Now this is a very annoying behavior I’ve observed with Safari on Mac and accessing a variety of SAML2 protected sites – while other browsers such as Chrome don’t appear to have that problem. The authentication process may just hang, or also fail with an uninformative cookie error. Ultimately,...
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“What is your main purpose in life right now?”
As part of my DBA, there is what the university calls a “personal development module.” So people ask me questions that are meant to make you think. The question we got over the holiday period was this: “What is your main purpose in life right now?” I don’t know...
Continue reading...Workaround for Lync Issues opening the Skype for Business application on IOS
I’ve been struggling with Lync (Skype for Business) issues this morning. Both iPhone and iPad suddenly no longer opened the Skype for Business application when clicking on a Lync link. So for example, a calendar invite may contain something like this:
Continue reading...Innovate or Exploit? Some thoughts on Rigidity vs. Flexibility, and Myopic Measurement
I’m just reading Schermerhorn et al. There’s an interesting chapter on innovation which captures the topic of flexibility vs. rigidity, or exploration vs. exploitation, that I’ve recently discussed with a group of research fellows in the context of the dichotomy of exploration vs. exploitation: “too much emphasis on exploration...
Continue reading...Innovations in Storage Technology…
In the picture below, you see the first hard disk drive. Developed by IBM in 1952, it carried a whopping 5 MB of data on fifty twenty-four inch disks. It was leased to customers at about 3,200 USD (equivalent to 27,500 USD in 2013) a month. It weighted over...
Continue reading...Miles and Less…
According to a very euphemistic mail sent out by Star Alliance today, Miles and More are going to be even more oriented at the “value of the flight ticket.” Now of course we know there’s no such thing as a free lunch (if we’d even dare to call an...
Continue reading...SAP Top Talent Fellow 2011
And here – as it arrived the same day – is the certificate that I was assigned SAP Top Talent in 2011 (actually, both in 2010 and 2011). My task was to develop ways to improve the SAP Labs Communication, working for our Chief Communication Officer.
Continue reading...Installation Prerequisites for a normal AIX Installation of XIR3.1
I cannot remember how many times I’ve come on to projects, where though we were told that everything was in place so that we could directly start installing, in fact nothing was in place, no-one was available, and we just lost a lot of time. So, once and for...
Continue reading...Architectural Thoughts
Since the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP I’ve the pleasure to meet a substantial number of customers who have their SAP systems in place and want to add Business Objects Enterprise basically as an add-on onto the hardware they’re running SAP on. From their perspective, Business Objects is...
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