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Take hold of the shaft of the pen.
Subscribe to the first step taken
from a justified line
into the margin.

Seamus Heaney - The First Gloss

And so we started…

Not as medieval monks annotating a religious text (anyone who knows us would cry foul if we claimed that). But as those seeking to add some notes in the margins of the Internet.
In the hope that others may find them useful.

We write on the elements of life that interest us…

Broadly these elements fall into three main categries -

  1. Digital - musings on how best to digitally deliver SAP (third largest software company in the world - see Forbes' list of largest software companies by sales)
  2. Programme - understanding how best to address the challenge “Programme or be programmed”
  3. Miscellany1 - other things that have picqued our interest on the way through life.

Links to each of these three main categories are provided below.


1 Miscellany

  • Miscellaneous items.
  • A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.
Wikitionary - the Free Dictionary


Programme


In developing the ideas we have for digitising SAP delivery, we have come to understand a lot of the tools, techniques and tips associated with non-SAP 'digital' delivery. Focusing mainly on what we have learned going from being a complete noob to not quite so much of a noob in the last 24 months. We focus on the use of JavaScript (coupled with HTML5 and CSS3) both client and server side to deliver applications that are usable and useful.

Miscellany


There are a number of other subjects that have tickled our fancy on the way through. Where we believe that providing a link to that subject may help or interest others, we have included it in our Miscellany. Not as well as Ben Schott did in the early naughties (see http://www.benschott.com/miscellany.html.). But hopefully well enough to be of some value.

Digital


As the world has been overun by those promising Digital Transformation, many SAP customers have perhaps struggled to deliver change as rapidly as they would like. Nor indeed as they would expect. We start with a definition of Digital Transformation with which we feel comfortable and believe informs a sensible debate about how best to Digitise SAP delivery. We then seek to explore the ways and means one can consider merging the best of both worlds; the world of agile fleet-footed 'two pizza' delivery with the world of solid enterprise-grade systems of record.