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Feb 18, 2026 I Feel Like a Kid Again I used to sleep eight hours nearly every night. Now I'm wide awake at 3 AM, too excited about the next day to rest. Every day now feels like the day before Christmas. Codex and Claude Code aren't... Feb 15, 2026 The Hidden Cost of Integration Debt Every custom Salesforce-SAP integration you build is technical debt. The real cost isn't the initial development - it's the maintenance, the brittle breakages during updates, and the knowledge... Feb 14, 2026 AI Will Replace You—Either Sooner or Later I hate to break it to you: AI will replace all of us, either sooner (if we don't adjust to the new reality) or later (if we start using AI today). Using it now will give you a few more years at best,... Feb 13, 2026 Worth Reading I read the following articles the last days and you should do that too ... The AI Revolution – The Road to Superintelligence - Why Do AI Company Logos Look Like Buttholes? - Something Big Is... Jan 10, 2023 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... Dec 09, 2022 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... Dec 08, 2022 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 … - Start by boiling a pot of water and cooking... Dec 07, 2022 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. Do you ever have trouble keeping track of all the things you need to do? Like... Sep 21, 2022 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... Sep 21, 2022 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. Do you ever have trouble keeping track of all the things you need to do? Like... Jul 15, 2022 Horgen Horgen, Switzerland Jun 30, 2022 Finallycovid 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. Jun 14, 2022 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. When I see a red traffic light from afar, I take my foot of the gas paddle, but not so the AVV... Jun 05, 2022 Hedwig Streibelt 1922 - 2022 Hedwig Streibelt Jun 01, 2022 Mental Employee Health Appreciation Day Some companies celebrate the 3rd March - Employee Appreciation Day. Other companies have a Mental Health Day. Where I work, at Vigience, we don’t have that. Here, employees are appreciated 365 days... Jun 01, 2022 545 5:45am May 25, 2022 Guns Are Socialism Guns are socialism May 24, 2022 Salesforce Alexander Ilg Presenting Vigience Overcast, our Salesforce/SAP integration, at Salesforce in Munich. May 24, 2022 Task Failed Successfully Task failed successfully - great job GlobalProtect! May 21, 2022 A More Iconic Trio A more iconic trio? Salesforce, SAP and Overcast! May 21, 2022 Walter Ilg Happy Birthday May 18, 2022 Munich Graffiti Graffiti in Munich May 18, 2022 If Sap Was User Friendly The world in 2022 if SAP was user friendly May 17, 2022 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. The book opens with a devastating heat wave in India and follows the path of mankind into... May 16, 2022 Inthedark 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). May 13, 2022 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. - Go to transaction FD32 - On the initial screen, enter customer number,... May 12, 2022 Tax Office Fail 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!?!? May 11, 2022 Learn Earn or Quit At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it’s neither, quit. Garry Tan (VC) May 10, 2022 How to create a product hierarchy in SAP In this blog I describe how to create a product hierarchy in SAP. - Go to transaction spro - Select SAP Reference Image - In the tree, navigate to Logistics General > Material Master > Settings for... May 10, 2022 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.... May 10, 2022 Youareyourchoices YOU ARE YOUR CHOICES SENECA May 09, 2022 Managersinsoftwaremustwritegreatsoftware He is right, isn’t he? May 09, 2022 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. May 09, 2022 Torrent Download 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 … May 09, 2022 Sap ux Overhaul The SAP UX Strategy You want proof? Here May 06, 2022 Resume Driven Development 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. May 06, 2022 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. Plus it is a big scam - it will make a few people very rich and... May 06, 2022 103 Advices A great list of 103 advices you should read Don’t wait for the storm to pass; dance in the rain May 04, 2022 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 made 660... May 04, 2022 Native vs Electron Apps 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... May 04, 2022 How can I find the Sales Area information for a business partner in SAP? Follow these steps in the SAP GUI. - Go to transaction BP - Enter the business partner number or search for the partner by other criteria. - After selecting the start button, you will see the... Apr 29, 2022 Reeder 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. Apr 29, 2022 Document360 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. Apr 29, 2022 Berlin April 2022 Berlin, April 2022 Apr 28, 2022 Do Not Give Users What They Want 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.... Apr 27, 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... Apr 27, 2022 Berlin April 2022 Berlin, 27th April 2022 Apr 25, 2022 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... Apr 24, 2022 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... Apr 22, 2022 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... Apr 21, 2022 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 never worked with SAP Cloud Integration, but... Apr 21, 2022 Judgethecharacterofaman 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. Apr 21, 2022 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? Nothing! This is from... Apr 20, 2022 How i Experience The Web Today 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 … Apr 20, 2022 Notyourfamily 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,... Apr 20, 2022 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... Apr 19, 2022 Mydailywalk This is where I walk daily … Apr 19, 2022 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 -... Apr 18, 2022 Hopsin 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. Apr 15, 2022 Atlassian Outage 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... Apr 13, 2022 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... Apr 12, 2022 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 about it, SAP itself is a good example of a... Apr 12, 2022 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:... Apr 11, 2022 History Sap Blog 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/ Apr 11, 2022 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. Many companies that use or want to use cloud solutions from... Apr 11, 2022 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. Many companies that use or want to use cloud solutions from... Apr 11, 2022 Over The Weekend 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. Apr 11, 2022 New Sap Salesforce Implementation 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... Apr 11, 2022 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.... Apr 09, 2022 Sap Abap 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... Apr 09, 2022 Something New Trying something new - writing a microblog with Jekyll, hosted as static pages on GitHub. Let’s see how it goes Jan 01, 2022 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). For 22 years I worked as consultant in the SAP area, now it is time...