Since the most recent SCN Topic Leader contest came to a close on July 31, the SCN team has been enthusiastically working in the background to bring you the list of winners. For those of you who are new to the community: the SCN Topic Leader contest is a way of highlighting the most active experts in certain topics in the community.
To find out more about the 2014-2015 contest and its rules, check out this blog post by Caroleigh Deneen: Updates to SCN Topic Leader Contest | SCN.
As Caroleigh explains in that post, the first criterion for winner selection is that you be one of the top three members in a topic space in terms of points earned in that space during the 12 months of the contest period (in this case, August 1, 2014 through July 31, 2015).
Like last year, we included a point threshold as one of the criteria as well: this year the threshold is 480 points. And as was the case in the past, we applied this criterion to select active and meaningful areas of expertise—certain areas such as Getting Started or Events are not included.
It’s All About Recognition
What do the winners of this contest earn? Topic Leaders will receive an Acknowledgement of Achievement per e-mail (please be patient, it will still take some time to get those out). And of course, there will be a nice badge to post in your Me-in-3 selection on SCN!
If you are listed below as a Topic Leader, and you will be coming to SAP TechEd in Las Vegas or Barcelona (this year’s remaining venues), we would like to hear about it, as we plan to give you the opportunity to meet some folks like SAP Mentors there. Note that, unfortunately, we cannot give Topic Leaders a free pass to SAP TechEd. (We have not done that in the past either.)
A Final Word Before We Get to the List
A lot of hard work goes on in the background to prepare this list, and I want to give a shout-out to a few folks who deserve it here. Bunchball and SAP IT had a hand in providing us with the report we needed to start with, and Caroleigh Deneen and Sajid Amir were instrumental in moving the vetting process along. All of this under the unwavering support and guidance of Jeanne Carboni.
And of course, we could not have finalized the list without the SCN Moderators and Space Editors, who gave their time to help review it.
Thank you to all of you, and to other SAP employees who work unwaveringly to support this community. We could not run it without you!
And now… Join me (and Bill McDermott) in congratulating our winners, the 2014-2015 SCN Topic Leaders! 
The List
ABAP Development
ABAP for SAP HANA
ABAP in Eclipse
Aplicações do SAP Business Suite (SAP Business Suite Applications)
B2B Integration with SAP Process Orchestration
BI Platform
Business Content and Extractors
Business Intelligence
Career Center
Comunidad SAP en Español (Spanish Language Community)
Comunidade SAP em Português (Portuguese Language Community)
Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM)
Data Services and Data Quality
Enterprise Asset Management (SAP EAM)
ERP SCM Logistics Execution
Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP
Governance, Risk and Compliance (SAP GRC)
Java SDK Application Development
PowerBuilder Developer Center
Process Integration (PI) & SOA Middleware
Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)
RESTful Web Services SDK
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE) for Custom Applications
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Developer Center
SAP APO – Production Planning, Interfaces and Global ATP
SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)
SAP Business One (Español)
SAP Business One (Português)
SAP Business One Application
SAP Business One SDK
SAP Business Rules Management
SAP Business Trends
SAP Business Warehouse
SAP Business Workflow
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP BW Powered by SAP HANA
SAP Certification
SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL)
SAP Cloud Applications Studio
SAP Cloud for Customer
SAP CRM: Marketing
SAP CRM: Webclient UI – Framework
SAP Crystal Reports
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SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio
SAP Enterprise Portal
SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management)
SAP ERP – Logistics Materials Management (SAP MM)
SAP ERP Financials
SAP ERP Financials – Asset Accounting
SAP ERP Financials – Controlling
Kamal Kumar SAP Consultant/Trainer
SAP ERP Financials – Treasury Applications
SAP ERP HCM Employee Self-Service
SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)
SAP ERP Manufacturing – Production Planning (SAP PP)
SAP ERP Operations – Quality Management (SAP QM)
SAP ERP PLM – Classification and Variant Configuration
SAP ERP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD)
SAP Event Management
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)
SAP Fiori
SAP for Mill Products & Mining
SAP for Mobile
SAP for Public Sector
SAP for Utilities
SAP Gateway
SAP Global Trade Services (GTS)
SAP GUI
SAP HANA and In-Memory Computing
SAP HANA Cloud Platform Developer Center
SAP HANA Cloud Portal
SAP HANA Developer Center
SAP Identity Management
SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC)
SAP Lumira
SAP Manufacturing
SAP NetWeaver Administrator
SAP NetWeaver Application Server
SAP NetWeaver Business Client
SAP Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver
SAP Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform
SAP Project Systems (SAP PS)
SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions
SAP Solution Manager
SAP SQL Anywhere
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)
SAP Travel Management
SAPUI5 Developer Center
SCN Support
Scripting Languages
SMP Developer Center
Software Logistics
SPED & NF-e
Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM)
User Interface Technology
Web Dynpro ABAP
Congrats to all,
Special one to Arijit Das CH Raman
Congrats to all of them………
Thank you suman and congrats to you as well.
Thanks man. And congratulations to you also 🙂
Congrats to all
Congratulations to all Topic Leaders for this well-deserved recognition on contributing to the community.
