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!

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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’