ASUG Development Tools Day – Cincinnati
On Friday November 9th, ASUG held its first (and hopefully not last) Development Tools day in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over 200 Hundred developers gathered together from across the US and Canada to hear the latest ABAP and Java development news as well as to get a glimpse as to where SAP is headed with their user interface strategies and Netweaver platform.
The Days Events
The day had 2 general sessions for all attendees covering SAP’s User Interface Strategy and Netweaver Roadmap. The attendees could then choose whether they wanted to attend the ABAP or Java Track. Some of the great topics covered throughout the day were:
- Web Dynpro (Both ABAP and Java)
- Enhancement Framework
- Visual Composer
- Adobe Forms
- Java EE5
At the end of the day, we had an open panel discussion with the speakers
Planning and Coordination
For ASUG, this was a very unique event as the planning committee for this day was made up of both ASUG Chapters and SIGs. For those of you not familiar with our ASUG structure, Chapters and SIGs do not often collaborate on events such as this. Our Chapters are typically aligned with regions or states and our SIGs are aligned along SAP technologies, modules or industries. The following ASUG groups were ivolved in the planning and success of this event:
Chapters
- East Tennessee
- Illinois/Chicago
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- North Carolina/Virginia
- Ohio
SIG Communities
- Enterprise Portals
- Business Intelligence
- BITI – Business Integration, Technology and Infrastructure
Special Thanks
A special thanks to all of the following for making this day a great success:
- Thomas Jung, Peter McNulty and Michael Hill from SAP Netweaver Product Management for providing us great content
- Cathy Spears and Ravi Bommakanti for their presentations
- All of our sponsors, without them, we would not have been able to offer this day free to the attendees
- The planning comittee
This sounds like a very good idea! Any chance you (or someone else) were able to capture comments/feedback to the event which you can share?
I can tell you that the first question of our afternoon panel discussion was "When is the next Development Tools Day going to be?". So in general we got a very positive response to the day.
Unfortunately I do not think we formally gather that type of information at the event. ASUG has a more formal program for the type of information you are looking for. It is called Influence. Here is a link with more information.
http://www.asug.com/Influence/InfluenceCouncils/tabid/79/Default.aspx
Best Regards,
Chris H.
This focused group combined with a smaller overall group size then, say the total attendance at TechEd, made the dialog interactive. It was certainly a different kind of event and one I would love to participate in again down the road. We were also able to cover an amazing amount of topics and material in such a short amount of time.
I'd like more information if there are plans to hold something like this in the future.
Great presentations posted out on ASUG - thanks!!
While a decision hasn't been made yet of when and where the next development tools day will be, I am guessing we might have something like this in the future. So far the response has been positive.
I would say to just stay tuned to the ASUG calendar.
Chris H.