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SAP HR2007: March 12-14, 2007

Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under HCM, SAP

SAPInsider will be hosting this year’s SAP HR conference in Las Vegas from March 12-14. This year it will be combined with the SAP Financials 2007 and SAP Governance, Risk, Compliance 2007 conferences.
I will be attending to represent one of my clients and hope to see you there. Let me know and we can catch […]

BI killer app: Google & Cognos

Posted on February 7th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under SAP, Technology

Last year I wrote about SAP’s in-memory BI technology. Refer to SAP’s SDN portal for the latest info. Today I read about a partnership between Cognos and Google regarding enterprise search and BI. Sounds very interesting and may compete with SAP and Oracle’s BI offerings. The Cognos solution is built into Google’s OneBox appliance.

Realtime Application Development Online?

Posted on January 30th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under SAP, Technology

A friend of mine recently sent me an email regarding Coghead. According to their website Coghead is: “A simple, powerful new way to create web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere!” This is not a new idea, however Coghead seems to be getting a lot of attention. I want to […]

Is in-memory technology SAP’s Oracle killer?

Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under SAP, Technology

As I mentioned before my plan is to review and comment more and more on SAP’s technologies. I recently read an interview with Shai Agassi, SAP’s Chief Technology Dude in eweek.com regarding in-memory technology database technology. Shai believes that this is SAP’s killer product to take out Oracle’s cash cow database business. Read the article […]

Ruby on Rails - Build a blogging engine in 15 minutes!

Posted on August 30th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under Apple, SAP, Technology

With Ruby on Rails (RoR) it is possible to develop a blogging engine in 15 minutes. Watch this 15 minute video demo-ing RoR. The Ruby language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1994. According to Matz:
“Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text […]


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