Whoops! What happened over the last few weeks? Because of a recent change in direction for me my “This week in SAP” column suffered a little bit. More to be announced soon!

So let’s get this SAP News Show back on track…

• Forbes’ Dan Woods sees SAP taking revenge as Oracle customers will face an implementation headache further down the line. Nothing really new in this article (the integration headache argument is already 4-5 years old). Woods added some Business Suite 7 sprinkles worthwhile a read though.
• SAP aquires High Deal, a private France telecom spin-off which especialises in real-time billing.
• “There’s not going to be a lot to report.”, that’s what SAP’s Bill McDermott said when asked about the status of Business By Design (BBD) prior to its annual Sapphire conference. My guess is that SAP is keeping cards close to its chest whilst fumbling their way into a SaaS world.
• SAP Business Suite 7 has now come out of ramp-up is available to customers worldwide. I’d like to know what all the companies mentioned use BS7 for and for which processes. Heavyweights such as Colgate Palmolive surely have not implemented BS7 across their enterprise. And: are they’re still using it now? Hopefully Sapphire will tell us more.
• and finally an interesting CNBC interview with SAP’s Bill McDermott once again. As a journalist, how badly prepared can you be? They have a big gun in front of their cameras and then mess it up like this. Funy to watch though. (via Vinnie Mirchandani and Jon Reed)

TwitterSAPLand:

• @erwintenhumberg : “BTW, we’re now at 68 non-SAP registrations for the Eclipse DemoCamp in Walldorf. Pretty cool I think!”