{"id":732,"date":"2010-03-07T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=732"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","slug":"this-week-in-sap-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in a SAP land just a mouse click away from you&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Yolton writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/18055%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+Reader\">SDN passing the 2 (!) milltion member mark<\/a>. Congratulations, guys!<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise that at the ageing and cast-aside CeBIT 2010 Salesforce.com and Adobe representatives spoke about the &#8220;decade when enterprise software died&#8221;. The argument is not new and was also reflected in recent posts by -amongst others- <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/24\/the-facebook-imperative\/\">Marc (End Of Software) Benioff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dealarchitect.typepad.com\/deal_architect\/2010\/02\/why-isnt-enterprise-software-more-like-bmw-and-national-hurricane-center.html\">Vinnie Mirchandan<\/a>i and SAP&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/yetanothersoftwareblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/enterprise-software-is-not-like.html\">Charles Zedlewski<\/a>. Whilst I appreciate the long overdue look towards consumer software, I tend to agree with some of Zedlewski&#8217;s arguments. I also think that changing enterprise software and IT just for hipness sake -which is what a some of this sounds like- would be a fallacy,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;RightNow&#8221; making a bold stand with revamped services model for its SaaS CRM suite. An attempt to push envelope on enterprise value. <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/zdnet\/Howlett\/~3\/hqmPsDL3-do\/\">Frank Scavo comments:<\/a> &#8220;<em>The large vendors will look at this, see that RightNow is a relatively small company, dismiss this as a sideshow and carry on as though nothing has happened. At least in public.&#8221; <\/em><\/li>\n<li>ZDNet&#8217;s Paul Greenberg thinks that SAP has got <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/crm\/?p=1630\">&#8220;The Message back on Target&#8221;<\/a> on Sustainability.<\/li>\n<li>By a similar token, SAP&#8217;s co-CEO Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe released an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/about\/newsroom\/open-letter\/index.epx\">open letter<\/a>, trying to bring the customers back on target.<\/li>\n<li>excellent post by Gartner&#8217;s Thomas Otter on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.enterpriseirregulars.com\/~r\/EIblogs\/~3\/_P5XU5kTToI\/\">Excel Hell<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and Twitter strikes back&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('Z_BASIS_ADM','9882037094','','3','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>Z_BASIS_ADM<\/strong><\/a>: Working through some silliness that is SAP on windows. Kind of like putting the Porsche logo on a Volkswagon and thinking it will be fast.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('vendorprisey','9875637779','','4','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>vendorprisey<\/strong><\/a>: Was very refreshing to hear a SAP board presentation that didn&#8217;t make any anti-oracle digs. #<a title=\"sapcebit\" onclick=\"tsearch('','sapcebit');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">sapcebit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"hkisker\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','hkisker','1','8','','')\"><strong>hkisker<\/strong><\/a>: McDermott @ #<a title=\"SAP\" onclick=\"tsearch('','SAP');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">SAP<\/a> CeBIT: We will make SAP a lean co &amp; become double digit growth again (expect +4-8% SW rev in 2010). #<a title=\"sapcebit\" onclick=\"tsearch('','sapcebit');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">sapcebit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('finnern','9836681060','','12','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>finnern<\/strong><\/a>: @<a title=\"c821311\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','c821311','1','8','','')\">c821311<\/a> <a name=\"l\"><\/a>&#8211; Tony that stopped my breath for a second. R\/2 ABAP Quick reference guide. Sweet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in a SAP land just a mouse click away from you&#8230; Mark Yolton writes about SDN passing the 2 (!) milltion member mark. Congratulations, guys! It doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise that at the ageing and cast-aside CeBIT 2010 Salesforce.com and Adobe representatives spoke about the &#8220;decade when enterprise software died&#8221;. 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