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Certification 5 Releases White Paper

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Do constant upgrades make customers weary?

Listen in on this special grouchy, sleep deprived edition of the eGeeks podcast, as Ed and Thomas try to keep it together after a rough week of pulling all-nighters. Even after fighting through the exhaustion, there are still many very good topics discussed including new features in NetWeaver Enhancement Package 2, upcoming SAP Teched sessions, and the SAP Inside Track conference.

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Episode photo by Jsome1 shared under Creative Commons Attrubtion License.

Running Time: 48 minutes

Talking Points

1. 00:15 – Random Chit Chat
   • Love for the eGheads
   • Sleep Deprivation
   • Freaky 3D Ultrasounds and Kuato from Totall Recall — can you tell the difference?
2. 03:52 – Get the early scoop on NetWeaver 7.02 coming soon
3. 09:12 – Overview of the ABAP sessions at ASUG / Sapphire
4. 14:34 – TechEd Session Internal Proposals for ABAP – give Thomas your opinions
5. 22:26 – SAP Inside Track London
   • What is SAP Inside Track
   • Why would you want to go…because it’s “where all the cool geeks hang out…what else can you say?”
   • The Great Certification Debate – Dennis’ Interview with Michael Koch, Owen Pettiford, and Martin Gillet
   • Survey from SAP Mentor Michael Koch
6. 30:10 – Blue Ruby mentor webinar and the slides here
7. 35:00 – Cote and Willis chime in on the open cloud manifesto
8. 36:00 – How do you navigate SDN to get to the Adobe Flash SDN Pages?
9. 41:27 – Closing Thoughts
   • Somnath and Vijay Twitter Comments – come to the Dark Side
   • Phonesaber
   • Colgate MaxFresh Jams
   • Speed Stick Pro – What’s your Pit Type

Can SAP leverage their newfound transparency or will it just come back to haunt them?

The hits just keep on coming! This week we pulled in another great guest, Jon Reed. Jon is a fellow SAP mentor and popular blogger from JonERP.com. Listen in to hear his great perspectives on the current and upcoming SAP job market trends, as well as some more thoughts on the future of SAP certifications.

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Running Time: 65 minutes

Talking Points

1. Jon Reed intro
   • JonERP.com
   • SAP Community Blog
   • Feeding the SAP Ecosytem
   • Follow JonERP on twitter
   • Being an SAP Mentor
2. Dennis Howlett – SAP Mentors will crush it for SAP
3. Trends of SAP Job Skills market and the roles of Business Process Experts and Solution Architects
4. What is the best project team structure to leverage these “new” roles?
5. Are Solution Architects the Chief of the Surgical Development Team?
6. SAP Mentor Webinar on SAP Certifications and the continuing controversy
   • What was it all about?
   • Transparency can be very helpful, but it can also be a bitch
   • Job postings requiring certifications are still very low
   • Can a multiple choice test accurately measure leadership, experience, and reputation?
   • The answer may be the integration of complimentary programs like ASUG EDGE
   • Could Certifications utilize an online college course format in a group environment?
7. Is there an increase of jobs allowing telecommuting and remote work in a tough economy?
8. Random thoughts on the Kindle 2
   • Help us request Next Generation ABAP by Thomas Jung and Rich Heilman for the Kindle
   • What would your first book on the Kindle be? Let us know in the comments.
   • Special text to speech reading from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Should we swallow the magic SAP Certification pill?

Fellow eGheads, you are in for a treat. This episode is packed with all kinds of geeky goodness with our special guest Dennis Howlett. Join us in this episode full of topics discussing the power of the crowd, the cloud, and the proud. With topics ranging from Facebook to SAP Certifications, there is a little bit for everyone.

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Running Time: 63 minutes

Talking Points

1. Thomas is back from Cancun
2. Learn more about the man himself, Dennis Howlett
   • Accman Blog
   • Enterprise Irregulars
   • SAP TechEd RIA Hacker Night
   • SAP Mentors
   • Irregular Enterprise on ZDNet
   • ESME – the Enteprise Social Messaging Experiment that made Dennis love geeks
3. Facebook TOS explosion
• Dennis blogs on the celebration and the experience
• Members against TOS Facebook group
• Zuckerberg blogs about Facebook Bill of Rights
• Social Collaboration is changing the way people do business
• Is SDN Terms of Service in a similar situation
4. Coghead and the danger of the cloud
   • Coghead says goodbye and SAP snags ‘em up
   • Will this be useful for the SAP EcoHub
   • Introduction to Polestar On Demand and the hybrid cloud
   • Does this situation expose the risks of PaaS adoption in the Enterprise
5. SAP Labs vs. SAP Research
6. Enterprise Mashup Application Platform from SAP Research
7. SAP Certification Program – Certify or Die
   • Dennis’ blog on SDN that kicked off the initial storm
   • Jon Reed is a major player on the certification topic
   • SAP Mentor Meeting with SAP Education to discuss the SAP Certification program on Wednesday, Feb. 25
   • If you want your voice heard about the topic, post comments here and we will submit them
8. Keep your Bollocks in your Pants
9. Want to make a difference? Submit your videos for a good cause
10. Update on Geeks without Borders 24 hour Charity Event on FMR
11. Announcement of the ABAP Join Wizard and update on the ABAP Report Wizard

Is SAP the Guarantee Fairy?

In this episode, Ed Herrmann, Thomas Jung, and guest host Dan McWeeney discuss some of the recent hot issues around the SAP development world. Topics range from early predictions about the recently announced SAP & IBM joint product Alloy to Dennis Howlett’s thought provoking topic on SAP certifications.

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Running Time: 46 minutes

Talking Points

• Casual talk with Dan about Adobe & the Genesis project
• SAP cancels Sapphire Europe – so what?
• Is SAP/IBM Alloy a solution looking for a problem?
• Should you be certified?
  • IT Devil’s Triangle
  • Rock Stars vs. The Crazy Glue Sniffers