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DJ Adams has improved OSS interface with a greasemonkey user script
to achieve the following
1) remove frames
2) add note number to title
3) add hyper links to related notes

Tested and works very well…

Latest blog item SAP: temporary loss of touch with reality? : …In our SAP landscape, we have major SAP-powered applications that are written in Perl (with Apache, running on Linux)… mmm…

via Simon Willison: Fixing web applications with Greasemonkey

SAP Splits Software Dev, Product Innovation : …To better enable customer responsiveness and speed of decision-making, SAP announced an organizational restructuring of its executive board that realigns software development and product innovation into separate camps. Under the new structure SAP executive board member Shai Agassi will lead software development for the entire company, a realignment that not only keeps SAP NetWeaver development under Agassi’s purview, but also adds SAP’s Business Solutions Group development…

SAP - Press Release - SAP to Establish Research and Development Center in Hungary : …SAP Labs Budapest to Employ Around 300 Highly Skilled Professionals for the Service Enablement and Continuing Innovation of the mySAP™ Supply Chain Management Solution…Leading the efforts at SAP Labs Budapest will be Albrecht Diener, senior vice president and head of Supply Chain Development, SAP AG. Laure Le Bars will serve as the center’s managing director…

SAP - Press Release - SAP Expands Automotive Solution Set with Purchase of DCS Quantum Solution from DCS Automotive - Automotive Dealer Management System Will Help Dealers and OEMs Streamline Business Processes

WALLDORF, Germany - February 01, 2005 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has purchased DCS Quantum, a leading vehicle dealer management system, from DCS Automotive, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based DCS Group PLC. DCS Quantum will be integrated into the SAP for Automotive industry solution set as SAP® Dealer Business Management, expanding SAP’s software offering in automotive sales and service.

Based on mySAP™ ERP, the solution is designed to enable vehicle importers, distributors, dealer groups and independent dealers to consolidate and improve sales and service processes and to achieve more effective collaboration. It will include capabilities for business management within dealerships, dealer organizations, importers and OEM-owned sales companies. In addition to core enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes for human resources, finance and controlling, it offers specific functionality for new and used vehicle sales, vehicle service and service parts management.

The SAP Help Portal provides web-based documentation for all SAP solutions. This enables you to search the online library for the right information where and when you need it.

I just tried help.microsoft.com to see what it contains… Do it yourself…

Update on 2005-05-18 - help.microsoft.com is being redirected to http://support.microsoft.com/ - mmm… I definitely saw something funny the other day… should have written down somewhere !

SAP Asia Pacific Field Kick-Off Meeting & SMB Summit ‘05 : …From 31 January -01 February 2005, the Field Operations Team in Asia Pacific will meet in Singapore for the Asia Pacific Field Kick-Off Meeting & SMB Summit ’05, where we chart the direction for 2005 and renew our key priorities to repeat our breakneck growth in 2004. The theme chosen is “Our Time, our Team”…