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craigcmehil
Community Manager
Community Manager

For some of us the SAP Community started off way back in 2003/2004 as the SAP Developer Network (SDN). Later after the Business Objects Community and others merged together it became the SAP Community Network (SCN) - then in 2016 it simply became the SAP Community.

I've personally seen a lot of changes to the environment over all these years but one thing has always remained constant - this is a place where you can come to ask questions, meet others and exchange knowledge.

Over the years we've had things like "Blog it Forward" that let people introduce themselves to each other. We've also had over the years forum threads and things like that to say hello.

We've even created some tutorials to help new comers as well as those like myself take more advantage of the community. Have you taken these 4 tutorials?

  • Tour the SAP Community, Explore the various features of SAP Community, familiarize yourself with community guidelines, discover how to get the most out of your membership, and earn the Tour the Community badge.
  • Ask and Answer Questions on SAP Community, Want to ask questions on SAP Community, but not sure how to start? This tutorial will help you get to know the Questions and Answers section, processes and guidelines, so you can more easily gain and share knowledge.
  • Writing and Publishing Blog Posts on SAP Community, By taking this tutorial, you'll discover how to prepare and manage your blog posts on SAP Community, get tips for better blogging, and learn how to interact with readers. You'll also earn the Blogging Savvy badge.
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Would you be willing to introduce yourself to your fellow community members here?

Me? Well I started my path into the SAP way back in 2002/2003 when my company told me to learn it so I could install it when I cam back from my project in Germany. I'm sure some noticed the odd bit about that statement. Needless to say I dove in and as luck would have it, SAP had just launched their beta of a Community (SDN) so coming from a web application background I felt at home to go figure things out.

@Former Member Was actually one of the first people who helped me to figure things out, my question asking left a lot to be desired as I had no clue about terminology or anything else in the SAP world. Then it was a post by @qmacro about RSS and RFC's that really got me more comfortable and then I just went crazy sharing my experiences and learnings via the blog posts.

I started a series on BSP and "mini WAS" - 

I even presented at my first SAP TechEd event.

BoF, TechEd Munich ’04 – RSS, HTTP and BSP

So it's been a crazy start into the SAP world that resulted in me getting a job with SAP, learning that you don't just "install it" 😉 and now I have the pleasure of trying to help others day to day!

Start your own thread or reply here, what's your story? Who are you?



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former_member13695
Discoverer

I am Abhishek Agrawal, CMO of Design’N’Buy. My experience working with print service providers from all verticals in the past decade or so has bolstered my business acumen and made my management capabilities more efficient.

moshenaveh
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hello everyone!

My name is Moshe Naveh and I'm an SAP Community Advocate, a part of the SAP Community & Influencers team at SAP.

I'm based in Israel. I have many hobbies such as: dancing, carpentry from recycled wood, Cooking, Listening to good movies, reading and travelling. The best part is when I'm able to combine two things that I love:):

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I joined the SAP Community in 2009 and it has been an amazing journey since. Meeting and working with people from all over the world was and is really enriching. One of things I enjoyed the most was the Blog It Forward challenge. It was fascinating virtually travelling around the world, getting to know different cultures, places and above all the people behind this amazing community.

Looking forward to meet more of you via this thread as well:)

Be sure to check out SAP TechEd 2022

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Beautiful area you are living in! Cute children 😊


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I have been to Israel. Beautiful places in Haifa, amazing beach in Tel-Aviv, and history in Jeruselam 🙂

mynynachau
Community Advocate
Community Advocate

Hi community! 
I've joined the community team several years ago and really happy still that I did because there's no day that I am not inspired by all the people here sharing expertise and experience with one another. I studied business administration and actually started with SAP as a working student. I'm convinced that you never stop learning no matter if you're a beginner or an expert. I'm looking forward to connect with many more here in the SAP Community! 🙂

@mynynachau  so, so true!


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lenastodal
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert

Hi hi, 

Well, where do I start ... where does my SAP story start? Potentially with my studies in Mannheim back what feels ages ago: I studied English Linguistics and Business at the University of Mannheim. During my studies I started as a working student in the SAP S/4HANA Finance Marketing team and later on (after my studies) in the area of Global Sponsorships.
I am part of the SAP Community team since summer 2020. I find it interesting to work within various topic areas and the respective products, different product teams and customers & partners from all around the world. I like the fact, that the community is a place where everyone can get answers to questions and share what one learned and experienced while working with SAP products and SAP related topics. 

