{"id":667,"date":"2010-01-29T18:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=667"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","slug":"this-week-in-sap-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"This week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;ve been scraping that SAP News barrel for your and my reading pleasure. Enjoy..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marketwatch <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/external\/cbsm\/rss\/SIG=12icis8vd\/*http%3A\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/software-giant-sap-reports-12\/story.aspx?guid=%7BE805349B%2DD647%2D44F7%2DB7A5%2DF7563D1D5EDD%7D&amp;siteid=yhoof\">reports<\/a> 12% profit fall for SAP<\/li>\n<li>Jon Reed, Andy Klee on <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SAPNetworkWeblogs\/~3\/rRwS09EJrRg\/17600\">SAP Market Trends, Training and Certification<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SAP releases a <a href=\"http:\/\/esworkplace.sap.com\/socoview%28bD1lbiZjPTAwMSZkPW1pbg==%29\/render.asp?sap-unique=151437&amp;sap-params=aWQ9RjZDRkMwRUEzRUYxNEJDOTg0MUM1MjgyNzJFRTg1ODMmcGFja2FnZWlkPURFRTk4RDA3REY5RkE5RjFCM0M3MDAxQTY0RDNGNDYyJm1vZGU9\">revamped Enterprise Services Workplace<\/a>, including some Web 2.0 features. I&#8217;ve had a short play with it this week and found the menus, search function and new layout much improved. But let&#8217;s face it, it could only get better. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>SAP&#8217;s Richard Probst on the first few months of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/17666%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\">&#8220;Best Built Apps&#8221;<\/a> project. I had the pleasure to meet Richard in Phoenix at TechEd this year. The BBA project is an amazing leap forward in terms of clarity and confidence-building for customers.<\/li>\n<li>Computerworld reports on &#8220;Deutsche Bank picks SAP as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.idg.no\/cw\/art.cfm?id=74E8EB4E-1A64-6A71-CE3472774E084D10\">new core banking system<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; after Postbank Germany developed the standard branch solution with SAP for this, Deutsche is now going for it. They&#8217;re holding 25% plus one share of Postbank, so they know what they&#8217;re letting themselves into. This could easily be the biggest SAP SOA project of the next 4 years.<\/li>\n<li>SAP <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/SAP-Named-One-of-the-Top-100-prnews-498060177.html?x=0&amp;.v=1\">named<\/a> one of the top most sustainable large corporations in the world &#8211; credit where credit is due<\/li>\n<li>John Schwarz <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2010\/01\/28\/sap-exec-cant-see-why-oracle-bought-sun\/?mod=yahoobarrons\">can&#8217;t see why Oracle bought Sun<\/a> in this interview with Barron&#8217;s Eric Savitz. He also wants to achieve 1bn SAP worldwide users in 4-5 years (including mobile devices &amp; smart meters!), from 100m today. Ambitious!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tweet, tweeter, the tweetest&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Tobias Trapp\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ttrapp\">ttrapp<\/a><\/strong>: Deutsche Bank AG goes SAP for Banking Solutions  for their core systems &amp; has SOA ambitions: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8jcm4v\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8jcm4v<\/a> (in german)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Thomas Otter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vendorprisey\">vendorprisey<\/a><\/strong>: Epstein has a good point. Oracle has acquisition integration competence.I personally think it is an undervalued strength @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mfauscette\">mfauscette<\/a> <a title=\"#oracle\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23oracle\">#oracle<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a id=\"status_star_8295953391\" title=\"un-favorite this tweet\"> <\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"cote\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cote\">cote<\/a><\/strong>: &#8220;It&#8217;s great that Hasso and his five guys got it. It&#8217;s whacko!&#8221; &#8211;Larry Ellison at <a title=\"#oraclesun\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23oraclesun\">#oraclesun<\/a> on in-memory databases.<\/p>\n<div><a id=\"status_star_8361125259\" title=\"un-favorite this tweet\"> <\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"James Farrar\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesfarrar\">jamesfarrar<\/a><\/strong>: SAP CEO on climate change: &#8216;time for stakeholder value not shareholder value&#8217;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;ve been scraping that SAP News barrel for your and my reading pleasure. Enjoy.. Marketwatch reports 12% profit fall for SAP Jon Reed, Andy Klee on SAP Market Trends, Training and Certification SAP releases a revamped Enterprise Services Workplace, including some Web 2.0 features. 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