http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans Coffee-inspired thoughts from the world of SAP Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:32:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick nod to a couple of blogs I wrote over at the SAP Community Network recently: "The Business Case for OpenID in the Enterprise" and "Be careful who offers you an OpenID" http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=43 In a technological first, I am simulcasting this blog entry on the SAP Community Network and on my personal blog. The reason for this is that I am looking for some feedback on the Community Day event, and my personal blog allows people to post feedback anonymously if they wish. ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=40 As promised, the resources for the Universal Worklist book are now on the SAP Community Network Wiki. You can use the commenting functionality on that page to discuss the content of the book if you like, and being a Wiki, any new developments to the content will be posted there ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=31 I have a copy of "Universal Worklist with SAP NetWeaver Portal" in my hands, straight from the printers. Though I say so myself, it's looking good - in fact I've used for reference several times already. My only regret is that during copy editing the text has been translated from ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=28 It started as an idea here. Nigel James plugged it here. Now, it has a life of its own on the SDN Wiki, here. The Community Day at TechEd Munich was transformational for me in one major respect - it turned my perception of the SAP Community Network from a really useful website ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=34 I'll be at TechEd 07 in Munich, presenting two of the SDN sessions: Processing workflow tasks on a Blackberry handheld using Java Web Dynpro and Zero-administration user management: a perfect configuration? See you there! http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=25 I spoke to one of the guys on the SAP Press stand at Tech Ed in Amsterdam to see if they were looking for authors, and got a pretty enthusiastic response. Since I've been doing some fairly interesting stuff with UWL in the last year or two and have overcome ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=22 I went to five sessions today: Session:  Designing a Web Infrastructure for a SAP Netweaver Platform Session: Web Page Composer: A New Way to Create and Publish Web Pages in the Portal Session: SAP Corporate Portal as an Example for a Company Wide Intranet Session: SPNego Login Module for Windows ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=16 Session: Creating Visual Composer Applications I went into this hands-on session hoping to learn how to quickly create new transactional applications in the portal, and also to see a bit of the new Flex-based interface. I discovered that Visual Composer (VC) has a fairly powerful expression language for assigning and displaying ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=12 2006-10-19I started off Tech Ed by going to Shai's keynote, then squeezed in four sessions, a chat with an exhibitor and a fruitless search for an exhibitor who wasn't there. Keynote - Shai Agassi Things that must be in place - foundations Modernise the core Optimise Business Usage Drive strategic innovation Session: ... http://www.fortybeans.com/fortybeans/?p=8