At yesterday’s SAP Community Meet-up in Walldorf, there was a great discussion triggered by Dr. Christian Baader of SAP, who works with partners and tries to create conditions under which the partner ecosystem can thrive. The discussion revolved arou...
A few days ago, I had a conversation about the challenges ABAPers are facing and about current trends with respect to these challenges and the skills developers need to meet them. The person I was talking to mentioned that integration was specificall...
When I said goodbye to life as a tenured employee and launched my own business 18 months ago, my driving force was a strong sense that the nature of application development in the enterprise was undergoing a profound change, and I wanted to be a part...
Many customers regard NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) as very desirable. Yes, they do appreciate SAPGUI for being pretty robust, reliable, well-hung, and last but not least fast, a good working environment for heavy-duty backend users. --But NWBC ha...
One of the things that make it hard to be German is that we’re more formal than we ourselves feel comfortable with. This is an endless source of awkwardness in otherwise perfectly harmless, albeit social, situations. The single worst aspect of this a...
Joachim,It depends on how far I move out of the comfort zone for the particular session. Also, over the years I’ve gotten better at using fewer slides, with less text, and speaking ad lib a lot during a presentation. In the past eight years, time fo...
I can't emphasize enough what a career-changing opportunity this is. For me, the chance to be a community speaker at SAP TechEd 2008 was a huge step forward professionally. I wrote about it in this 2013 blog post: Why (and How) You Should Become an S...
Hi Martin,I understand why that would make sense. In many cases, you will have a cheaper solution AND more control over many aspects of the solution when you run them in your own IaaS-based environment instead of using a PaaS service such as HCP. SAP...
Congratulations to the new Mentors (Mentor cubs, as we like to call the new members of the wolfpack)! I look forward to meeting you in person. :smile: Cheers,Thorsten
Hey Dagfinn,I'm glad you're back! I've kept following your work and always thought: That guy is such a Mentor and will always be. :smile: Cheers,Thorsten