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Refinery Productivity – A Miracle that Seems to Have Failed

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COTS vs Custom Software Development - Decision Tree Analysis

An Advanced Decision Tree Analysis Calculator Have you ever...

Want To Know How To Dominate Any Market? I Wrote THE Book On It!

Startup, Growth Phase, Steady Run Rate  

3 Tips You Should Follow to Hire a Top SAP Consultant You Can Rely On

How To Hire Top SAP Consultants When it comes to choosing...

See Beyond Your Current Job Situation

For Most People, Finding a Job Is A Stressful Undertaking....

How to Evaluate a Change Request [Template]

First Have an Established Change Request Process If you're...

Discover what a CEO Needs to Know About SAP [eBook]

Have You Ever Wondered Just What SAP Does For Your Company?...

The Mind is a Quantum Thing to Waste [Checklist]

What is a quantum computer? Seems to be a hot topic these...

How Financial Consolidations Benefits from Naming Conventions [Checklist]

There is an old saying that “All that I make is hers, and...

How 23,605 Companies Fixed SAP BW DTP Errors [Tutorial]

Improving Business Process Performance Through Education We...

11 Proven Ways to Up Your Salary On Your Next Job [CRM System]

How To Organize Your Job Search Like A Pro The economy is...

7 Keys to Contract Compliance and Getting Paid [Online System]

A Senior Project Manager Ensures His Consultants Get Paid...

How One Million Dollar Recruiter Skips the Homework [Calculator]

& Skips the Sale or How You can Still Go Bankrupt Earning...

How You Can Still Go Bankrupt Earning $80 Bucks an Hour [Calculator]

How 1 Million Dollar Recruiter Skips the Homework, and...

How To Manage Monthly Invoices, Payments and Direct Deposits

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How to Avoid Financial Ruin Using Our Consultant Pricing Calculator: Use Case #1

Consulting Rate Calculator: Use Case #1 (Expenses Not Paid)...

How the Consulting Rate Calculator Works [Online Calculator]

Cash Flow Analysis Now Built Into Consulting Rate...

How Do You Manage Massive Commercial Real Estate Holdings [RFP Guide]

Retail Apocalypse Affecting Commercial Real Estate Market...

Networking for SAP PM Implementation

How Not to Look for Candidates? Once in a while I get what...

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Does PCI DSS Compliance Affect You?

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Please sign my White House Petition concerning H1-B's and the Unemployment office

Petition To Put The State Unemployment Office In Charge Of...

How To Determine Your Fully Loaded Cost Rate [FLC Calculator]

Have you ever heard the term FLC rate? Or Fully Loaded Cost...

Which SAP COE Approach is Right For You? [SAP Remote Consulting]

Driving down TCO with a SAP COE

11 Hidden Dangers of Negative Interest Rates [Template]

Have you ever had to prepare a project investment proposal?...

What is the TCO of That Shiny New System You're About To Buy [Calculator]

How to Determine Your TCO

Why You Need SAP Functional Consultants on a SAP BW Project

SAP ERP Functional Consultants Change is constant, and when...

10 Critical Management Information System Issues (Diagnostic Tool)

Big Data Doesn't Guarantee Agreement On What Things Mean...

How You Can Estimate a SAP BW Project in Under 5 minutes

SAP Data Warehouse Project Cost Estimation Made Easy Sad...

How To Set The Scope Of Your SAP REFX Project

Do You Know How Many and Which Modules Your SAP REFX...

One Secret Your HR Department Does Not Want You To Know [Calculator]

How to negotiate Winning All-Inclusive consulting rates The...

5 Surprising Reasons Enterprises Don’t Use An ERP

Does Your Enterprise Use An ERP? In a recent report ...

How to Avoid Project Disputes With These Key Project Plan Techniques

Build Your Project Plan Properly Have you ever had a client...

SAP BW Tutorial Best Practice on Project Management Forward Pass Analysis

Scheduling Forward Pass Analysis Tutorial This is a...

