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The story of the sales journey that lead to…a customer dispute

Should you consider consulting as a career?

What makes a successful Planning

The power of the Proof of Concept (PoC)

The patient art of buffer tuning

What exactly is SAP FSCM - a high level guide to the processes and the benefits

The story of the sales journey that lead to…a customer dispute

Should you consider consulting as a career?

What makes a successful Planning

The power of the Proof of Concept (PoC)

Response to Vince Cable's recent speech on the university and wider Higher Education sector

The patient art of buffer tuning

What exactly is SAP FSCM - a high level guide to the processes and the benefits

How to make CRM 2007 & 7.0 WebUI perform super fast

TMS assigning class or package to route

What your CIO needs to know about FSCM

The Challenges of Digitisation in the Media Sector

How to use SAP BI in your Supply Chain

What CFO's need to know about FSCM

Do we really need rugged mobile devices?

Why the iPad is the most important sales tool since the cellphone

Determining the need for a Business Warehouse Accelerator

Future of SAP Basis with self-healing software

SAP Enterprise Support Part II: Run SAP - What's it all about?

What next for your SAP ERP system?

SAP BusinessObjects iPad app & SAP BusinessObjects On-Demand

Product names and buzz-words in the world of SAP BusinessObjects (Part I)

Integrating BW Queries with Xcelsius without BOXI

Cross Training into SAP & SAP Certification

Adding fields to the 'Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM client'

Bluefin's CRM Project Methodology

Driving BI user adoption - WYSIWYG is dead! Long live collaboration!

Common Accounts Payable issues - which ones do you have?

What happens when SAP meets Agile?

What new functionality should SAP look to implement in the future?

Avoid precision loss in your SAP BI implementation

Who makes the best AGILE SAP scrum masters?

Tomorrow's Manufacturer - Effective Co-Innovation

The lowdown on a business release strategy

The Gelato Theory: De-mystifying Multi-Partner Project Engagements

What does Sybase have that SAP wants? An analysis of the acquisition, 5 days on.

Top 5 recommended reading to get you up to speed with Planning

SAP acquires Sybase - First impressions what this means to SAP Mobile Strategy

Agile or Waterfall - what works best for FSCM?

SAP Enterprise Support Part I - What's going on?

SQL Server 2008 Compression on SAP - how to cut your database size from 90Gb to 30Gb

Knowledge is power, but with great (SAP) power comes great responsibility

SAP look to innovate with the 'innojagd' initiative

New features of SAP BW-IP in version 7.3

How do I become a SAP Finance Consultant?

Why Customers are NOW Loving FSCM

Does your business have a mobile strategy?

Impact of change during the life-cycle of a SAP Implementation

SAP CRM on a smartphone: Why its working for me

The Cloud Part III: Impact on vendors

Tomorrow's Manufacturer

2010 - The year of the upgrade?

SAP Support - Standard or Enterprise?

The Cloud Part II: How it affects the customer

The Cloud: what it is, what it isn't, and how it affects the IT sector

Virtualization, Sustainability and Selfishness

SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 Excel Workbook Pre-calculation or Scheduling

Building a SAP Mobile Strategy

10 Tips for a successful SAP iPhone app

SAP Mobile Strategy Explained

Experiences in iPhone Application Development for SAP Netweaver ??? part 1

Enterprise Portal Landscape Strategy

Manufacturing - A 'Haynes manual' for recovery

National Student Survey - response from Chris Smith, Bluefin Solutions

Want to put a fuel efficient engine with enhanced performance in your sports car?

Tomorrow's Manufacturer - Mobile Workforce

How to truly maximise the benefit of your FSCM implementation

BEx or SAP Business Objects Advanced Analysis - What's your View?

Is the “DSO” the most important KPI when tracking the performance of your Accounts Receivable team?

5 reasons why your Accounts Receivable team should be using a Collections Worklist within SAP FSCM

SAP GTS - how to take the pain out of exporting and importing

5 Reasons why you should upgrade to BI7

Is wrestling fixed? SAP Demo Jam 2010 Berlin

Running a ERP system for 1000 users on a laptop - is it possible?

The Browne review - response from Chris Smith, Bluefin Solutions

Response to the University and College Union (UCU) analysis on government funding cuts

SAP's new mobile platform and SDK - a letter to Santa Claus

ASAP becoming Agile? Really?

