Crypto Currencies suck and should be banned

Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, have been gaining a lot of attention in recent years for their potential to revolutionize the financial industry. However, with the increased popularity of these digital assets comes a significant downside: the environmental impact of their produ...

10 useful apps from the Salesforce AppExchange

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that offers a wide variety of apps and integrations that can be used with the Salesforce platform. These apps can help businesses improve their operations and productivity by providing additional functionality and capabilities. Here are ten of the be...

Recipe for Spaghetti Carbonara

Hey, wanna know how to make some spaghetti carbonara? It’s super easy, and you don’t even have to care about anything to make it. Here’s how to do it …

Salesforce Sales Cloud explained to 6-year-old children

Hi kids, my name is Alex, and today I’m going to tell you about a really cool tool called Salesforce Sales Cloud.

Migrate from SAP CRM on premise to Salesforce

Migrating from SAP CRM on premise to Salesforce can provide numerous benefits for businesses, including better usability and less system maintenance. However, the migration process can be complex and it’s important to carefully plan and execute it in order to ...

Horgen, Switzerland

Finally, after all this time, I catched Corona. So far I am feeling sick, but not too bad. I guess the three vaccine shots are helping.

Augsburg bus drivers are maniacs

I can’t say it any other way - a lot of bus drivers in Augsburg should not be allowed to do their job.

1922 - 2022

Hedwig Streibelt

Mental Employee Health Appreciation Day

Some companies celebrate the 3rd March - Employee Appreciation Day.

Other companies have a Mental Health Day.

5:45am

Guns are socialism

Task failed successfully - great job GlobalProtect!

Presenting Vigience Overcast, our Salesforce/SAP integration, at Salesforce in Munich.

A more iconic trio? Salesforce, SAP and Overcast!

Great ad by DuckDuckGo

Happy Birthday

The world in 2022 if SAP was user friendly

Graffiti in Munich

Climate Change - Science Fiction vs. Reality

I read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science fiction book set in the near future.

This picture was taken in the middle of the night in the absolut dark. My eyes could not see a thing. Looks like the iPhone camera can do magic (and it is only a iPhone 11).

SAP - Change the credit limit for a customer

This is everything, but not straight forward. If you don’t select the checkboxes as discribed in step 2, it might not work.

I tried to call the tax office today and their voice mail told that they are only available from 8:00 to 10:00am because of Corona. You can’t leave a message either. I called them at 9:00am. WTF!?!?

At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it’s neither, quit. Garry Tan (VC)

How to create a product hierarchy in SAP

In this blog I describe how to create a product hierarchy in SAP.

Citrix security is a joke

Last year I worked nine months on a project as a UX designer. Access to email and MS Teams was only possible via Citrix, which worked ok. But most of the time I worked locally on my Mac with Sketch. Every now and then, when I wanted to check my emails, I found the Citrix/Window session locked:...

YOU ARE YOUR CHOICES

SENECA

User Friendly

When I hear the term user friendly, I am thinking about UX and software, but the song User Friendly from SwizZz is about drug use. Still, I am totally into it at the moment.

The SAP UX Strategy

You want proof? Here

He is right, isn’t he?

On the weekend I downloaded my first torrent in at least ten years. I did not think I will ever need it again, but turned out I was wrong …

Hard to believe, but this is a thing: Résumé-Driven Development - introducing technologies and solutions into a project just to have them in your CV afterwards. No wonder so many IT projects fail.

A great list of 103 advices you should read

Don’t wait for the storm to pass; dance in the rain

Ban all Cryptocurrency!

What a waste of energy this is. We are fighting climate change and all this nonsense cryptocurrency mining happens at the same time.

Space Attack

In 1996 I was crazy enough to release a instrumental hip hop vinyl LP called Space Attack featuring the hottest German hip hop producers of that time on my label Braindamage Records.

I don’t understand why so many people dislike Electron apps. I am writting this post in one - Visual Studio Code. Yes, native is great, but I fully understand companies that target Windows and the Mac to go the Electron way.

How can I find the Sales Area information for a business partner in SAP?

Follow these steps in the SAP GUI.

Berlin, April 2022

I consume most of my news via RSS feeds and I use Reeder on Mac and iOS.

With the latest version it is possible to add YouTube channels, Twitter and Reddit. Now all my news are finally in one place.

I am playing around with document360.io at the moment, a tool to create internal and external knowledge bases. Looks cool, markdown support, Word import - I like what I see.

The best solution is not to give users what they want, but to give them something that they did not even know was possible. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford

Berlin, 27th April 2022

With the small VW ID.3 to Berlin

Today I drove with my VW ID.3 from Augsburg to Berlin. About 600 km with just two charging stops.

