{"id":1084,"date":"2010-11-08T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"this-week-in-sap-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to my little personal haven of SAP news. I can assure you that no paper.li aggregators have been used and no animals harmed in the process of assembling this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, let me show you a clip of one of my favourite movie lines ever: Vinnie Jones saying &#8220;It&#8217;s been emotional&#8221; in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels&#8221;. In my view a good way to summarise last week&#8217;s WebDynpro saga&#8230; more below&#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-U4Pvodwm0U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-U4Pvodwm0U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computerwoche: Thanks to Carbon Impact et al,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerwoche.de\/management\/it-strategie\/2356858\/index3.html\" target=\"_blank\">SAP wins GreenIT award<\/a> in &#8220;Enterprise Category&#8221; (english version <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerwoche.de%2Fmanagement%2Fit-strategie%2F2356858%2Findex3.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Vinnie Mirchandani gradually <a href=\"http:\/\/dealarchitect.typepad.com\/deal_architect\/2010\/11\/technology-and-my-first-week-home.html\">getting back into the saddle again<\/a>. Good to have you back, Vinnie!<\/li>\n<li>Classic from <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/20101105\/52035\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shai Agassi on the Oracle\/SAP TomorrowNow trial<\/a>: <em>\u201cOracle would sue if we dripped sandwich sauce on its lawn.\u201d. <\/em>Here is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/techblog\/2010\/11\/high-noon-in-oakland-not-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\">early analysis (2.11) by the FT<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/global-cio\/legal\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228200264&amp;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL\" target=\"_blank\">drop that Blackberry, Shai!<\/a> Seems the trial Oracle\/SAP attorney had to ask a &#8220;dismissive and annoyed&#8221; former SAP board member Shai Agassi to put down his Blackberry during a video evidence link.<\/li>\n<li>John Moy asks in his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/21411%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Can we reinvent the grey-haired ABAPer?&#8221;<\/a>. Whilst I generally agree with John&#8217;s observation and points in terms of future-proofing your career, I do think that he is generalising a lot here. Not every developer at ever end user installation has to act as he suggests. As far as grey hair is concerned, I&#8217;m not even going to go there.<\/li>\n<li>SAP&#8217;s Jochen Rundholz added his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/21542%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\">&#8220;SOA consumption on Android&#8221;<\/a> SDN blog. Starting with SOAP here, but maybe we see some more REST based stuff in the future (also see comments at the bottom of the post).<\/li>\n<li>As Vinnie Jones said in Lock Stock &amp; 2 Smoking Barrels:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-U4Pvodwm0U\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been emotional&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0Thorsten Franz&#8217;s blog last week on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/21759%3Futm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2520SAPNetworkWeblogs%2520%28SAP%2520Network%2520Weblogs%29%26utm_source%3Dtwitterfeed%26page%3Dlast%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter%26x-order%3Ddate%26x-showcontent%3Doff\">&#8220;Kiss of Death for WebDynpro Java&#8221;<\/a> sparked a few emotions on both sides of the &#8220;ABAP\/Java WebDynpro pond&#8221;. Let me point out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/21932%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\">Wolfgang Hilpert&#8217;s clarifications<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/21967\">Michael Bechauf&#8217;s excellent post<\/a> on the state of affairs (&#8220;Technology Stability in a World of Constant Change&#8221;). Especially in Michael&#8217;s case I have to say how positive it is to see contributions and insights such as this (and here&#8217;s hoping for more like this in the future). See also some of the memorable WDJ tweets below.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicon.de\/software\/business\/0,39039006,41540126,00\/sap_erp_innovation_aus_dem_standard.htm\" target=\"_blank\">interesting analysis by RAAD research<\/a>, summarised by silicon.de &#8211; &#8220;Innovation from the standard&#8221;: RAAD asked R\/3 and ERP customers about closeness\/distance from SAP standard. 51% of ERP customers said they would see themselves close to vanilla, while amongst R\/3 customers only 41% could make the same claim. They then compared this to statements of competitive advantage and came to the conclusion that more ERP customers claim competitive benefits and are closer to standard code base than R\/3 customers. I&#8217;ll give you the <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.silicon.de%2Fsoftware%2Fbusiness%2F0%2C39039006%2C41540126%2C00%2Fsap_erp_innovation_aus_dem_standard.htm\" target=\"_blank\">english translation link<\/a> as usual, but the graphics have unfortunately german titles in them.<\/li>\n<li> on Certification, consultant skills et al.<\/li>\n<li>ByDesign Consultant Andreas Eissmann with his <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2vqvoel\" target=\"_blank\">insights on the BYD SDK<\/a>. Some more details on the Ruby aspect, here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F2vqvoel\">english link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>More ByDesign goodness: BYD Partner Skyytek provides more <a href=\"http:\/\/dlvr.it\/82V1S\" target=\"_blank\">insights into their Partnership with SAP<\/a> on ByDesign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter_icon-e1268596574748.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-750\" title=\"twitter_icon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter_icon-e1268596574748.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBeam me up, Twitterverse&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>thorstenster: &#8220;Wow, I never thought my kiss of death blog would cause so much trouble. To say some people overreact would be the understatement of the year&#8221; .<em> nb. Thorsten commenting on the feedback he&#8217;s had on his WDJ blog post<\/em><\/li>\n<li>oliver: &#8220;@Blag guys be glad WDJ exists. Without the learning from it&#8217;s shortcomings WDA wouldn&#8217;t be what it is today.&#8221;. <em>nb: Oliver on the same topic<\/em><\/li>\n<li>se38: &#8220;3 hrs away from twitter and there is a #wda vs. #wdj battle&#8230;&#8221;. <em>nb Uwe Fetzer on the same<\/em><\/li>\n<li>skeohan: &#8220;Anything good is worth waiting for &#8211; which definitely includes &#8216;This Week in SAP&#8217;.&#8221; <em>Thank You!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to my little personal haven of SAP news. I can assure you that no paper.li aggregators have been used and no animals harmed in the process of assembling this blog post. 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