Category: Blog

Bookmark: App Infrastructure which resonates with me …

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I recently came across a blog post that really resonated with me — it captures a philosophy I’ve believed in since I started building small companies and apps:

How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

The whole piece is worth reading, but the core idea is simple: keeping costs near zero gives you the same runway as raising a million dollars with a massive burn rate … but without the stress, the complexity, or the board breathing down your neck.

The one place I differ is on the database. I’m still firmly in the camp of running a managed Postgres instance, decoupled from the rest of the stack, rather than going all-in on SQLite. read more

Inspired: Stephen Wolfram

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I just came across a super cool implementation, and now inspiration, for all the data and insights I am collecting on my personal site. (NB. I am not suggesting my life is even remotely unique or insightful and valuable to science versus Wolframs).

I do hope that one day I can look back and quantify the memories, experiences and insights I had the opportunity to enjoy.

The Life and Times of Stephen Wolfram: Timeline

Timeline of significant events in Stephen Wolfram’s life, from birth through school, awards, publications, starting his company, major projects.

The Personal Analytics of My Life—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Utilizing data analysis capabilities in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, Stephen Wolfram looks at his quantified self based on his large collection of lifelogging data.

Implementing LLMs in our internal mobile apps: Design, Demos, and Deployment

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This is a summary/blog of my presentation which I recently gave internally at SAP during the One SAP Mobile Summit. The event brings some of the best and likeminded SAP mobility related groups and teams together during a week long, in-person, and virtual summit.

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This is another blog post of a series around the enterprise mobility IT team at SAP. We are an internal team focused on managing mobile devices, mobile applications, and developing custom apps for SAP’s 110,000 employees. I believe we have some unique stories, software, tools, and insights to help others in the community considering, or currently undertaking, some of the challenges which surround mobility and its adoption in the enterprise. As an SAP champion, I enjoy sharing and promoting my experiences and knowledge with others through the SAP Community, if you enjoy this post, check out some of my past content. read more

Enterprise Mobility @ SAP – Conversational UI bot platform

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This is another blog post of a series around the enterprise mobility IT team at SAP. We are an internal team focused on managing mobile devices, mobile applications, and developing custom apps for SAP’s 100,000 employees. I have been a part of this team for the past six years and believe we have some unique stories, software, tools, and insights to help others in the community considering, or currently undertaking, some of the challenges which surround mobility and its adoption in the enterprise.

This post is also a follow on to the post about SAP Relay, our internal realtime chat application, if you are interested reading that post might provide some context. read more

Enterprise Mobility @ SAP – Relay

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This is another blog post of a series around the enterprise mobility IT team at SAP. We are an internal IT team focused on managing mobile devices, applications, and developing custom apps for SAP’s 100,000 employees. I have been a part of this team for the past six years and believe we have some unique stories, software, tools, and insights to help others in the community considering, or currently undertaking, some of the challenges which surround mobility and its adoption in the enterprise.

Introduction

As mentioned in previous posts, apps are an essential cornerstone of mobility @ SAP. Whether they are employee initiated or driven by innovation, we adopt the underlying processes and do our best to deliver solutions that increase our end users’ productivity. This post will take a deep dive into the ideation, architecture, design, and lifecycle of an internal app called Relay. A real-time chat application initially developed in 2012 using the Business Technology Platform (Previously known as the SAP Cloud Platform). A variation of the application might be familiar to some of you SAP community users, as Messages. We recently retired the application internally due to the increased adoption of MS Teams and Slack. However, I believe that some of the concepts and premise behind the application are still relevant to share. read more

Enterprise Mobility @ SAP – Mobile App Development

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This is the second blog post of a series around the enterprise mobility IT team at SAP. We are an internal team focused on managing mobile devices, applications, and developing custom apps for SAP’s 100,000 employees. I have been a part of this team for the past six years. I believe we have some unique stories, software, tools, and insights to help others in the community considering, or currently undertaking, some of the challenges which surround mobility and its adoption in the enterprise.

Introduction

Apps have been a cornerstone for deploying mobile devices at SAP, and like any symbiotic relationship, the success of one depends on the success of the other. Our employees have realized the benefits of simplicity, speed, and availability in consumer applications and the power of their mobile devices. They have brought that same expectation to the enterprise and expect that these same traits be available in their work lives and daily processes. This is often how our mobile projects are initiated. In my eyes, the employees who demand innovation are the unicorns of the enterprise – they are passionate, willing, and eager to buck the norm and innovate on processes, which could be decades old, but rife for improvement. read more

Enterprise Mobility @ SAP – Introduction

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This is the first blog post of a series around the enterprise mobility team at SAP. We are an internal IT team focused on managing mobile devices, mobile applications, and developing custom apps for SAP’s 100,000 employees. I have been a part of this team for the past six years and believe we have some unique stories, software, tools, and insights to help others in the community considering, or currently undertaking, some of the challenges which surround mobility and its adoption in the enterprise.

Introduction

SAP has been on the leading edge of adopting, deploying, and developing its Enterprise Mobility strategy for over ten years. It was one of the initial early adopters of Apple in the enterprise, with a field deployment of over 11,000 iPads in 2011. At the time, it was the second-largest deployment worldwide. Not only did SAP deploy and encourage the adoption of these innovative devices in our employee’s hands, but the team also had a early start on developing native iOS apps to support and empower our employees in their daily lives, enabling them to be more productive anywhere. read more

Who to write usefully

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What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That’s what a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should be useful. To start with, that means it should be correct. But it’s not enough merely to be correct. It’s easy to make a statement correct by making it vague.

http://paulgraham.com/useful.html

You Don’t Need Big Data – You Need the Right Data

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I enjoyed this article from Max Wessel at SAP talking about how big data is not always the answer, but more specifically that you need the right data. There is a lot to unpack when you start apply and adding your business processes to this context.

The term “big data” is ubiquitous. With exabytes of information flowing across broadband pipes, companies compete to claim the biggest, most audacious data sets. And businesses of all varieties — old and new, industrial and digital, big and small — are getting into the game.

Masses of social, weather, and government data are being leveraged to predict supply chain outages. Enormous amounts of user data are being harnessed at scale to identify individuals among a sea of website clicks. And companies are even starting to leverage huge quantities of text exchanges to build algorithms capable of having conversations with customers. read more

Cards against SAP

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Being an SAP Mentor I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting and interacting with many different SAP Executives and Leaders (One of my favorite was Hasso Plattner) … and in these meetings we would often chat about technology, platforms, innovation and the future of the company. In order to flip the script a bit and make things fun, I decided to put together a “Cards against SAP” type game, I never had the chance to use/introduce it, but here are a few questions I thought would be fun to ask:

  • The keynote this morning was completely ruined by _______.
  • The keynote this morning was awesome thanks to ________.
  • A SAP product would not be complete without ______.
  • In the context of SAP Products ….praise _____ , Marry ______, Kill _____.
  • If I could make _______ happy, my my life would be complete.
  • SAP as a company could do without ___________.
  • SAP as a company could really use ____________.
  • My boss is ___________.
  • I think SAP stands for:
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