How to Plan Your SAP Project Resource Requirements [Consultation]

How to Plan Resources for a SAP project Whether you are a...

How to get the Webi Universe Data Source Connection Setup

Creating A Business Objects Webi Universe Is a Non-Trivial...

10 Secret Tips to Choosing SAP Consulting Companies [Checklist]

Choosing The Right SAP Consultancy Do you have any idea how...

7 Secrets to SAP BW – APO Integration

Supply Chain Management Plays a Key Role In Our Economy  ...

Congratulations on Getting PMP Certified

PMP Certification Congratulations go out to Doug Ayers, on...

Congratulations on SAP BI 4.0 Certification!

SAP BI 4.0 Certified

9 Reasons SAP BW Projects Fail-Maybe! [Template]

Why SAP BW Projects Fail - A Diagnosis After watching a...

10 Reasons Why Business Buy-In Beats Change Management [Whitepaper]

Have Your SAP Project Achieved Business Buy-In? SAP BI...

14 Ways to Write Better SAP Implementation Proposals [Whitepaper]

ERP Implementation Proposals Sometimes, you need to be very...

10 Advanced SAP BW Project Estimation Techniques [Online Tool]

Business Intelligence Project Estimation Techniques "It...

17 Tips for Creating Clear SAP BW Reporting Requirements [Template]

The Business Value of Clear SAP BI Requirements Once upon a...

7 Ways to Influence SAP Independent Consultant Rates [Newsletter]

Independent Consultant Rates   You may have heard a phrase...

10 SAP Career Coaching Tips [Subscription]

SAP Career Coaching By A SAP Consultant   Another SAP...

14 Keys to ERP Implementation Project Work Scheduling Effectiveness

SAP ERP Project Work Scheduling Management Best Practices  ...

10 Key Infrastructure Tips for SAP Implementation Projects

SAP Infrastructure Requirements   Want to know how to win...

15 Key SAP Project Plan Quality Checks [Checklist]

SAP Project Quality Management When I was growing up, I was...

3 Critical SAP Project Management DMS Must Haves [Tip Sheet]

SAP Project Status Reporting Tutorial Ever wonder why you...

5 Ways SAP Big Data Can Boost the U.S. Economy

Impact of Big Data On US Economic Output   I received this...

How to Implement a Data Governance Framework [eBook]

Is Your Data Governance Framework Working? You may already...

Can SAP BW Uncover Free Money? [Diagnostic]

The Value Of Your SAP BW Datawarehouse People are always...

SAP BW Tutorial Best Practice on Project Staffing

SAP BW Best Practice Series - Project Staffing Solutions...

How to Avoid Giving The Worst Safety Briefing Ever

The Will Smith Safety Briefing I like movies, and though it...

3 Ways to Design KPIs Using SAP Solution Map Composer

Have you ever tried to find or define a KPI?    If so,...

5 Keys to Successful Strategy Execution [Consultation]

Strategy Execution Is Key   In your search for a premium...

How Not To Screw Up 40,000 SAP BW Users

SAP BW Upgrades   Imagine, if you will, coming to work and...

SAP Modules You May Want to Know About

SAP Solution Landscape If you’re like many SAP customers,...

10 Reasons Why SAP BW is Not a Commoditized Skillset

SAP BW Consulting As A Differentiating Skillset During the...

SAP BW Tutorial Best Practice on Scope Management Plan [Template]

SAP BW Best Practice Tutorial - Scope Management Plan This...

8 Value Based Questions for Real Estate Management Software Solutions [ebook]

Real Estate Management in SAP   Whether you’re a CFO or an...

Identifying Cause Of Data Load Error When Using a SAP BW DTP [Tutorial]

SAP BW Data Transfer (DTP) Errors Typically, when using a...

How To Take Charge of Your Real Estate with SAP REFX [Checklist]

SAP Flexible Real Estate The sub-prime mortgage crisis may...

10 Reasons You Need a SAP Project Review

Importance of SAP Project Management Reviews   What if you...

