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ASUG NetWeaver Influence Council and Strategy Sessions Mark Finnern   Business Card Posted on Apr. 08, 2008 07:14 PM in SAP Developer Network

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Update: Great comment by Jim Spath: ... the dates, times and speakers may change, so conference attendees should check the Agenda Builder  and on-site updates for current news. 

I am listing here only the SAP NetWeaver sessions, there are currently 33 Influence Sessions in total. One more reason to check the Agenda Builder.

If you like to influence SAP NetWeaver Development, and I know you do ;-), please join the ASUG NetWeaver Influence Council and Strategy Sessions at the ASUG Conference in May. 

Being around SAP for a while I remember the early days of ASUG. Lots of effort went into polling all members creating feature lists and voting on them. After they were tallied the ASUG leadership went to Walldorf, back then 98% of all development was done in Walldorf, to present the request of the customers using our software.

The unfortunate thing was, the timing was totally off, development for the next release was just closed, and it took forever for theses requests to get taken care off. Frustrating for everyone involved.

We scratched our heads, went back to the drawing board and out come the Influence Councils. When development is ready for input the community is pinged, first via conference calls and then face to face meetings, usually when practitioners come together anyhow. Like at the ASUG conference early May. We have been doing that for many years now.

 

If you are interested in improving for example the Business Process Management functionality please join Thomas Volmering and Wulff-Heinrich Knapp on May 7^th.

Here is the whole SAP NetWeaver program:

 

Influence Council	Speakers	Date/Time
Business Process Management	Thomas Volmering & Wulff-Heinrich Knapp	May 7, 2008 @11:30-12:30
Composite Applications with SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment	Joav Bally & Amir Rubin	May 6, 2008 @3:30-5:00
Enabling people to work "their way": Introducing the SAP NW Business Client	Smadar Ludomirski & Brian McKellar	May 6, 2008 @3:30-5:00
Enterprise Data Warehousing	Ingo Brenckmann & Josh Djupstrom	May 6, 2008 @07:30-09:00
Enterprise Query, Reporting, and Analysis	Ingo Brenckmann	May 5, 2008 @09:30-10:30
Master Data Management: A Central Component in SAP's Business Process Platform	Michael Boettcher & Aaron Mahimainathan	May 5, 2008 @2:15-4:45
Mobile Technologies SIG/Customer Roundtable/Mobilizing Business Processes	Jim Spath & Jan Fetzer, & Louenas Hamdi	May 6, 2008 @11:00-12:30
Planning and Financial Performance Management (FPM)	Adam Their & Brian Wood	May 5, 2008 @11:00-12:00
SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search	Markus Fath	May 6, 2008 @07:30-09:00
Influence Council Update: User Interaction Strategy in SAP NetWeaver and UI Technology	Filip Misovski	May 5, 2008 @3:45-4:45
SAP NW Portal Influence Council - Enhancements and Future Directions	Guy Bavly & Eran Schaffer	May 5, 2008 @2:15-4:45
Security and Identity Management	Torgeir Pedersen	May 6, 2008 @3:30-4:30
SOA Design Time Governance with ES Registry and ES Repository (ESR+R)	Vikas Chandra & Holger Mack	May 6, 2008 @11:00-12:30
User Interaction Strategy in SAP NetWeaver and UI Technology	Filip Misovski & Yariv Zur	May 7, 2008 @09:00-11:30
SAP NetWeaver  Lifecycle Management Roadmap	Franz-Josef Fritz	May 6, 2008  @08:00 - 09:00

 

In addition we are also offering:

 

Strategy Sessions

Meet one-on-one with the SAP NetWeaver Product Definition team to discuss specific business needs, validate and give feedback on the current solution planning, and directly influence the SAP NetWeaver Solution Strategy. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to impact SAP NetWeaver, the technology foundation that powers SAP solutions. To register for the SAP NetWeaver Strategy Sessions, please send an email to the following email address [SAPNetWeaver.PM@sap.com ], and indicate which session you are interested in, and would like to attend, date and time, your name and contact information. (Cell phone especially important to be able to reach you during the event.)

