looked... Read More
