Running Time: 00:44:39 minutes

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Wookey and SAP - SaaS or Pass?

After a two week break, the guys are back to cover some of the latest news in the SAP world and SCN, as well as chit chat on other overall fun, geeky topics.

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Running Time: 44 minutes

Talking Points

1. 00:15 – Random Chit Chat
   • eGeeks are back after some Father’s Day duties
   • Mastering SAP Technologies in Sydney, Australia
2. 03:28 – Don’t miss SAP TechEd 2009 where all the cool geeks will be
3. 10:34 – John Wookey on SAP’s SaaS strategy
4. 14:50 – Jive Signs Agreement with SAP to Deliver Social Business Intelligence for the Enterprise
5. 20:51 – SAP Community Network news
   • Welcome new SAP Mentors
   • New Content Rating functionality
   • Wiki Lockdown
   • Newsgator Widgets
6. 33:29 – Wrap up
   • Don’t miss the upcoming 5-part series on ABAP Objects on the ABAP Freak Show
   • Windows 7 Pre-Order
   • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
   • A little love for the Gobots – the truly fallen

Blag (the person on the left) - on stage at TechEd 2008

In this special edition of the Enterprise Geeks podcast we get the opportunity to interview the SDN star himself – Alvaro Tejada; or Blag as everyone around the SAP space knows him. Blag is one of the best known faces in the SAP community.  He is frequent moderator on the SDN Forums and quite a prolific author. In this podcast he shares his experiences as an SAP Mentor, talks about the upcomming SAP Inside Track Lima (which he is organizing) and we discuss UI topics like Adobe Flex development and FlashIslands for Web Dynpro.

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Running Time: 26 minutes

Talking Points

1. 00:00 – Introduction to Blag
2. 03:00 – TechEd Phoenix
3. 07:00 – UI Discussion
4. 10:30 – Adobe Flex Development
5. 13:40 – Islands within Web Dynpro
6. 17:00 – State of Upgrades
7. 20:00 – SAP Inside Track, Lima
8. 22:40 – Mark Finnern’s Musical Talents

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

Polestar - Prepare to Qualify

Listen to this fun episode as hosts Ed Herrmann & Thomas Jung just shoot the breeze on a mix of topics ranging from hot SAP issues to laid back, general geekiness. They also throw down a polestar challenge to all of the fellow eGheads.

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Running Time: 56 minutes

Talking Points

1. Geeks vs. Nerds
2. Comments discussion on last week’s podcast
   • Business Process Expert is to Functional Configurer same as Solution Architect is to Code Monkey
   • Where do these roles fit into an Enterprise project team structure?
   • The journey begins for the agile waterfall
3. Welcome New SAP Mentors
4. SAP Launches Online Resource for Academic Community
5. SAP on Twitter – Big Pimpin’?
6. Netweaver BI is back to the future with BW
7. Innocentive Polestar Challenge
8. Check out my new eGeek laptop skin from skinit
9. Brief talk about SAP Sapphire 2009?
10. eGhead of the month award goes to Abesh for his cool egeek widgets
11. New eGeek swag available
12. Welcome New SAP Mentors – redux
13. Geeks getting excited about Watchmen
14. SAP sustainability
15. Atlassian‘s Jeffrey Walker kicks cancer in the ass