Once again, I’ve been scraping that SAP News barrel for your and my reading pleasure. Enjoy..

• Marketwatch reports 12% profit fall for SAP
• Jon Reed, Andy Klee on SAP Market Trends, Training and Certification
• SAP releases a revamped Enterprise Services Workplace, including some Web 2.0 features. I’ve had a short play with it this week and found the menus, search function and new layout much improved. But let’s face it, it could only get better. 🙂
• SAP’s Richard Probst on the first few months of the “Best Built Apps” project. I had the pleasure to meet Richard in Phoenix at TechEd this year. The BBA project is an amazing leap forward in terms of clarity and confidence-building for customers.
• Computerworld reports on “Deutsche Bank picks SAP as new core banking system” – after Postbank Germany developed the standard branch solution with SAP for this, Deutsche is now going for it. They’re holding 25% plus one share of Postbank, so they know what they’re letting themselves into. This could easily be the biggest SAP SOA project of the next 4 years.
• SAP named one of the top most sustainable large corporations in the world – credit where credit is due
• John Schwarz can’t see why Oracle bought Sun in this interview with Barron’s Eric Savitz. He also wants to achieve 1bn SAP worldwide users in 4-5 years (including mobile devices & smart meters!), from 100m today. Ambitious!

Tweet, tweeter, the tweetest…

ttrapp: Deutsche Bank AG goes SAP for Banking Solutions for their core systems & has SOA ambitions: http://tinyurl.com/y8jcm4v (in german)

vendorprisey: Epstein has a good point. Oracle has acquisition integration competence.I personally think it is an undervalued strength @mfauscette #oracle

cote: “It’s great that Hasso and his five guys got it. It’s whacko!” –Larry Ellison at #oraclesun on in-memory databases.

jamesfarrar: SAP CEO on climate change: ‘time for stakeholder value not shareholder value’

Welcome back! Here are my picks out of this week’s fistful of SAP stories & tweetings.

• EU Commission gives green light to Oracle for Sun aquisition. ITPro also covered the story before the announcement and mentioned the more than 30,000 users who signed a petition to “Help MySQL” (and Java?)
• SAP posts preliminary results for 2009
• New Community Developer Licence is available – no more expiry dates, hurrah!
• it’s all happening Down Under: SAP Inside Track Australia 2010
• have Oracle and SAP become “too big for their own good?” asks CIO.com’s Thomas Wailgum. I’m not entirely sure of the relevance here, as you could say this about any big conglomerate or concern. Also: what would be the alternatives and repercussions if they indeed have become too big?
• I found this one a little gem amongst the flood of SDN blogs: SAP’s Gerald Kleser “A Timeless Software Problem”. An excerpt: “Try to find research work that tries to empirically find relationships between project success (…) on the one side and technologies or standards (…) on the other… You won’t find much! The lack of hard facts leaves the job of advocating for particular technologies to the marketing departments of software tool vendors.”

Twittersphere

sapnews: “SAP Combines CeBIT 2010 With SAP® World Tour Customer Conference:

yojibee: @se38 LOL now you got me thinking. No Mentor shirts this year, but Mentor skirts 😉

TonkaPome: @yojibee @pixelbase maybe we should all chip in, buy SAAB, then install SAP. After all, all best run businesses use SAP

timoelliott: The second SAP c-level exec on Twitter? Oliver Bussmann, SAP CIO, @sapcio — welcome!