Hello I'm Back - A view from outside SAP
I've been away from the whole SAP and social media scene for a couple of months. I've had a time to reflect and regroup. Some thoughts and pictures from my self imposed absence. It's like it's going to be interesting or anything, so don't get too excited. :-) Chris Paine in Beyond SAP [Feb. 20, 2012 05:06 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Social media case study: How to incent the right behaviors
Lessons in incenting your employees by providing an end-to-end service that promotes the right behaviors while building a learning sandbox for your company. Ted Sapountzis in Beyond SAP, Social Media and Social Networks [Feb. 16, 2012 01:02 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Needed to share this here, very powerful: #SuccessFactors Partners on #SAP Acquisition
SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — In conjunction with the close of the acquisition by SAP, SuccessFactors, Inc., (NYSE: SFSF), today announced broad support for the deal from its global partner ecosystem. SuccessFactors has always partnered with industry-leading companies from around the world to help extend the value of its Business Execution (BizX) suite through complementary partner product and service offerings or helping open up new markets. Now, in concert with SAP, SuccessFactors and its partners are able to provide a vast array of new offerings that promise new value for customers as they optimize how they execute their businesses. Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, Human Capital Management, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Feb. 16, 2012 09:11 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Driving Social Media Change: Does your CxO get it?
Success in social business does not correlate with presence on Twitter. Success requires leaders that listen, are not afraid to take risks and are patient. Ted Sapountzis in Beyond SAP, Social Media and Social Networks [Feb. 14, 2012 09:19 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Social media: Has the hype cycle finally peaked?
Is the social media bubble about to burst? Three trends seem to point to this: Our audience sees no value, we can't show ROI, and companies reduce spend. Ted Sapountzis in Beyond SAP, Social Media and Social Networks [Feb. 09, 2012 09:52 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Meeting of the SAP Network Group Hamburg, Germany - When will you start your group?
The SAP Community in Hamburg, Germany came together to start the Knowledge Exchange in 2012. Why not start something similar in your region? Peter Langner in ABAP, Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Community Day, ERP [Feb. 07, 2012 08:30 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

SAP HANA InnoJam Online Contest - Phase 2 and what's next
Are you participating in the SAP HANA InnoJam Online Contest? Then you must read this... Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Feb. 06, 2012 01:47 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Are you aware of #SAPChat?
Sharing experience of last #SAPChat on HANA with @applebyj @vijayasankarv @aiazkazi @SocialKev KUMUD SINGH. in Beyond SAP, Social Media and Social Networks [Feb. 02, 2012 11:14 AM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Different People
Great ideas and innovations can come from everywhere in the organization, not just the research department! What do you do with these ideas – or differently asked – how do you provide some space for such innovations to come up in a world where the development process is streamlined around a prioritized product backlog? Bjoern Goerke in Organizational Change Management, Beyond SAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Feb. 02, 2012 07:51 AM | 14 Comments | Permalink]

Co-Innovation – Best Practices That Bring On-Demand Solutions to Market More Quickly , or – Innovating a New Product Is Only Half the Battle
If you have an urgent business need for an cloud / on-demand solution, see an opportunity for first-mover advantage, or personally want to see a specific app be built, then this Co-Innovation@SAP-Whitepaper is for you. Here you’ll learn how companies like yours partner with SAP to bring their software ideas to life – and benefit by gaining fast access to world-class, on-demand solutions from SAP. Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Jan. 31, 2012 07:13 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Recap SAP Influencer Summit 2011 Highlights
As some of you know, the eighth annual SAP Influencer Summit took place on December 13-14, 2011, in Boston, MA. Over 130 key influencers including industry analysts, business thought leaders, journalists, bloggers, SAP Mentors and university professors were welcomed on-site. Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Jan. 30, 2012 07:19 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

R meets HANA
Last time, we fetch data from HANA into R...let's do the opposite now...from HANA into R. Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Jan. 29, 2012 06:47 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Social Media: Loss of Control or The Path to Serendipity?
Why participate in social media or "what's in for me?" Matthias Steiner in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Improving My Experience, Social Media and Social Networks [Jan. 27, 2012 10:21 AM | 19 Comments | Permalink]