Congratulations all Topic Leaders
good job and keep it up
Andy.
p.s. let’s not forget, this is the criteria Updates to SCN Topic Leader Contest | SCN and there are probably people leading certain Spaces who didn’t meet the points threshold for this recognition, who are doing a great job in their Spaces and leading community engagement and expertise in their field – this is a shout for you too.
Congratulations to All Topic Leaders in SCN
With Regards
Balaji Sampath
Congratulations to all!
Best regards,
Pablo
Congrats to all Topic Leaders ! Very well deserved !!
Regards,
Chandra
Well Deserved 🙂 Congrats to ALL!! and specially,
Congrats – Well Deserved!
Great work for ASE Bret Halford !
Matthias
Congratulations to all Topic leaders and thanks for their valuable contribution to the community.
Regards,
Abdullah
Highly appreciated, specially congrats to all of you Jürgen L, PRASOON AK, Dibyendu Patra
Best Regards
Congratulations to Tammy Powlas & Karol Kalisz
Regards,
Subhash
Hearty Congratulations to all for becoming the Topic Leader of 2014-15.
Specially to those, I use to learn a lot from them from their each post.
I hope TW Sir would also be the Topic Leader in next list 🙂
Thanks
Kamlesh
Thanks Kamlesh and I am also thinking the same 😉
Thank$
Even though, before looking the names I was bit sure that TW Sir would be there. 😐
But I am sure,he would be in next list.
Regards
Kamlesh
In the category..SAP ERP – Logistics Materials Management (SAP MM)
Prasoon is the best among all..although he stood 3rd…for us he is best!!!
Nice gentleman..with a common sense to think.
Award goes to Prasoooonnn,, in the cateogry SAP ERP – Logistics Materials Management (SAP MM)
I had no idea i was in the running for the…recognition. I’m so thrilled.Thank you so much for recognizing my contributions this year & congratulations to all other great SCN team members.
Regards,
Gaurav
Congratulations to all the Winners.. Happy Learning.. 🙂
Cheers
Sammar
Congrats to GRC topic leaders and happy to be part of GRC community member
Regards
Baithi
Congratulation to allll… 🙂
Thanks
Congrats to all topic leaders. congrats to CH Raman . Thanks for your continuous efforts in the BW section. Congrats to Yasemin ULUTURK and Loed Despuig
Thank you Gajesh and congrats to you also.
congratulations to all….you deserve it….
Thanks
Thank you Umashankar Poojar and Gajesh Nagesh..
Congratz too Gajesh.. 😉
Also, CONGRATZ to all TOPIC LEADERS! 🙂
Loed
Thank you for SAP SCN to announce as a Topic leader in Financial Accounting, asset accounting & controlling for 2014-15 and congratulations to all topic leaders to contribute their knowledge & experience.
Mukthar Ali N
Congratulations to all leaders….
Thanks
Congratulations! Quite surprised Tammy Powlas didn’t win in more categories. 😛
Congratulations to Eduardo Chagas Karen Rodrigues…
Thank you, Jeferson!!! 🙂
Thanks I am in this time in SAP ERP HCM Employee Self-Service Space …thank you …. Congrats to Siddharth Rajora
Some spaces have been forgotten? 😕
RESTful Web Services SDK
I think this space doesn’t come under the selection criteria.
Minimum 480 points and period Aug 2014 to July 2015.
Thanks Dibyendu, that might be a reason but I’m not sure how it is possible to check that.
It seems the current space leader, Daniel Paulsen, reaches 490 points in the last 12 month on his own. 🙂
Today you can see the calculation for the period 1st Oct 2014 to 30th Sept 2015. We can’t see/check the back calculation.
Lets call Caroleigh to investigate more on this.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will look into it and let you know what I find.
hope if we can include or give space for smaller communities also which doesnt come above the 480 points mark.
Congratulations Sammar Razdhan
Keep up the good work 🙂
Hi Everyone,
It has come to our attention that the RESTful Web Services SDK space was mistakenly left off the Topic Leader list. The point report provided to identify the winners left out a space. 🙁 We have now examined the leaders for the contest period in that space, and it turns out that we have a winner there (he is in the top 3 and meets the point threshold)! 😀
So, without ado, let me extend our congratulations to this new Topic Leader: Daniel Paulsen! I have added Daniel to the Topic Leader list above, as well.
I want to apologize to Daniel and to the community, on behalf of our team, for not catching this report mistake sooner. Once we received word that another Topic Leader may have been missed, our team conducted a full audit of the point report provided. While we did find some other spaces that had been left off of the report as well, none of them had members who met the point threshold for the contest. We feel confident that no other deserving winners have been erroneously passed over. We are now investigating the cause of the omission, in order to avoid similar issues in the future.
Regards,
Audrey
Congratulations to all the topic leaders 🙂
Thanks, Ravi kumar
Congratulations Gurus..
Congratulations 🙂
Congratulations to all …
Congratulations to all topic leaders ,well deserved!!! 🙂
Thank you very much for your recognition. I feel excited by your mention.
Congratulations Topic Leaders!
Congratulations everyone