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Scott Lawley SAP Employee  
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Scott Lawley has over fifteen years experience planning, designing, and deploying complex business systems. A specialist in product development, his expertise is in emerging technology, system analysis and design, enterprise information management, networking and engineering, and consultation.

Scott has spent four years as CTO of DataTic Technologies, an Internet start-up company focused on delivering new products and services to the food and agricultural spaces. There he led the development of new products utilizing RFID technologies.

Previously, Scott was a key member of VerticalNet, an ASP-based solution provider, were he acted as senior management consultant, principal engineer, and IT manager of VerticalNet's West Coast development and professional services operation. Scott led his team through the design, implementation, and support of all system and network infrastructures.

Scott's background also includes being senior management and technology consultant for Aligne, a technology management consulting company providing Management Consulting, Business Acceleration Services, and eBusiness Solutions.


The Evolution of SCN and LinkedIn
Back in October 2009 I announced the availability of a LinkedIn profile connector called the SAP Community Bio. As you all know, LinkedIn is one of the top professional social networking sites. The purpose of the SAP Community Bio application is to create a link between SAP and LinkedIn, and to allow the SCN members to surface relevant data on their LinkedIn profiles. Beyond this, we have been planning on tightening the connection to LinkedIn by surfacing LinkedIn profile information in your SCN profile. After about a year and a half of running this application, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news... On Monday, June 27, the SAP Community Bio application shall be temporarily disabled. Jun. 24, 2011
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Open Innovation and the Ecosystem
Open, Innovation, and Ecosystem… three great words, but what do they mean? On Friday, October 15, 2010 I had the privilege of attending an SDForum event titled Open Innovation and the Ecosystem, held at HP in Palo Alto, CA. This was an all-day event with some great speakers and opportunities to interact with some Silicon Valley leaders and innovators. The commentary below is my synopsis of the event. Oct. 18, 2010
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What is the Future of Social Networking
As a product manager for a community website as well as a German company, at times I am beside myself when it comes to matters of privacy and data protection. In a recent post Spiegel reports on the drafting of a law that would prevent employers from looking at job applicants' social networking activities during the hiring process. Aug. 26, 2010
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SAP Community Bio: Your Connection Between SCN and LinkedIn
Well, it has finally happened. SAP and LinkedIn have just launched their FIRST community application: the SAP Community Bio. The SAP Community Bio is a LinkedIn application that you install into your LinkedIn profile, and it pulls data from your SCN business card. In particular, it pulls: SCN membership status which is linked back to your SCN business card, total number of points, areas of expertise, active contributor status, SAP Mentor status, and links to the most recent blogs on SCN. Oct. 13, 2009
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Project Search 2.0: Faceted Search
Finding information across the web is the most fundamental use case of the web. Without search engines and basic navigation, nobody would be able to locate anything. The search application as you know it on SCN has evolved very little since the launch of SDN back in 2004. We have received numerous comments, feedback, and complaints about the search application, and we are also sitting on loads of industry reports, usability studies, and best practices. So, it is now far past due for us to deploy a new Search application, one which not only looks better but one which will allow you to navigate search results based on assigned metadata, similar to product searches on Amazon and other such websites. On June 28, 2009 after our system has been updated, Search 2.0 will be live. Jun. 25, 2009
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Platform Updates and New Functionality
Because of your loyalty and enthusiastic support around SAP products and services, the SAP Community Network team endeavors to foster the ongoing growth and maturation of the largest online community of SAP customers, partners, systems integrators, consultants, and the various other professions too numerous to mention, and in order to deliver on this promise to you, we must from time to time update our systems, implement new functionality, and perform basic system maintenance that will help keep our platform stable and our communities vibrant. Jun. 25, 2009
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A Response to "7 Reasons Why Executives Hate Social Media"
I came across this link in my email, 7 Reasons Why Executives Hate Social Media, and after reading this lovely piece of fiction, I believe that its intent is not to convey the real beliefs of Executives; rather, its true intent is to invoke responses, such the one I am about to give you, so as to identify these seven items as non-issues. Apr. 14, 2009
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Service Announcement: Weblog Server Maintenance
On February 10, 2009 @ 6pm (Pacific Time Zone) the weblog system shall undergo maintenance and will be unavailalbe for a period of time not to exceed one hour. Thank you for your support and patience. Feb. 3, 2009
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Service-Orientation & Service-Oriented Computing
On Saturday, October 20, 2007 at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, the Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter sponsored a professional development seminar on Service-Orientation & Service-Oriented Computing. This blog provides a summary of this event. Oct. 20, 2007
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TechTour '07 Comes to Palo Alto, CA
It is August 9 at the 2007 TechTour in the Co-Innovation Lab at SAP, Palo Alto CA. There are over 150 customers and partners in attendance. Some of the companies in attendance include Apple, Adobe, Chevron, HP, IBM, Intel, National Semiconductor, Varian Medical Systems, and Wipro representing numerous industries. Aug. 9, 2007
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