HANA meets R
Stop creating .csv files to load in R! Integrate HANA and R directly! Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Jan. 26, 2012 06:50 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

SAP’s take on European Cloud Partnership
Below you will find a short reaction from SAP on the initiative to establish an european Cloud partnership, from Peter Lorenz, SAP Corporate Officer and EVP for OnDemand Solutions Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Jan. 26, 2012 08:36 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Join #SAP for a Day of Social Media Sessions during #SMW12
On February 15th, 2012, as part of Social Media Week, SAP will host a day of social media sessions in Palo Alto. Join the event onsite or via the SAP FB page. Natascha Thomson in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Social Media and Social Networks [Jan. 25, 2012 07:05 PM | 0 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

SAP CIO's View of CES
A CIO walks into CES...may sound like the beginning of a geeky joke. But it actually happened. And it's another sign of how enterprise IT is embracing consumer technology. Eric Lai in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Mobile, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub [Jan. 24, 2012 04:34 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Talent On Demand? Key drivers to get- and keep best talents engaged
In previous blogs, we discussed that the next generation Talent Management solutions will no longer be the system of record merely of employee data but also of employee skills and potential. The reason is that employees nowadays, especially millennials, demand applications that are more focused on their career rather than on what their company believes should be their career. They are no longer interested in feeding systems with data; especially systems that do give minimal benefit in return. Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, ERP, Human Capital Management, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP Business ByDesign [Jan. 22, 2012 03:17 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Bench-time and Family dynamics
Extended bench time for an independent can be a difficult thing in this economy. While many of us have personalities that deal well with this, we often forget it impacts the people around us. FireFighter in Business Process Expert, Beyond SAP [Jan. 19, 2012 04:11 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

TOP SAP Experts - You can have yours!!
This blog originated from the blog from Bernhard Escherich (link above), and was also a suggestion from a friend and brilliant mind in consultants recruiting, Michelle Crapo. It brings many sides of the SAP Expert recognition, valuable participation X overrates, cultural features and many other branches of this interesting subject. So, please, feel free to add your thoughts, critics and suggestions to this blog and its comments. We promise a very profitable debate!! Alexandre Carvalho in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Idea Place, Partnership, SAP EcoHub [Jan. 18, 2012 08:47 AM | 15 Comments | Permalink]

SEO: Are you searching social? (Search, Plus your World)
Hear about Google's new Search, plus Your Word? Lets see how searching for content is about to get a whole lot more interesting! Jason Lax in Beyond SAP, Community Projects, Emerging Technologies, Search [Jan. 16, 2012 04:53 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Prediction model with HANA and R
Let's create a prediction model on the annual tickets sales of a flight company Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Business Data Management, Open Source [Jan. 13, 2012 06:59 PM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

Importance of Co-Innovation to design the next generation of Talent Management applications
Understanding what will be the present and the future of Talent Management and build the next generation of applications in that space, is a combination of SAP experience in the Human Resources market, where SAP has been leader for years, a deep understanding of trends and the competitors landscape and Co-Innovation with SAP customers – a program which is unique in the industry. Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, Human Capital Management, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Jan. 12, 2012 12:19 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

You can do charity
A week ago I read the blog of Tobias Trapp titled Learned Lessons from my first CharITy Project It and I thought "wow" I should really follow his example and do something for charity. This blog flowed out of my thoughts after reading his blog. Tom Cenens in Beyond SAP [Jan. 11, 2012 02:02 PM | 10 Comments | Permalink]

Design Thinking and Co-Innovation: A proof point with SAP Travel OnDemand
Have you seen what SAP is doing to take the pain out of business applications? Check out this short video: Sven Denecken in Beginner, Beyond SAP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), Travel and Logistics Services [Jan. 08, 2012 08:54 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Understanding the employee – or in tech speak: the end-user is the currency
Listening to our favorite songs, updating with friends, taking child photos or checking on our latest emails…the way we consume products and how we manage daily activities has significantly changed over the last decades. New trends and technologies emerged, having a profound impact on consumption patterns and working style of today’s generation. While many still wonder or even push back, change has happened. Sven Denecken in Beginner, Beyond SAP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Jan. 08, 2012 08:53 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

