{"id":356,"date":"2009-01-30T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=356"},"modified":"2009-02-09T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T23:14:32","slug":"this-week-in-sap-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"This Week In SAP (#5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the best and interesting from the last 7 days on planet SAP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good <a href=\"http:\/\/ematters.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/29\/sap-layoffs-european-integration-and-the-close-of-henning-kagermanns-tenure\/\">Joshua Greenbaum piece<\/a> on Kagermann&#8217;s curtain as co-CEO and SAP&#8217;s staff cutbacks. In terms of the way how it was handled, you would almost think SAP came out of the Q4 results fairly well (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/germany\/about\/press\/latestupdates\/SAPEmployeeMail_Jan28_eng.pdf\">open letter to employees<\/a> and Kagermann not passing the poisoned chalice to Apotheker), but&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;then the &#8220;Das Kapital&#8221; column of FTD.de\u00a0 comes along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftd.de\/boersen_maerkte\/aktien\/marktberichte\/:Das-Kapital-Wem-will-SAP-damit-imponieren\/467339.html\">a more sober and balanced view<\/a> (Achtung, German! English translation <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ftd.de%2Fboersen_maerkte%2Faktien%2Fmarktberichte%2F%3ADas-Kapital-Wem-will-SAP-damit-imponieren%2F467339.html&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;history_state0=\">here<\/a>) on what they call a PR &#8220;signal for the moneymarkets&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>This week we were all waiting for SAP&#8217;s Q4 results: find some news picks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/globalbiz\/content\/jan2009\/gb20090128_006613.htm?campaign_id=yhoo\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123307400818019993.html?mod=yahoo_hs&amp;ru=yahoo\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/stories\/2009\/01\/26\/daily76.html?ana=yfcpc\">here<\/a>. Altogether nothing unexpected.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/germany\/about\/press\/latestupdates\/SAPEmployeeMail_Jan28_eng.pdf\"> SAP announced the job cuts<\/a> that had been predicted, albeit not revealing which areas of the business will be affected, but likely most of it could be fluctuations (over what time?).<\/li>\n<li>post SAP results thoughts: Dennis Howlett draws an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accmanpro.com\/2009\/01\/29\/what-is-sap-afraid-of\/\">interesting comparison<\/a> between the car industry and a (possibly) saturated top-end ERP market.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jonerp\">Jon Reed<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingthesapecosystem.com\/2009\/01\/sap-partner-kick-off-highlights.html\">a good, digestible summary<\/a> of SAP&#8217;s PKOM (Partner Kick-Off Meeting) event last week. Also touches on the certification debate and the upcoming Business Suite 7.0.<\/li>\n<li>EbF conects iPhone with Lotus Notes and SAP solutions with their <a href=\"http:\/\/ebf.de\/w4\/en\/ebf.nsf\/dx\/04.08.2008141333JJOGCJ.htm\">Ebf.connector<\/a>. Looks like an additional proprietary middleware server is required through which the iPhone pulls the data. Download available from iTunes App Store in about 2 weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThis week&#8217;s Twitter Picks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/SAPMentors\">@SAPMentors<\/a> Blogged about SAP Mentor Highlights 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/hMSD\">http:\/\/is.gd\/hMSD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jonerp\">@jonerp<\/a>: &#8220;Chase skills over $, challenge over comfort zone, and you&#8217;ll have adventures in excellence.&#8221; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fkoehn\">@fkoehn<\/a>: &#8220;a fool with a tool is still a fool&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"msg\"><a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/exit\/to\/monkchips');\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/monkchips\" target=\"_blank\">@monkchips<\/a>: <span id=\"msgtxt1158143671\" class=\"msgtxt en\">the activity, or lack of it, on SAP ecohub (nothing to do with sustainability) is disappointing. <a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/exit\/to\/dahowlett')\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dahowlett\" target=\"_blank\">@dahowlett<\/a> will surely &#8220;eviscerate&#8221; it<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best and interesting from the last 7 days on planet SAP: Good Joshua Greenbaum piece on Kagermann&#8217;s curtain as co-CEO and SAP&#8217;s staff cutbacks. 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