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SAP TechEd in Las Vegas is over. Not surprisingly in today’s Web 2.0 world, there has been a lot of blogging, podcasting and videos around the event, and Craig Cmehil has summarized those a little bit. I’d also like to resume some of the announcements and news from TechEd I find the most interesting here.

Tim O’Reilly did a guest keynote about the business models of Web 2.0-companies, and in his own blog he wrote about the Web 2.0 activities going on at SAP, like for example activities in Second Life, and their own internal social network called “harmony” (never heard of that before).

The executive keynotes of Peter Zencke and Vishal Sikka were mainly about Enterprise SOA, delivering new functionality for the business suite via enhancement packages and the switch framework, and new features of NetWeaver 7.1 (“Enterprise Services Repository”, “Process Integration” as advancement of Exchange Infrastructure and the “Composition Environment”). To make a long story short, it’s all about code-free modeling of processes, applications and user-interfaces based on services in a central repository today. You can read more about it on ZDNet and in Jeff Nolan’s post.

There also was an announcement of the SDN subscription program, which allows developers to get the SAP NetWeaver tools and platforms for an annual fee, similar to offers from other software vendors (e.g. MSDN). This is meant to enlarge the SAP developer community. Michael Koch wrote more about it.

So, this was TechEd in Las Vegas, but TechEd Munich is just around the corner. And:

Only on thursday, though, expensive enough…
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