{"id":442,"date":"2009-02-26T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=442"},"modified":"2009-03-01T21:52:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T21:52:19","slug":"this-week-in-sap-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP (#9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s SAP News picks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German SAP Consultant partner Steeb offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerwoche.de\/knowledge_center\/erp\/1888520\/\">discount of up to 25% on the purchase cost of old ERP system<\/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.computerwoche.de%2Fknowledge_center%2Ferp%2F1888520%2F&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;history_state0=\">here<\/a>) if customer decides to implement SAP. I like this sort of initiative, obviously smaller corps are able to offer this sort of flexibility and pricing. Here&#8217;s hoping that more UK companies contemplate similar &#8220;creative&#8221; pricing.<\/li>\n<li>SAP Launches <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/adu7ck\">Online Resource for Academic Community<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingthesapecosystem.com\/2009\/02\/on-sap-bo-skills-transitions-roadmap.html\">Jon Reed with some good observations<\/a> and (dare I say it) &#8220;insights&#8221; into BI skills and the important role of data<\/li>\n<li>Mark Yolton with a SDN blog on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/13320\">value of SAP certification<\/a>. My comments and views on this are included in my previous post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=434\">value of current SAP certifications?<\/a>&#8220;. There have been no reports or reactions from last week&#8217;s SAP Mentor webinar &#8211; let&#8217;s wait and see.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/enterprisegeeks.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/egeeks-podcast-episode-7\/\">Enterprise Geeks latest podcast is a real gem<\/a>, discussing Certification, Coghead and Facebook TOS. Also have a look through the very interesting comments by Eddie Herman and Jon Reed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s SAP News picks: German SAP Consultant partner Steeb offers a discount of up to 25% on the purchase cost of old ERP system(Achtung! German, english translation here) if customer decides to implement SAP. I like this sort of initiative, obviously smaller corps are able to offer this sort of flexibility and pricing. Here&#8217;s [&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":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}