Time for TechED Talk? Yes, as the ASUG Call for Speakers for SAP TechEd Las Vegas is now open! Submissions are due by May 22nd. Share your story...everyone has one.

Crude oil is a commodity, like coffee or wheat, with prices set on global markets. Just as a poor coffee bean harvest can increase the price of your morning coffee, when something significant happens to the supply of crude oil...

When I graduated from high school, my mom bought me a book of poems about a mother’s love for her daughter. She told me that before she gave it to me, she sat in her car, read through it and cried. I loved the book, but I’m not sure I fully appreciated it at the [...]

I wanted to share a photograph of a series of new paintings we commissioned artist Steve Penley to paint to celebrate our 125th anniversary. You may recall Steve's work was on display at the Pop Culture Gallery of the World...

I’ve heard time and again from you (our partners) that we need to simplify, and make it easier to do business with us. Yesterday, we took a leap forward in streamlining Cisco.

Well, it is day four of the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C. What a busy four days it's already been and the tournament has barely begun! I am happy to report that so far both the Championship and History...

In around 90% of the customer systems we find significant potential for improving the customer's existing business processes. The typical question is then "how come that we did not recognize this before where we have so many KPI dashboards in our company?". The short answer is "you are not looking at the right places from the right angle". A somewhat longer answer is given in this blog.

Part of being an Intel Advisor is getting insights and information directly from inside Intel. This month’s conference call with Intel and other Intel Advisors was no different and we learned about a hot topic in the Tech industry – the tablet race. Leading our discussion was Mark Miller, director of outbound marketing from Intel’s [...]

Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] will conduct its 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday, May 12, 2011 in the Gold Ballroom of the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Del. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. EDT and can be accessed on a
listen-only basis by phone or audio webcast at www.shareholder.ford.com:

Are you ready to innovate?

Using a Content Server versus a File System for SAP archiving - what are the advantages?

Can you create products when you are a small vendor in the SAP space?

KÖLN, 6. Mai 2011 – Rekord bei Ford: Der einmillionste Fiesta der aktuellen Generation wird heute, Freitag, 6. Mai 2011, am frühen Nachmittag im Werk Köln-Niehl von den Produktionsbändern rollen. Ehrengast ist die nordrhein-westfälische Ministerpräsidentin Hannelore Kraft, die zum ersten Mal das größte Automobilwerk in NRW besucht.

The Ragan Cisco Social Media Summit is in full swing with Day 1 officially kicking off this morning. Yesterday we [...]

Ford Motor China sold 184,906 wholesale units in the first four months of 2011, a 15 percent increase from the same period last year. For the month of April, Ford sold 44,340 wholesale units, a three percent increase year-on-year.

Guided By History readers, please welcome our newest guest blogger, Candice Helgeson! Candice has been a museum assistant at the Wells Fargo History Museum in Phoenix since 2009. She has a BA in history and an MA in military history....

An organizational discussion on starting over with stakeholders and developing a model to deliver quality and value.

listen to Steve Lucas talk about using SAP dashboards on the BlackBerry Playbook.

In this article, I would like to give you the clear picture of how to optimize the JDBC Lookup effectively, when we need to insert the multiple records or single record from the legacy system to Oracle database table via SAP PI message mapping at the same time by using customized UDF of JDBC Lookup that uses GlobalContainer object.

Thanks to Graco team member, Liz, for this great story! Liz is expecting her first little one soon and has volunteered to share her adventures in getting ready for her new arrival. Check out her other posts in this series here and here! ***************************************************** Once I recovered from Step One’s near meltdown, it was time [...]

Cologne, Germany, May 6, 2011 – Ford employees today celebrated the production of the one millionth current Fiesta – just 33 months after the first car rolled off the line.

As we approach our 125th anniversary this Sunday, May 8th, our Media Relations group has organized a three day event for offices around the world to invite their local journalist to visit Atlanta and witness the celebrations. Over 125 media...

While millions of Android tablets have been sold, there haven't been many confirmations of large public enterprise deployments. Til now.

Streamlining the order-to-cash cycle with SAP Business ByDesign which helps reduce billing errors, ensure more timely customer payments and reduce accounting's workload.

How to take advantage of read-only reports to protect your report designs.

Details on SAP Crystal Reports 2011 for Developers

People told Gary Mueller that he should probably think about getting a new truck when his 2002 Ford F-350 Super Duty was nearing 300,000 miles.

By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist If you are a student of history and commerce, you recognize a clear pattern to [...]

 Starbucks Tribute Blend™ is a great blend of coffees. The aged Sumatra component, a cornerstone of our most popular offerings, mixes beautifully with other coffees from Latin America and Africa/Arabia to make a great cup.