What makes a ‘true’ SAP Project Manager

NetWeaver is dead. Long Live NetWeaver!

SAP's Mobile Strategy: Really?

Drive more value from your SAP BW asset

Innovation Weekend and the irony of "fixing SCN from within"

TechEd. What's new, what's cool and what's out. A blog of blogs

SAP Solution Manager… too complex and no real value?

Building your very own enterprise app store

Driving efficiency in your Supply Chain – storing and handling of goodsStorage and handling metrics

Job hunting in the recession

Has SAP got the technology to provide business navigation software...and to become the TOMTOM of the B2B space? Controller => De

The power of the SCN wiki

How in-memory technology can change SAP BI Projects

Funding for Higher Education - A Gamble on the Market?

Observations from SAP TechEd, Berlin, 2010

SAP Business Objects observations from SAP TechEd

Differing approaches to Global Spend Analytics

How can you drive up speed of execution in purchasing while increasing, not decreasing, compliance?

Accelerate delivery? Reduce cost & risk of SAP CRM 7 projects? Make business users happy? Possible?

What can make SAP a successful mobile player?

BW Accelerate now, or wait for H.A.N.A-ther tool?

Internal versus agency recruitment – the value of being a candidate, not a £ sign

What levers does a company have for reducing working capital?

Windows Phone 7 - Enterprise Mobility changes today

What’s the difference between software releases and TV manufacturing?

Drivers for working with an SAP consultancy

Recruiting SAP candidates in the Asian market

Differing approaches to Facebook and Twitter for Consumer Products. Do you need to keep it real?

SAP BW Version 7.3 – why you will want to upgrade!

Why you can’t afford not to improve the performance of your accounts receivable team

How to change your collections team from being reactive to proactive

Agile SAP in action: Project Santa – the view from the business owner

SAP Mentors - what a bunch of weirdos!

Lessons learned from an SAP CRM 7.0 best practice implementation

The Bluefindex - putting my money where my mouth is

Money wasting tip of the week - The BW-IP Performance Review

The SAP Mentors' social media domination at this years SAP User Group UK & Ireland conference

Querying 450 billion rows - revolution or just evolution?

Trade promotions: competative edge of fact of life?

Maintaining and developing SAP end user knowledge and experience

Agile SAP in action: Project Santa – the view from the business owner – One week in

Attracting international students - do UK universities offer real value?

7.3 dataflow modeller: What do I need to know?

Money saving tip of the week – the BW-IP Performance Review

Upgrading to NetWeaver BW 7.3 - our story - Part 1, a brief history of mankind

Keeping up with the KPIs

Every time you say "Single Global Instance", god kills another kitten

How is buying shoes like building an SAP system?

Agile SAP in action: Project Santa, week 2 - Upgrades, resource challenges and snow!

Can the UK Higher Education sector deliver a world class student experience?

Why Universities need to stop teaching Java

The RISK in GRC for Accounts Receivables

Project Santa: Developing mobile apps for multiple device types

So you wanna be a thought leader? Or a spaceman and live in the sky?

SAP Influencer Summit 2010: I’ve just been influenced

Is it time to implement SAP FSCM Credit Management?

Delivering Quality – 10 key questions to ask your customers

How SAP works to develop new solutions – my experiences

Why customers should look at solutions and not systems

Is modelling about to overtake coding? I’m a happy SAP business consultant :)

How an SAP BI project is like starting and maintaining an allotment

Considerations when choosing to implement BusinessObjects 3.1 or 4.0

Agile SAP in action: Project Santa – Sprint 1 nearing completion

Don’t forget me...I’m the end user!

Agile SAP in action: Project Santa - Less than a week to go-live!

Post-delivery user training and support - paying attention to the ‘ugly sisters’ of the SAP Projects world

Agile SAP in action: Project Santa - the moment of truth!

Enhancement Pack 5 functionality within SAP FSCM

Two birds, one stone

If a system is deployed and no one uses it, does it exist?

Project Santa: Lessons learned from developing & deploying Bluefin's Mobile Timesheet Application

Business-owned planning applications - Are we at the Pearly Gates?

When to workflow within SAP FSCM Dispute Management

Can an enterprise mobile solution help companies comply with health and safety?

If a system is deployed and no one uses it, does it exist? – Part II: Knowing the beast

Three critical steps for a successful dispute management implementation

Is SAP deliberately locking out competitors with BI4?