My personal highlight was and is the SAP TechEd experience that I was attending in 2020 & 2021 in Frankfurt where we streamed Channel 1: 

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Very exciting time and I loved how the community shared their own SAP TechEd experience before, during, and after the event. The best thing is ... SAP TechEd is just around the corner! 


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Oh yeah, I can imagine SAP TechEd 2020 (and 2021) being your highlight 😃

Thanks for sharing @lenastodal 


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sveabecker
Community Advocate
Community Advocate

All right, let’s share my story here as well! Surely, I have already posted a #blogitforward post in 2020 so if you really wanna find out more about me, check it out.

I think I shared this story so many times on different SAP Inside Tracks but maybe it’s worth writing it down 😉

I came to SAP in 2000. I worked as an assistant for 17 years. During all these years I was always searching for something within SAP, which could really inspire me. I am not quite a technical person, so I found it challenging. Maybe that was the reason, why I stuck so many years to my assistant role, no matter if it was a team-, personal- or management-assistant. When I came to SAP Community in 2017, I was first supporting the (now former) manager of the community as an assistant, what else. Fastly, I was involved in tasks throughout my usual assistant tasks, and I was loving it! The time for change was coming to me… and I grabbed it! 😊

I can honestly say I found my passion in SAP Community. Getting together with so many people from all around the world, helping and supporting each other. I'll love it! You’ll find it also in my spare time because still, I am giving my Cardio, Yoga and Meditation classes. Aren’t these communities as well? 😁

I had so many highlights in these years in the SAP Community as you can imagine! But being part of this great crowd on stage at SAP TechEd Barcelona in 2017 was my key experience. That was the first time I met all the passionate, mostly external, community members. I was absolutely thrilled about their passion! That burned into my mind and I will never forget! 😊

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@sveabecker Nice story and I definitely miss seeing you in person! 

You are an inspiration for me to exercise too.

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Thank you, Tammy 😊

I miss seeing you, too. These were so wonderful days...


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lauraschmitz
Community Advocate
Community Advocate

Hi everyone! 😊

I’d also like to take the opportunity to share my story with SAP. During my studies in International Management, I have already naturally heard a lot about SAP as the market leader in enterprise application software and even gave a presentation about the company in one of my modules. One year later, in summer 2018, I started as a working student in the area of Knowledge Transfer and Education in St. Ingbert, Germany, focusing on a machine translation project.

Last year, I then became part of the SAP Community team as an SAP Community Advocate focusing on community engagement. I am very happy to be part of such an amazing team and was fascinated from the beginning by the SAP Community, the interactions, the expertise sharing and supporting of one another and all the inspiring people I got to know on the way so far.

My personal highlight in the first year of being part of the team was the SAP Inside Track in the Netherlands where I was joined by my colleagues @mynynachau,@sveabecker@lenastodal and @Katherine_K. That was the moment when I finally got to enjoy in person the community spirit that I experience every day online. 😊

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 Join us virtually or in person this year. Register for SAP TechEd 2022!

Really great that you got the opportunity to join on SAP Inside Track at least once this year! The spirit is unique! 😃


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Lovely ladies hard at community work!!


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Katherine_K
Community Advocate
Community Advocate

Hello fellow community members!

My name is Katherine Kenneally and I’m an SAP Community Advocate. I joined the community team in March this year (2022) – so you could say I’m relatively new here – but I’ve been working with SAP since 2006. I’ve worked in various roles at SAP, including my previous role as a learning consultant. I started off my career as a software developer, so it’s interesting that I’ve sort of come full circle and back amongst tech-minded people once again – this time as an advocate for our wonderful community!

They say that every day is a learning day – and we are blessed to have so many members here willing to share their expertise with one another. You really can learn something new each time you visit the community, and to have Groups now and to really get to “meet” people brings exactly the kind of community spirit we need.

We all know what a huge global company SAP is. I’m based in Galway in Ireland and work virtually with my team members around the globe. Already this year I got to travel to an SAP Inside Track event in the Netherlands and meet some great people at that event as well as some of my new team members who were also attending. I love to travel and to meet new people, so this was win-win for me. In my spare time I like hillwalking, photography, playing and listening to music, watching great movies, and meeting up with friends.

I’m looking forward to connecting with and hearing from more of you going forward 😊


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serkansaglam
Active Participant

What's my story? Who am I?

I was born in 1978 in Istanbul and grew up in a very nice neighborhood in Istanbul.

