Many of the people that were laid off were productive and some were even at customer place clocking money for SAP.
Whoever who is talking about people "spinning in low production mode" in multiple threads, please go somewhere else. You do not need to propagate lies on top of other people misery.
If your full time job is this type of propaganda on top of others misery the Kama will return to you most assuredly.
Bslt has predicted correctly. Presales is now merged with SME Presales with COE and with IVE. Definitely some redundancy there.
Most of the SAP Employees in Sales and Pre-Sales teams at SAP (approx 50%) will be laid off since SAP wants to continue selling through other indirect channels and partners.
Most of these job cuts are in US/Canada. Also Managers and above with non-technical backgrounds are being accessed for upcoming layoffs.