» This Week in SAP

Welcome to a TWIS Valentines edition. This week’s highlight was probably the SAP Innovation Center announcement, but let’s look at all of my pickings:

SAP to built Innovation Center in Potsdam (or a “Silicon Sanssousci”, linked to the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, which is also in Potsdam). I think SAP really needs more superlatives for ambitions such as this. As Sanssouci served Frederick as a place to relax from all the pomp and circumstance, I assume the Innovation Center is going to do nothing less.
great post by James Governor of Redmonk on Couscous, Trifles, Software and Choice.
Jon Reed grabbed ASUGNews.com’s co-CEO Duo Courtney Bjorlin and Thomas Wailgum for a podcast interview. The only question is: who is Jim and who is Bill?
Thorsten Franz and his thoughts on WebDynpro ABAP’s old and wrinkly brother, ABA P Dynpro. I agree with Thorsten that we should have more direction (and innovation?) from SAP on this UI technology. It’s old, yes, but still the one that is most used.
Xcode, SOAP and iPhone – Gerwin de Groot shows us how it’s done.
German, Austrian and Swiss SAP Customers ignore Cloud and Mobile, a confidence gain for SAP products and talk of “de-emotionalised support issues” at Silicon.de (english version).
and finally my own favourite of the week comes from SAP’s Juergen Schmerder, who does a very good job at cleansing a muddy “River” that has been flowing recently.