Armchair customer service or what “world-class” customer service really means...

Can SAP conquer the Credit Collections market?

Referees, despised on a football field,..loved in recruitment?

Upgrading to NetWeaver BW 7.3: Our story part 2 - the long hard road

Upgrading to NetWeaver BW 7.3 - Our story part 3, getting through cutover

Upgrading to NetWeaver BW 7.3 - Our story part 4, how Project Santa became Project Valentine

Monetizing HANA - is it just a pipe(line) dream? Part 1 - Data Warehousing

ECC Lean Order - Lessons from the LORD

An ETL tool with a Business User Interface – the missing link in SAP’s product portfolio

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 - Revolution or Evolution for the Business User?

Why you can’t have separate initiatives for BPM, Trade Promotions Optimisation and IBP

Universities should find ways to improve efficiency rather than raise costs as a knee jerk reaction

If a system is deployed and no one uses it, does it exist? – Part III: Training

ECC Lean Order: Adding a field to the LORD API

Asia Pacific: Is Business Analytics just as important as Nasi Lemak for Malaysia?

iPdf therefore iPad

Data Warehousing theory… Is a rethink required?

10 Key factors for ensuring successful Release Management

The Bluefindex April 2011 Review

Bust to boom: Addressing the insurmountable challenge of funding cuts

Can SAP be delivered using an agile methodology?

iPdf therefore iPad - Part II

Mobile BI, or just reports on the move (?)

Release Management pitfalls and common customer qualms

Mobile applications should be seen and not heard!

Things to consider when using Agile Methodology in SAP Planning projects

Reporting on Collections and Disbursements (FS-CD) with BusinessObjects

If a system is deployed & no one uses it, does it exist? - Part IV: Strong user community

How to ensure a successful SAP FSCM Collections Management implementation

What makes a great customer?

Cloud Computing - just how fluffy is it?

Controlling the consumer juggernaut

How to add value as a Junior SAP Consultant

How social is SAP CRM?

SAP HANA - Adapt or Die?

Let the work flow! - Part 1

Why are we so afraid of new technology?

Standard Solution Manager, or non-standard Solution Manager - That is the question

What makes a good SAP BPC consultant?

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 – Should we Just Do It?

SAP BPC10 - No .NET server, no cry

HANA is the answer, so what is the question?

The real problem with trying to be agile and responsive in SAP BW

How to really stress out your sales force

SAP HANA - myth-busting through the marketing hype

Is NetWeaver BW really dead and was it really killed by HANA?

DS 4.0 - A quiet revolution that will change Data Warehousing as we know it

SAP TPM - evolution not revolution

Are these you're Finance focus points? If not, why not?

To BPC or not to BPC...

Why SAP must acquire a hardware vendor for In-Memory

Why haven't we seen an SAP HANA vs Sybase IQ showdown?

Why don't you use Vanilla SAP?

What are the real reasons behind the project you are working on?

Mobile BI for the iPad - Game changer or just keeping on the field

The SAP HANA FAQ - answering key SAP In-Memory questions

Trade Promotions: do I need to 'manage' before I can 'optimise'?

Do you need CRM to implement Employee Interaction Centre?

Have SAP Enhancement Packs lived up to their hype?

Financial Consolidation - as simple as 1 - 2 - 3

Uncovering the dark art of SAP Treasury

Let the work flow! - Part 2

What shape is your SAP template? Beachball or Snowball?

What constitutes a good training strategy? Part one

Answering the key SAP BusinessObjects BI4 questions following General Availability

What constitutes a good training strategy? Part Two

SAP HANA and innovation hype cycle management

Steadying the ship for a double dip

Mobile...make it smart!

Can SAP play a part in stimulating the global economy?

Who should fix an error with your SAP Finance BI report?

Why SAP HANA 1.0 SP03 - Project Orange - will be a runaway success

Is your IT Delivery Factory delivering?

The Sybase Unwired Platform

Outsourced SAP BI Support - Does anyone get it right?

Does SAP HANA threaten the first serious (hardware) paradigm shift since the IBM PC?

Will SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 help to drive the user adoption of SAP BI solutions?

SAP Trade Promotion Optimisation - The Trade Promotion Sat Nav?

Deep Inside the SAP HANA Developer Program - Part 1, Getting Data into SAP HANA

First Impressions on SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3, powered by SAP HANA - amazing

How 'real-time' is Enterprise Data Warehouse reporting, powered by SAP HANA?

