Unable to activate your SAP HANA views or procedures? This might be your fix

General, HANA, SAP

Here is a quick tip to all those who are investigating SAP HANA for the first time. I have found that a common mistake people make when they first start using HANA is not granting access to their schema to the “_SYS_REP” user. This can be very tricky because the error...

HTML5 Dashboards with SAP BOBJ

Crystal Dashboard/Xcelsius, General, Google Visualization, HTML5 & jQuery, SAP

My friend and co-worker Josh Tapley (@josh_tapley) just posted this great video, take a look: Direct Link: http://youtu.be/1×2-leia-eY

An SAP HANA Epiphany

General, HANA, SAP

Over the past weeks I have been researching SAP HANA. As a software engineer it is an intriguing technology with some interesting potential. Sometimes my software engineering background is an asset when learning something new. However in this case it might actually be...

Using Google Docs as a Crystal Reports data source

Crystal Reports, General

In this post I will explain how I went about using a Google Docs spread sheet as a Crystal Reports 2008 data source. Hello Again Everyone, My friend over at data-ink.com recently got me interested in Crystal Reports and Dashboard. So I have been playing around with it...