SAP and the Cloud

When I was a fellow at the SNCR we saw a presentation by SAP about their planned use of social and Cloud systems.  It was an impressive plan for next steps.    I was surprised by their lack of work in the following several years in this area.  About the same time we saw similar plans by IBM that did end up in actual results.   ComputerWorld has written about this here.  Recent acquisitions appear to indicate that they are getting serious. Cloud-Social ventures are spreading broadly.