{"id":954,"date":"2010-07-21T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=954"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"this-week-in-sap-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a run-down of what I thought was noticable in SAP Land in the last 7 days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> European Commission  <\/li>\n<li>interesting analysis by Panorama Consulting&#8217;s Eric Kimberling. He&#8217;s posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/panorama-consulting.com\/manufacturing-software-showdown-functional-comparison-of-sap-vs-oracle\/\">functional comparison of SAP v Oracle<\/a>. The two packages are closer together in customer evaluation than one thinks.<\/li>\n<li>Jarret Pazahanick with an interesting and popular SDN blog on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2c8z7ap\">Five Ways Twitter will Help your SAP Career<\/a> &#8211; well spotted stuff. Many people still underestimate the power of Twitter in the professional space.<\/li>\n<li>SAP&#8217;s Craig Cmehil starts the TechEd <a href=\"http:\/\/shar.es\/mVHcG\">Demo Jam Submission Countdown<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/shar.es\/mVHcG\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>a  to dazzle the masses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/11165\/sap_walks_tightrope_selling_business_bydesign\">CIO&#8217;s Thomas Wailgum sees SAP in danger<\/a> to make the same mistakes with ByDesign as with TomorrowNow. He has a point, but have a look in the comments to see my view on it (apologies for the dreadful layout!).<\/li>\n<li>SAPience aka Helmuth Guembel fears a <a href=\"http:\/\/hgumbel.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/14\/fancy-apps-for-mobile-devices-%e2%80%93-another-%e2%80%9ctamagochi%e2%80%9d-for-executives\/\">wave of custom-built enterprise &#8220;Tamagochis&#8221;<\/a> on mobile devices.<\/li>\n<li>Enterprise IT veteran Joshua Greenbaum on <a href=\"http:\/\/ematters.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/13\/how-to-make-money-in-the-cloud-microsoft-sap-the-partner-dilemma-and-the-tools-solution\/\">&#8220;How to make money in the cloud (&#8230;)<\/a>&#8221; says, &#8220;Smart and savvy won\u2019t be interested in volume, IMO&#8221;. One interesting observation here is that he sees the BYD SDK as a clear advantage for BYD over competitor products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<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>some good ones in this week&#8217;s Twitter category, me thinks:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thorstenster\">thorstenster<\/a>: <\/strong>Just parked on SAP&#8217;s board &amp;  CEO reserved spaces in front of WDF01. Security greeted me on my way to  the door. Quick! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thorstenster\">thorstenster<\/a><\/strong>: @<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelbase\">pixelbase<\/a> Driving Larry and Hasso reminds me of the riddle where you row a wolf, a  sheep, and a salad across the river. Larry&#8217;s the salad. <em>(nb on the same topic!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/se38\">se38<\/a>: <\/strong>RT @<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martin_english\">martin_english<\/a>:  RT @<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/micdoane\">micdoane<\/a>: &#8220;Only two major industries, one of which is  illegal, refer to their ultimate customers as users. &#8220;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/welshcathy\">welshcathy<\/a>: <\/strong>Interesting &#8211; just seen self  referencing DDIC table type definition bring down an entire SAP system!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAPinsider\">SAPinsider<\/a><\/strong>: Today&#8217;s IT joke: A software  engineer is smoking. When a lady points at the health warning, he  replies, &#8220;We care about errors, not warnings!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a run-down of what I thought was noticable in SAP Land in the last 7 days: European Commission interesting analysis by Panorama Consulting&#8217;s Eric Kimberling. He&#8217;s posted a functional comparison of SAP v Oracle. The two packages are closer together in customer evaluation than one thinks. 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