I studied computer field in high school and university. Then, after working in a few companies, I started to work as a .NET Developer in a large company. Then I moved to the SAP field and started to work as ABAP developer.

I have been working as ABAP developer since 2007/2008. After working in Latvia for a year, I moved to Norway in 2020.

ABAP is a part of my life. I feel bad when I don't write ABAP 🙂

My biggest goal is to simplify the business processes of my customers. And in doing so, I put myself in their shoes.

I also use many applications and rightly complain when I see unexpected errors or when the process is interrupted. That's why I, as a developer, try to write good code so that my customers don't think the same things. Not only for customers, also for other developers. Well not only for developers, also for the machines.

While developing, I consider a lot of things like user friendly interface, functionality, and error checking etc. I try to write not only to save the day, but also to think ahead.

That's why I have only one single statement describes my work

* * *

"Writes clean and efficient codes for humans to read and for machines to execute."

dieterkaufhold
Explorer

Hello Everyone!

Before I came across this intro section and its opportunity to share a bit about myself I already answered this pretty cool question: "When did you hear about SAP for the first time?"

My answer is an intro in itself:

As to the best of my knowledge, my answer is to be found during my university studies at FH Munich, when I had to decide for an internship 1997. All I really wanted is to spend this time in China. Can you imagine? 1997 in China? Different world altogether...

I made it work (well, a fellow student did) that I got the chance to fly to Chengdu, China to support a SAP implementation for a joint venture of Siemens with a local fibre optical cable manufacturer (Corning).

I was part of a core team with a few German SAP experts from Siemens headquarter who flew in to install the software and stayed a whole month (!!!) for training sessions out of binders which could fill an entire bookshelf...

It changed my world!

SAP became the "flag" I carried with me - until today. My very first job after finishing university studies? A SAP implementation at an aircraft manufacturer. The second (and third and fourth)? SAP consultant in the automotive sector. Next? SAP employment with SAP China for 11 years. 

SAP - you not only allowed me to see the world, you helped me find my wife (no, not a SAP employee...) and made me (at least professionally) who I am today - a Digital Transformation Advisor. 

I feel eternally grateful! Thank you, SAP!

Dieter

nobbi67
Discoverer

Hi all,

it needed 20 years for me to join SAP community. Now I'm happy to be here.

I'm working for a DMS company in Vienna/Austria since 2000 and responsible for all SAP interfaces to our product since 2002. We are certified for ArchiveLink and ILM interface. During the years I improved my skills in customizing ArchiveLink and also in ABAP programming in FI and MM environment.

The next step is certification for CMIS in S/4 HANA public cloud. At the moment I'm struggling to find support for a test environment in the SAP cloud. I got a hint for „#8012331 Cloud test, demo, and development for SAP S/4HANA Cloud per Price list“, but I'm not sure, if I'm able to use it as our company is not joining the SAP Partner program. Any help to get further I appreciate.

Br, Norbert

christianrinner
Explorer

Hi everybody,

it´s great to find a active community. Hope I can help others and learn from others.

Regards

Christian

christianrinner
Explorer

Hi everybody,

hope I can help and learn from others here. Im strong interested in the area of SAP and security.

My start to SAP was a project in 2001  with a 4.6c System.  

So if you have a nice story in the security area, please share with me.🔐

 

Neeraj_Jain
Active Contributor

Hello Community,

Have written Blog on "My Journey on SAP Community"

https://blogs.sap.com/2023/03/19/my-journey-on-sap-community/

Please share your comments or feedback.

Best Regards,
Neeraj Jain

htammen
Active Contributor

More than two years ago I wrote this blog post about my 20th anniversary with SAP. Yep, you're right I contacted the SAP universe in 2000 and I'm SAP community member since 2003. If you want to know the details read the blog.

Although I'm not the youngest community member I never lost my curiosity for news in the world of software. 
There were years when I thought that SAP ecosystem would not be the best place to satisfy this curiosity but at least the last years were amazing.

One greatest things about SAP community for me is that you see many of the same faces even after many, many years again and again at the online and offline events.

That said I shut this statement with my Kudos for SAP community and with the hope that I will be another ten years one of your's.  

sveabecker
Community Advocate
Community Advocate

Hello Helmut ( @htammen ),
Thanks for sharing. Almost the same here, I joined SAP in 2000 and my community entry says October 2002:

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But I have to admit, I was "only" active since I joined the community team in 2016! 😅 (Reason: it wasn't typical to be part of SAP Community in my previous role.)


