{"id":762,"date":"2010-03-29T21:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=762"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","slug":"this-week-in-sap-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s spring and as we all know it&#8217;s the time when SAP rises. Let&#8217;s see&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Forrester there is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9173898\/Forrester_Uncertain_future_for_SAP_s_NetWeaver\">uncertain future for SAP&#8217;s Netweaver<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dennis Howlett hits home\u00a0many birds in one go with his post about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Howlett\/?p=1897\">SAP&#8217;s wasted passion. <\/a><em>&#8220;What they\u2019re all missing is a discussion around how SAP harnesses the passion of the Caroline\u2019s of this world. Work on that and things could change dramatically.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/business-finance\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15716776&amp;fsrc=rss\">The Economist with a great piece on IT leaders.<\/a> We think the Jobs\/Schmidt spat is new, but a look into corporate history reveals that it&#8217;s always been like that. It&#8217;s all egos and pissing contests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/riministreet.com\/news.php?id=883\">Rimini Street strikes back<\/a> &#8211; and sues Oracle<\/li>\n<li>Sapience writes about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/?hl=en&amp;tab=wy#stream\/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fhgumbel.wordpress.com%2Ffeed%2F\">determination of SAP&#8217;s Business By Design (BBD)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thomas Otter on why <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gartner.com\/thomas_otter\/2010\/03\/21\/usability-doesnt-mean-ui\/\">&#8220;Usability doesn&#8217;t mean UI&#8221;<\/a>. I like it how Thomas is on the same page with developers and analysts when it comes to what REALLY matters in business application development (and why it shouldn&#8217;t be more like Facebook).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter_icon-e1268596574748.png\"><br \/><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><\/p>\n<p>Tweet, tweet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"click to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('tbroek','11024306518','','2','4');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tbroek\"><strong>tbroek<\/strong><\/a>: Is SAP going the same way as Philips (video 2000) a decade ago? Great products and solutions but not able to sell them?<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/yojibee\">yojibee<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/yojibee\">:<\/a> RT @<a title=\"Tech_Women\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','Tech_Women','1','8','','')\">Tech_Women<\/a>: New blog post: The New Face of Geek Chic\u00a0<a name=\"l\"><\/a> by @<a title=\"ITSinsider\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','ITSinsider','1','8','','')\">ITSinsider<\/a>#<a title=\"ALD10\" onclick=\"tsearch('','ALD10');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">ALD10<\/a> &lt;&lt; featuring me &lt;blush&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s spring and as we all know it&#8217;s the time when SAP rises. Let&#8217;s see&#8230; According to Forrester there is an uncertain future for SAP&#8217;s Netweaver Dennis Howlett hits home\u00a0many birds in one go with his post about SAP&#8217;s wasted passion. &#8220;What they\u2019re all missing is a discussion around how SAP harnesses the passion of [&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-762","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\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}