OK, folks. FIFA World Cup is over and with that ended the biggest distraction – also known as football. Therefore time to regroup, rethink and rekindle our relationship with the world we know and love as “SAP Land”. Welcome back !

• Forrester’s John R Rymer sticks up for SAP – “SAP is good enough”.
• Silicon.de joins into Rymer’s tune by emphasising “SAP bleibt SAP” (“SAP remains SAP”). English translation here
• Jon Reed with an excellent podcast interview with Skyytek’s Ray Tetlow (download link), a SaaS Consulting Business and SAP ByDesign partner.
• Dennis Howlett with some food for thought for all those who want to be SaaS consultants. Dennis does a great job of reflecting on parts of the Netsuite/ByDesign/Salesforce consulting model. It means a new way of working and making dosh – on several levels.
• Reality Bites: Thomas Wailgum’s pledge for a more instrumental role of the CIO (rather than mopping up afterwards).
• SAP Me Sideways with what looks like a follow-up on the Confidence v Ignorance post the other day.
• Richard Hirsch with an insightful SDN blog on impacts of In-Memory Technology on Process Environments.
• Eric Kimberling’s comprehensive list of ERP lawsuits.

Between several Twitter downtimes, I managed to capture the following:

• dahowlett: This from @twailgum had me in fits of laughter: “SAP: The Big Made Easy” http://is.gd/dhFvR #sap
• thomas_jung: One of the more useful UI prompts I’ve seen: http://flic.kr/p/8gh3Mi
• jonerp: Wondering what’s next in the wacky story of the @SAP Twitter account, once possessed by a teenager with attitude…
• ConsultantBox: Why do many SAP consultants not want to work with SAP agents when searching for SAP jobs? http://nblo.gs/5CLmR
• ddav: Check out the SAP Uber Geek app now on the ‘new and noteworthy’ in iTunes store! http://bit.ly/cFcVdx http://twitpic.com/24x19b
• dparnas: RT @scottwambler: Certified #Scrum Master training = 16 hrs. Starbucks Barista training = 24+ hrs. #agile
  

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