{"id":1241,"date":"2011-02-14T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"this-week-in-sap-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a TWIS Valentines edition. This week&#8217;s highlight was probably the SAP Innovation Center announcement,\u00a0but let&#8217;s look at all of my pickings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/about\/newsroom\/press.epx?pressid=14758\" target=\"_blank\">SAP to built Innovation Center in Potsdam <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanssouci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1252\" title=\"sanssouci\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanssouci.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanssouci.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanssouci-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>(or a &#8220;Silicon Sanssousci&#8221;, linked to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanssouci\">summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia<\/a>, which is also in Potsdam). I think SAP really needs more superlatives for ambitions such as this. As Sanssouci served Frederick as a place to relax from all the pomp and circumstance, I assume the Innovation Center is going to do nothing less.<\/li>\n<li>great post by James Governor of Redmonk on <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/JamesGovernorsMonkchips\/~3\/MX-1YMjQnfs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Couscous, Trifles, Software and Choice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jon Reed grabbed <a href=\"http:\/\/asugnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ASUGNews.com&#8217;s<\/a> co-CEO Duo Courtney Bjorlin and Thomas Wailgum for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonerp.com\/images\/stories\/media\/pcast_jonerp_asugnews_tomcourtney.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">podcast interview<\/a>. The only question is: who is Jim and who is Bill?<\/li>\n<li>Thorsten Franz and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/23468%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">thoughts on WebDynpro ABAP&#8217;s old and wrinkly brother, ABA<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/23468%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">P\u00a0Dynpro<\/a>. I agree with Thorsten that we should have more direction (and innovation?) from SAP on this UI technology. It&#8217;s old, yes, but still the one that is most used.<\/li>\n<li>Xcode, SOAP and iPhone &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/23415%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Gerwin de Groot shows us<\/a> how it&#8217;s done.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicon.de\/management\/cio\/0,39044010,41548526,00\/sap_anwender_ignorieren_cloud_und_mobile.htm\" target=\"_blank\">German, Austrian and Swiss SAP Customers ignore Cloud and Mobile<\/a>, a confidence gain for SAP products and talk of \u00a0&#8220;de-emotionalised support issues&#8221; at Silicon.de (<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%2Fmanagement%2Fcio%2F0%2C39044010%2C41548526%2C00%2Fsap_anwender_ignorieren_cloud_und_mobile.htm\" target=\"_blank\">english<\/a> version).<\/li>\n<li>and finally my own favourite of the week comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/22784\" target=\"_blank\">SAP&#8217;s Juergen Schmerder<\/a>, who does a very good job at cleansing a muddy &#8220;River&#8221; that has been flowing recently.<\/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>You tweetin&#8217; at me?<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;36951202654584832&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;36941494740992002&#8243;]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a TWIS Valentines edition. This week&#8217;s highlight was probably the SAP Innovation Center announcement,\u00a0but let&#8217;s look at all of my pickings: SAP to built Innovation Center in Potsdam (or a &#8220;Silicon Sanssousci&#8221;, linked to the\u00a0summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, which is also in Potsdam). I think SAP really needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}