{"id":1024,"date":"2007-10-10T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/10\/next-week-sap-teched-07-in-munich-wordpress-erp-and-lord-knows-what\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T20:43:05","slug":"next-week-sap-teched-07-in-munich-wordpress-erp-and-lord-knows-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/10\/next-week-sap-teched-07-in-munich-wordpress-erp-and-lord-knows-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Week: SAP TechEd &#039;07 in Munich &#8211; WordPress, ERP, and Lord Knows What"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/1481020544\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1228\/1481020544_00d459eef9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"RedMonk on SDN Clubhouse Community MindSpace\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James has beaten me to the punch when it comes to writing up what we&#8217;ll be doing next week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapteched.com\/emea\/\">SAP TechEd&#8217;s CommunityDay in Munich<\/a>. In summary: we&#8217;re using the RedMonk track to show how SAP technologies and their data\/processes can be hooked up into the rest of the world, namely WordPress, RIA&#8217;s, and other non-SAP, non-business-world software.<\/p>\n<p>There are two prongs to why this matters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The William Gibson Law of Innovation &#8211; which flies under many quotes from Gibson: &#8220;the street finds it&#8217;s own use for technologies,&#8221; &#8220;the future is already here, it&#8217;s just unevenly distributed,&#8221; and (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmictap.com\/william-gibson-on-the-unintended-effects-of-technology\/\">most recently<\/a>) &#8220;The intended effects of new technology are nothing compared to the unintended effects&#8230;the Internet is an accident.&#8221; That is, encouraging and allowing developers to &#8220;play around&#8221; with technology can result in new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/05\/the-goal-make-money-or-cream-for-suits\/\">innovations to make money with<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As we discuss at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/03\/majority-desk-wiimote-3d-widget-desktop-totally-sick\/\">the Majority Desk video\/demo from last week<\/a>, developer communities get a moral boost from &#8220;playing around&#8221; with new technologies. As a developer, esp. in &#8220;business software,&#8221; it&#8217;s all to easy to let your interest and pasion wane as you get bored sick at work. Next thing you know, your developers are asking questions like, &#8220;what&#8217;s RSS? Web two point what?&#8221; and you&#8217;re stuck with crap software. Seriously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>RedMonk Munich Track<\/h2>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s in the RedMonk track in Munich? Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/sdn\/wiki?path=\/display\/Community\/Community+Day+Munich+October+16th&amp;\">the CommunityDay wiki for a brief summary<\/a>. Here&#8217;s some more detail:<\/p>\n<h3>Adobe AIR<\/h3>\n<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/1472018725\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1101\/1472018725_d151dc0d5b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Matthias Zeller drops the AIR bomb at SAP CommuntyiDay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/02\/sap-teched-07-communityday-whos-hungry-whos-burping\/\">noted<\/a> in my Las Vegas CommunityDay wrap-up, this session was packed at the US TechEd. If the attendees at that event were a good dip-stick, there&#8217;s plenty of interests in RIAs in the SAP community, prompting me write that Adobe and SAP look to be having a baby a sometime soon.<\/p>\n<h3>SAP Meets WordPress<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nigeljames.wordpress.com\/\">Nigel James<\/a> has been nice enough to bring WordPress into the fray. To pull from Nigel&#8217;s post on the topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I came up with 4 ways that WordPress and SAP could play together nicely:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Run an instance of WordPress on MaxDB instead of MySQL.<\/li>\n<li>Run php and therefore WordPress on the Netweaver stack via the php-java bridge.<\/li>\n<li>Run a WordPress install with content from SAP via a RFC call.<\/li>\n<li>Run a WordPress install with content from SAP via a Web Service call.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You could even do all of the above. I plan the session to be an exploration of these topics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If we can get people to start hacking on those ideas, we thought we&#8217;d do a short demo of the results at the end of the day for the whole CommunityDay crew.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Nigel can tell me about this whole photo-walking thing too. Photo-driving sounds more my speed. Photo-sitting?<\/p>\n<h3>Twitter Meets NetWeaver<\/h3>\n<p>I think the title of this session from <a href=\"http:\/\/craig.cmehil.com\/\">Craig Cmehil<\/a> pretty much spells it out. The question is what kinds of message will be going back and forth between Twitter and SAP&#8217;s SOA platform, NetWeaver.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a low-hum of a meme of late along the ideas of using Twitter for some sort of business process notification system: something along the lines of a big ol&#8217; sloppy messaging bus in the cloud. A Web Service Bus?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this session will roll that rock along a little further. It&#8217;ll be fun to see what we come up with, and fun to play a little into this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/09\/on-jaiku-google-and-twitter-the-value-of-buddies-attention-lock-in-and-a-mild-wtf\/\">flash-in-the-pan headlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The New Business Meets The New IT: disruption in business models, culture and technology<\/h3>\n<p>That&#8217;s the working title at least.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/sdn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/u\/1915\">Marilyn Pratt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accmanpro.com\/\">Dennis Howlett<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/\">James<\/a> have been cooking up a panel discussion to have both during CommunityDay and at some point in the SDN\/BPX ClubHouse. James&#8217; summary is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat the Web, Office and Enterprise 2.0 hype means for you. A conversation about what works, what doesn\u2019t and why. Or, what if anything does 2.0 have to do with SAP?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Dennis outlined some more narrow topics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>How you can bring the edge stuff to the centre (if possible) &#8211; ie breaking the 1\/9\/90 rule?<\/li>\n<li>What can smart geeks (eg Majority Desk) teach business? For me that changes the conversation. Dan McW had feedback I thought was useful as a starting point. Examples speak louder than theory\/ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Moving the geek vs. suits conversation forward &#8211; we know the problem exists but what are people doing about it? Where are the pinch points? (sorry middle management, step aside or step up to the add value plate)<\/li>\n<li>FaceBook for business &#8211; silly or sensible?<\/li>\n<li>Loose ties strongly held (if temporarily) &#8211; what does this do for relationship?<\/li>\n<li>Making it worthwhile<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Video<\/h2>\n<p>As with last time, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/tv\/\">RedMonkTV<\/a> camera (James and I) will be around as well. If you&#8217;ll be in attendance and there&#8217;s something interesting you&#8217;d like to talk about, we&#8217;re always looking for good content. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.danmcweeney.com\/\">Dan McWeeney<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/matthiaszeller.com\/blog\/\">Matthias Zeller<\/a>, among others, gifted us with plenty of camera time in Las Vegas, and I&#8217;m looking forward to more in Munich, from them, or you ;&gt;<\/p>\n<h2>We&#8217;ll See You There<\/h2>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;ll be at CommunityDay, TechEd, both, or just in Munich, I hope to see you around. The sessions at CommunityDay should be fun, and the Blogger&#8217;s Corner activities are always enjoyable as well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/bpx\" rel=\"tag\">bpx<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sdn\" rel=\"tag\">sdn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/communityday\" rel=\"tag\">communityday<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sapteched07\" rel=\"tag\">sapteched07<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/munich\" rel=\"tag\">munich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ria\" rel=\"tag\">ria<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes on the RedMonk track during SAP CommunityDay in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,12,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-conferences","category-enterprise-software","category-redmonk","category-redmonktv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}