On August 9, 2007, over 130 people from the IT ecosystem of core developers, field experts, technical staff and partners, gathered in Palo Alto at the new Co-Innovation Lab for the SAP Tech Tour to showcase the technology available today to support enterprise service-oriented architecture. Exhibition tables included Wipro, ASUG, and the SDN and BPX Communities. Please read on for more details on the event and view photos of the day's activities.
Highlights
Paul Kurchina and Scott Campbell welcomed attendees to the Palo Alto TechTour and to the Co-Innovation Lab to kick-off the day's full agenda of dynamic presenters.
Doug Merritt, Member of the Executive Council and Corporate Officer of the SAP Group, provided the overview "Realizing the Value of Enterprise SOA", addressing the topics of stability within technology evolution, the needs of SAP customers, and SAP Enterprise SOA enabled solutions.
Next on the agenda, "Enterprise SOA Unveiled: Aligning IT to the Business" by Franck Lopez, Global Director, Enterprise Architecture & Enterprise SOA Portfolio.
Scott Campbell, Vice President of Co-Innovation Labs Network delivered the presentation "Evolution of the NetWeaver Platform".
"Reverse Engineered Cross-Applications" by Kartik Iyengar - Enterprise SOA Practice Head, Wipro Technologies.
"The Importance of Standards in IT Architectures" by Michael Bechauf, Vice President of Industry Standards, SAP AG.
Wilson Ramos and Wallace Su, Technical Alliance Managers, presented "Integrating with Open Source, Java and Microsoft. NET Support".
"Adoption Made Easier: Composition Environment, ES Workplace, ES Bundles, & More" was next to follow by Franklin Herbas, SAP NetWeaver Product Manager & David Sonnenschein, Director, Market Development Engineering.
Mark Yolton, Vice President, SAP Community Network, addressed the audience with "Collaboration Through the SDN & BPX Communities".
The closing keynote - Designing IT For Business Innovation: The Enterprise SOA Strategy & Roadmap was delivered by Peter Graf, Executive Vice President SAP Labs, LLC.
Attendees were invited to join the networking reception sponsored by Wipro, where a prize drawing was held for three Tech Ed pre-conference passes, one each, to the SDN Community Day, SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework Bootcamp, and SAP Enterprise SOA in Action Bootcamp, in addition to the give away of Scott Campbell's book "Mastering Enterprise SOA with SAP NetWeaver and mySAP ERP" co-authored with Vamsi Mohun .
