Announcing the SCN Topic Leaders 2012-2013
The wait is over! I know many of you are looking forward to finding out who are the SCN Topic Leaders for the contest period August 1, 2012 to July 31, 2013. Thank you for your patience as I put this list together, it is longer than it has ever been 🙂
As explained in my earlier blog post, the program now recognizes more members in many diverse areas, thus representing the breadth of contributions on SCN. I hope that you will find the list below meaningful and that it will help you get to know people in your area of interest.
As a reminder, people listed here earned at least 440 points in the contest period, in a space where topic expertise can be determined – certain areas such as Getting Started or Events are not included.
Perks
Unfortunately we are not able to give a free TechEd pass to the Topic Leaders, we didn’t do it in the previous years either. But if you are making plans to come we would like to know about it so that we give you the opportunity to meet the SCN team and SAP Mentors there, and to get well-deserved recognition on stage at the DemoJam event.
You will soon receive an Acknowledgement of Achievement per e-mail and a new shiny badge on SCN.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Bunchball and Sean Yang for helping me put this list together, as well as Audrey Stevenson Jeanne Carboni and Chip Rodgers for the guidance as we worked together to update the program.
Thank you to the SCN Moderators and Space Editors who reviewed the list with me.
Kudos and Thank-Yous to SAP employees who support the community in many ways but are not listed here:
Rui Nogueira for his work to encourage community engagement around the HANA Cloud Developer Platform
Juergen Schmerder behind the scenes of the Developer Community, organizing InnoJam events across the worlds and supporting the geeky SAP fans with various programs and activities
Diem Lam who manages the University Alliances Community
SCN Team members such as Jason Lax, who answers many community questions in the SCN Support space, Audrey Stevenson who manages gamification with me, and Mark Finnern who manages the SAP Mentor program together with Ali Samieivafa and Maria Farrales.
I don’t want these people to think that they are forgotten, because they did earn a significant amount of points as part of their jobs in the contest year. Thank you guys for all your efforts with these programs!
Please join me in congratulating our SCN Topic Leaders 2012-2013!
ABAP Development
ABAP in Eclipse
About SCN
BI Platform
Business Content and Extractors
Business Intelligence
Business Process Management and Composition
BusinessObjects BI for SAP
Career Center
Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM)
Data Services and Data Quality
Data Warehousing
Enterprise Asset Management (SAP EAM)
Enterprise Information Management
Enterprise Performance Management (SAP EPM)
Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP)
ERP SCM Logistics Execution
Governance, Risk and Compliance (SAP GRC)
IT Management
Java Development
PowerBuilder Developer Center
Process Integration (PI) & SOA Middleware
Process Orchestration
Remote Supportability and Monitoring Tools
Reporting and Printing
SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO)
SAP APO – Demand and Supply Network Planning
SAP APO – Production Planning, Interfaces and Global ATP
SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business ByDesign Studio
SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)
SAP Business One (Español)
SAP Business One Application
SAP Business One SDK
SAP Business Trends
SAP Business Workflow
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office
SAP BusinessObjects BI Legacy Products
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
SAP BusinessObjects Mobile
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP Certification
SAP Cloud Computing
SAP CRM: Master Data & Middleware
SAP CRM: Web Channel
SAP CRM: Webclient UI – Framework
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio
SAP E-Recruiting
SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management)
SAP ERP – Logistics Materials Management (SAP MM)
SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade
SAP ERP Financials
SAP ERP Financials – Controlling
SAP ERP Financials – Treasury Applications
SAP ERP HCM Employee Self-Service
SAP ERP HCM Payroll Germany, Austria & Switzerland (DACH)
SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)
SAP ERP Manufacturing – Production Planning (SAP PP)
SAP ERP Operations – Quality Management (SAP QM)
SAP ERP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD)
SAP ERP SD Billing
SAP ERP SD Sales
SAP for Mill Products & Mining
SAP for Mobile
SAP for Public Sector
SAP for Utilities
SAP GUI
SAP HANA and In-Memory Business Data Management
SAP HANA Cloud Platform Developer Center
SAP HANA Developer Center
SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC)
SAP Lumira (formerly SAP Visual Intelligence)
SAP Manufacturing
SAP Mobile Platform Developer Center
SAP NetWeaver Administrator
SAP NetWeaver Application Server
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI)
SAP NetWeaver Gateway
SAP NetWeaver Identity Management (SAP IdM)
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management
SAP NetWeaver Portal
SAP NetWeaver Portal: Content Management and Collaboration
SAP NetWeaver Technology Platform
SAP on Oracle
SAP Organizational Visualization by Nakisa and SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa
SAP Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver
SAP Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform
SAP Productivity Pak / SAP Productivity Composer by ANCILE
SAP Project Systems (SAP PS)
SAP Runs SAP
SAP Solution Manager
SAP Sourcing
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)
SAP Travel Management
Social Media and Social Networks
Software Support and Maintenance
SPED & NF-e (in Portuguese)
Standards
Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM)
Talent Management & Talent Development for SAP ERP
UI Development Toolkit for HTML5 Developer Center
Web Dynpro ABAP
Web Dynpro Java
Thank you all your valuable contributions to the community!
