{"id":729,"date":"2010-02-26T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=729"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","slug":"this-week-in-sap-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come and feast your eyes on this week&#8217;s SAP news bounty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAP announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/about\/newsroom\/press.epx?pressid=12768\">&#8220;BI toolset for the casual user&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Is SAP not even bothering to pretend it has its own on-demand CRM product anymore?&#8221;<\/em>, asks Barney Beal <a href=\"http:\/\/itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com\/voices-of-crm\/whatever-happened-to-saps-crm-ondemand\/\">on ITKnowledgeExchange<\/a>. A reaction to SAP&#8217;s SaaS BI announcement.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Wailgum on the same. Although <a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/sap_delivers_a_saas_bi_app_for_the_rest_of_us\">he thinks SAP&#8217;s move is smart<\/a>, as it focuses on the casual user.<\/li>\n<li>Peter Evans Greenwood stipulates that\u00a0&#8220;&#8221;. Interesting points.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>&#8230;while all the buzz may be around the cloud, the business reality is one of extension and transition.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Dennis Howlett on ZDNet, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Howlett\/?p=1821\">talking about SAP ecosystem and SMB focus<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>blogging about a fantastic SAP Mentor organised event: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/18044\">Thorsten Franz talks about SAP Inside Track Bonn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the Twitter Pick&#8217;n&#8217;Mix:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/thorstenster\">thorstenster<\/a>: Having great fun at<a title=\"#SAPInsideTrackBonn\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/search?q=%23SAPInsideTrackBonn\">#SAPInsideTrackBonn<\/a>. Atmosphere is very good, wonderful crowd.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\"><strong>@chiprodgers<\/strong><\/a>: Just blogged: 62,000 Views of SAP TechEd Live Videos #<a title=\"sapteched\">sapteched<\/a> <a name=\"l\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\"><strong>martin_english<\/strong><\/a>: FYA: SAP cancels rampup for NetWeaver BW 7.2 &#8211; functionality to be rolled into BW7.3 later this year\u00a0<a name=\"s\"><\/a> (via @<a title=\"cbjorlin\">cbjorlin<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\"><strong>siliconchris<\/strong><\/a>: SAP cancels the planned BW 7.2 RampUp. Instead functionality will be available in BW 7.3 later this year\u00a0<a name=\"l\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\"><strong>qmacro<\/strong><\/a>: Why does everyone seem to be an Architect these days?#<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\"><strong>yojibee<\/strong><\/a>: I just heard the words SAP, installation and easy being used in the same sentence. I am sceptical but let&#8217;s see how this goes #<a title=\"bobj\">bobj<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"bobj\"><\/a><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\"><strong>rhirsch<\/strong><\/a>: don&#8217;t know how people can say that SAP isn&#8217;t seriously looking at the cloud as a app platform. I&#8217;m seeing it in a variety of settings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come and feast your eyes on this week&#8217;s SAP news bounty: SAP announced the &#8220;BI toolset for the casual user&#8221;. &#8220;Is SAP not even bothering to pretend it has its own on-demand CRM product anymore?&#8221;, asks Barney Beal on ITKnowledgeExchange. A reaction to SAP&#8217;s SaaS BI announcement. Thomas Wailgum on the same. Although he thinks [&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-729","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\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}