Café Innovation – Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
Increasingly, SAP customers are demanding that services to them be offered in a somewhat granular manner – in a way that they do not have to work with long delivery cycles or long periods of preparation. They would very much like for external experts to adopt a delta force like approach which brings laser-focused attention on their problems, and quickly dispenses the necessary relief. Puneet K. Suppal in Business Process Expert, Business Suite 7, Enterprise Service Community, ERP, Partnership, Professional Services, Business Solutions [Nov. 23, 2009 05:03 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

It Depends
"SAP GUIDELINES FOR BEST-BUILT APPLICATIONS THAT INTEGRATE WITH SAP BUSINESS SUITE" is a new publication that I have been helping contribute to. Learn a bit about what it is... Matt Kangas in ABAP, Application Server, Business Suite 7, Java Programming, Partnership, SAP NetWeaver Platform [Nov. 23, 2009 11:34 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Innovation-Speed to Market is Key
The importantance of getting ot market quickly with innovation. David Cruickshank in Beyond SAP, Business Process Management, Co-Innovation Lab, Partnership [Nov. 18, 2009 05:31 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Unicode Character and SAP Standard Interfaces based on RFC
Communication between Unicode-Systems and None-Unicode Systems when using SAP Standard Interfaces based on RFC. Martin Vierling in ABAP, Procurement and SRM, Partnership, Healthcare, ERP, Business Suite 7, Business Solutions, Banking, Application Server, Retail [Nov. 11, 2009 08:43 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP AGS Wins SSPA Star Award for Service Excellence in Partner Management
SAP Active Global Support wins this year's SSPA (Service and Support Professionals Association) Star Award for Service Excellence in Partner Management! Maria Jenkinson in Partnership, Run SAP [Oct. 30, 2009 12:40 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Why I Blog on SCN
My response to the SCN Active Contributor Blog Contest Dan Everett in Analytics, SAP Developer Network, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand, Partnership, Enterprise Performance Management, Crystal Reports, Careers, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Beginner, Web Intelligence [Oct. 29, 2009 10:13 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Why SAP cares about social networking within the enterprise? (a.k.a. enterprise social systems)
This post talks about why it is natural for SAP to incorporate social technologies into their offerings. John Mayerhofer in Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Service Community, Standards, Partnership [Oct. 26, 2009 03:37 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Feedback requested on SCN’s Standards site
The Standards Management and Strategy (SMS) team at SAP is looking for feedback on its website: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/standards. Please review the site and provide input! Vicki Shipkowitz in Business Process Expert, EcoHub, Open Source, Partnership, SAP Developer Network, Standards [Oct. 21, 2009 02:09 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Standards take time. Do they? Why?
SAP has come a long way with regard to support for standards and open source technologies. But the engagements with partners and standards organizations and open source projects requires skill sets that are mostly not technical. And they typically need more time than to simply ship proprietary technologies. Why is this and why does SAP really care? Claus von Riegen in Interoperability, Interoperability .NET, Interoperability IBM, Open Source, Partnership, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards [Oct. 21, 2009 10:40 AM | 0 Comments | Download Media | Permalink]

Global SAP Co-Innovation Lab Network's Contribution to Sustainability
Learn about SAP Co-Innovation Lab's Contribution to the emerging theme of Sustainability. Joachim von Goetz in Beyond SAP, Co-Innovation Lab, Partnership, Sustainability [Oct. 16, 2009 12:19 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Partners Speak Out on SCN
Some SAP partners recently reflected on the value of participating in the SAP Community Network. In short, participation offered the technical and business resources that allowed them to stay current, solve problems fast and deliver their products on time and on budget. SCN also provided them a vehicle to demonstrate thought leadership and build reputation so as to generate leads. Read their comments... Vicki Shipkowitz in Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, EcoHub, Partnership, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd [Oct. 15, 2009 02:26 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Introduction to Delphi Prism applications development.
Introduction to development in Delphi Prism with Crystal Reports and Business Objects Enterprise. Trevor Dubinsky in Beginner, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Interoperability .NET, Partnership, SAP Developer Network [Oct. 09, 2009 10:36 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

The LinkedIn SAP Community Bio app is finally available
The deal between SAP and LinkedIn resulted in being able to display your SCN profile on LinkedIn.... Well it never worked until now. Kevin Wilson in Partnership [Oct. 08, 2009 09:50 PM | 13 Comments | Permalink]

