Before I jump right into a fistful of SAP Land news, let me announce that This Week in SAP is going to have a little summer break. I will be back during week 2 in September (ish).

Yesterday, I quite enjoyed this Certification related Dilbert. Those who follow the Certification 5 output will know what I’m on about…

• Two Tribes: CIO’s Thomas Wailgum comments on the TomorrowNow saga, Vinnie Mirchandani expects more battles ahead.
• Dennis Moore sees SAP skills (amongst others) on the rise.
• Craig Cmehil announces Innovation Weekend @ SAP TechEd 2010
• come and hang out with some SAP geeks at SAP Inside Track Bangalore. The afternoon has some Certification 5 content, presented virtually by C5 members from all around the global.
• The C5 have also now launched a survey project, please forward this to all SAP related consultants you know. A link to the blog is here. The survey itself can be found here.
• Simplify SAP by culling custom code. As useful and valid this article is, I find that most of the client I work for already adhere or are aware of most of these points.
• if it wasn’t for anything else, we might remember the last few days as the week when “Google Wave waved good-bye”
• Uwe Fetzer aka @SE38 must have turned down all BBQ and pool party invites and wrote Twibap instead, the ABAP Twitter API. Excellent stuff!
• Helmuth Guembel (SAPience2010) with some critical remarks regarding SAP’s actions to prevent 3rd party support providers from making inroads.

No Twitter updates this week, folks…

Let’s start this week’s edition with a good Geek and Poke cartoon I spotted over the weekend:

A new month, a new SAP BusinessByDesign release. You’ll find some BYD News links amongst my SAP Land news catch.

• “Are CIOs too cosy with their vendors?”, asks CIO’s Thomas Wailgum. Why does there seem such a loyalty to vendors, even when things have not been going as well as expected?
• A perception is a perception is a perception. Survey by the SAP UK&I user group reveals that a large part (75%) of its customers are not happy with the speed with which SAP responded to SaaS offerings.
• SAP AG reports that IDC has reported that SAP is the market leader in the BI tools market.
• SAP Mentor Thorsten Franz reveals the “third way”: CRM WebUI for ERP 6 and Netweaver ABAP. Business Object aware goodness. Great stuff, Thorsten!
• SAP cooperates with Deutsche Post in eBrief (eLetter) projects. First initiatives will cover HCM payroll and public sector processes. (english version here)
• Gartner’s Thomas Otter chimes in with his thoughts on SAP results
• SAP TV: Snabe/McDermott interview now available online
• SAP personalises Netweaver Portal with Enterprise Workspace (engl version here)
• Indian offshorer HCL is looking for experienced german-speaking SAP consultants in order to increase its foothold in SAP’s home market (engl version here)
• Just in time: the Enterprise Geeks with the last installment on an Introduction to WDA (pt 7)
• Dennis Howlett comments on SAP’s release of ByDesign Feature Pack 2.5. Still strikes me as new to see price offerings from SAP like this (see the 3 starter packs), but it’s a taste of what’s to come in the not-too-distant future. See also my comment re SDK and partner add-ons, for more reading also see my recent post “ByDesign ? ByCommunity”.

And here comes Mr. T (with a bit of spice this week, me thinks…)

• ZiaYusuf: Delighted to announce that I have joined key #sap partner and talent management leader #nakisainc as Board Advisor
• jonerp: As per @thomas_jung at #sapitstl: SAP Business Suite is gradually being rewritten from SAP GUI to Web Dynpro ABAP.
• jonerp: Interesting piece by computerworlduk reporting SAP user survey on ByD and Saas http://dlvr.it/3BWWw but SHOCKED doesn’t mention # surveyed
• monkchips: @esjewett the sap enterprise workspaces page is not even funny. file under poor marketing. cc @jbecher @vlvl
• esjewett: Another misguided in-memory SAP marketing blog on SDN – (The non in-memory stuff seems alright.)
• ewH: I am now being followed by @shortdumps – as an ABAPer, that is not a good omen
• thomas_jung: Just followed @shortdumps – if this account turns out to not be ABAP related, I don’t think I want to see the content they post. 🙂
• mprosceno: Nice recognition for SDN and the SAP Community Networks in the Washington Post..