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Welcome to Thought Asylum a place for me to share my thoughts, ideas and experiences with the rest of the world.  I try to post reasonably regularly and if you like the content consider subscribing to the site feeds.  If you're trying to find something specific try the search, otherwise just have a browse.


Saturday
Apr212012

10 Benefits to Implementing SOVN OrgChart


SAP Org Visualization by Nakisa (SOVN) OrgChart allows you to visualise the hierarchical structure of an organisation based on HCM data held in SAP. It is the foundation of the SAP Org Visualization by Nakisa solution extension and can be installed for a variety of reasons.



In this blog post I'm going to take a look at the reasons why organisations decide to implement OrgChart and I'm going try to uncover what the real benefits can be to using OrgChart to visualise organisational structures.


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Wednesday
Apr042012

The Power of Visualisation

Why do we find images so useful in explaining things, and what difference does using a visual representation make? I take a look at some of the reasons behind why visualisations are so useful and why visualising your organisational structure makes sense.

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Saturday
Mar242012

Three Quick Tips for Evernote Clearly

Clearly is a browser add-on created by the team at Evernote. It allows you to reformat the content of a web page into a cleaner simpler one for easier reading (like Readability) and of course also integrates seamlessly into Evernote. This application fits my way of consuming and saving interesting articles almost (see later) perfectly and I thought I'd share with you a few features you may not be so familiar with…

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Saturday
Mar032012

Reloading AutoHotKey Scripts

So this post is just a quick tip for anyone getting started with AutoHotKey. Whilst editing an AHK script, you probably often find you need to reload the script into AutoHotKey. Whilst this is available from the application icon in the notification area, it seems ludicrous to have to do for an application called AutoHotKey - why not trigger a reload with a key press? Well the answer's in the help file...

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Wednesday
Feb292012

Managing AutoHotKey Scripts

When I'm working on Windows one of the applications I really miss from the Mac is TextExpander. I'm not the world's greatest typist and being able to auto correct words I commonly mistype (I can spell by the way - it's just typing I have issues with) as well as being able to quickly enter common phrases (a.k.a. boiler plate text) is a real boon for me. Fortunately I came upon AutoHotKey - a fantastic free utility that is capable of creating these text based replacements. I've been using it for a while now and it occurred to me I haven't actually shared any of the things I do with it. That's about to change…

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