Six Can’t Miss Expert Sessions for Partners Going to TechEd for BPM
The tooling and development techniques are only about 25% of the story for BPM. There are other questions that your company needs to be able to answer for your clients to truly bring BPM-solutions and a BPM consulting practice to market. Here are six can't-miss expert sessions at SAP TechEd Phoenix that will help you answer some of the questions I raised. Greg Chase in Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Rules Management, Composition Environment (CE), Partnership, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd [Oct. 08, 2009 05:49 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

University Alliances Community promoted to top-tier in the SAP Community Network
The University Alliances Community (UAC) is celebrating our promotion to the top-line navigation in the SAP Community Network (SCN). Bob LoBue in ABAP, ERP, Higher Education, Knowledge Management (KM), Organizational Change Management, Partnership, Professional Services, Public Sector, SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand, SAP Developer Network, SAP Network TV, SAP Research, SAP TechEd, Sustainability, University Alliances Message Board, Enterprise Service Community, Emerging Technologies, EcoHub, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Business Suite 7, Co-Innovation Lab, Community Projects, Consumer Products, CRM, Defense, Webinars [Oct. 05, 2009 01:32 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Open Innovation and the Long Tail
How can open innovation concepts address the long tail in an SAP environment? Or in other words, how can SAP users identify and prioritize business requirements that they would like SAP to cover in future releases? And how can this be carried out most effectively and efficiently? How can SAP identify commonalities in such requirements? And what do we do when we have actually identified the long tail? Claus von Riegen in Beyond SAP, Community Projects, Open Source, Partnership, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, Standards [Oct. 05, 2009 07:40 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

My take on SAP's new "Guidelines for Best-Built Applications"
The other day I saw that SAP is doing a small push around their new "Best Built Apps" program by releasing a document called "SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications". This blog post covers some comments I have. Anne Kathrine Petterøe in Partnership [Oct. 05, 2009 06:06 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Insights into SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications
SAP's guidelines for best-built applications which integrate with SAP's business suit is a new publication initiative of SAP for its ISV partners. Joerg Nalik in Partnership [Oct. 01, 2009 04:11 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications
In time for TechEd 2009, SAP is publishing "SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications that Integrate with SAP Business Suite". These guidelines are intended to help our ISV partners understand the choices they can make to better align their complementary products with SAP technology, to ensure that the combined solutions meet customer expectations for better integration, support, usability, and reliability. Richard Probst in Partnership [Sep. 30, 2009 04:32 PM | 11 Comments | Permalink]

New Blog Category "Partnership" Enhances Value of SCN to Partners
SCN created a new blog category called "Partnership". This will allow the community to more effectively target and find information and ideas related to SAP partners and partnership. Vicki Shipkowitz in Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, EcoHub, SAP Developer Network, Partnership [Sep. 23, 2009 11:44 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SAP Co-Innovation Lab Architecture Series: Partner-delivered Enterprise Services - Summary (Final Part)
This summary of the Architecture Lecture provides you an overview about alle the deliverables within the series and a structured approach on how you can build your own SAP methodology compliant services. Joachim von Goetz in Beginner, SAP Developer Network, Partnership, Enterprise Service Community, Enhancement Packages, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Expert, Service-Oriented Architecture, Co-Innovation Lab, Beyond SAP, Standards [Sep. 23, 2009 05:28 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

"How To" Webinars for Partners Offer Insight into Maximizing Use of SCN For Business Advantage
Several recent webinars provide partners a practical "hands-on" approach towards understanding and utilizing all that the SAP Community Network (SCN) offers. Vicki Shipkowitz in Business Process Expert, EcoHub, SAP Developer Network, Partnership [Sep. 16, 2009 05:49 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

SCN Enhancements Offer SAP Partners Added Value
SAP has recently implemented a number of enhancements to the SAP Community Network (SCN) that will offer SAP partners significant value and new opportunities to demonstrate their expertise, build reputation and generate leads. These enhancements include a new content rating system, optimized search, and Presence Packages. Vicki Shipkowitz in Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Objects, Business Process Expert, Community Projects, EcoHub, SAP Developer Network, Standards, Partnership [Jul. 15, 2009 12:59 PM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

Partner Satisfaction -- A Top Priority for the SAP Community Network
For SAP, partner satisfaction remains a top priority as does delivering significant value to partners. Vicki Shipkowitz in Beyond SAP, SAP Developer Network, Standards, Partnership [May. 14, 2009 03:55 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]