I agree, it's great to see people around here, no matter if they simply stayed or came back. It oftentimes feels like a big great family! So I am glad to see you here as well 😊

Best, Svea


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abhishekd
Advisor
Advisor

Hi...I am Abhishek, happy to join the SAP community.

Great to have you here @abhishekd! Feel free to take part in other discussions or even start one of your own!


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N1kh1l
Active Contributor

My story dates back to year 2008, had heard about SAP from a colleague of mine and attended the ABAP training out of curiosity. During the training I stumbled upon internal tables and I was like this is crazy, you can declare a whole table as a type. Please don't laugh 😛 the best I knew then was data structures link list, queues, arrays from native language like C++ . The journey never stopped, 15 years later now having worked on SAP EPM suite of products like BPC, SAC across industries, every day of SAP life has been vibrant. I still remember searching  SDN forums for resolution and queries and I must say I always found some help. As my previous boss used to say searching for solutions in SDN is also an art. Last Year I started my active journey within SAP Analytics Community as a contributor. All these years I was seeking help but now I started helping on the forums. I was surprised that in less than a year I completed 60% of my Grand Master solver status along with top leaderboard for consecutive 12 months. I did not expect my journey to get so fast paced but I learned so much during it. Somebody rightly said helping others is one of the best ways to learn and compound your knowledge. Answering on SAP Analytics Community has become like a hobby for me and I want to continue helping anyone I can in their SAC journey. So all those working on SAC Analytics or SAC Planning projects do reach out in case you need any help. 

SAP profile: https://people.sap.com/nikhil_1486

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-anand-26091934

SAC Community:https://community.sap.com/topics/cloud-analytics

Wishing everyone the very Best in their incredible SAP journey.

Thanks to all contributors who made SDN and now SAC community vibrant and resourceful.

Cheers

Nikhil

@N1kh1l we appreciate all of your efforts in the Community to help others. SAC is a really cool product that eveyrone in business can relate!


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kumar5
Active Contributor

Hi , My name is Kumar Gaurav and I have been working in different SAP On-premise and Cloud Solutions since last 13 years. My main focus area is SAP CX.

sveabecker
Community Advocate
Community Advocate

Thanks for sharing and that sounds really great, you being such a long time in SAP topics. Check out our tags to follow it and find related content.


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ksreelatha
Explorer

Hi Community... Hope all are doing good. I happy to be part of this group.  I am looking forward to connecting many more in SAP community.

Welcome @Former Member ! You're in the right place! Have you taken a look at any of our location groups yet? You might find one that you would like to join. Find out more about location groups.


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maxinelee89
Explorer

Hello SAP Community! I'm Maxine from Seoul, Korea working with LG Electronics. I joined this community yesterday and would like to get information about SAP. Looking forward to meet-up soon. 

Hello @maxinelee89 and welcome. Which SAP products or topics are you most interested in? You've reached the right place for learning, collaborating, networking and discussing!


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akash09apr
Explorer

Hi there @akash09apr - would you like to join the discussion thread:
SAP Community - Where are you from?


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Steigleder
Discoverer

I'm Steigleder, and I've been venturing into this SAP world since the year 2000. I started my journey as an ABAP developer, after a few years becoming a functional consultant in Finance. I am currently working as a project manager. My purpose is to encourage the practice and adoption of SAP S/4HANA cloud, public edition in Brazil.

@Steigleder it is so great to hear your journey. You are in a hot spot for sure. What a great adventure you've had. I started as a customer using MM. When I was a consultant, I supported BW. Fast forward now and I work in SAP Community.


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Haripriya_V
Discoverer

Hello Everyone,

  This is Haripriya. This is my first time writing to SAP community or team although I have been working with SAP since yr 2006. I'm here to share my knowledge on the new modules that I have worked on in S4 HANA. Thought - it will be useful to some people and thought this is will be payback to the community. I have been using the community in my job for many years and this will be a little contribution from my side to those who seek some knowledge on what I already have gathered.  Good to connect with you. 

Regards,

Haripriya.V

 

 

oscar_ips
Explorer

Hola ,

Me llamo Oscar, soy de España y en mi empresa se utiliza el sap bussines one, se hace cosas pero me gustaria profundizar en más cosas que se pueden hacer.

muchas gracias

@oscar_ips hola, I am not fluent in Spanish and want to greet you in the community. It sounds like you have great experience with SAP customers on a great product. Have you joined this Barcelona - SAP Community group? Best of luck.


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