The New SAP UI

Intrigued by Goodness coming to Web Dynpro Abap near you. I was redirected to this presentation on blip

Web2.0 meets Business Process. Indeed!!

SAP Eventus – The Human Face of Business Scenarios was a Composition on Grails prototype, released to public late last year it demonstrated Enterprise 2.0 principles by highlighting a real life collaborative business process scenario.

The next iteration of Eventus utilizes much more of the SAP products we are familiar with and showcases the “signature design” of the new Business Client “Nova” debuted at SAPPHIRE this year. One thing is for sure with the new look prototype we have a contender for this years Demo Jam.

SAP never looked better – drop and drag widgets, drag and relate objects, google maps, enterprise and web searches, Flash/Flex/AIR, BSP, Webdynpro, SAP Gui and much more all seamlessly delivered in a single UI, I even saw Textpad in there somewhere, I can only imagine the services and events utilized behind the scenes.

Sign me up, where’s the project, I want to start imagining the possibilities.

ABAP – what happened?

ABAP is an abbreaviation of the German word Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor if you run the phrase through babelfish and it translates to “General report preparation processor”. For a long time ABAP was seen as that a report writing language, to the uninitiated it was viewed as a lesser easy to learn language and the programmers who used it were looked down on as coders and not developers. ABAP has gone through many iterations, the biggest of which would have to be the introduction of SAP WebAS where ABAP finally broke away from being a report writing language and became the backbone to a suite of web application development platforms.

SAP TECHED 2007 LAS VEGAS (redux)

This years SAP Teched tells us to
“CONNECT. COLLABORATE. CO-INNOVATE!”

Connect, collaborate, and co-innovate with the best minds in the IT industry.

Get the knowledge, skills, and professional network needed to take advantage of SOA.

Learn how to use the power and flexibility of SAP NetWeaver to co-innovate with SAP

Inspiring I know. Before you run off to convince your boss that you should go to Vegas for a week long jolly. Enjoy
“ENTERPRISE SOA – PUT THE POWER TO WORK!”

SAP Certification gets a makeover

Move over big 5, training needs a makeover

IN a radical move, German enterprise software giant SAP has finally loosened the grip on its tightly held training and certification program as the shortage of skilled consultants worsens.

SAP certification gets total makeover | Australian IT

The comments make for interesting reading.

In the news i hear about this perceived shortage of labor. In the same bulletin you hear big bank has outsourced entire IT operations, large employer investigated for underpaying workers on 457 visas.

Shortage of skilled consultants – Isn’t this just propaganda and the real shortage is cheap experienced labor?

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and SAP

I read everywhere that you need an ESB to truly implement SOA.

Having read many articles about what an ESB is, I am still unsure whether it is a product or a pattern.

If it is a product does SAP have one ?

Poetry runs as hard as SAP

In the book Moby Dick captain Ahab time and again foresakes all commercial endeavors and risks his ship and crew in attempts to capture the big white whale.

SAP’s nemesis isn’t Oracle its the SMB market, they have had numerous attempts at conquering the beast – A1, Business One, plus numerous pre configured and hosted solutions. SAP is not alone Microsoft and Oracle and others are desperately trying to fill their whitespaces.