Just 1 tip for your SAP FSCM project

SAP BPC 10.0 in a nutshell

Do you feel the pain of change?

Collaboration - how to win friends and influence retailers

SAP Solution Manager 7.1: What's all the fuss about?

Is SAP BPC stressing you out?

Social strategy: The moment of truth

Performing with SAP Spend Performance Management

Do you feel the pain of change? Part II - Solution documentation

Hold your thoughts, SAP and NetBase will soon analyse your sentiments in the Cloud

Is it the technology that's holding us back, or just our imaginations?

Agile SAP in action: Project Dragon - the view from the business owner

Agile SAP in action: Project Dragon - the Project Manager's update

Is SAP Receivables Management more attractive to a client that already has its own Shared Service Centre in place?

What can SAP HANA do for the service industries?

Agile SAP in action: Project Dragon, the Project Manager's update - introducing Gateway

Do you feel the pain of change? Part III - Testing

Training: Don't shoot the messenger

Agile SAP in action: Project Dragon, the Project Manager's update - so what are we building?

Listening in on shopper conversations....and acting upon them

SPMalot - a legendary tale!

SAP RTOM as more than just a sales tool

Agile SAP in action: Project Dragon PM update - effective collaboration across remote offices

SAP HANA: In-Memory computing - how 'new' is it?

Where are we with SAP FSCM in 2012

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services - now is the time.

Why migrate to SAP BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation 10 (SAP EPM 10)?

Sybase Unwired Platform and SAP HANA - perfect partners?

Agile SAP in action: Project Dragon, the Project Manager's update - lessons learned

Consumer Business: Tnvest in strategy AND achieve short term goals

Key observations 4 months into an SAP BI 4.0 implementation

Training and Change: Two sides of the same coin

The Consumerization of SAP CRM

Is SAP Partner Testing a win, win win?

Why should SAP Functional consultants use SCN?

SAP EPM 10 Planning & Consolidation - Harmonise, Connect, Extend

Stick or twist? The Consumer Products company dilemma

Social Business Intelligence - Like!

Who's steering the ship? An integrated approach to business planning

What you really need to know about upgrading form SAP R/3 to Business Suite 7

Volatile consumer behaviour - A self study

Introduction of plain, brandless packing for cigarettes

Trade Promotions: How to have your cake, promote it, and eat it

Oracle scores an own goal as SAP BPC set to replace Hyperion Enterprise

Another price hike for Tobacco in Budget 2012

Is an RDS the best tool to implement SAP Receivables Management?

Has SAP perfected Credit Management within FSCM?

Don't just leave all the great SAP solutions with the techies

What can SAP's Customer Financial Factsheet do for you?

Tripling the speed when taking SAP CRM ERP orders

The problem with the quality of your data

System change: What do I need to know if its impacting me?

SAPUI5 - The Future direction of SAP UI Development?

The SAP BW on HANA FAQ

Do Finance professionals need to be experts in Microsoft Excel?

Agile SAP in action: Project Dragon, the Project Managers’ wrap-up

Change Management: Why it is so important?

The SAP BPC 10 FAQ

The SAP BPC Implementation Ecosystem

How should you engage with SAP professionals?

Change Management - How do you go about it?

10 ERP Upgrade Misconceptions a CIO needs to know

Buyers and NAMs - The other 'squeezed middle'

The Developers Guide to the SAP Mobility Platform

The SAP HANA Hardware FAQ

Is customer data driving your decision making?

Change Management - Making it stick

Your SAP Upgrade is special

Is SAP HANA the new iPad?

THE SAP FSCM FAQ

Challenges in OS/DB Migration - AS400 to Windows

Change Management - What is your future state?

SAP BPC for Group Finance - what is the business case?

Mobile Enterprise apps - Build or buy?

Building a business case for the Sybase Unwired Platform

Is the Upgrade Factory outdated and outmoded?

The technical SAP upgrade phases: A high level view of the SAP Upgrade roadmap

What's the priority in trade spend - Effectiveness or Efficiency?

What's new in SAP Solution Manager SP05 - IT Service Management?

Upgrade your employees as well as your Process Documentation

Can SME'S compete effectively for Government contracts?

The impact of SAP HANA on Bank Architectures

Highlights from the Global Run SAP Partner days

Social SAP CRM - what difference does a year make?

