SAP Mentor Initiative Introduction Mark Finnern SAP Chief Community Evangelist & Mentor Herder

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Entrepreneur and Author Seth Godin in his book Tribes

* Page 30 in Tribes. We need you to lead us.

Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.*

are SAP’s Tribe

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SAP Mentor Initiative

SAP Mentors are the top community influencers of the SAP Ecosystem. Most of the ~130 mentors work for customers or partners of SAP. All of them are hands-on experts of an SAP product or service, as well as excellent champions of community-driven projects.

More at: http://sapmentors.sap.com

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SAP Mentor Advantage

Engagement

Co-Innovation

Advocacy

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Innovation: Influencing Product Development!

Co-CEO Jim Snabe thanking SAP Mentors for the idea for SAP HANA One: Free developer HANA licenses hosted by Amazon cloud and others. [Video]

Co-Innovation: SAP HANA One

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Vinjay Nataly post blog: Successfactors in a hybrid model – Top 4 challenges you will face from customers.

3 SAP Mentors: Jarret Pazahanick, Chris Paine and Luke Marson write detailed comments to every challenge posted by Vinjay setting the record straight.

Vijay’s closing comment: “Thanks again. I am pretty encouraged by the views received …as it has helped me understand SFSF a bit more.”

Advocacy: SAP Mentors setting SAP’s HCM Hybrid Record straight!

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SAP Mentors: The New King Makers

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Who’d have thunk: SAP Mentors the new King Makers

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SAP Mentor John Astill tutors Middle Schoolers to 2nd place at SAP TechEd Demo Jam [Video]

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SAP Mentors as Trusted Advisors

Closing Keynote SAP Mentor Panel at SAP Australia World Tour 2011

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Mentors Jamming SAP’s Culture #suithugger Campaign Sapphire / SAP TechEd Madrid

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What Would Marilyn Pratt Do? Flash Mobmostly organized by SAP Mentors [video]

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SAP Mentors presenting at SAP internal DKOM

SAP Developer Kick Off [DKOM] Meetings with worldwide 14 SAP Mentor presentations.

SAP Mentors as DemoJam/InnoJam Judges

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SAP Mentor influencing SAP: John Appleby Keynote at FKOM Singapore

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SAP Mentors and Coding for Kids

Young Rewired State (YRS) is a week-long, nationwide code-fest for kids.

SAP Mentor DJ Adams co-ran and mentored the Manchester team.

It culminated in finals & show-n-tell weekend in Birmingham (500 kids).

DJ Adams connected SAP with YRS and SAP became headline sponsor for the whole event.

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Co-Innovation: Influencing SAP Product Development!

SAP Mentor Philip Kislof saw an area of improvement in SAP’s Business Process Blueprinting

Blogged about it on SCN

Convinced the Product Manager of that solution

Change now implemented in the new release of Solution Manager

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Additional SAP Mentor Engagement I

Vishal Sikka thanks SAP Mentors during his keynoe Sapphire Orlando 2012 for their input to the revamped Developer Licensing model.

First SAP Code Exchange project reaches SAP Standard

SAP Mentors Supporting Universities

SAP Mentors Participate in many Influence Councils

Inside SAP names 3 Australian SAP Mentors as “most influential”

Beta tested New help.sap.com

Part of Customer Advisory Forum

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Additional SAP Mentor Engagement II

Organizing the Developer Wars at SBOUC (similar to InnoJam)

SAP Mentors represented at all 3 SuccessConnect events

Leonardo De Araujo + Team wins InnoJam + Demo Jam at DKOM

Supporting SAP CodeJam events

Ingo Hilgefort conducted three days of BI4 Elite training last November in Vancouver. Now "BI4" black-belt training is happening worldwide.

Co-innovation project 5 SAP Mentors + 5 SAP employees created SAPlink for ABAP in Eclipse

ASUG Pre-conference sessions with SAP Mentors

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Additional SAP Mentor Engagement III

ASUG Annual Conference: Pre-conference sessions with SAP Mentors

SAP Certification Influence Council includes SAP Mentors 

SAP Mentor Moya Watson spearheaded SAP's It gets better campaign and other Mentors spread the message.

SAP Mentor Alumnus Ginger Gatling with other Mentors updating the book Practical Workflow and donating $30K proceeds to Doctors Without Borders

Zimkhita Buwa  working in CapaCITI1000 program aiming to up-skill unemployed graduates.

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New SAP Mentors are Community Nominated

Nomination Process 2x per Year: • April in time for Sapphire• August for SAP TechEd

1. Community nominates Candidates [example]

2. Suggestions are collected and talliedExtra weight for nominations from SAP Mentors

3. Final List is assembled using following criteria: candidate's expertise, solution/regional needs, diversity

4. New SAP Mentors are announced publicly via blog post and introduce themselves to the community via a public SAP Mentor Monday Webinar

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Vishal & Hasso happy to be honorary SAP Mentors

 

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