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I’m just back from my summer holidays. Had a nice family trip to France. I arranged it many months ago – booked the ferry, campsite, insurance and so on. Leaving nothing to chance, I made sure that everything was ready in advance and all I had to do was relax.

I went to a café last week for lunch and bumped into an old acquaintance.

Yes, we know: if you are in the database Server end of the business, the lion’s share is claimed by Oracle, MS SQL Server, and MySQL, the workhorse of most web servers running on BSD/Linux systems. SQLite reigns in small Android powered devices (why do they insist in call them “phones”, anyway?) and tablets, a […]

Simply put a Zettabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes (that’s twenty one zeros!). Put simply, it is about a trillion gigabytes. Another way of visualising this number is as the equivalent of over 62 billion iPhones! So What? According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the total volume of data stored globally will reach 40 Zettabytes by […]

On a recent shopping trip in the city centre, I passed a fortune teller’s shop and it got me thinking about my next blog post. Whilst the sceptics amongst you might at this point be wondering where this is going, the believers out there are in fact correct; telling the future is indeed possible. However, […]

Over the last few years we have been involved in a number of successful projects upgrading Business Objects. The majority of our customers are now looking at moving from XI 3.1 to the current version (BI 4.1). There are many reasons for upgrading your version of Business Objects such as improved data access, usability and […]

In the last article we mentioned how we would be showing you how to use maps to represent your data within your reports. Now we will show you how to achieve this. Over the last year, more and more of our clients have been asking us how they can plot their data on a map […]

Every so often a new form of challenge arrives on our desk. Recently what we have been finding is that more and more of our clients want to incorporate maps both in their route planning and also in their business reporting. Over the next two posts, we will explain how some of these challenges have […]

Fundamentals of Web Dynpro for ABAP: Much of the latest SAP software development has been carried out in Web Dynpro rather than traditional ABAP e.g. CRM, HCM. To help prepare your developers, it is crucial to gain an understanding of this topic in advance of working with developments which have been coded in Web Dynpro. […]

Situation Our client, the Irish office for a large Multi-National beverage producer, importer and distributor needed a solution that would assist their staff in planning their annual base, promotional price and volume forecasts and to compare these forecasts against actual sales figures. This solution would also need to be capable of managing Annual Operating Plan […]