This Week in SAP

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Welcome back! It’s been a Sapphire-tastic week both in Frankfurt and Orlando, so most pickings of mine are still influenced by that. I’m glad I went over to Frankfurt to witness all the action. Co-Mentor Nigel James summarised it best by saying “SAPPHIRE WOW”.

  • numerous Sapphire wraps have been posted (including mine here, here and here). Those most noteworthy in my mind are the ones from (a very complimentary) Ray Wang, Vinnie Mirchandani, Dennis Howlett (note: also check Vinnie and Dennis’ latest after thoughts, now the “drugs have worn off”! follow their links), CIO.com and also the summaries on Craig Cmehil’s FMR for day1, day2 and day 3.
  • more thoughts by Dennis Howlett on SAP’s SME SaaS offering Business By Design and its pricing. Dennis also mentions the SDK for BBD which is supposed to hit the community later in 2010. Generally there seems to be concerns around entry level for partners, infrastructure (what if SAP decides to outsource the hosting?) and pricing. Personally I would like to see a clearer strategy announcement from SAP around partnerships – hopefully this will be in place by the time the SDK is released.
  • two excellent Enterprise Geeks podcasts around Agile and (of course) the Certification 5 and their efforts to move the needle on SAP Certification. Unfortunately I missed out with all the fun as 4/5 of the group gathered in Orlando.
  • I can probably get away with mentioning Dennis Howlett a third time by pointing to his excellent blog on the Certification 5 experience with Bill McDermott. Goosebumps guaranteed!


and finally from the Twitterverse…

  • DearingGroup: the # of times we’ve seen Sustainability in tweets from SapphireNow almost equals the amount of consultants it used to take to implement SAP
  • bitterer: Bill McDermott looks, speaks, and acts like the other Bill. Clinton, that is. #sapphirenow
  • rhirsch: RT @bitterer: Real real-time from SAP. Unreal. #sapphirenow >> now that is reality
  • vendorprisey: just googling Virgin’s IT set up. Lots of Oracle, some SAP, some netsuite. #sapphirenow
  • SAPProJournal: Must say this is the first time at an SAP conference that colonizing another planet had come up in the discussion. #SAPPHIRENOW
  • njames: Ash #ash go away Go away and stay away I don’t care why I don’t care how I want to get to @sapphirenow
  • dahowlett: All the smart people are in the lobby bar #sapohirenow (nb. couldn’t resist, Dennis! 🙂

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