 

Topics	Monday, May 5	Tuesday, May 6	Wednesday, May 7
"I just created my first composite application" Creating very light composite applications by end users in the enterprise world; vision or fantasy?	4-6pm	8-10am	None
Business Intelligence : Reporting & Data Warehousing	2-4pm	4-6pm	None
Craigslist for IT building blocks and services - Sharing services, reusable IT building blocks and full synergies between different users and different organizations.	10-Noon	Noon-2pm	None
End User Interaction and UI channels	10-Noon	8-10am	None
Enterprise Search	10-Noon	10-Noon	8-10am
ESB Goes Information Bus	2-4pm	2-4pm	None
Identity management roadmap	4-6pm	8-10am	8-10am
Lifecycle management - Linking Business processes to IT	2-4pm	4-6pm	10-Noon
Mobile Application Platform	Noon-2pm	2-4pm	None
Planning & Corporate Performance Management (CPM)	4-6pm	10-Noon	None
Process-Centric Master Data Management	8-10am	Noon-2pm	10-Noon
SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal	None	Noon-2pm	8-10am
SOA Security Management	8-10am & Noon - 2pm	2-4pm	None
Towards Ubiquitous  Enterprise Content Management Services	8-10am	4-6pm	10-Noon
Visual Composer, Model Driven UI and Mashups:	Noon-2pm	10-Noon	None

 

These are unique opportunities for you. The people that decide which feature or function of your favorite SAP NetWeaver application should be developed next will be there in listening mode. They will give you their undivided attention. Please make good use of that opportunity, I know I would if I where you.

Mark Finnern   is the Chief Community Evangelist of the SAP Community Network focusing on the SAP Mentor initiative. He is an SAP veteran, has implemented SAP FI/CO at many customers in Germany and the US. Was the co-inventor of the Pre-Configured Client (PCC), which at times was used by 90% of all US SAP customers to save implementation time. It evolved into SAP's Best Practices and All-In-One offerings. He is the proud owner of a Traffic Monitoring System patent. Mark was the driving force behind community features of the SAP Community Network: Blogs, points recognition system, wiki, Community Day now Inside Track. Mark Finnern has a bachelor's degree in Business oriented Computer Science from the Fachhochschule in Furtwangen Germany. He is also the founder and host of the Future Salon with its new tag line: Creating a world that works for all.

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• "Here is the whole SAP NetWeaver program"?
  2008-04-09 04:10:05 Jim Spath Business Card [Reply]
  
  Mark: great blog on the Influence component of SAP and ASUG. As I said on a wiki update where you listed the influence and strategy sessions, the dates, times and speakers may change, so conference attendees should check the Agenda Builder (http://www.sapphire2008agenda.com/) and on-site updates for current news. You listed 15 Influence sessions, yet I got 33 searching this morning. Nice that you included my name with the Mobile Technologies session ;-)
  More clarifications:
  Agenda Builder uses one session code, ASUG another; for example:
  http://www.sapphire2008agenda.com/usa2008/sessiondetails.epx?sessionid=14956&agendaitemtype=2&keynotes=false&mode=standalone
  has the session ID 14956, while the program book and rooms will show code 0805 for "Mobilizing Business Processes".
  You show no speaker for "SAP NetWeaver Lifecycle Management Roadmap" but going to this link -
  http://www.sapphire2008agenda.com/usa2008/sessiondetails.epx?sessionid=15174&agendaitemtype=2&keynotes=false&mode=standalone
  shows it is Franz-Josef Fritz, at least.
  You're missing one important Influence Update session - "Influencing Incident Management at SAP", formerly known as "Message Solving". I blogged about this earlier in 2008 (https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/7816) and will update that blog once I get feedback from Dave Hubert of Molex. Yael built a new wiki page for Incident Management @ SAP recently on https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/VoBF - I'm all over it... /jim
  
  • "Here is the whole SAP NetWeaver program"?
    2008-04-09 23:06:19 Mark Finnern  Business Card [Reply]
    
    Hi Jim,

    
    Excellent comment, I updated the original post accordingly. I only listed the NetWeaver related Influence Council sessions check Agenda Builder for the rest.

    
    >Nice that you included my name with the Mobile Technologies session ;-)
    Of course, Jim you are family ;-)

    
    See you all there, Mark.

    • More on ASUG/Sapphire 08 ... "Here is ..."
      2008-04-10 08:42:21 Jim Spath Business Card [Reply]
      
      Mark - yes, the Agenda Builder just revealed Tom Brokaw will speak Monday night!

      
      This keynote presentation will be given by Tom Brokaw.
      Audience Focus: All
      Industry addressed: Cross-Industry
      Track: General Sessions -- Keynotes
      Date/Time: Monday, May 5, 5:00 p.m.
      Location: General Sessions -- Keynotes

      • More on ASUG/Sapphire 08 ... "Here is ..."
        2008-04-10 10:27:23 Mark Finnern  Business Card [Reply]
        
        Hi Jim,

        
        Wow, I knew that Tom Brokaw was a News Anchor, but I didn't know that he was "the" evening news Anchor until he retired. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brokaw

        
        Sounds great, Mark.