{"id":1306,"date":"2011-03-08T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"this-week-in-sap-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to a TWIS edition from Boston (hence the picture below). I&#8217;m currently here for the combined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapevents.com\/SAP\/RunBetterTour\/index.cfm?fuseaction=reg.Landing\" target=\"_blank\">SAP Run Better Tour<\/a> and SAP Influencer Event with Vishal Sikka.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC00623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1307\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC00623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC00623.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC00623-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have a look at last weeks news selection.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/23560%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Vijay Vijayasankar combines Watson and HANA and sees new possibilities<\/a>. I agree with Vijay, a combination would open up new, so far unthinkable applications. For more (Jeopardy action!) on Watson see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/01\/13\/ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy-pract\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Thorsten Franz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/23695\" target=\"_blank\">took River through its paces<\/a> and reports back.<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Greenbaum <a href=\"http:\/\/ematters.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/28\/sap-plays-games-with-the-analysts-and-the-gamification-of-the-enterprise-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">was impressed<\/a> how a new SAP involved punters at a recent launch event for Sales On-Demand. Vinnie Mirchandani agrees, <a href=\"http:\/\/dealarchitect.typepad.com\/deal_architect\/2011\/03\/sap-plays-games-with-analysts.html\" target=\"_blank\">to a point<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Howlett and Skyytek&#8217;s Ray Tetlow on <a href=\"http:\/\/accmanpro.com\/2011\/03\/02\/could-you-implement-sap-business-bydesign\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Could you implement ByDesign?&#8221;<\/a>. Very impressive to hear that their consultants work on 25 projects (!) simultaneously.<\/li>\n<li>here&#8217;s the cracker of the week (and if you&#8217;re only reading one article this week make it THIS one). Jon Reed, Vijay and Leo de Araujo talk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonerp.com\/content\/view\/394\/89\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Road Ahead for SAP Consultants 2011 &#8211; The SAP Mentor View&#8221;<\/a>. Wonderful stuff, touching on BYD, HANA, BI, ABAP&#8230; you name it, it&#8217;s in it. I particularly like their &#8220;real world&#8221; view on things &#8211; what matters to customers and what will matter soon.<\/li>\n<li>Silicon.de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silicon.de\/technologie\/software\/0,39044013,41549584,00\/plattner_schreibt_fuer_in_memory_data_management.htm\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on Hasso Plattner&#8217;s new book on In-Memory. (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%2C41549584%2C00%2Fplattner_schreibt_fuer_in_memory_data_management.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). <em>update: book will be released in the US on March 31 (Thanks, Greg!)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to a TWIS edition from Boston (hence the picture below). I&#8217;m currently here for the combined SAP Run Better Tour and SAP Influencer Event with Vishal Sikka. Let&#8217;s have a look at last weeks news selection. Vijay Vijayasankar combines Watson and HANA and sees new possibilities. I agree with Vijay, a combination would [&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-1306","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\/1306","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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}