Discover 10 Key SAP IS-Mill Benefits

SAP Industry Specific Solutions Benefits With so many SAP...

Learn What Tools To Use To Investigate IS-Mill Functionality

SAP MILL Solution Did you know that SAP has a specialized...

Discover 10 Key Benefits of SAP BW Reporting

Benefits of SAP Business Warehouse Reporting   Here at SAP...

How to Calculate the Number of Days in the Selected Period for the Report (without using a customer exit!).

How To Avoid Using ABAP When Calculating The Number Of Days...

How Financial Consolidations Can Benefit From Naming Conventions

Financial Consolidation Can Be Complex  There is an old...

How to Estimate TCO of Mobile Apps

Total Cost Of Ownership or TCO Imagine you were on one of...

How Financial Consolidations Winners Close Their Books In 7 Days

How Long To Close Your Books Is Normal?   In a recent SAP...

Why 70% of Business Intelligence Projects are Failing Worldwide☹️

The above came from the 2003 Gartner Annual CIO Report

6 Financial Management Excellence Tips

Achieving Excellence in Financial Management   You ever...

5 KPI Design Best Practice Guidelines [Tutorial]

Using Business Transformation Consulting To Design KPIs  ...

Go SAP Mobile or Go Home

SAP Mobile Applications Strategy You ever wonder what SAP...

How to Map SAP BPC to Planning Scenarios [Checklist]

SAP Planning and Forecasting Capabilities One of the more...

How to Manage SAP Mobility Solutions

Mobile Solutions For SAP For you military guys out there,...

Get an Expert's Guide to Mobile App Software Development

SAP Mobility Applications In a recent SAP Mobility...

Learn to Improve Dashboard Performance

Executive Dashboard Performance Improvement Have you ever...

How To Successfully Test SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

A SAP Business Objects Dashboard Tutorial Are you an...

10 Key iOS App Development Takeaways from SAP Projects 2012

SAP Projects and Mobile App Development If you were at the...

Blogging Live From SAP Projects 2012

SAP Projects   Attending SAP Projects 2012 in Las Vegas. ...

Discover How To Model SAP BI Integrated Planning Scenarios [Tutorial]

Integrated Planning in SAP BW Tutorial Do you ever wonder...

SAP BW Tutorial Best Practice on Requirements Gathering [Tutorial]

Best Practices for Requirements Gathering   This is a...

Discover 4 Key SAP BPC Functions [Checklist]

Four Critical BPC Functions Checklist If you’re a SAP...

Learn to Create the SAP BI-IP Planning Types [Tutorial]

A SAP BW Integrated Planning Tutorial If you are in...

How to Calculate the Days in a Selected Period SAP BW Report [Tutorial]

How to Calculate a Period of Time in SAP BW No Customer...

Understanding Embedded Systems vs SAP HANA

Learning The Difference Between an Embedded System and Real...

How to Create a Complete Copy of a SAP BW 7.3 Dataflow [Tutorial]

Problem: Need to quickly create a copy of a complete...

How To Use SAP Value Engineering Services [eBook]

What is Value Engineering?   Have you ever been a CEO with...

Learn What is Catch Weight Management

Understanding SAP Catch Weight Management Do you know "How...

How to Use SAP Webi Tutorial [12 Part Tutorial]

SAP BO Webi Tutorial Like all SAP projects, a SAP Webi (Web...

How to Select a SAP Recruitment Agency

What a SAP Project Manager Needs From a SAP Recruitment...

SAP BW Tutorial Best Practice on Project Folder System

SAP BW Best Practice Series on SAP Project Management  ...

How to Build a SAP SEM BPS Retail Industry Value Case [Template]

SEM BPS Value Case Creation Sometimes, you are under the...

How to Manage Change Management Risk

How To Manage Change In Project Management   If you work in...

SAP BW Tutorial Best Practice on Stakeholder Management Plan [Template]

The Key Steps To Developing Your Project Stakeholder...

