SAP Mentor kickoff meeting
Marilyn arrives, raring to go
I flipped this photo sideways as the uploader doesn’t seem to know landscape from portrait – for best results view this while laying down.
Keynote
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Yes, there’s Blag in the second row, right behind a wall of suits.
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[My thought to type notes taken in situ – skip ahead for takeaways and more interesting topics]
Individual Netweaver licenses
SOA contest : 10 picked out of 35 : 5 winners
Molson
Andarko
Seal
Microsoft
Sharp Electronics – winner
Midmarket on demand
Vision
ESOA Solution by design
Network efficiency – out tasking and process excellence
Network co-innovation – collaboration and competitive differentiation
Four dimensions of innovation
Composition, Enterprise Services Repository, Integration, Foundation
Example – Standard Bank [SAP TV] – service orientated architecture
Coordination of Industry Specific Solutions
Switch Framework, Enhancement packages, Enterprise service bundles
Matthias – demo 1
Oil and Gas
Solution: Enhancement Package Installation – SAP Solution Manager
Maintenance optimizer
TE3 Switch Framework – change business
Test catalog
All users get new functionality
demo 2
Service discovery
Wiki enabled SAP documentation
demo 3
Enterprise services builder
Integration Scenario catalog
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Vishal Sikka
Business Network Transformation
… Communities / Ecosystem
BI accelerator – IBM or HP Intel blades
Woodcrest compiler accelerator – code 86% faster (dual core)
“inherent coherence”
demo 4
jeff – little “4 GB” usb stick
process change / composition environment
adobe interactive form
web 2.0 / ajax / UI controls
Using Eclipse AKA SAP Netweaver Developer Studio
demo 5
Next version of developer studio
process modeling / issue management galaxy flow /
Takeaway for me:
Painless Patching AKA Switch Framework (but I’ll believe it when it’s on our systems, not when I see a demo)
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Irene Hopf on system consolidation
Good to see a friend from Tech Ed 05; Irene ran a good session despite premature microphone failure. Her pod demo running a live system from Vegas to Walldorf was gutsy, and I got to help debug a PC to X Windows startup fault (some things never seem to change)
Brian Knupp on Event Management
I ducked out early to visit the vendor exhibits.
Manju Venkataseshan on Memory Inspector
Good crowd, but not enough time to do a demo, so we will plan to webcast – not sure whether it will be through ASUG or SAP (yes, Lisa, this means you!)
Atul Patankar on Discovery’s Combined Unicode Conversion.
OK, Atul, I’m guilty, I missed your session and still need to download your updated slides. But good luck on your conversion later this month.
Geeks vs. Suits
Bill Pfleging and Minda Zetlin led an interactive session in the clubhouse, where yours truly was recruited for a stand in roll as a geek (not my real nature). Bob McGlynn played my arch-nemesis, the suit (his title starts with “Marketing” so not much of a stretch for him).
Afterwards, the action was captured for posterity on the clubhouse mural.
After that, I spent about an hour networking in the Exhibit Hall before catching a show at the Tropicana. At the hall, I ran into my ASUG buddies, and their colleagues. Lisa Strizzi had me and Dawn Haymond talking to SAP veep Naresh Parshotam about testing strategies. Also spoke briefly to the archiving crowd, including Jim Malfetti who’s helping Black & Decker strategize, and Ken Campbell about getting rid of old BW logs.
Last, but not least, downloaded the SAP TV clip from yesterday, as one of the camera crew told me I was in the show. Yes, they spelled my name right! Woo Hoo!
*** It’s a 5MB file, so if you’re at Tech Ed you may not get good throughput via wireless ***
http://www.sapteched.com/usa/activities/podcasts07.htm
A different view: take a look behind the scenes of our dynamic, pre-conference program, Community Day.
Jim – see you tomorrow (wait, that would be later today now)!
It was really nice to meet you yesterday -:) Thanks for the pic, I wasn’t aware of that one -:P Bummer…I can’t watch your clip… -:(
Greetings,
Blag.
VLC is cool because I can do screen shots 🙂
Jim