Congratulations Colleen Lee Neeraj Manocha Rajeshwari Akkamgari for being SCN Topic Leader 2012-13 🙂
Cheers,
Rama
Hi,
Congratulations to all FI Topic Leaders ManiKumar Yandrapu , Narasimhulu Konnipati and Marssel Vilaca
You all really deserve it as many participants are getting benefited with your posts.
I wish you all the best and keep sharing knowledge!!!!!
BR, Srinivas Salpala
Thank you Srinivas and wish you the same.
NSK
Srinivas Salpala,
Thank you! Nice to see your comments!
All the best
Marssel forgot me 😥
Narasimhulu
😆 😆
I was blind!
Now I am using links because a single mention could not be perceived!
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Thanks dear & congratulation to you.
Mani Kumar
Well it seems like i have missed all about this recognition program. I was pretty surprised as i started my e-mail client today and received a notice about this blog post.
Rich and Famous? .. now reaching out for the "Rich" stuff 😛 😉 (just kidding)
Laure - Thanks for your work to put this together.
Regards
Stefan
Hi Stefan,
Wow, indeed that must have felt like a nice surprise! Congrats for this achievement!
Laure
Hello All,
Hearty Congratulations to all SCN Top leaders.
Regard's,
Shashi Kanth
Wow. Thank you so much. SAP Runs SAP is really thanks to true team work. They have a great story to tell.
Congrats to the leaders for sharing the knowledge in the forum.
Marssel Vilaça ... PARABÉNS por mais uma conquista ... vc merece !!! Muito orgulhosa !! 🙂
Obrigado meu amor! Eu te amo!
Congrats ' MoazzaM ' G Lakshmipathi TW Typewriter
kepp up the excellent work 🙂
Thank you Moshira Ismail and hope to see you here next year 🙂
Congrats to everyone, and a special thanks to
Lisa Sheil Edel Kelly
Thanks a ton SCN for recognizing my efforts. I am overwhelmed by seeing my name on top of CRM Web UI forum.
Thank you so much and would like to congratulate all others as well.
🙂 🙂
Thanks and Regards
Rajarama U
Hi SAP Community,
This is first recognition in SAP community & second in my SAP career ,wonderful 🙂 Thank you guys ,you all made me stand as Top topic leader Topic Leaders - SAP financial board. I feel ,SAP community participation itself as great opportunity where i had learn,discuss ,contribute,meet expert's & other SAP members.
Congratulation to Mr. Narasimhulu Konnipati
Congratulation to Mr. Marssel Vilaca
Regards
Mani
Thank you Manu, Congratulations to you as well!
Thank you Marssel 🙂
Congratulations to all for shering knowledge.
Cheers
Ivan
Many thanks to all the topic leaders who make SCN the terrific resource and community it is, and a special thanks to Laure Cetin for her work promoting SCN and its contributors.
Thank you Laure Cetin and SCN team for this acknowledgment! 😆
All the best!
Dear Topic leaders
Congratulation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work.
Regards
Nakul
Congrats to all the Topic Leaders specially to Amy King and to the queen of Topic Leaders board Tammy Powlas for being Topic leader in 7 different spaces!