12 Risk Management Considerations to Measure WRICEF-A

Do You Know What WRICEF-A Means? WRICEF-A Objects or...

10 Steps to Manage SAP Project Sub-Contractor Risk

SAP Sub-Contractor Risk Management Ever been the Project...

SAP BW Tutorial Best Practice on Project Management Risk Register

A Project Manager Tutorial On Risk Management  ...

A Field Report on a Recent SAP BOBJ Webi Dashboard Project

A Project Report On SAP   We like to get real world...

How to Use a Project Charter to Start a Project [Template]

What is a Project Charter? Is a Project Charter something...

Implement SAP BW using our SAP BW Tutorials

An SAP Business Warehouse Tutorial Whether you're new to...

10 SAP BW Project Cost Management Secrets [Checklist]

Project Management Golden Triangle Well, you've finally...

Learn 10 Benefits of SAP BW [BW Resource Estimator Calculator]

Do You Know The Benefit of SAP Business Warehouse? When it...

9 pasos para el éxito de múltiples canales de comercialización [Checklist]

Hoy un poco de espanol.  Unas mejoras practicas de multi...

The Federal Reserve, Project Management, Banking, Dollar Store and Green Beans

How Much Inflation Are You Experiencing? For a few years...

10 Ways to Be a Better SAP Customer

Are You a SAP Customer Whether you’ve owned your SAP system...

SAP BW and Gallinas en Libertad-Free at Last

A Short Story About Chickens, Che Guevara and SAP BW  ...

12 Easy Steps to Being a Better SAP Consultant [Checklist]

New to the SAP Consulting World? Unsure of How to Be an SAP...

3 Keys to Selecting SAP Professional Services Consulting

SAP Services Consulting Have you ever tried to engage a SAP...

7 Questions Typically Answered by a BI Reporting Strategy

Have You Ever Tried to Develop a Business Intelligence...

How to Select the Best SAP Best Practice Solutions

How to Implement Best Practices Have you ever tried to...

10 Key SAP BW Project Risk Management Tips

Risk Management In ERP Implementations Have you ever tried...

Learn to Create a SAP BW Technical Specification [Template]

Looking For A Sample Technical Specification Document?...

How to Translate SAP Modules Into Business Process Capabilities (Mindmap)

Do You Understand Business Processes in SAP If you don’t...

10 Reasons You Need SAP Preventive Maintenance vs Production Support

When I was I Water Well Driller, we used an old cable tool...

10 SAP BW Project Estimation Best Practices To Roll-Out Today [Calculator]

Estimating a SAP BW Project is Very Different from...

Do You Know Your SAP Modules

Do You Know All of the SAP Modules?   No matter where you...

How To Leverage SAP BW in a Multi-Channel Marketing Campaign

Want to Utilize a Multi Channel Marketing System.  What is...

SAP Project Implementation and Review of How To Measure Anything

How to Measure Anything Review Just finished reading a...

How To Understand SAP Modules Without Spending a Fortune (Mindmap)

Do you ever wonder just what is in the SAP box?    With so...

Leverage SAP BW to Increase Supply Chain Inventory Accuracy.

How to Improve Inventory Accuracy in a Warehouse If you run...

How To Segment Your Customers using SAP BW and CRM

Strategies and Tools to Segment Your Customers   Every...

How Smart Meter Benefits Get Turbo-Charged with Analytics [eBook]

Though I have often had to present on the subject of SAP...

How to Leverage SAP BW in Multi Channel Marketing

Sales Overachiever - Here's How Systems Help Sales down? ...

Understand CRM Based Marketing and SAP BW

How You Can Leverage SAP Customer Relationship Management...

Is IT Consulting Distinct From SAP BW Consulting?

SAP Technology Consulting vs IT Consulting   When you deal...

Working with SAP BW Consulting [Consultation]

SAP BW Consulting Methodology Development Working as a SAP...

