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Enterprise Geeks Podcast – You Can’t Handle the Truth

by Ed Herrmann on February 7, 2009 at 3:56 pm

BS7: You Cant Handle the Truth

In this packed episode, Ed Herrmann, Thomas Jung, and special guest Rich Heilman talk about all the events from the SAP Press conference announcing the launch of SAP Business Suite 7. Also included is a gold mine of information on clarifications of enhancement packages and the switch framework.

If you have questions, suggestions, or topic ideas for future episodes, give us a shout here. Enjoy!

Running Time: 59 minutes

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Talking Points

Fellow Enterprise Geek – Rich Heilman
- Xcelsius Flex Control
- Flex vs. ABAP – competitive or complementary
- The whirlwind of working at SAP during the BOBJ acquisition
- What it’s like switching over from IT to Technology
- Future plans for Enterprise Geeks
- Xcelsius Islands coming soon
The truth – what exactly is SAP Business Suite 7
WSJ – WTF?
Clarifying Enhancement Packages for ERP vs. NetWeaver and how it relates to BS7
- SAP ERP 6.0 -
  
  SAP ERP 6.0 is the “go-to” release until at least 2012 providing mainstream maintenance until March 2013 and extended maintenance until 2016.
- SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EnhP1 -
  
  “For these SAP Business Suite systems, a separate ramp-up started in November 2008 which as part of SAP Business Suite 7 comprises SAP ERP 6.0 EhP4, SAP CRM/SRM/SCM/PLM 7.0, … .
  All relevant parts of enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 are included in the respective SAP Business Suite 7 ramp-up packages and will be installed automatically underneath the SAP Business Suite systems.”
Advantages of the Switch Framework
Leveraging custom BAdis, switches, enhancement packages, and namespaces
Value Scenarios and Best Run now packages
SAP is going from a back office suite only to a business process library for casual users, and the customers agree
Business Objects as an analytics acquisition
Subtle hints of the upcoming focus on In-Memory / RAM-resident database
What is the strategy behind the “Harmonized UI” – casual business users no longer have blind faith
Blogger meeting with Richard Campione and the differences in software suites – engineered vs. glued vs. branded
The Press Conference experience
Upcoming topics
- The Harmonized UI strategy and the NetWeaver Business Client
- More on SAP Certifications
Some of the funnier moments from the blogger meetings

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SE #9 – SAP BOBJ Influencer Summit – Doug Merritt

by Craig Cmehil on September 18, 2008 at 1:10 pm

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While in Boston during the Business Objects Influencer Summit I had a chance to sit down with Doug Merritt which was really cool, I’ve been able to sit in on many blogger roundtables with Doug and he’s always be upfront and honest about what’s going on so having come on the show was highlight for me.

Being on the “inside” I was dying to ask him about the deal between the “Business User” and “Information Worker” and the confusion that seems to be surrounding them both. It was a great chat and we covered a lot of different things including the SAP Imagineering group from Denis Browne and the future of the program!

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SE #8 – SAP BOBJ Influencer Summit – Timo Elliott

by Craig Cmehil on September 5, 2008 at 8:44 am

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While in Boston I had a chance to meet Timo, Timo was the 8th employee of Business Objects way back when and is now on board with SAP and Business Objects after the acquisition. Timo and I had two extremely interesting conversations the first unfortunately sufferred a massive problem with audio (no surprise right? I’m working on audio issues) but he was nice enough to come back for another go on film for me.

Timo is also happy, willing and able to come and speak to you which I thought was extremely cool to offer so if you are interested you can catch him through his blog or email.

The video interview here was a highlight for me personally as we really started to break down what everyone means by Business Intelligence Platform and he shares an example of all of this in action, don’t miss it!

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SE #7 – SAP BOBJ Influencer Summit – Paul Clark

by Craig Cmehil on September 4, 2008 at 1:40 pm

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A chat with Paul Clark from SAP and Business Objects about the “non SAP” customer base of Business Objects before and after the acquisition and what can we expect for them in the future.

A key phrase for me was “we will protect that market”…

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SE #6 – SAP BOBJ Influencer Summit – Narina Sippy

by Craig Cmehil on September 1, 2008 at 10:10 am

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Narina is the Senior Vice President & General Manager, Governance, Risk and Compliance Business Unit at SAP and during our chat I got a very good impression of why SAP can with certainty claim it’s spot as #1 for GRC.

GRC is one of those areas that effect everything about your business, even those areas you were not thinking about, Narina was also able to give an idea of what is to come and what areas SAP for example are focusing on for the near future.