Come and feast your eyes on this week’s SAP news bounty:
- SAP announced the “BI toolset for the casual user”.
- “Is SAP not even bothering to pretend it has its own on-demand CRM product anymore?”, asks Barney Beal on ITKnowledgeExchange. A reaction to SAP’s SaaS BI announcement.
- Thomas Wailgum on the same. Although he thinks SAP’s move is smart, as it focuses on the casual user.
- Peter Evans Greenwood stipulates that “”. Interesting points.
- “…while all the buzz may be around the cloud, the business reality is one of extension and transition.” – Dennis Howlett on ZDNet, talking about SAP ecosystem and SMB focus.
- blogging about a fantastic SAP Mentor organised event: Thorsten Franz talks about SAP Inside Track Bonn
Here is the Twitter Pick’n’Mix:
- @thorstenster: Having great fun at#SAPInsideTrackBonn. Atmosphere is very good, wonderful crowd.
- @chiprodgers: Just blogged: 62,000 Views of SAP TechEd Live Videos #sapteched
- martin_english: FYA: SAP cancels rampup for NetWeaver BW 7.2 – functionality to be rolled into BW7.3 later this year (via @cbjorlin)
- siliconchris: SAP cancels the planned BW 7.2 RampUp. Instead functionality will be available in BW 7.3 later this year
- qmacro: Why does everyone seem to be an Architect these days?#
- yojibee: I just heard the words SAP, installation and easy being used in the same sentence. I am sceptical but let’s see how this goes #bobj
- rhirsch: don’t know how people can say that SAP isn’t seriously looking at the cloud as a app platform. I’m seeing it in a variety of settings