How To Learn Advanced Data Warehouse Concepts by Using Aggregates

Learn Advanced Data Modeling Concepts Are you, like so many...

Understand Why Your Data Modeling Must Rock.

Know Your System's Various Data Models They say, live and...

How Is IT Consulting Distinct From SAP BW Consulting?

SAP BW Projects vs IT Projects When you deal with a SAP...

What are 2 Primary Focus Areas for SAP Airline Customers?

There are a Couple of Key Focus Areas for Airlines:

Learn What SAP Supported Procurement Needs Airlines Have

SAP for Airlines - Digital Procurement Made Simple So there...

Understand the GRC Pain Points of SAP A&D Manufacturers

What do today’s Aerospace & Defense companies worry about...

Know Production Project Management versus SAP Project Management.

Production Project Management is Challenging So there I...

How To Execute Your SAP Projects Better, Cheaper, Faster [Checklist]

SAP Project Management Learned On-The-Job   Now that you...

When Should You Do Your SAP BI Implementation?

Have you ever wondered if there is an ideal time to do your...

5 Things to Know About Your SAP Project Manager

Ever Wonder What a Project Manager Actually Does?  As a...

How SAP Certification Ought To Work

Have recently read several articles on the state of SAP...

Learn What Makes The SAP DFPS Solution Different

Have you ever wondered what sort of solution SAP has for...

How To Understand SAP Supply Chain Management and BW

A Brief Introduction of the Role of SAP in Supply Chain...

Secrets to Data Mining Success with SAP APD

Ready to Deploy Data Mining Technology   Does this describe...

How to Understand SAP Modules in 5 minutes [Mindmap]

SAP Module Mindmap

10 Tips for SAP BW Project Management Success

What You Need To Know About Managing SAP BW Projects SAP BW...

5 Reasons a Datawarehouse is Critical to a Solid Balanced Scorecard

Balanced Scorecard Bootcamp   Recently completed the...

Understanding SAP Consulting Rates [Survey Results]

Seems like everybody wants to be a SAP Consultant.   ...

Understanding Value Management and SAP BW [Guidebook]

Was once asked, just how does one business make money...

How To Model Key Figures SAP BW Tutorial [Tutorial]

Time To Learn About Modeling SAP BW Key Figures As you dive...

How To Use SAP BW to Prevent Retail Losses

Learn More About SAP BW Retail Solutions Did you know SAP...

Understanding The Most Common SAP Data Warehousing Concepts [Mindmap]

Learn Basic Data Warehousing Concepts A Data Warehouse...

How to Avoid SAP Implementation Mistakes

How To Have A Successful SAP Implementation Project After a...

10 Things you Need to Know About SAP’s HRMS

What is an HRMS system? Whether you are a 1 man operation...

10 Keys to Effectively Using the SAP Service Market Place

Are you new to SAP?  If so, you are going to want to know...

How to Solve the Number 1 Problem of an IT Manager

Problem:  Every IT Manager needs to have a 5 year roadmap...

How To Build SAP BW MultiProviders and Infosets Guide

SAP How-To Guides As part of our on-going SAP BW...

How Do You Know That SAP BW Project Will Take 9 Months? [Calculator]

Can You Really Estimate a SAP BW Project in Five Minutes?...

How the Movie Industry Can Catch up to iTunes With the Help of SAP

Apple's iTune and SAP   Read a very interesting article...

Project Estimation and Analysis of a SAP Webi Project [Best Practice]

Learn SAP Project Estimation Techniques From The Pros This...

5 Insights About SAP Webi Best Practices - Field Report

Field Report From a SAP Webi Project We Delivered This is a...

Introducción al cuadro de mando

What Comes After SAP Airline Route Profitability?

One KPI To Rule Them All Whenever we work with a business,...

Do You Make These Mistakes Staffing Your SAP BW Project? [Mindmap]

Staffing Your SAP BW Project Ever wondered what is the...

10 Ways To Create xCelsius Dashboards for External Entities

How To Leverage External Data in A Dashboard We frequently...

