{"id":502,"date":"2009-03-20T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-03-20T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T10:57:19","slug":"this-week-in-sap-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP (#12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I&#8217;ve been scraping the bottom of the SAP News barrel for you this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAP redundancies: it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/business\/64395\/sap-lays-undisclosed-number-workers\">emerged<\/a> that &#8220;natural fluctuation&#8221;, as mentioned in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/germany\/about\/press\/latestupdates\/SAPEmployeeMail_Jan28_eng.pdf\">letter to employees back in Jan 09<\/a>,\u00a0 was not enough. Chris Kanaracus at IDG News Service \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/fscavo.blogspot.com\/\">Frank Scavo<\/a>: &#8220;One laid-off SAP worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said SAP&#8217;s move <em>&#8220;wasn&#8217;t unexpected, given how slow business has been. Everybody&#8217;s been sitting around for a few months waiting for the other shoe to drop.&#8221;<\/em> &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Sign of the times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/13557\">SAP cans Community Day at its TechEd conferences<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As SAP&#8217;s global Marketing VP <a href=\"http:\/\/ablebrains.typepad.com\/ablebrains\/2009\/03\/seven-years.html\">Steve Mann blogged about his resignation<\/a>, CIO reports on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/the_uncertain_future_of_saps_social_media_strategy\">uncertain future of SAP&#8217;s Social Media Strategy<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The body can not live without the mind&#8221; (The Matrix): a good article why SAP is losing out <a href=\"http:\/\/gobigalways.com\/sap-missing-the-boat-you-sunk-my-battleship\/\">&#8220;how to capture the new brain&#8221;<\/a>. Linking back to <a href=\"http:\/\/ablebrains.typepad.com\/ablebrains\/2009\/03\/seven-years.html\">Steve Mann&#8217;s departure<\/a>, describing his departure as loss of a &#8220;huge asset&#8221;. My question: Why is Social Media supposed to be so marketing-driven?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and check out my Twitter produce:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"status_1354022104\" class=\"hentry status favoriteu-se38\"><span class=\"status-body\"><strong><a class=\"screen-name\" title=\"Uwe Fetzer\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/se38\">se38<\/a><\/strong><span class=\"entry-content\">: &#8220;SAP beginnt mit Entlassungen in Palo Alto&#8221; (&#8220;SAP starts layoffs in Palo Alto&#8221;)<\/span><span class=\"meta entry-meta\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"status_1350852075\" class=\"hentry status favoriteu-SpinAct\"><span class=\"status-body\"><strong><a class=\"screen-name\" title=\"Monty Kalsi\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SpinAct\">SpinAct:<\/a><span class=\"screen-name\"> <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"entry-content\">Folks from SAP layoffs can now sign-up on SpinAct and monetize their knowledge and expertise <\/span><span class=\"meta entry-meta\"><a class=\"entry-date\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SpinAct\/status\/1350852075\"><\/a><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitterhelp.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/twitter-via-mobile-web-mtwittercom.html\"><\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"status_1345250163\" class=\"hentry status favoriteu-thorstenster\"><span class=\"status-body\"><strong><a class=\"screen-name\" title=\"Thorsten Franz\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thorstenster\">thorstenster<\/a><\/strong><span class=\"entry-content\">: @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Blag\">Blag<\/a> What an absolute shame! No more Community Day &#8211;&gt; TechEd loses at least 50% of its value. \ud83d\ude41<\/span><span class=\"meta entry-meta\"><a class=\"entry-date\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thorstenster\/status\/1345250163\"><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I&#8217;ve been scraping the bottom of the SAP News barrel for you this week: SAP redundancies: it emerged that &#8220;natural fluctuation&#8221;, as mentioned in its letter to employees back in Jan 09,\u00a0 was not enough. Chris Kanaracus at IDG News Service \/ Frank Scavo: &#8220;One laid-off SAP worker, who spoke on condition of [&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],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sap","tag-sap-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}