Finally the list of the top 3 contributors of 2006/2007 are tallied up. Sorry it took a while. Thank you to everyone who got a some points last year, be it in the forums or via a blog or other contributions. You make this SDN and BPX Community world go round.
Little reminder the overall Top Contributors are:
1 Rich Heilman 19,676
2 Anji Reddy Vangala 15,774
3 Bhanu Gupta 14,941
Top BPX Community contributors:
1 Natty Gur 2,410
2 Richard Hirsch 1,590
3 Marilyn Pratt 1,284
You may also want to compare to The Best of 2006.
The winners get a pin, a certificate and a voucher for the SAP shop ($100 first, $50 second and $25 third place).
Drumroll for this year's (our year goes form August to July) winner:
SAP NetWeaver Platform
1 Aidan Constable 2,400
2 Ruchit Khushu 2,208
3 Mike Pokraka 1,704
4 Prakash Darji 1,520
Prakash wasn't too far behind this is why we list him too. Congratulations to all.
SAP NetWeaver Portal
1 Michael Nicholls 4,906
2 Daniel Wroblewski 3,066
3 Praveen Gudapati 2,310
A clear winner with almost 2000 points difference Michael Nicholls from Australia.
Knowledge Management
1 Robert Briese 1,334
2 Detlev Beutner 1,048
3 Patricio Garcia 1,014
A long time SDN supporter, last year number three in KM and this year's winner: Robert Briese. Well deserved.
Business Intelligence
1 Bhanu Gupta 14,814
2 Edwin Harpino (A.H.P) 10,186
3 Anil Kumar Sharma 7,820
I am super happy that Bhanu is the number one this year. She did an amazing job representing us at a big ASUG meeting in Chicago earlier this year.
Exchange Infrastructure (XI)
1 Bhavesh Kantilal 11,608
2 Michal Krawczyk 9,872
3 Shabarish Vijayakumar http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.businesscard.sdnbusinesscard?u=gy1... 4,014
3 Krishna Moorthy P 4,012
No wonder Michal Krawczyk is pinging me regarding the results, it was a very close race, the third and fourth place are only 2 points appart. As it is not even 10 points difference, we will send both of you a pin, certificate and voucher.
Mobile Infrastructure
1 Santosh V 2,640
2 Karsten Strothmann 1,004
3 karthick Lakkaraju 816
4 Jo Gel Santiago 784
5 Sivakumar V 764
xApps
1 Abesh Bhattacharjee 1,330
2 Dipankar Saha 950
3 Salvatore Castro 854
Abesh really came to the forefront this year. Happy to see him being the top xApps contributor.
Master Data Management
1 Lars Rueter 1,660
2 Steffen Ulmer 706
3 Sudhendu Pandey 680
4 Markus Ganser 642
Markus in striking distance to number 2 and 3 Next year?
SAP Business One
1 Trinidad Martinez 3,832
2 Frank Moebius 1,628
3 Owen Slater 1,602
I love how active Business One is here, really proofs that we are a network of communities.
Emerging Technologies
1 Abesh Bhattacharjee 1,840
2 Eddy De Clercq 1,804
3 Tarun Telang 1,440
Eddy and Abesh very close for the first and second place.
Community General
1 Craig Cmehil 6,211
2 Eddy De Clercq 2,370
3 Anubhav Raj 2,061
I have pins from previous years and when I wear them people ask where my troups are. I smile and explain, that it is the 'General Category' for posts or forums that don't fit into any of the other ones. No one is as active as Craig here. With over 6000 points well deserved.
Standards
1 Mark Schenecker 480
2 Mark Crawford 400
3 Gunther Stuhec 190
All three are SAP employees. It is hard for someone not working for SAP to break into the Standards area.
ABAP
1 Rich Heilman 17,490
2 Anji Reddy Vangala 15,734
3 Narendran Muthukumaran 14,704
While writing the well received Advance ABPA Programing book together with Thomas Jung, Rich Heilman still found time to be super active in the ABAP forum. Excellent Job Rich.
Enterprise SOA
1 Rohit Kumar Shukla 1,940
2 Peder Helle 1,442
3 Bryan Gesicki 1,200
4 Rick Swan 1,184
Rick only 16 points away from Bryan.
Business Solutions
1 Stephen Birchall 5,620
2 Rajesh Banka 4,108
3 Suresh Datti 4,036
4 Atul 4,002
5 Mohammad Arif Mansuri 3,968
Business Solutions have really taken off last year and the proof is that 4000+ points doesn't guarantee you a top 3 spot.
Web Dynpro
1 Jochen Guertler 3,720
2 Bertram Ganz 3,290
3 Valery Silaev 2,966
Jochen and Bertram both long time SDN supporters. They have written the Maximizing Web Dynpro for Java book, which came out September of last year. Great that they also found time to contribute here.
Security
1 Wolfgang Janzen 774
2 Kristian Lehment 680
3 NAVABOTHU SANTOSH KUMAR 546
Web Services
1 Martin Raepple 785
2 David Burdett 760
3 Umit Yalcinalp 740
Databases
1 Lars Breddemann 974
2 Andreas Herzog 928
3 Peter Simon 864
Scripting Languages
1 Piers Harding 1,566
2 Alvaro Tejada Galindo 1,350
3 Gregor Wolf 1,258
Application Server
1. Raja Thangamani 4,466
2. Durairaj Athavan Raja 3,384
3. Vladimir Pavlov 1,490
Overall a big thank you from the Community Team to all the Top Contributors without your passion this community would resemble a goast town.
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