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SAP issues monthly Security Patch Day Bulletins on the second Tuesday of every month- which has been synchronized with the Security Patch Day of other major software vendors. This month’s bulletin was issued on July 14, 2026, and contains 16 new security notes. Thankfully, NONE of these notes apply to ...

SAP issues monthly Security Patch Day Bulletins on the second Tuesday of every month- which has been synchronized with the Security Patch Day of other major software vendors. This month’s bulletin was issued on April 14, 2026, and contains 19 new security notes and 1 update to a previously released security note. Three (3) of these ...

When I was in Marrakech, Morocco last year, I stayed at a wonderful Riad in the Old Medina. The Medina is the historic walled city, centuries old and full of tiny narrow streets and passageways. It is packed with tiny shops, tanneries, ancient sites, food places and people’s homes and ...

While cleaning out the storage area at the InfoSol office recently, we came across a box of unopened Xcelsius Engage 2008 software packages. Yes, back in 2008, it was normal to deliver PC based software this way, putting it on CD’s and packaged in a nice-looking box with installation instructions ...

Have you ever had the need to display a full year of data on a chart … even when you don’t have actual data to display? This is what we want to display: But this is what our data displays: We used to use complicated work arounds to handle this ...

Tableau uses the concept of hyper extracts – a compressed snapshot of data stored on disk and loaded into memory when required to render a tableau visualization. Hyper extracts are very beneficial and even essential to Tableau users. To refresh an extract on a daily, weekly or monthly basis users ...

Lately we have noticed issues with a lot of customers regarding their BO auditor not working due to lot of Audit files being present in the Auditing folder. So, here is tip for administrators to include as a part of their Application Maintenance list, which helps make sure the auditor ...

Many business users require similar report content with minor formatting differences.  Rather than create individual, customized reports for each business user the report writer can leverage input controls and conditional formatting to put the power of customization back into the hands of the business users. Below is a sample of ...

This blog is aimed at Xcelsius users who want to migrate their .xlfs into Squirrel. To everyone else — don’t let this put you off, it’s still an interesting read and you might pick up a few hints and tips along the way. The first thing to know is Our ...

Tip : How to use System Configurations A system configuration defines a set of datastore configurations that can be used at job runtime. System configurations are used to execute the same logic against different datastore environments. Migration is faster between environments. Steps: Right click an existing data store and click ...