{"id":221,"date":"2009-01-02T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=221"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T10:49:43","slug":"this-week-in-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"This week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the Christmas and new year festivities this first issue of a weekly SAP news roundup is a little bit shorter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/_yahoo\/newsanalysis\/techsoftware\/10454889.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&amp;cm_cat=FREE&amp;cm_ite=NA\" target=\"_blank\">SAP&#8217;s got bark<\/a>: &#8220;tech companies that sell software (&#8230;)\u00a0 are among the best-positioned for 2009. &#8221; and &#8220;Software maker SAP, however, is bucking the downward trend for IT spending&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re all surprised to read that SAP is not one of the top-3 tech stocks to buy in 2009. Even worse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/high-growth\/2008\/12\/30\/3-tech-stocks-to-buy-in-2009.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Motley Fool<\/a> even predicts Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com to venture into SAP territory.<\/li>\n<li>According to Glassdoor.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/12\/30\/netflix-adobe-google-make-best-places-to-work-list-att-ebay-radioshack-among-the-worst\/\" target=\"_blank\">SAP is the 8th best tech place to work for<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/spiegel\/0,1518,598711,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">interview with SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner<\/a> in Spiegel.de (Achtung! German).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nSAP Twitter Picks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rwang0\">@rwang0<\/a>: <\/span><span class=\"entry-content\">&#8220;stop spending time in your SFA tool and start selling!&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/consultingpulse\">@consultingpulse <\/a><\/span><span class=\"entry-content\" style=\"display: block;\">&#8220;Trust &#8211; the best run companies run SAP &#8211; the message &#8211; Do you trust their judgment?&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"entry-content\" style=\"display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mcornell\">@mcornell<\/a>: &#8220;Google needs to push its weight vs Enterprise systems (ala SAP Netweaver) which doesn&#8217;t support IE7 on versions &lt; 7 IE6 user !&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"entry-content\" style=\"display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pac_mac\">@pac_mac<\/a>: &#8220;SAP makes me sick&#8221; (no more maple syrup for him then \ud83d\ude09 )<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the Christmas and new year festivities this first issue of a weekly SAP news roundup is a little bit shorter. SAP&#8217;s got bark: &#8220;tech companies that sell software (&#8230;)\u00a0 are among the best-positioned for 2009. &#8221; and &#8220;Software maker SAP, however, is bucking the downward trend for IT spending&#8221; We&#8217;re all surprised to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[46,47],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-blogosphere","category-market","tag-sap-news","tag-this-week-in-sap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}