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Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of TWIS in 2011. This week’s edition is a bit of a catch-up going all the way back to early December so excuse some posts and tweets that are older than a week (they’re still worthwhile mentioning here, you know!). Buckle up, here we go…

after 14 years this is Thomas Wailgum’s last post for CIO.com, talking about Forrester’s bold outlook for Business IT in 2020. “The IT status quo will collapse (…)”. Fair enough, but surely we’ll still have Microsoft Sharepoint (aka “The Document Nirvana”). I’d like to wish Thomas all the best for his next career step and would also like to thank him for all his great posts. TWIS won’t be the same without his CIO.com musings.
SAP is buying security software and other assets from its swiss partner SECUDE. The deal encompasses SECUDE’s Secure Sign On and Enterprise Signle Sign On solutions, which will be rolled out to all customers free of charge later this year in a basic version. CIO’s Chris Kanaracus writes that SAP is trying to introduce its own offerings in a market that is also inhabited by Oracle. While I think it’s a good move in terms of product offering and (external) innovation, the bigger question obviously is how secure offerings have been thus far.
in another IP-related move, SAP and Intellectual Ventures reach an agreement to give the Walldorf concern access to more than 30,000 intellectual property assets.
wonderful post by Vinnie Mirchandani on “Commercialization” in the coming decade. I really like the last two paragraphs about going back to IT’s roots.
SAP’s Matthias Steiner writes about the first edition of the “SAP Mentors Quarterly” magazine, a great new addition to the vast output SAP Mentor’s produce.
Short and sharp. James Governor on what you should do in 2011: “Work On Stuff That Matters. Ignore Everybody. Get Excited and Make Things.“
A year would not end properly without Blag’s annual SDN blog picks. So here’s his list for 2010.
Silicon.de with an interesting outlook on the (german) SAP Freelance market in 2011. (english version here)
and: let’s start 2011 with another takeover post. This time from Seeking Alpha.