How To Estimate Your SAP BW Project Durations [Online Calculator]

Need To Estimate a SAP BW Project? Most SAP BW customers...

Top 10 Guidelines to Choosing a SAP Service Partner

Have you ever wondered how to choose a SAP Service...

How is Your Innovation Strategy Working [Best Practice]

Why Innovation Matters According an article in the February...

How To Increase Sales Productivity with SAP BW

Looking For Ways To Increase Sales Productivity?   Did you...

1 Key Tip When Upgrading from SAP BW 3.X to BW 7.X [Checklist]

SAP BW Upgrade Tip Of The Day👍 Are you one of the many SAP...

5 Mistakes You Are Making with SAP Functional Specifications [Template]

How To Get Control Of Your WRICEFs In every SAP...

7 Warning Signs Your CRM Customer Service Processes Are Broken

Want to Increase Your Business’ Revenue and Profits?    ...

Could SAP Transportation Management Save The World Economy? [Consultation]

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How SAP Professional Services Solutions Help You Increase Profits

SAP Project Resource Management In today’s complex...

Size 48 or 14-SCM Efficient Consumer Response?

Do You Have an Efficient Consumer Response System? Ok, I...

14 Remote SAP Consulting Mistakes You Don't Know Your Making

Remote SAP Consulting - A Practice Whose Time Has Come In...

7 OODA Loop Mistakes to Avoid by Using SAP Analytics [Balanced Scorecard]

  Col. John Boyd, was a USAF Fighter Pilot, and the...

13 SAP Business Planning Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making

Using SAP Business Planning Correctly Many enterprises have...

9 Little-Known Factors That Could Affect Your Profitability

Are You Achieving Your Profitability Targets? Learn What To...

12 Warning Signs Your EPM System is in Trouble

EPM System Design Requirements and Best Practices High...

9 SAP Webi Dashboard Testing Software Hacks of the Pro’s [Checklist]

SAP Webi Dashboard Testing Best Practices These testing...

10 SAP Data Migration Mistakes to Avoid [Template]

Data Migration Challenges and Solutions for Successful SAP...

How You Can Avoid SAP Webi Dashboards Design Mistakes [Checklist]

SAP Webi Dashboard

Don’t Forget to Ask These 10 SAP EPM Strategy Management Questions

Starting Your SAP EPM Journey Are you about to embark on a...

SAP Edison Economic Offset Program Secrets

How SAP’s Edison Ideation Program Could Help with Economic...

Do You Make These Global Trade Service Process Control Mistakes?[Checklist]

SAP GRC Process Control SAP GRC GTS (Global Risk &...

Do You Make These Global Trade Service Mistakes?[Self-Audit Checklist]

SAP Global Trade Compliance Audit Checklist SAP has a...

Learn More About SAP BW Consulting

What do we do.  It is really quite simple, we are a SAP...

17 More Steps to SAP Supply Chain Performance Management Nirvana

How To Improve Your Supply Chain's Performance In part one...

20 Steps To Take Charge of Your Supply Chain's Performance (SCM)

How to Improve Supply Chain Performance Supply Chain...

8 Secrets to SAP Enabled Spend Performance Management

How You Make Every Dollar Count Using SAP Spend Performance...

14 SAP Business Planning Best Practices [Checklist]

Are You Using These Business Planning Best Practices?   SAP...

How to Improve SAP Profitability Management-P2 - The Ultimate Guide

SAP Profitability Management - Part 2 Here is part two of...

How to Improve SAP Profitability Management - The Ultimate Guide

Are you a CFO, CEO, or CMO who wants to improve your...

8 More EPM SAP Strategy Management How To Best Practices

Enterprise Performance Management Best Practice Series   In...

9 EPM SAP Strategy Management How To Best Practices To Implement Now

Want to Create a World Class Strategy Management...

Do You Make These 9 Project Management Mistakes?

Ever Have a Project Complete Late?  Ever wonder why it...