The UK parliament is hung, my throat is sore and Sapphire Frankfurt is only a week away. Let’s see what got stuck in my dragnet of SAP News:

• ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett with a piece on SAP’s new initiative “Innojagd” (INNOvation + JAGD, german for “hunt”), which is lead by Craig Cmehil. I’m planning to have a chat with Craig about Innojagd in Frankfurt next week. In separate items in FT Deutschland (english translation) and Germany’s Computerwoche, co-CEO Snabe talks (english translation here) about a lower proportion of R&D costs on the revenue. This is due to SAP’s ongoing internal restructuring, which is expected to be completed by summer 2010. The coming  months will show whether Snabe’s statement will have an impact on Innojagd or not.
• SAP Mentor head Mark Finnern announces new SAP Mentors (incl 4 new Mentorettes!).
• SAP Mentor Thorsten Franz with a SDN blog post on tooling changes within the Composition Environment and their strategical impact.
• lining up the ducks: short Plattner video putting in-memory back on the agenda for Sapphire (as if we didn’t know that 😉
• Cory Coley-Christakos talks about SAP Education: From Evolution to Revolution and talks amongst other things about “evolutionary” steps from the old classroom model to online presence. If this means that SAP will abolish the classical classroom model entirely then I’m not sure if that’s a move into the right direction.

and what had the Twitterverse to say for itself?

• qmacro: How many people in #ERP who talk about #SOA really know what it is?
• jspath55: SAP Go Live check refers to Note # 1347084, as in “The requested SAP Note is either in reworking or is released internally only”. #FAIL
• esjewett: @jspath55 Why would SAP refer to a note that it’s customers can access? Clearly you ask too much 😉 (nb. in reply to jspath55)
• vlvl: A customer here explainig how using “Process Runner” they can enable using excel as the frontend instead of SAP. Hmmm… #ISUG2010
• rhirsch: Like the fact that SAP is adding another “analyst” (@skemsley ) to @SAPMentors – another sign of the increasing importance of “openness”
• sappro: Plattner is going to talk about In mem databases again at Sapphire,> C’mon that has been being discussed for 2 years now, let’s move on
• blich: @vlvl @pixelbase @rhirsch @dahowlett with #innojagd #evilplans and all other cool stuff, #EcoHub grows impact. Not a competition.