The 3 things a Retail Industry CEO needs to know about In-Memory computing

When will security of supply become the main priority for CPG?

The SAP HANA Application Accelerator for SAP ERP FAQ

ERP Order Performance in SAP CRM

How an SAP Receivables Management project can improve your working capital

What are the different phases of an SAP upgrade project?

How to best support financial planning and consolidation systems

Is there business value in upgrading to SAP CRM 7.0?

The CRM journey in the Public Sector

The SAP Trade Promotion Optimisation (TPO) FAQ

10 Questions you need to ask your SAP HANA Hardware Vendor

Building the business case for SAP BW on HANA

The science behind Accounts Receivables optimisation

The SAP HANA in Retail FAQ

Who wants to try an electronic cigarette?

10 things to consider when moving systems

A consolidated application architecture based on SAP HANA

Lessons learnt from implementing SAP BCM on SAP CRM in a customer service environment

Is base price a promotion? If so, can it be maintained in SAP TPM?

Can cloud sourcing innovation drive effective sharing of Local Authroity service information?

SAP TPM meets 'Big Data'

The secrets of Poundland

What is keeping HR/HCM managers up at night?

What keeps the High Street betting shops ticking?

SAP TPM or Excel, which is your money on?

What you need to know about "Bring Your Own Device" this year

Moving accountants to system analysts

Death of the High Street: Can it be saved by SAP HANA or SAP BPC?

The importance of profitably reporting and analysis

SAP Spend Performance Management FAQ

Next generation SAP CRM has arrived

Democratising SAP CRM

SAP TechED 2012 - Turning business models inside out

Project Topaz: The rebirth of Bluefin Solutions' internal SAP CRM system

Are retailers losing the upper hand to CPG suppliers?

Project Topaz: the rebirth of Bluefin Solutions' SAP CRM system - II

A taste of my own medicine (?): my time in the 'shoes of the customer'

The Chancellors Autumn statement - an opportunity (?)

A quick win for public sector bodies

What the Public Sector can learn from the Private Sector

The art of the possible: integrating SAP CRM and Twitter

What procurement Lessons can be learnt from the West Coast franchise debacle?

Project Topaz: the rebirth of Bluefin Solutions' SAP CRM system - III

A post-project take on SAP Trade Promotion Optimisation (TPO)

Why the Utilities industry must address service quality in customer relations

Migrating from SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation version for Microsoft to SAP NetWeaver

Can the SAP NetWeaver Business Client compete against its new competition?

SAP BPC 10: quick and easy benefits for new users

Is the all new SAP WCEM Web Channel a suitable foundation for web success?

How to drive greater ROI on promotions in-flight

Disruption is here: Run all of your SAP Applications on HANA, not another database

What will SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA mean to CEOs?

What I learnt from the “SAP on HANA” press conference

Four ways law firms can enhance their competitiveness

8 proven ways of measuring - and improving - the ROI of your trade promotions

How does SAP Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) meet the future demands for profitability reporting?

Four tips to overcome four common challenges in implementing SAP HANA

Our computational future

Is your organisation "Mobile First"?

Beef or a pantomime cow? Three tips for CPOs to re-establish trust with consumers

4 ways Retail CEOs can improve customer retention

A wake up call to the Ministry of Justice and our 8000+ legal firms in the UK

The retail industry's most pressing challenges answered

Is your retail business fit for 2014? Take the one-minute health test

Is your business being strangled by the information monster?

Retail is going mobile. So what does that mean for your head of customer loyalty?

Mobile is not just about functionality, it's should also be about fun!

Retail is going mobile. Are you, Mr. CEO, ready for it?

Trade Margin Simulation - A help or hindrance to suppliers?

Five tips to help Publishers sell more

Five tips on how to build mobile enterprise apps that your employees will want to use

Project Topaz: The rebirth of Bluefin Solutions' internal SAP CRM system: Go-Live

SAP Mobility Platform 2.3 - Is the era of multi-platform mobile enablement dead?

How Publishers can successfully respond to change in the dynamic world of Media

Are you able to analyse true profitability?

Five Small Steps to Get Big in Mobile: A Business Leader's Guide

Why showrooming is the savior of retail

Three Things “The Apprentice” Doesn’t Teach You About Being a Project Manger

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Mobile at the pharmacy - The new health pill?

What Mobile Apps Can Teach Our Children About Money