{"id":389,"date":"2009-02-13T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=389"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:07:35","slug":"this-week-in-sap-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP (#7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks full of SAP quarterly results announcements and the BS7 launch the last seven days were slow. So here are my SAP-related highlights of last week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jon Reed&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingthesapecosystem.com\/2009\/02\/what-services-opportunities-will-be.html\"> latest contribution on services and skills required for SAP Business Suite 7<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Krigsman blogs on ZDNet about last weeks SAP event in NY, during which a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/projectfailures\/?p=1518\">blogger interview with Roche CIO Jennifer Allerton was held<\/a>. A key point for me is Allerton&#8217;s view on system integrators and their (according to her) need to reinvent themselves. &#8220;<em>The old Accenture model, where you trained [inexperienced] consultants for many months on your dollar, just doesn\u2019t work anymore. The hardest thing is to get the consultants out at the end of the project, because they try and hang around as much as possible. We do use external consultants very successfully, because you can\u2019t have all the skills in-house.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ericimberling\">Eric Imberling<\/a> of Panorama Consulting Group with a brief and insightful report on how ERP and CRM deployments can help organisations to weather the economic storm.<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week&#8217;s SAP Top picks from the Titterverse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jamesfarrar\">@jamesfarar<\/a>: &#8220;Just done w Lunch gig w Prince Charles at Clarence House. He says: &#8216;SAP? What is that? I can&#8217;t keep up with the acronyms&#8217;. Hmmmm&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/leeprovoost\">@leeprovoost<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/chiprodgers\">@chiprodgers<\/a> how is SAP going to deal with the fact that lots of companies have now &#8220;no travel&#8221; policies for cost cutting?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks full of SAP quarterly results announcements and the BS7 launch the last seven days were slow. So here are my SAP-related highlights of last week: Jon Reed&#8217;s latest contribution on services and skills required for SAP Business Suite 7. Michael Krigsman blogs on ZDNet about last weeks SAP event in NY, during which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,46,47],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sap","tag-sap-news","tag-this-week-in-sap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}