In general, the car - even with the small 58kW battery - can perform on such a distance. There are just a few things that I don’t like: (1) The main display on the dashboa...

People Business

I am developing, selling, and implementing software since more than 20 years. During that time, I participated in many requests for proposal, many sales pitches and I competed against a lot of competitors. You might think that the best software always wins, but that is not the case. Many times...

jorganizer - first steps in Java

Until 2001 I was mainly developing in Perl, but I wanted to get into the Java space (which was a smart move, as it got me a job as Java developer at SAP).

How do you best learn a new language? Going through tutorials is only working un...

How Germans turn their kids into little Psychopaths

From very young age, German kids hear stories that turn them into little psychopaths. It worked with me.

On the one side, there are fary tails like Little Red Riding Hood, where a wolf eats humans or Hensel & Gretel, where a witch plans to eat children. I guess the...

You Can Easily Judge the Character of a Man by How He Treats Those Who Can Do Nothing for Him

I just experienced it this week - it is a valuable lesson and good to be reminded.

Connecting SAP Cloud Integration with Salesforce

I found an excellent blog, that describes how SAP Cloud Integration can be used to integrate into Salesforce.

This looks unnecessary complex to me. I have...

SAP - still inconsistent after 50 years

I know that I am complaining about small, minor things here, but please explain me this:

What does the dialog titles “Hit List 17 Entries” and “Table Row 40 Entries” tell me? N...

Why do many companies say “we are like a big family”? I can’t choose my family, but I can choose my employer. I want my company to be like a community, a group of people I join not because I need to, but because I want to!

Two Types of Developers

I had the plesure to work with two types of developers.

Type one is doing what you ask them to do (at most). Sometimes not even that. As I am far away from being perfect, I make mistakes, I write imperfect tickets and specs. The result? Garbage in, garbage out.

Disable your ad blocker and go to this side to see how the web works today: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/.

Sad, but true …

This is where I walk daily …

The best computer I have ever used

Since January I am working with the new 16” MacBook Pro, M1 Max CPU and 64 GB RAM. I have 3 external displays connected and I wonder if the fan is broken. I think I never heard it once. In my old - just one generation old - MacBook Pro, the fan was running nonestop when I connected two externa...

Since more than 35 years I am listening to hip hop, but only two weeks ago I discovered Hopsin. I really like his style and flow and he has some dope tracks.

The Atlassian outage … how can you have a script that does this? Executing this should require the four eye principle. This was really bad, but I ask myself: Who do I trust more with my infrastructure? Myself or a company like Atlassian? The answer is: Definately not me!

Salesforce Lightning Font

Today I learned that the Salesforce Lightning UI doesn’t have a it’s own font, or a specific default font, but it is using the system default of the operating system, it is running on. I think it is a smart move - Microsoft, Apple and Google invest enough resources in these fonts, so why reinv...

Network Effects with SAP?

How can we generate network effects in the SAP area? SAP has done this with Ariba or Concur and they tried with the Asset Intelligence Network. Thinking abou...

Electron Apps on my Mac

Many people are criticising the rise of Electron apps on the Mac. I have no problem with that. There is a script that gives a list of all your electron apps. I am surprised I only so few of them: Visual Stu...

Deep Integration of SAP and Salesforce with Vigience Overcast

In this blog I want to explain why Overcast (for which I am VP of product management) is the perfect tool to integrate SAP into Salesforce.

Just found some historic documents - my first blog posts from 2006, back then in the SAP Developer Network Blog: https://blogs.sap.com/tag/alexander-ilg/

I am starting a new Salesforce/SAP integration project with Overcast today. SAP PM/MM/SD/FI with customer master, prices, sales orders, purchase orders, shipments, invoices, material, inventory and much more.

SAP PM/CS Transactions

The following is a list of useful and frequently used transactions in the SAP modules PM (Plant Maintenance) and CS (Customer Service) that I just re-discovered in an old Google Site of mine.

What I have learned over the weekend: Setting up GitHub pages and installing, configuring and using Jekyll. Next step: Make the creation of new posts easier.

I don’t understand why SAP has not moved ABAP as their central technology into the SAP Cloud (or Business Technology Platform as it is called now). ABAP is truly special, powerful and great. Why not use that instead of Node.js and Java …

Trying something new - writing a microblog with Jekyll, hosted as static pages on GitHub. Let’s see how it goes

A magic dwells in each beginning

Today I start a new position as VP Product Management Overcast at Vigience (Overcast is a solution for Salesforce/SAP integration).