SAP Upgrades & Recycling Project Artifacts
In my previous post on SAP upgrades I discussed how to get started on your project and to determine whether you are doing (ahem!) just a technical upgrade or intend to venture into deploying additional standard functionality, too. In this post I’ll talk about how you can plan, anticipate and potentially accelerate some of the execution activities to verify the upgrade is working.
Liveblogging SAP TechEd 09
Are you stuck in your cube while Bob from BASIS is heading to SAP TechEd 09 in sunny Phoenix? Are you afraid that you’ll miss out on all the sun and fun? While we can’t send the sun, we’ll try to bring you the fun. DataXstream will be liveblogging at SAP TechEd 09.
Head over to live.dataxstream.com on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 to get up to second updates from the show. We will be getting our liveblog on starting at 8am PDT (that’s 11am for you right-coasters) for the general keynote session. We’ll also be liveblogging from SAP TechEd 09 Demo Jam at 8pm PDT on Tuesday. The Demo Jam promises to be a great time, so plan to join us online after you put the kiddies to bed!
This is our first foray into liveblogging. Hopefully it will go off without too many technical glitches. We hope you’ll enjoy following the events with us!
SAP Testing Preparation – Due Diligence
This entry sounds like project management 101 and can be summarized as: don’t assume because when you do… and you know the rest of that one. The trick is to uncover your implicit assumptions, the explicit ones are easier to identify, whereas the ones lurking in your subconscious may only want to come out when they can trip you up.
Summary of Robert Enslin’s ASUG Keynote
I heard via Twitter that SAP was hosting an ASUG Virtual Summit and thought I’d check it out. Registration was free and allows downloads for a period of time after the event.
I listened to a presentation by Robert Enslin. He is the President of SAP North America. Listed under Keynote speaker when you first login.
We are hearing a lot about businesses not wanting to spend. ERP projects being put on hold until the economy turns around. But what Mr. Enslin was saying was on target: As a business one has to choose to prepare to emerge on top when the economy changes around or to be shaped by circumstances and hope for the best. Mr. Enslin of course would encourage choosing to “move forward with business regardless of the state of the economy.”
