ASUG SAP TechEd Pre-Conference – Knowing A Mentor
Last Monday, October 19th, after several months of planning, promoting and marketing, ASUG SAP TechEd pre-conference sessions were held. I attended SAP Design Studio Deep Dive. This was a hands-on session with SAP Mentor Ingo Hilgefort
I am also writing this as the second part of Catch a Mentor and Know a Mentor Missions “knowing a Mentor”, in this case, Ingo Hilgefort.
Much to my surprise, the session was sold-out. Most attendees were new to Design Studio. For the first time that I can recall in a hands-on session, attendees were able to connect their Design Studio application using SAP BusinessObjects Mobile application – both using iOS and Android. Usually the ports are closed at SAP TechEd sessions.
Using AWS instances, 60 people, 30 laptops, 30+ AWS instances, attendees created applications using SAP Design Studio. The hardest part about connecting to Mobile BI was entering the CMS name.
Below is a subset of the exercises:
Configuring your mobile device
Exercise 1: Create your first SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Dashboard
Exercise 2: Using a crosstab and chart
Exercise 3: Using a Pagebook
Exercise 4: Using a Grid Layout and ListBox
Exercise 5: Using scripting to add interactivity
Exercise 6: Creating a KPI dashboard
Exercise 7: Using Online Composition
Exercise 8: Enhancing the Online Composition Application
Exercise 9: Using Geo Map Component – Shape Layer
Exercise 10: Using the Backend Connection Component
Exercise 11: Background Processing
The materials were all new, created by Ingo himself. This was unique content that could not be obtained during the conference.
Photo by SAP TechEd Photographer
From 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Ingo shared his knowledge about SAP Design Studio, as shown above.
Photo by SAP TechEd Photographer
Carlos Suarez, IBM, pictured left in the above, asked questions during this hands-on session.
Photo by SAP TechEd Photographer
Attendees had plenty of time to complete exercises. Even though they were scheduled for a one hour lunch, they returned after 45 minutes.
Pictured above are Ingo and his class assistants:
Left to right:
Bhupinder Singh Chadha, Puneet Arora, me, Ingo, Shankar Narayanan S G S
In speaking with Graham Robinson this week, a SAP Mentor influences the community but is also one who shares his/her knowledge; this is something Ingo did tirelessly during this session.