Thought Asylum

10 Benefits to Implementing SOVN OrgChart

2012-04-21T19:36:35Z

 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. 

The Power of Visualisation

2012-04-04T22:41:38Z

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.

Three Quick Tips for Evernote Clearly

2012-03-24T16:54:08Z

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…

Reloading AutoHotKey Scripts

2012-03-03T22:08:38Z

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...

Managing AutoHotKey Scripts

2012-02-28T23:49:33Z

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…

Clearly I need a new mobile web browser

2012-01-28T19:59:18Z

I use my iPhone for keeping up to date on a number of social media platforms. It's how I consume news and what's going on in my areas of interest. I've pretty much abandoned RSS feeds these days for the curated content of Twitter, and I now would find it had to operate as effectively without my nice ordered Twitter lists. The problem is the information I often require is in linked to articles and posts. This involves my Twitter client either using it's internal browser or spawning out into mobile Safari. Not too bad in the main, but some sites are poorly formatted for mobile browsing. Either I get a desktop experience crammed onto a tiny screen or a poorly styled (usually some odd Wordpress theme) mobile page that doesn't actually let me scroll the whole article onto the screen. Clearly what's needed is a better mobile web browser...

24 Hour Clock Calculations in Excel

2011-12-28T17:33:27Z

Recently I've been doing some work with Excel to carry out some time calculations based on the results of an automated job. The job is sometimes triggered one night and finishes in the early hours of the next morning. After loading the figures into Excel I discovered that time calculations aren't always as simple as subtraction when times cross midnight. A quick test later and I had a workable solution that I thought might be useful to share.

Automating Mail-ins to Evernote from GMail

2011-12-27T22:53:19Z

For some time now I've been hampered by Evernote's e-mail in service. Let me re-phrase that; I've been hampered by the limitations of e-mail in making the best use of Evernote's e-mail in service. Now however, I've found a service that lets me overcome the limitations and open up a wide range of opportunities for today and unimaginable ones for the future.

Set an Evernote template file (in ENEX format) to open in Evernote

2011-11-30T22:25:28Z

I recently had an e-mail about one of my posts on Evernote templates on Windows. I've previously recommended using an application launcher to provide a list of evernote imports, but the e-mail was asking if there was an easier way to import templates directly? Well as it happens there is.

The Ideal Twitter Client Top 10 Feature List

2011-10-05T08:15:33Z

Each day I access Twitter using a variety of platforms and whilst I find that the clients I use are workable, none of them quite matches up to my ideal. I thought I'd share my top 10 wants from a Twitter client … just in case someone knows of an existing Twitter client that meets these criteria or even wants to create a client that meets all of them.