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title: "Cote Blogs from SAP TechEd, introduces the \"Spherical Cow Development\" concept"
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[People Over Process: SAP TechEd 2006: The New Services Platform](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/09/sap_teched_2006_1.html "The New Services Platform")

For those of you that are monkchips readers but don’t follow Cote, but are interested in what SAP is saying, I suggest you head on over to [PeopleoverProcess](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/09/sap_teched_2006_1.html) for some nice SAP mindmaps and coverage.

Props to Bill Wohl, Jeff Nolan and Michael Prosceno. Cote says: “In summary, this is definitely he first time I’ve come to a conference and felt like a blogger who’s an analyst instead of an analyst who blogs.”

On [The New Services Platform](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/09/sap_teched_2006_1.html) “One of the more interesting aspects is what I’m increasingly thinking of as the spherical cow model of software adoption: changing the organization to align with what the software provides.”

[All Coffeed Up](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/09/sap_teched_2006.html) “I had an odd enterprisey experience on the plane up from Austin. After I told her that I was on the way to SAP TechEd, the lady sitting next to me — who was quite nice — told me that she uses SAP at work. “I love it!” she said. As I recall, she even said something along the lines of, “man, that SAP/R3 does everything.” She was on the way to another conference, unrelated to her SAP-using day-job as a hospital finance administrator.”

Cote also provides [links](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/09/links_for_20060_118.html) to help you find other blogger coverage from the show (be more competitive by being less competitive)