The States or Bust article
David Cannington of Traction USA shared the following article with me. It was published in a couple of Australian newspapers including the Melbourne Age. It provides a great deal of information to Australian companies trying to enter the US market. I think most of it would apply to South African companies as well.Any comments?
Read MoreAirVenture 2007 – Oshkosh, WI
I didn’t post anything last week, because I attended the world’s largest aviation event in Oshkosh Wisconsin, EAA’s AirVenture annual event. It attracts 700,000 visitors during the week, 10,000 planes are on display and/or flying and camp Scholler is home to 40,000 people during the week. It’s an amazing event even if you are not into aviation.The following video will give you a taste for the action:
Read MoreSouth African vs US terms – every day words
Recently I blogged regarding the difference between US and South African business terms. In this post I will give you some every day words that are different. For instance, in South Africa you walk on the sidewalk and drive with your manual car on the pavement and stop when the robot is red… Btw, have you ever thought why in America we park in our “drive ways” and drive on “park ways”?Enjoy!
Integration with SAP
Well, even with NetWeaver and XI it seems that it is still not easy to integrate 3rd party systems with SAP. I did some research and found the following interesting products. The first one that seems very interesting (based on their website, I’m signed up for a demo next week) is the an Integration Appliance for SAP by Cast Iron. A friend of mine indicated that his company is considering Cast Iron as a way to integrate their Salesforce.com system with SAP. Here is an interesting blog entry on Cast Iron and the following wikipedia entry lists more integration appliances. This is an example of Cast Iron’s mapping editor.
The appliance allows full environment management, i.e., you can set up a dev, test and production environment. Cast Iron has three appliances for SAP, an entry level model for one application integration, a flag ship model for enterprise level application integration and also a high availability (HA) appliance.WinShuttle is another popular way to upload and download information from SAP. This product seems less flashy than Cast Iron’s appliance, however it seems to deliver the goods for many customers.Gregor Hohpe wrote a book on patterns and best practices for enterprise integration, called, Enterprise Integration Patterns
Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (ESOA) for the rest of us
Venderprisey linked to an excellent presentation on ESOA. I post it here for your convenience. It’s also an example of an excellent presentation.Do you agree?
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