You may be asking yourself though – which Starbucks blend was the first to venture down the delicious path of combining coffees from all three growing regions: Latin America, Africa/Arabia and Asia/Pacific? Here’s a hint. It wasn’t our Starbucks Tribute Blend™.

Instead, it’s the aptly named Three Region Blend.  It's a wonderful blend of coffees from East Africa, Central America and Papua New Guinea with lush floral and herbal notes.

Last year was the first time we introduced Three Region Blend, and we’re bringing it back because many of you said “I love this blend!”  The coffee offers an amazingly balanced cup with flavors of herbs, lemons and currants. It can be enjoyed all summer long!

Interestingly, when our coffee team set out to make a new summertime blend, we didn’t start with the intention of creating a blend from the three growing regions. But after working with a number of recipes, we came up with a lush, well-balanced cup that just happened to draw on beans from around the world. So we thought, “What better way to celebrate the world of coffee?” and Three Region Blend was born!

Have fun and enjoy a cup of coffee from the world’s coffee farmers to you.

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A new SCN site and presentation provide best-practice insight into deploying EIM solutions for data quality and integration, data warehousing and master data management to support enterprise business intelligence initiatives.

Cisco offers a variety of resources to help you use technology to your advantage. Technology can have a significant impact [...]

This is an invitation to take part in the SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe contest on SAP EcoHub.

After digesting the contents of many deep Teched 2010 sessions and the active mentoring of key influencers one have started to pursue a journey - the BPX way. Glimpse how to develop a systematic approach to engage certification and find out the values that rules on the BPX world.

The Royal Wedding fascinated billions of people. Flawlessly executed it represents an example of what we all strive for in the asset management community. So what can we learn from this project?

Javascript can be leveraged to drive CRM BSP applications automatically, by simulating button clicks and user navigation.

Few important points to remember while modeling a business process to achieve a performance boost and sustainability common practice v/s best practice approach.

Set i lyset af de galoperende brændstofpriser, kunne timingen for præsentationen af ny Ford Focus ECOnetic næppe være bedre. Den nye Focus ECOnetic byder på en række nyskabelser, som gør det muligt at presse CO2-udledningen ned til blot 94 g/km og samtidig forbedre brændstof-økonomien – vel at mærke, uden at gå på kompromis med de meget roste køreegenskaber.

AMSTERDAM, 4 mei 2011 – Binnenkort starten de Europese Ford-dealers met de verkoop van de geheel nieuwe Focus Wagon.

The Generic Object Services (GOS) attachment list offers only a limited set of ArchiveLink document attributes. Sometimes this is not sufficient to correctly determine the content of an attachment, especially as the title of stored documents can be ambiguous.

There are many similarities between the story of Bonnie and Clyde and an effective S&OP process.

"We use numbers when we want to tune up a car, analyze a chemical reaction, predict the outcome of an election. We use numbers to optimize an assembly line. Why not use numbers on ourselves?" – The New York Times...

One very important aspect of this new reality is: professional resources. The birth of specially capable professionals -- IT-Fiscal Consultants.

There are over 85 sessions covering Cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS) and on-demand solutions at SapphireNow. This blog provides the master list and a couple quick tips on how to quickly find and add relevant sessions to your Sapphire Now agenda, and where to go to get more information.

Of late I've been acquainting myself with Sybase's offerings, and I've got to say that I'm impressed. In Part 1 I'll talk to their data solutions.

Of late I've been acquainting myself with Sybase's offerings, and I've got to say that I'm impressed. In Part 2, we'll talk Mobility and the Sybase Unwired Platform.

This past weekend I had the opportunity to represent Intel at SOBCon 2011 (Successful Online Business Conference) and share a print provided by Hugh MacLeod of Gapingvoid.com. This colorful print features the message “Believe, Then Act” along with Hugh’s artwork and the core message at the bottom: “The Processor is an Expression of Human Potential,” [...]

There have been some recent scandals involving interns and Twitter accounts. It raises a key question: should you allow interns to handle your social media presence? I know some businesses opt to use interns due to a lack of resources, manpower, or perhaps even knowledge.

A conversation between an SAP Mentor, Tony de Thomasis, and Kaj van de Loo, SVP Technology Strategy at SAP, lead an SAP InnoJam that is planned to happen from July 30-31 in Sydney. This blog provides you with some more details and hopefully will initiate the submission of good business cases for the event.

SAP Crystal Solutions 2011 starts rolling out this week

Twins!! Maybe you read my recent post about how all of my friends are having kids… well I’m pleased to formally introduce Miss H and Miss K! They had a short hospital stay, but are now at home and thriving with feedings every three hours. I have to give a shout out to their parents for [...]