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Experiences with SAP in-place upgrades

Many of you probably have already seen messages that in-place upgrades of the Windows O/S with third-party apps require special attention. Upgrading from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 or from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 will result in a message like the following:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Experiences with SAP in-place upgrades

Many of you probably have already seen messages that in-place upgrades of the Windows O/S with third-party apps require special attention.

Experiences with SAP in-place upgrades

Many of you probably have already seen messages that in-place upgrades of the Windows O/S with third-party apps require special attention.

ABAP RegEx met CSV and said 'I'll keep a Tab on you'

I wrote about XML processing in my previous posts:

Media Overweights Business ByDesign

OK. Had he to do it all over again, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann might re-think his infamous Business By Design announcement in 2007 as "the most important announcement I've made in my career." Struck me then as very un-SAP. But does this

Enrollment Up in SAP University Alliance Program

A sluggish economy has done little to lessen the anticipated global shortage of SAP consultants. On Monday of this week an SAP official remarked that currently 30,000 openings exist for SAP consultants to support the company’s worldwide base of

Writing Thought-Provoking (Erroneous) Code

Do we learn from our mistakes? Probably not!.According to a research carried out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology we learn more from our successes than our failures. Except that the research was carried out on Monkeys. Not sure if Monkeys analyse their mistakes as much as we, humans, do. At least programmers do analyse coding mistakes which in turn provokes thoughts and improve their understanding.

SAP Goes Social For Talent

Around May of 2008, SAP went on record to say that it anticipated a global shortage of 30,000 - 50,000 skilled SAP professionals in the years ahead. AMR analyst Bruce Richardson put this number closer to 70,000. So what is SAP doing to ameliorate thi

SAP Support - A Recent Survey Sheds Light on Customer Viewpoints (and Skills Trends)

A little while ago, I received an email from IT Toolbox about a new survey on customer attitudes on SAP support. The survey was conducted by Panaya, a third party software firm in the SAP ecosystem that offers SaaS-based tools to streamline SAP upgrades and support pack installations. In this blog p

Hosted SAP for SMEs – Beyond Business ByDesign

While media may be fixated on SAP’s slow road to market with Business ByDesign, SAP channel partners are making significant headway in the SME on-demand space, providing hosted offerings of SAP Business All-in-One.In May of this year, SAP chann

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