{"id":688,"date":"2010-02-09T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=688"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","slug":"the-last-48hrs-in-sap-a-leo-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"The last 48hrs In SAP (a Leo Special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 190px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 7px;\" title=\"Leo Apotheker (source SAP)\" src=\"http:\/\/media.marketwire.com\/attachments\/200811\/TN-482996_Leo_Apotheker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leo Apotheker (source SAP)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Typical! After last a slow news week it&#8217;s all happening within 48 hrs. I thought I provide a little summary of the best SAP, Hasso and #leogone related posts of the last 2 days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dennis Howlett <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Howlett\/?p=1730\">only minutes after <\/a>the news broke that Leo Apotheker and SAP have parted ways.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Otter weighs in with  about &#8220;Hasso and SAP&#8221;. I guess the core of this piece is &#8220;<em>SAP\u2019s challenges are bigger than simply replacing the CEO. It needs to  recover its geist.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>CIO&#8217;s Thomas Wailgum predicts a competition between Snabe and McDermott in his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/so_long_saps_leo_apotheker_we_hardly_knew_ye\">So long, Leo. We hardly knew ye.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Howlett with a good summary <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Howlett\/?p=1749\">post the press conference<\/a> during which Plattner was announced as back at the helm.<\/li>\n<li>Vinnie Mirchandani with an interesting contribution, linking into arguments with Apotheker last year. He&#8217;s defiant that <a href=\"Are they ready to dismantle the past, seriously put their weight behind cloud computing and take on the partners who add little value?\">ERP needs its soul back<\/a>. A commenter quite rightly points out whether it ever had a soul, but I can see where Mirchandani is coming from. There needs to be more Wow! for Innovation (not just slideware).<\/li>\n<li>Computerworld with a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.idg.no\/cw\/art.cfm?id=AEF3F7F4-1A64-6A71-CE7FFAC410F0590D\">good round-up<\/a> of the events up to Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Hasso means business with regards to gaining trust of customers back. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/about\/newsroom\/press.epx?pressid=12690\">Sapphire 2010 to be held in Europe and US<\/a> in parallel, using real-time connected sessions.<\/li>\n<li>InformationWeek&#8217;s Bob Evans probably strikes the hardest with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/global-cio\/interviews\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222700417&amp;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL\">lengthy analysis<\/a> of the change at the SAP helm. Poignant phrase referring to Plattner&#8217;s suggestions how to bring back trust: &#8220;<em>look at where customers rank in the great chain  of being constructed by Plattner: dead last. Almost an afterthought.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Achtung, Twitterverse, Baby!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('nenshad','8775535677','','15','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>nenshad<\/strong><\/a>: #<a title=\"SAP\" onclick=\"tsearch('','SAP');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">SAP<\/a>&#8216;s Apotheker built one of the most  formidable enterprise software sales machines and delivered YEARS of  record growth<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('yojibee','8775642259','','14','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>yojibee<\/strong><\/a>: @<a title=\"nenshad\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','nenshad','1','8','','')\">nenshad<\/a> @<a title=\"rwang0\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','rwang0','1','8','','')\">rwang0<\/a> Great sales guy, less great CEO &#8211; as simple as that (IMO of course) #<a title=\"SAP\" onclick=\"tsearch('','SAP');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">SAP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('dahowlett','8809104078','','9','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>dahowlett<\/strong><\/a>:  RT @<a title=\"jhurwitz\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','jhurwitz','1','8','','')\">jhurwitz<\/a>:  Oracle buys another company: AmberPoint- SOA management &lt; blimey  !!!!<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('monkchips','8809304397','','8','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>monkchips<\/strong><\/a>:  so Hasso runs SAP. tell us something we didn&#8217;t know. #<a title=\"leogone\" onclick=\"tsearch('','leogone');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">leogone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('dahowlett','8810070701','','7','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>dahowlett<\/strong><\/a>:  At last: &#8220;WE made a mistake&#8221; &#8211; re: maintenance<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('rwang0','8810383850','','6','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>rwang0<\/strong><\/a>: RT @<a title=\"kitson\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','kitson','1','8','','')\">kitson<\/a>:  #<a title=\"Plattner\" onclick=\"tsearch('','Plattner');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Plattner<\/a>: &#8220;the average age of the  typical #<a title=\"SAP\" onclick=\"tsearch('','SAP');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">SAP<\/a> installation is quite substantial.&#8221;  #<a title=\"erp\" onclick=\"tsearch('','erp');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">erp<\/a> #<a title=\"crm\" onclick=\"tsearch('','crm');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">crm<\/a> #<a title=\"sap\" onclick=\"tsearch('','sap');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">sap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"paulhamerman\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','paulhamerman','1','8','','')\">paulhamerman<\/a><\/strong> #<a title=\"SAP\" onclick=\"tsearch('','SAP');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">SAP<\/a> Hasso sets a tone for  accountability, admits mistakes.This transparency will be important in  helping SAP regain trust<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('twailgum','8810573817','','4','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>twailgum<\/strong><\/a>: #<a title=\"leogone\" onclick=\"tsearch('','leogone');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">leogone<\/a> I said it last night, and  I&#8217;ll say it again: &#8220;SAP, Who Are You?&#8221; Hasso offered direction this a.m.  We&#8217;ll see where this all goes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>@<a title=\"InFullBloomUS\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','InFullBloomUS','1','8','','')\">InFullBloomUS<\/a>:<\/strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s time #<a title=\"SAP\" onclick=\"tsearch('','SAP');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">SAP<\/a> announced a next gen product  strategy that twill take their R\/3:#ERP6 customers to the future.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('oliver','8850771939','','0','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">@<\/a><a title=\"sapnews\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','sapnews','1','8','','')\">sapnews<\/a>: <\/strong>SAP to  Hold SAPPHIRE\u00ae 2010 Customer Conferences in Europe and U.S.: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typical! After last a slow news week it&#8217;s all happening within 48 hrs. I thought I provide a little summary of the best SAP, Hasso and #leogone related posts of the last 2 days. Dennis Howlett only minutes after the news broke that Leo Apotheker and SAP have parted ways. Thomas Otter weighs in with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","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\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}