What year 2011 gave to SDN/SCN?
Wrap-up of changes that I notice on SCN/SDN in 2011. Martin Maruskin in Beyond SAP, SAP Developer Network, Social Media and Social Networks [Jan. 07, 2012 07:40 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Knowledge is power! How Social Monitoring & Analytics sets the foundation for more insightful customer operations
Ever since famous author & philosopher Sir Francis Bacon coined the phrase “knowledge is power,” there have been millions of great examples for why this amazingly simple statement holds so much truth and wisdom. Sven Denecken in Beginner, Beyond SAP, CRM, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Jan. 05, 2012 01:20 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Your reputation on SCN - An outlook for 2012
This blog explains what reputation means in an online community like SCN. It also gives a definition of concepts such as expertise, status, etc. Read more to find out how to build and grow your reputation on SCN in 2012! Laure Cetin in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Enterprise Social Systems, SAP Developer Network, Social Media and Social Networks [Jan. 04, 2012 02:42 PM | 12 Comments | Permalink]

Good Riddance
Having been 3 years into the Lean and Agile transformation of the SAP NetWeaver R&D organization, here are my main learnings and recommendations to get such a massive change in development methodology pulled off in an organization of 2000 people. Good riddance to overworn assumptions. Bjoern Goerke in Beyond SAP, Organizational Change Management, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Jan. 04, 2012 08:43 AM | 18 Comments | Permalink]

Supply Chain Risk Management
In the survival of the fittest paradigm supply chain operations need to be more cost conscious, flexible ,innovative, and agile.Supply chain starts at one corner of the world and ends thousands of miles away in a different continent.Now a days localized event’s effect is experiences across the globe due to decentralized supply chain model. Supply chain operations are exposed to risk from a number of internal factors, which are easier to be addressed, or external factors, which are beyond the control. Kaushik Choudhury in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Consumer Products, Manufacturing [Jan. 03, 2012 05:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Blag's best blogs picks from 2011
Blag's list of best blogs for 2011 Alvaro Tejada Galindo in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, In-Memory Business Data Management, Mobile [Jan. 02, 2012 09:58 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

#AndroidForEnterprise 5: Integrate Google
This 5th episode might read a bit like a manifesto for Google, but that's because we'll focus on how we can benefit from all the Google services, by using an Android device. Tom Van Doorslaer in Mobile, Beyond SAP [Jan. 02, 2012 01:00 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Gamification or Simplification: which path you will choose?
Gamification or Simplification: which path you will choose? RP in Beyond SAP, ERP, Improving My Experience, Ranting, Emerging Technologies [Jan. 01, 2012 01:25 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Learned Lessons from my first SAP CharITy Project
My First SAP ChartITy project was a success and a second will follow. Here I’m blogging what I learned from the project and explain how you and your company can benefit from these projects. Tobias Trapp in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Community Projects, Webinars [Dec. 31, 2011 10:40 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

It's an Anniversary!!! A Milestone - something to be excited about!
WOW! I can't believe it - It's been a year. A year of hard work, fun, and collaboration. Our next edition of SAP Mentor's Quarterly is out. This will be the first of our second year. Or the last of last year. Confused? Read on... Michelle Crapo in Beyond SAP, Community Day, Ranting, SAP Developer Network [Dec. 29, 2011 05:51 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

A deeper look at Sybase: Column encryption in Sybase ASE
One of the many features of Sybase ASE is the ability to encrypt individual columns of a database table. This can be used to achieve some seemingly contradictory requirements for data security, application transparency and user-friendliness. Rob Verschoor in Beyond SAP, Security [Dec. 22, 2011 02:44 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Unquote Natascha Thomson’s series on Getting Started on Twitter - Part 1 (excerpts of the video blog)
If you are new to Social Media and want to learn more about getting started with Twitter, then this one is for you from Natascha Thomson video series Tridip Chakraborthy in Beyond SAP, Improving My Experience, Social Media and Social Networks [Dec. 22, 2011 02:01 PM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Influencer Summit: The quest for access
With so many new technologies being introduced by SAP, there is still one crucial question that is being left out.. When will developers get free / affordable access to these tools. Those questions were finally taken up at SAP Summit and were answered to a certain extent. Mohammed Asim in ABAP, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Ranting [Dec. 21, 2011 06:59 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Social Media? Social Business! integration is a great opportunity to strengthen customer relations
There are at least as many skeptics as there are strong believers in Social Media. As a result, it’s fair to say that usage of and openness to Social Media also respresents a very emotional and cultural field of study. Its not our intention to judge different opinions with this discussion but I want to show you how powerful the topic has become in CRM-related discussions. Here are my top 5 examples for why we should not close our eyes to Social Media, but actively engage in related discussions with our customers. Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), Social Media and Social Networks [Dec. 18, 2011 01:56 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

