{"id":990,"date":"2010-07-27T14:07:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T14:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=990"},"modified":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:14:51","slug":"this-week-in-sap-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"This Week in SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to wait until the end of all the twitterings around the SAP Q2 earnings analyst call before cobbling this week&#8217;s musings together.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAP reports healthy increase in revenue year-on-year, but Dennis Howlett had an <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/zdnet\/Howlett\/~3\/pG9yZK6ZlJw\/2328\">interesting look under the bonnet<\/a> (&#8220;reports healthier&#8221;). Zacks think that <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/SAP-zacks-2067142659.html?x=0&amp;.v=1\">&#8220;SAP underperforms&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>SAP decides goes for <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/rss\/story\/*http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/100727\/ne38790.html?.v=1\">Black Duck<\/a> to rationalise its Open Source Software use for development efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Jon Reed with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingthesapecosystem.com\/2010\/07\/what-sap-trends-should-it-services.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FeedingTheSapEcosystem+%28Feeding+the+SAP+Ecosystem%29\">interesting PAC post regarding SAP trends for IT Services firms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Doane<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/R3nowcom\/~3\/zDPC_xlUH8A\/certainly-certifiable-sap-sis-not-just-consultants\"> chimes in<\/a> with views on Certification: <em>&#8220;My long-held belief is that systems integrators, not individual  consultants, should be held to a certification\/ratings fire. To date,  they are not. Most of them tend to claim \u201cour clients love us\u201d but it is  readily evident that they are not talking to all of their clients.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ematters.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/23\/the-return-of-business-bydesign-and-the-future-of-the-on-demand-erp-market\/\">Joshua Greenbaum with a follow-up <\/a>on his ByDesign \/ SaaS related post from <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\/\">last week<\/a>. Interestingly enough, he also sees the strong impetus the BYD SDK will have, although I miss the community aspect in all of the BYD posts I find. Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=964\">my own post &#8220;ByDesign? ByCommunity!&#8221;<\/a> on this.<\/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>Keep calm and tweet on&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dahowlett\">dahowlett:<\/a> <\/strong><a title=\"#SAP\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SAP\">#SAP<\/a>: SAPPHIRE got 50% more leads than  2009&#8230;interesting<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sapnews\">sapnews<\/a>: <\/strong>SAP Reports 16% Growth in  Software and Software-Related Service Revenues for the Second Quarter:  <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yojibee\">yojibee<\/a>: <\/strong>Wow, still videos on SDN only  for IE? (the video was shot in 2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiprodgers\">chiprodgers:<\/a> <\/strong>Getting very close to being able  to announce the concerts for <a title=\"#SAPTechEd\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SAPTechEd\">#SAPTechEd<\/a> Las Vegas and  Berlin.  Excited!  Stay tuned<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sap_star\">sap_star:<\/a> <\/strong>today at client: Defect  Meeting.Working Issue With Backup \/ Restore Not Working.Rewriting Code  From Offshore Team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to wait until the end of all the twitterings around the SAP Q2 earnings analyst call before cobbling this week&#8217;s musings together. SAP reports healthy increase in revenue year-on-year, but Dennis Howlett had an interesting look under the bonnet (&#8220;reports healthier&#8221;). Zacks think that &#8220;SAP underperforms&#8221;. 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