Thank you Laure Cetin for the acknowledgement and much appreciate your effort for compiling this list. And your name is missing in the list? 🙂
I live vicariously 😉
Laure
Congratulations to my friends Raman, Suman and Anshu from BW forum.
You are the best guys 🙂
Amine
Thanks for your wishes amine and very glad to see our names.
You're wellcome. I count of you to be the top leader every year 🙂
Amine
Oh!!! No, its all time depend, lets keep on and do my best. Hoping to see you soon here.
Hi Amine,
Thanks for noticing us and our efforts. 🙂
Thanks Amine for your kind words..Much appreciated..Hope to see your name on the list soon.
Regards,
AL
My hearty Congratulations to Juergen L
His dedication, enthusiasm and insight are really inspiring. I wish him many years of great achievements!
Congratulation to Ajay Maheshwari SAP TrainerSrinivas SalpalaEli Klovski.
You guys have been outstanding.
Keep sharing
Thanks
Hrusikesh
Hi Hrushi,
Thanks for your wishes!! I have seen many of your posts as well. Keep up your best effort in sharing and all the best...
BR, Srinivas Salpala
Honored to make the list with some many folks I respect and how impressive is Tammy Powlas to make the list in 7 different categories #WOW!
Hi Laurie,
adding to and confirming the previous comments, you've done a wonderful job, and what a huge task and then writing the blog, amazing.
To be honest I am not sure why I am in the About SCN section (I don't think I have earned it), think it might be because of the Wiki, the SAP NetWeaver Basis Administrator's Toolbox I get two points everytime it's edited, and the points somehow go in the About SCN section.
For sure there are people out there much more deserving of this recognition and so I would like to dedicate my place in the list to the unsung heros working away supporting the community across the community, this is for all of you.
All the best and Laurie, have a great weekend, you deserve it.
Andy.
Hi Andy,
Thanks. Yes it took a little while to write the blog with all the names in a nice format, not a table 😉 But it's fine, it's great to see such a long list and everyone congratulating everyone else.
I thought you were actually active on About SCN, and not just the wiki. I will have to check. Thanks for dedicating your award to those who support the community.
Laure
also like to add, it's nice to see Kenny Tully in the list, Kenny has solved so many deep deep Java Stack Basis Admin challenges for me over the years.
Good job Kenny.
Andy.
Hi Laure and SCN Team members,
thank you for your effort sharing this last work!
Heartiest congratulations to all SCN Topic Leaders and in particular to my street companions (BPC) Nilanjan Chatterjee, Vadim Kalinin and Lucas Gabriel Correa da Costa.
Also to my first teachers John Leggio, Sheldon Edelstein, Gersh Voldman, Daniel Jacinto, Jeffrey Holdeman, Kirill Gromyko, Raghu Ram, Patrick Favre and other that know are disappered, I remember Poonam Shukla and Sreeni P and the new big entry Kalyan Dey that next year surely will be in these list.
Best regards
Roberto
Thank you Roberto,
I'm a little absent in recent months, but always looking the threads, afterwards, we learn a lot in SCN.
And my congradulations for you too, for the top on BPC MS.
Best Regards,
Hi Lucas,
I saw that you were a little bit 😉 absent in the last few months 🙁 , I hope that this acknowledgment is useful to not give up and be in the list again next year 🙂 .
Don't give up.
All the best
Roberto
Hi Eli,
Expected in Public sector management Top Leader award 🙂 Great contribution 😆 with more smile. Congratulation
Regards
Mani Kumar
Ravi Sankar Venna Anna ,Ajay Maheshwari Anna,
Mana Basalo meeku subakakshalu 🙂 Both Br. awesome.
Regards
Mani Kumar
Thanks Mani for your comments. 🙂
I am gladly say, you have done fantastic job in Financials, I am sure you are going to much make laurels like this. Wishing you all the best. Keep it up. 🙂
Best Regards,
Ravi
Thank you very much Ravi Anna.Hope i can 🙂
Congratulations SCN Leaders 2012-2013!!!
Your contribuition is very important to all us.
Congratulations to ALL SCN Topic Leaders 2012-2013
Especially Ravi , Suman , Raman and Anshu to share your valuable knowledge with us.
Regards,
Abdullah
Thanks abdullah...For your kind words and appreciation.
