Leo Apotheker (source SAP)

Typical! After last a slow news week it’s all happening within 48 hrs. I thought I provide a little summary of the best SAP, Hasso and #leogone related posts of the last 2 days.

• Dennis Howlett only minutes after the news broke that Leo Apotheker and SAP have parted ways.
• Thomas Otter weighs in with about “Hasso and SAP”. I guess the core of this piece is “SAP’s challenges are bigger than simply replacing the CEO. It needs to recover its geist.“
• CIO’s Thomas Wailgum predicts a competition between Snabe and McDermott in his “So long, Leo. We hardly knew ye.“
• Dennis Howlett with a good summary post the press conference during which Plattner was announced as back at the helm.
• Vinnie Mirchandani with an interesting contribution, linking into arguments with Apotheker last year. He’s defiant that ERP needs its soul back. A commenter quite rightly points out whether it ever had a soul, but I can see where Mirchandani is coming from. There needs to be more Wow! for Innovation (not just slideware).
• Computerworld with a good round-up of the events up to Tuesday
• Hasso means business with regards to gaining trust of customers back. Sapphire 2010 to be held in Europe and US in parallel, using real-time connected sessions.
• InformationWeek’s Bob Evans probably strikes the hardest with this lengthy analysis of the change at the SAP helm. Poignant phrase referring to Plattner’s suggestions how to bring back trust: “look at where customers rank in the great chain of being constructed by Plattner: dead last. Almost an afterthought.“

Achtung, Twitterverse, Baby!

• nenshad: #SAP‘s Apotheker built one of the most formidable enterprise software sales machines and delivered YEARS of record growth
• yojibee: @nenshad @rwang0 Great sales guy, less great CEO – as simple as that (IMO of course) #SAP
• dahowlett: RT @jhurwitz: Oracle buys another company: AmberPoint- SOA management < blimey !!!!
• monkchips: so Hasso runs SAP. tell us something we didn’t know. #leogone
• dahowlett: At last: “WE made a mistake” – re: maintenance
• rwang0: RT @kitson: #Plattner: “the average age of the typical #SAP installation is quite substantial.” #erp #crm #sap
• paulhamerman #SAP Hasso sets a tone for accountability, admits mistakes.This transparency will be important in helping SAP regain trust
• twailgum: #leogone I said it last night, and I’ll say it again: “SAP, Who Are You?” Hasso offered direction this a.m. We’ll see where this all goes.
• @InFullBloomUS: “It’s time #SAP announced a next gen product strategy that twill take their R/3:#ERP6 customers to the future.
• @sapnews: SAP to Hold SAPPHIRE® 2010 Customer Conferences in Europe and U.S.: