I recently had the pleaseure of attending the Configuration Workgroup(CWG) annual North America conference. I thought I would share my notes and thoughts on the conference.
CWG North America Conference October 2012, Marco Island, FL
Notes from Paul Barney attendee and presenter
My first CWG conference. I presented as well as attended the sessions. Very good conference overall. Great attendance from customers, partners and SAP.
Presentation files are available on CWG document share at http://www.configuration-workgroup.com
Overall very nice mix of hands on, technical level, as well as overview presentations. Plenty of options for deep technical people as well as newer people.
Personal highlights:
The keynote presentation on VC history from Albert Haag(SAP AG) one of founding fathers of VC, was very enjoyable.
I had a chance to connect with SAP VC influencers like Marin Uklavic, Steve Lenz, Harald Reitz(Vogel) from SAP, and Sascha Rauhe(Aicomp), Barry Walton, and Scott Perdue.
I attended an interestng session on Configit mobile solution. Very powerful!
I was able to spend a large amount of time learning about Aicomps new mobile solution.
I had many nice discussions with serveral of my Mill Products customers
Audience seemed very impressed with WCEM 3.0 new commerce platform.
Interesting IPC offline prototype for Android.
Themes:
Lots of discussion on the CD solution Solutions Sales Configurator(SSC).
Good performance tuning tips were provided.
IPC UI, delta list, and performance tuning discussions.
Overall, excellent conference. I will be attending again. If you are not a member of CWG, I highly encourage looking into it.
Paul Barney
Solution Management I IBU Mill Products & Mining I Industry Solutions