Regards,
AL
Thank you Abdullah for your wishes and continuous encouragement 🙂 ...
Thanks
Raman
Hello Abdullah,
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. 🙂
Suman Chakravarthy K
Anshu Lilhori
CH Raman
My WIshes with you to become SAP Mentors someday..
Thanks for your wished abdullah.
Thanks Abdullah for all your good wishes.
Much appreciated.
Regards,
AL
Congrats Ajay, you well deserve the topic leader for FI-CO. Your posts and suggestions are so useful and enlightening. I am glad to know and learn from you.
Best
Ram Vusirikala
Hi,
Siddharth Rajora
Luke Marson
My hearty congratulations for both of you and thanking you for steering us to success paths.
Thanks Srikanth! 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE.
All your knowledge share, helpful answers, discussions, SCN content etc helped a lot of SAP employees. All the best to your next participation as well. 🙂
Congratulations!! Luke Marson, Woody Nguyen, Jarret Pazahanick. You all have really enlightened the members with your priceless posts and suggestions.!! Thank You Very Much!!
Heartily Congratulations to all the winners. 🙂
Anjan Paul : Happy to see you in this list in second place..... 🙂
Regards,
Murali Krishna...
Congratulations to all Leaders;
Juergen L Bijay Kumar Barik and Manoj Karthik, thanks for your valuable contribution & guidance
Laure thanks for sharing 🙂
Hi Laure, hi SCN team,
it's quite an honor to be regarded as a topic leader, yet the more I think about it the more I feel it's not right for me to be on that list! Since I started my new role
within the SAP HANA Cloud Platform team blogging and encouraging others to blog is part of my job. Hence, it's unfair to compete with others outside of SAP.
As such i'd like to step back so that the honor goes to people who are really moving the needle! In regards to cloud Dick Hirsch and Chris Paine are the ones who deserve all the credits in my PoV. They keep sharing on a regular basis and post great content!
Many thanks for your understanding!
Cheers,
matthias
I like your comment, but it wouldn't make you one bit less of a topic leader. Sorry... 🙂
Well... shouldn't the same set of rules and circumstances be applied to everyone it's an unfair advantage - hence I feel it's not earned rightfully. Look at Tammy for a moment ... she puts in the extra effort and helps people day-in/day out ... in her spare time!
That deserves recognition! Me, I'm only doing my job. I love it and having the opportunity to engage with the community every day is the biggest rewards of all...
The recognition of being a topic leader should go to people who are outside of SAP and who make a significant impact to drive a topic forward. ( my 2 cents!)
BR,
Matthias
Agree - especially when the non-SAP contributors are most likely reducing the need for customer support messages in SAP marketplace.
ok, thanks for providing more information and context. As you can see I'm gradually processing the 200+ comments 😉
To some extent I agree with you that SAP employees doing their job shouldn't be on the list, but it's a fine line when you look at the content provided in the community. If it's content that goes beyond managing a program, don't you think it's applicable for recognition? That's how I felt about you, but yes we can have the discussion 🙂
Hi Matthias,
I'm not sure I understand. Dick Hirsch and Chris Paine are on the list, so I think it's ok to share a bit of fame with them as well, right? Or do you mean you want to be taken off the list altogether? Feel free to email me if you want to discuss offline.
Laure
Congratulation leaders ¡
Cheers,
Luis
Congrats everyone for their achievement.
~Kavindra
Hi Laure,
Thanks for sharing the list!!!!
Congratulations for all SCN Topic Leaders 2012-2013.
Its a pleasure and honor to be listed here in my first year 🙂
Cheers,
Karen Rodrigues
Hi All SCN topic leaders,
My heartiest Congratulation to all, Especially to R Brahmankar,Jürgen L,Jeevan Sagar,Sharat Sugur,Thanks to all leaders for their contribution to SCN which inspire others to do the same.
Once again congratulation to all leaders,
Regards,
Anupam Sharma
Hi Everyone,
My Hearty Congratulations to everyone who achieved this milestone.
Regards,
Hari Suseelan
My best wishes to organisers,all top contributors and all future top contributors 🙂
This gives further motivation to contribute better.
Regards.
Dear All,
My Hearty Congratulations to everyone who achieved this milestone.