#SAPChat on SAP´s Cloud Strategy - transcripüt
December 7th we conducted a tweetchat (see #SAPChat) on SAP´s Cloud strategy. Focus was based on a recent blog I posted (see here: http://blogs.sap.com/cloud/2011/11/17/sap%E2%80%99s-cloud-approach-%E2%80%93-supporting-hybrid-landscapes-to-do-serious-business/ ) and of course many tried to check if #SFSF would be discussed. Well, you will for sure hear more about this from me after close. Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Dec. 18, 2011 12:31 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Avoiding liars and keeping motivated - They might be affecting you and you didn't notice...
Most people already heard about liars who get their jobs as Seniors, even thought they're not really THAT good. But the question is: are these people affecting the way you're dealing with your own job and your career development? Mauricio Roberto Cruz in ABAP, Beyond SAP [Dec. 16, 2011 12:36 PM | 16 Comments | Permalink]

Contributing Is Like Improv
Yes, contributing on SCN is like improv theatre! Laure Cetin in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Improving My Experience, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub [Dec. 14, 2011 02:43 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Dissecting a NetWeaver Neo Job Offering
An analysis of a recent job offering for SAP’s new Java-based Platform as a Service provides insights into the platform – especially the focus on open source software. Richard Hirsch1 in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), Open Source [Dec. 14, 2011 05:02 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

My first SAP CharITy Project
Yesterday I started my first SAP CharITy project - now I'm blogging about the concept and how it started. Tobias Trapp in Beyond SAP, Community Projects [Dec. 14, 2011 02:35 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Sexifying you call center
How to bring mobility, social media, Instant messaging, lounge bars and beanbags to your call center? Tom Van Doorslaer in Beyond SAP, CRM, Idea Place, Mobile, Social Media and Social Networks [Dec. 12, 2011 02:50 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

From applications that are characterized by so called “social” features – to Social Business
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networks not only continue to grow in popularity, but they have also become symbols for a new generation of applications that are characterized by so called “social” features. Given the ever-increasing number of social networks – including the IT-giants Google and Microsoft recently announcing their own offerings – there certainly is a lot of buzz around “Social Media” or the term “social” these days. We would like to call it simply social business Sven Denecken in Beyond SAP, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), Social Media and Social Networks [Dec. 11, 2011 12:43 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Unwrapping SuccessFactors' Cloud Architecture – An unconventional treasure hunt
After the announcement that SAP planned to acquire SuccessFactors, analysts and developers alike tried to understand exactly what SAP had purchased. The one page official description of SuccessFactors architecture was very unsatisfying, so I decided to use unconventional means to try and discover more. This speculative blog describes the results of my explorations and can be seen as forming the foundation for any discussion on how SuccessFactors fits into SAP’s future cloud strategy. Richard Hirsch1 in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, On Demand and Software as a Service (SaaS) [Dec. 09, 2011 12:20 AM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

#AndroidForEnterprise 4: Embedded
Time to release #AndroidForEnterprise nr 4 before the great migration. In this issue, I put the spotlight on Android embedded devices and how they can help you or your organization. Tom Van Doorslaer in Mobile, Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Idea Place [Dec. 07, 2011 06:55 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Taking out the garbage
"Does it make sense to stay in the field that defines your role?" and "Are you getting things done" are questions that are answered in this blog. Find out where taking out the garbage fits in. Tom Cenens in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Improving My Experience, Ranting [Dec. 06, 2011 12:09 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]