TechEd Berlin 2010 Thursday (The Spork Chronicles)

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Session 08:30 – Hands on

ALM260 SAP Landscape Transformation Software: New Platform for SAP Related Business and IT Transformation   

This session had but a few attendees, and without coffee I was having a hard time getting the mental energy to zoom into details of financial charts of accounts for SAP system transformations.   I’d been in the ASUG Influence Council webcast kickoff for this topic a few months back, but there’s more to learn in a hands-on session.

I definitely got a better sense of how the tool actually works than I did from the prior sessions and slides, though many concepts are foreign to me. Phrases such as “Cross-client harmonization and redesign of business processes” make sense, but have much hidden baggage I’m sure.

The code runs on top of Solution Manager, costs extra, but both of those points are not unexpected.  Whether the cost is worth it remains to be seen.

 On-line help (as seen in class)

See photos below.

Session 10:00 – SAP TV

I was invited to a TV interview with Marilyn Pratt and Timo Stelzer on Green IT.  It was going to start while I was in my hands-on session, though Brian Bernard pushed the time back to drag me onto the stage.  I expect to have the link in by later today or tomorrow and will update this blog then.

See photos, plus the tweet stream, below.

Tweet stream (lazy blogging) – all about me
monkchips                                                  Walmart rocks Sustainable Supply Chains. But who stole the blogs? – http://monk.ly/a09ZYr cc @jspath55 @timostelzer @marilynpratt                   13 minutes ago  via bitly                                  Retweeted by you
klatregutt                                                  “@jspath55: Er, where’s the “*” on a German keyboard? #sapteched” Good luck finding the @ as well                       about 1 hour ago  via Twitter for iPhone
* http://twitter.com/#                                               brianbernard                                                  Special thanks to @jspath55 for letting us drag him up on stage before he finished his coffee #sapteched http://plixi.com/p/50541353                      about 1 hour ago  via ÜberTwitter
* http://twitter.com/#                                               LBortolus                                                  I love that @jspath55 brought his own cup to #SAPTechEd.  hardcore #sustainability http://tinyurl.com/39z27ke                      about 2 hours ago  via web
* http://twitter.com/#                                               SAPCommNet                                                  Now Live: Interview @TimoStelzer and @jspath55 at #SAPTechEd . Why Green IT is important to SAP http://spr.ly/6018GVn                      about 2 hours ago  via Sprinklr
* http://twitter.com/#                                               sapteched                                                  Why #GreenIT is important to #SAP? #sapteched interview with @TimoStelzer @jspath55 @marilynpratt. Watch live now www.sapteched.com/live                      about 2 hours ago  via Sprinklr
* http://twitter.com/#                                               SAPCommNet                                                  RT @brianbernard: This just in. @jspath55 will be joining @timostelzer and @marilynpratt for the 10:15 #sapteched interview on Green IT                       about 2 hours ago  via Sprinklr
* http://twitter.com/#                                               brianbernard                                                  This just in. @jspath55 will be joining @timostelzer and @marilynpratt for the 10:15 #sapteched interview on Green IT                       about 2 hours ago  via web   from Westend, Berlin
* http://twitter.com/#                                                ISICC                                                  @jspath55 Try Shift and “[” or “]” on your english keyboard. Otherwise it’s Shift and “+”. Next to “Enter”!                       about 2 hours ago  via web        in reply to jspath55
* http://twitter.com/#                                               laserjupp                                                  @jspath55 two keys right from “p” – use shift                       about 2 hours ago  via ÜberTwitter       in reply to jspath55                             Reply
* http://twitter.com/#                                               vendorprisey                                                  @jspath55. Alt gr  Q obviously                       about 2 hours ago  via Twitter for BlackBerry®       in reply to jspath55
* http://twitter.com/#                                               roshan_r                                                  pretty heavy terms! will u be blogging a “lite” version? RT @jspath55: “Landscape Transformation”                       about 3 hours ago  via Seesmic Web                                     Reply
*                                                                                         TimoStelzer                                                  10.00 CET: #sapteched live interview about #greenit with @marilynpratt @jspath55 and @timostelzer Watch online www.sapteched.com/live                      about 3 hours ago  via Twitterrific
* http://twitter.com/#                                               jeremiahstone                                                  Enjoying @jspath55 ‘s video from #sapteched, particularly those of the ever entertaining @monkchips.  http://bit.ly/cHMiao                      about 3 hours ago  via TweetDeck

Session 12:30 – SCNotties award

I caught up with Roel van den Berge after seeing him tweet  he was still at TechEd, talking to Gregor Wolf.  So we gave him the SCNotties treatment.  What a good sport!

Gregor Wolf outside the UBahn station, leading the Mentor pack.

Mentors and non-Mentors alike stream into the Messe Sud at nearly the crack of dawn

System Landscape Optimization – Landscape Transformation

Hands-On Session screen shot (no camera tricks!)

Second screen shot – the spinning wheel of time

Last screen shot –  me tweeting, and the familiar spork and Sierra cup

That’s it, it’s a wrap, off for a personal (one-day) vacation.