Specially for Suman Chakravarthy, Anshu Lihori & Ramanjaneyulu Korrapati. 🙂
Its a Party time to all of us.
🙂 😉 🙂 😛
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya.
Thanks a lot for your cheerful compliments 🙂 . Your 4 emoticons are funny..
Thank you krishna chaitanya for your appreciations
Thanks a lot Krishna...Definitely we will party... 😉
Work hard..Party harder 😀 ...
Regards,
AL
My heartiest congratulations to all the leaders..!!!!!!!!
All the best fr future as well...
Sepcial wishes to Suman Chakravarthy, Anshu Lihori , Ramanjaneyulu Korrapati , Ravi sankar venna 🙂 you ppl well deserved dis...
Your articles..posts...commenst hav helped me a lot and I have learned so much from you guys 🙂
You people are genious...You people have motivated me so much..
Regards,
Priyanka
Hello Priyanka,
Nice to see your detailed wishes 🙂 I feel happy that SCN has motivated you. All the best for ur future..
Thank you priyanka for your noble words and wishes. All the best for the future.
Hi Priyanka,
We are really elated to see your wonderful comments.We also thank you and all those SCN users,without their support and encouragement we never would have reached that level
Good luck for your future endeavours.
Regards,
AL
Congratulations to Jitendra Kumar Kansal as well..frgt to mention ur name above..
you seem to b too young to achieve dis...great going 🙂
Regards,
Priyanka
thanks Priyanka Jain 🙂
Your comments are much appreciated .
Rgrds,
Jitendra
Hi All,
Hearty congratulations for all the topic leaders for getting recognized for sharing their knowledge.
Regards,
G.Sethuraman
Dear All,
Hearty congrats to all and specially for
Ramanjaneyulu Korrapati
Suman Chakravarthy K
Anshu Lilhori
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya.
Thank you and hope to see you soon on this list.
Thanks Krishna..We really appreciate your comments.
Regards,
AL
Thank you Laure! I'm glad to be listed again as a Topic Leader!
Congratulations to all Topic Leaders! Keep going!
Best regards to all!
My genuine wishes and congratulations to all the new fellow leads of the SCN Spaces and the SCN Team!
Hi Laure,
Thanks a lot for compiling this list.
I wonder why ERP PLM is not included for evaluation. All other ERP forums are listed but only one is missing? 🙁
http://scn.sap.com/community/erp/plm-classification-and-variant-configuration
Thanks
Ritesh
Hi Ritesh,
maybe no one have reached 440 points in the year (aug-jul), this was the minimum requirements to be in the list.
Regards
Roberto
Thanks for reply Roberto Vidotti
Even though its mention in Laure Cetin post too , "As a reminder, people listed here earned at least 440 points in the contest period, in a space where topic expertise can be determined"
But I can see PS forum where no buddy crosses aprox 200 yearly point., but forum as well as members are in list.
SAP Project Systems (SAP PS)
Check your self.
Thanks
Ritesh
Hi Ritesh,
I'm checking each comment at a time, sorry I didn't see this additional information before.
Our reports showed people well above 500 points in Project Systems when we put this list together, so maybe the leaderboard is showing different numbers now because the calculation is always changing due to the 12-month rolling points. If activity continues to decrease there, then the space will not be listed next year.
I can't check right now because the leaderboards are re-populating after a bug linked to gamification platform maintenance over the weekend...
Laure
Hi Ritesh,
I'm not from SAP so maybe you're right about SAP PS, but remember that in these recent days there are problems with points calculation so you have to wait some days to see the real points.
Regards
Roberto
Hi Ritesh,
The amount of activity in the ERP PLM was too low to be included in this contest, as I explained with the 440-point threshold, which is our indicator.
Laure
Congratulations to All the Topic Leaders.
Every one in SAP community truly appreciate all your contributions.
Best Wishes for many success.
Regards,
Senthil
Congratulations to all the topic leaders!
Special congratulations to R Brahmankar Jeevan Sagar and Sharat in the PP domain! 😀
Regards,
Rajen
Dear All,
Thanks a lot for compliments, much appreciated and congratulation to all the top "contributors"
Regards,
R.Brahmankar
Hi Rupesh,
Congrats! All the best for your career!
Regards,
Hari Suseelan