SAP Note Viewer for iPad and iPhone v2.0 Released
Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the app to date (roughly 9000 of you!). Also thanks to all the people providing feedback and ideas for future versions, keep them coming.
Version 2 of the app has been given some major improvements to the iPhone version including the ability to review the comment attributes (version, applications and status) which was already in the iPad version. Another improvement to the iPhone app is the ability to launch the note in Safari on the device. Basically a quick link to the note but you will still need to authenticate yourself.
The biggest improvement in v 2.0 is the ability to now search for notes rather than having to know the specific note numbers, as per the previous releases. Another interesting improvement is the ability to βTagβ notes, currently, Implemented, Deleted, Success and Failed are the options. A bunch of bug fixes were also made.
Ella Kate
Kate wants to kill me for this long introduction … but I was trying out some different angles and shots with a new 50mm lens π
Lithium Labs Business Cards
One of my favorite projects when I started Lithium Labs, was creating my business cards. This photo online sparked creativity and inspiration for me, and ended up with some unique (but expensive) cards I handed out at different events. I often got nice compliments on them. They were printed by moo.com.
Printed Cards
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A Proof of Concept: The social aspect of enterprise data
Something I truly enjoy about my job is that fact that I am given freedom to explore creative solutions to business challenges. Being in manufacturing and the extremely demanding automotive industry, we are consistently challenged to produce better product, at a lower cost and in a shorter time in order to maintain reasonable margins. We are often faced with implementing solutions which augment our manufacturing processes and enable production employees to have better insight to the products being produced which ultimately ensures better quality. Some of these solutions include real time production labeling (tightly integrated from PLCβs to SAP), On-line visual display of requirements and products being produced and even include metrics like OEE.
Custom BI on iPad using Javascript
Introduction
After developing multiple iOS apps (SAP Note Viewer for iPad (SAP Note Viewer for iPad) and iPhone (SAP Note Viewer for iPhone), iOS CRM (iOS CRM for SAP and iPad β A free Mobile CRM App)) I recently stumbled across one of my biggest hurdles so far (aside from learning Obj. C!) in creating a Sales dashboard within a native application. Charting and Graphing in business applications, including SAP, is a everyday necessity providing users, managers and CEOβs a visual representation of important, monotonous and a downright boring set of data.
Dashboards, charts and graphs have become a common place within organizations and new releases of Business Objects BI 4, are making these easy to deploy, user friendly, interactive and can be very helpful in making game time decisions. Utilizing these visualizations from a mobile platform is something which is being actively developed ({code:html}Business Explorer for iPhone{code} for example) but currently there are very few plugins/frameworks/controls or libraries which make adding custom visualizations to your XCode project easy. A good example of some great looking charts in iOS would be Roambi (http://www.roambi.com/). In my quest to solve this challenge I came across a solution which allowed me to mashup javascript and objective c creating a solution which is working fairly well so far and felt like some others developing on this βnewishβ platform might find helpful. While my solution does not come close to being comparative to products like Roambi, it does provide some tricks to making charting fairly simple for anyone wanting to do so. This post will be
iOS CRM for SAP and iPad β A free Mobile CRM App
Introduction
So its finally ready for a quick demo, the app has taken a little bit longer than expected to develop but has been a really good experience. Having worked very little little with CRM, it was interesting to get a bit of background knowledge and information about the product and its potential.
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I decided I wanted to build an enterprise app for the iPad while I was at TechEd a couple months ago, but wasnβt sure which direction to take β Should I go with a manufacturing related type app which assisted material handlers in the warehouse or something which is a little bit more generic and could be used by a wider audience. After meeting a couple great people at a Web Service Class (CD360) we got chatting and they planted the seed for something linked to CRM since users are often out of the office, donβt always want, or need, to take a laptop with them, and iPads seem to lend themselves well to such an environment.
SAP Note Viewer for iPad
Firstly, thanks to everyone for the support of the SAP Note Viewer for iPhone of this app, users have really been growing steadily since its release and as of yesturday we had around 925 users. Feedback has been great and some really awesome ideas are coming from the community.
The app is currently in the App Store and can be found here.
The app has the same features as the iPhone version which have been listed below, but the ipad really is considerably better for viewing the notes than the phone.
I dont anticipate the app to do as well just due to the number of iPads versus iPhones in the market, but hopefully it will make a select few peoples lives just a little bit easier. (My intention!)
SAP Note Viewer for iPhone
Well, its been an interesting few months with the XCode platform and learning Objective C was interesting, but I am glad to announce my side project has been released and is available in the Apple App Store. The free app is called SAP Note Viewer for iPhone and is just that β¦ a SAP OSS Note viewer which allows people to search for and download the notes and store them on their iPhone/iPad in PDF format.
The app also allows you to share the note details via email and mark specific notes as βFavoritesβ for easy reference.
Since this is Version 1, my intention is to simply get the ball rolling and hope for some feedback from the community to get some ideas on where it should go and what functionality everyone would like to see.
List: Tech Conferences
I list of the conferences I have either attended or spoken at over the years. Majority in the tech and SAP space.
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