{"id":857,"date":"2010-05-10T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T12:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=857"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:52","slug":"this-week-in-sap-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK parliament is hung, my throat is sore and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapevents.com\/sap\/sapphire2010emea\/index.cfm\">Sapphire Frankfurt <\/a>is only a week away. Let&#8217;s see what got stuck in my dragnet of SAP News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ZDNet&#8217;s Dennis Howlett with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/howlett\/saps-innojagd-dont-laugh-this-is-real\/2059\">piece on SAP&#8217;s new initiative &#8220;Innojagd&#8221;<\/a> (INNOvation + JAGD, german for &#8220;hunt&#8221;), which is lead by Craig Cmehil. I&#8217;m planning to have a chat with Craig about Innojagd in Frankfurt next week. In separate items in <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ftd.de%2Fit-medien%2Fit-telekommunikation%2F%3Asap-chef-jim-hagemann-snabe-der-groesste-umbau-der-sap-geschichte%2F50112487.html%3Fmode%3Dprint&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=&amp;ie=UTF-8\">FT Deutschlan<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ftd.de%2Fit-medien%2Fit-telekommunikation%2F%3Asap-chef-jim-hagemann-snabe-der-groesste-umbau-der-sap-geschichte%2F50112487.html%3Fmode%3Dprint&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=&amp;ie=UTF-8\">d (english translation)<\/a> and Germany&#8217;s Computerwoche, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerwoche.de\/software\/erp\/1935801\/\">co-CEO Snabe talks<\/a> (english translation <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerwoche.de%2Fsoftware%2Ferp%2F1935801%2F&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en\">here<\/a>) about a lower proportion of R&amp;D costs on the revenue. This is due to SAP&#8217;s ongoing internal restructuring, which is expected to be completed by summer 2010. The coming\u00a0 months will show whether Snabe&#8217;s statement will have an impact on Innojagd or not.<\/li>\n<li>SAP Mentor head Mark Finnern announces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/19136\">new SAP Mentors<\/a> (incl 4 new Mentorettes!).<\/li>\n<li>SAP Mentor Thorsten Franz with a SDN blog post on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/18971\"> tooling changes within the Composition Environment<\/a> and their strategical impact.<\/li>\n<li>lining up the ducks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4UJ5iLu6Yc\">short Plattner video<\/a> putting in-memory back on the agenda for Sapphire (as if we didn&#8217;t know that \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Cory Coley-Christakos talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/scn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/19052%3Futm_source%3Dtwitterfeed%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A+SAPNetworkWeblogs+%2528SAP+Network+Weblogs%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle+UK\">SAP Education: From Evolution to Revolution<\/a> and talks amongst other things about &#8220;evolutionary&#8221; steps from the old classroom model to online presence. If this means that SAP will abolish the classical classroom model <strong>entirely <\/strong>then I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s a move into the right direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter_icon-e1268596574748.png\"><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><br \/>\nand what had the Twitterverse to say for itself?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('qmacro','13541155251','','6','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>qmacro<\/strong><\/a>: How many  people in #<a title=\"ERP\" onclick=\"tsearch('','ERP');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">ERP<\/a> who talk about #<a title=\"SOA\" onclick=\"tsearch('','SOA');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">SOA<\/a> really know what it is?<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('jspath55','13378574641','','13','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>jspath55<\/strong><\/a>: SAP Go  Live check refers to Note # 1347084, as in &#8220;The requested SAP Note is  either in reworking or is released internally only&#8221;. #<a title=\"FAIL\" onclick=\"tsearch('','FAIL');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">FAIL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('esjewett','13378804913','','12','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>esjewett<\/strong><\/a>: @<a title=\"jspath55\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','jspath55','1','8','','')\">jspath55<\/a> Why would SAP refer to a note that it&#8217;s customers can access? Clearly  you ask too much \ud83d\ude09 (nb. <em>in reply to jspath55<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to  toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('vlvl','13296800693','','17','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>vlvl<\/strong><\/a>: A customer  here explainig how using &#8220;Process Runner&#8221; they can enable using excel as  the frontend instead of SAP. Hmmm&#8230; #<a title=\"ISUG2010\" onclick=\"tsearch('','ISUG2010');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">ISUG2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('rhirsch','13607465099','','1','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>rhirsch<\/strong><\/a>: Like the  fact that SAP is adding another &#8220;analyst&#8221; (@<a title=\"skemsley\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','skemsley','1','8','','')\">skemsley<\/a> ) to @<a title=\"SAPMentors\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','SAPMentors','1','8','','')\">SAPMentors<\/a> &#8211; another sign of the increasing importance of &#8220;openness&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click  to toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('sappro','13553954193','','2','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>sappro<\/strong><\/a>: Plattner  is going to talk about In mem databases again at Sapphire,&gt; C&#8217;mon  that has been being discussed for 2 years now, let&#8217;s move on<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"click to  toggle between @ reply \/ direct message\" onclick=\"replyTo('blich','13553010606','','3','4');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><strong>blich<\/strong><\/a>: @<a title=\"vlvl\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','vlvl','1','8','','')\">vlvl<\/a> @<a title=\"pixelbase\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','pixelbase','1','8','','')\">pixelbase<\/a> @<a title=\"rhirsch\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','rhirsch','1','8','','')\">rhirsch<\/a> @<a title=\"dahowlett\" href=\"javascript:processAJAX('gadget.asp','dahowlett','1','8','','')\">dahowlett<\/a> with #<a title=\"innojagd\" onclick=\"tsearch('','innojagd');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">innojagd<\/a> #<a title=\"evilplans\" onclick=\"tsearch('','evilplans');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">evilplans<\/a> and all other cool  stuff, #<a title=\"EcoHub\" onclick=\"tsearch('','EcoHub');\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">EcoHub<\/a> grows impact. Not a  competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK parliament is hung, my throat is sore and Sapphire Frankfurt is only a week away. Let&#8217;s see what got stuck in my dragnet of SAP News: ZDNet&#8217;s Dennis Howlett with a piece on SAP&#8217;s new initiative &#8220;Innojagd&#8221; (INNOvation + JAGD, german for &#8220;hunt&#8221;), which is lead by Craig Cmehil. I&#8217;m planning to have [&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-857","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\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}