{"id":1167,"date":"2011-01-12T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"this-week-in-sap-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of TWIS in 2011. This week&#8217;s edition is a bit of a catch-up going all the way back to early December so excuse some posts and tweets that are older than a week (they&#8217;re still worthwhile mentioning here, you know!). Buckle up, here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/files\/pictures\/picture-31.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"68\" \/>after 14 years <a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/15023\/it_in_2020_will_it_even_exist?source=rss_Blogs_and_Discussion_Enterprise_Software_Unplugged\">this is Thomas Wailgum&#8217;s last post for CIO.com<\/a>, talking about Forrester&#8217;s bold outlook for Business IT in 2020. &#8220;The IT status quo will collapse (&#8230;)&#8221;. Fair enough, but surely we&#8217;ll still have Microsoft Sharepoint (aka &#8220;The Document Nirvana&#8221;). I&#8217;d like to wish Thomas all the best for his next career step and would also like to thank him for all his great posts. TWIS won&#8217;t be the same without his CIO.com musings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/about\/investor\/press.epx?pressid=14606\">SAP is buying<\/a> security software and other assets from its swiss partner SECUDE. The deal encompasses SECUDE&#8217;s Secure Sign On and Enterprise Signle Sign On solutions, which will be rolled out to all customers free of charge later this year in a basic version.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/654063\/SAP_Buying_Security_Software_Other_Assets_From_SECUDE?source=rss_enterprise_resource_planning_erp\">CIO&#8217;s Chris Kanaracus writes<\/a> that SAP is trying to introduce its own offerings in a market that is also inhabited by Oracle. While I think it&#8217;s a good move in terms of product offering and (external) innovation, the bigger question obviously is how secure offerings have been thus far.<\/li>\n<li>in another IP-related move, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itnews.com\/civil-lawsuits\/26995\/sap-patent-firm-intellectual-ventures-reach-license-pact\">SAP and Intellectual Ventures reach an agreement<\/a> to give the Walldorf concern access to more than 30,000 intellectual property assets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/\">wonderful post by Vinnie Mirchandani on &#8220;Commercialization&#8221;<\/a> in the coming decade. I really like the last two paragraphs about going back to IT&#8217;s roots.<\/li>\n<li>SAP&#8217;s Matthias Steiner writes about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inscope.net\/post\/1230\">first edition of the &#8220;SAP Mentors Quarterly&#8221;<\/a> magazine, a great new addition to the vast output SAP Mentor&#8217;s produce.<\/li>\n<li>Short and sharp. James Governor on <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/JamesGovernorsMonkchips\/~3\/X1f4hOUCo2w\/\">what you should do in 2011<\/a>: &#8220;<strong>Work On Stuff That Matters. Ignore Everybody. Get Excited and Make Things.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>A year would not end properly without Blag&#8217;s annual SDN blog picks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/22377\">So here&#8217;s his list for 2010<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Silicon.de with an interesting outlook on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicon.de\/technologie\/software\/0,39044013,41543084,00\/der_sap_freiberufler_markt_2011.htm\">(german) SAP Freelance market in 2011<\/a>. (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=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.silicon.de%2Ftechnologie%2Fsoftware%2F0%2C39044013%2C41543084%2C00%2Fder_sap_freiberufler_markt_2011.htm\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>and: let&#8217;s start 2011 with another takeover post. This time from <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/246225-time-is-running-out-for-sap?source=yahoo\">Seeking Alpha<\/a>.<\/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>Horses may have bolted on some of those tweets. I&#8217;ll post them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;25241485414764544&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;22357878429974528&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;19433942297870336&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;19360245734187008&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;15870490010714112&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;12231126709960704&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;12441874291757056&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;11867073525325825&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;12235862079180800&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of TWIS in 2011. This week&#8217;s edition is a bit of a catch-up going all the way back to early December so excuse some posts and tweets that are older than a week (they&#8217;re still worthwhile mentioning here, you know!). 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