Hello to all, I've recently published an article https://blogs.sap.com/2023/03/21/can-we-use-chatgpt-to-enhance-supplier-data-collection-for-esg/ It's inaccessible for days - I cannot see it even in the list of my Blogs? Any idea if there is any technical issue with Blogging system? I have tried to contact support, but no response... If's the first Blog I did - still if there is any issue with the Blog - I would expect some comment is send by the Moderator or so. The thing is, I do talk more about ChatGPT (and only briefly about Ariba/BTP), so if I need to withdraw the Blog and post somewhere else - no problem as far as I am concerned. The problem is, I cannot access my Blog at all (cannot save the content I did, withdraw/delete etc.), and I do not know what the problem is... Any idea? Anyone was experiencing similar problems? ... View more

Hello Fellow Community members,  I'm starting this discussion trail for anyone who wishes to share their blog link here can do so by commenting below. I'll put by blog's link in the first comment.  Also, people who like reading can also feel free to comment below the blogs that they read and have benefited from.   Quick Summary about my blog.  Before switching my career to SAP I use to work in development. Hence most of my already published posts in my blog are about random Tech. I'm looking forward to contributing more towards SAP in my blog and as well as here on this community section.    Thanks Hamza ... View more

I have just posted a blog SAP Q&A: How to post a perfect question to get a perfect answer I wonder if you agree with those tips and what other tips you might have to use SAP Q&A more efficiently. Thank you Craig Cmehil for inspiring the article. ... View more

Starting a career is hard and requires a lot of discipline, self-motivation, and perseverance. All of these qualities apply to Karen Rodrigues. The woman from Brazil turned her life around completely and went from being a strong and successful professional in Business Administration and Accounting to a strong and successful woman in tech . But her transition wasn’t easy. But what helped her in addition was her determination to learn and grow. “ I worked hard, double even, to show everyone else that I have the skills and competent. It is my belief that knowledge is power and the key to success. You must study and you have to take action to change your life. “ I know there are more people like Karen out there. People who had and have the determination to learn and grow, to boost their careers and to develop personally. That is why I am looking for learners from all backgrounds who have made use of one or more of SAP’s various learning offerings. Tell me about the impact your learning experience had on your life: Did you kick-start your career thanks to a certification? Did you even switch to a completely different role? Or has learning in general impacted your personal life? I would love to hear your success story, no matter how small or big it is. I am hoping to find real-life testimonials who are willing to tell their story, inspire other people with it, and help me and my team at SAP achieve our mission: Creating opportunity through learning and development for all.  Your story could be turned into social media marketing material, a feature article or even a written story. Whether you are a student and new talent, a well-seasoned SAP professional, a self-starter, career switcher, or else, I would love to get to know you and your story, so feel free to reach out, comment, and share with others! ... View more

Hello All, Have written a SAP Blog on "My Journey on SAP Community". Link is placed below.  https://blogs.sap.com/2023/03/19/my-journey-on-sap-community/ Please give reaction and feedback on it if any. ... View more

https://blogs.sap.com/2023/03/15/happy-anniversary-sap-community-lets-merge-those-accounts/ Just announced this morning and a solution for those of you with S and P users. Check out the post for more details on how you can go ahead and merge today. ... View more

So, I returned from a long vacation from here, and I'm lost. Now I'm galactic something, uh? My profiles here and in the answers ... (site? section?) are different, but although in my people's content section I can see my posts in the CC, clicking them just leads me to this group initial screen (UNLOGGED). And the post I was seeking for is not here anymore (?). I'm pretty sure those things have been explained, they have their logical reasons to be, and to fix and/or to clean everybody's profile will be a hard work to do (with no real benefits). But my feel is like "oh, man, this is a mess". Something I can expect from a small company's site (or a bigger but broken one), but not from the mighty SAP. I know, I know, I'm not a "customer", I'm just a guest. And I know that as a guest I have no right to ask for expensive things (I have no rights, really). But dudes... I'll try, but up to today, I don't feel at home here. Crap, I don't even feel myself comfortable with the new layout, the content and other things. So I guess I'll stay for a bit, looking weirdly around, and I'll use the first plausible excuse to leave the party, go home and do not come back for a long time (again). No hard feelings. I was trying to decide if this post is necessary, and, although I decided it's not, maybe it'd be useful for the people who invest all these efforts here to know how "outsiders" feel. So here it is. Apologies if I seemed rude, it was not my intention. ... View more

This year, SAP is celebrating 20 years of the web-based SAP Community platform. Happy anniversary! I thought I'd contribute to these celebrations with some memories of my own. Recently my good old friend Craig Cmehil posted a discussion over on the SAP Community:   Did you know? It's been 20 years! What's your favourite community memory?. There are some great photos and memories being shared there, and it's definitely worth heading over there after reading this post and checking out the thread. Twenty years - has it really been that long already? Well, it's actually been longer, but more on that shortly. What SAP Community is The SAP Community (capital C) is the latest name and incarnation of the web-based platform that was born in 2003, twenty years ago this year. Back then, it was launched as the "SAP Developer Network", which aligned sensibly with other similar initiatives that existed around that time, such as MSDN, the Microsoft Developer Network. Later that decade, in 2007, the name was changed to "SAP Community Network", partly to acknowledge the presence of other practitioners and welcome them into the mix. Most recently, in 2016, the name was changed again to simplify things, and became "SAP Community". My involvement in its creation The launch of SAP Developer Network, which we now take for granted in the form of the SAP Community, was in the first half of 2003. It was the result of a lot of work from a small team working behind the scenes. I was a member of that team. How did it come to be so? Well, there were a number of factors, which I'll describe here. As an author and speaker with O'Reilly Just over a year before the birth of the web-based platform that we now know and love as SAP Community, my first book "Programming Jabber" was published by O'Reilly (see the   books section in my About Me page). O'Reilly was (and still is) a very well respected technical book publisher and also had some great experience with building community platforms on the Web back then. My work writing   Programming Jabber, and speaking at O'Reilly's annual Open Source Convention (OSCON) event, meant that I had a great relationship with the wonderful folks that worked there. As a technical consultant in the SAP tech ecosphere I started working with SAP software in 1987, with the mainframe version SAP R/2 (version 4.1d to be precise). So by the time SAP decided it was time to build and run a community of its own, I had already 15 years worth of relationships built up, and a reputation (mostly as a troublecauser, no doubt) based on my day job as an SAP basis person, developer, architect, consultant, and so on working at customers and partners and as an independent. Moreover, I had been active in the community in the decade leading up to the birth of SAP Developer Network in 2003 too. As someone active in the early days of SAP communities In the early days of my career, I was working as an employee of a small SAP consultancy and travelling around, spending most of my evenings in hotel rooms. In early 1995 I created the first online SAP community. Back then, the Web wasn't what it is today; most Internet based communities were based around either Usenet (newsgroups) or mailing lists. Mailing list software was the norm for handling community discussions and interactivity, and I used   Majordomo   for the community I created, which was called "merlin", and was mainly for technical discussions and Q&A activities around both SAP R/2 and SAP R/3. I spent pretty much every evening at the desk in my hotel room on my Sanyo NB 17 laptop (with a whopping 1MB of RAM and a 2400 baud modem), administering this community of like-minded folks who wanted to connect and exchange ideas and questions. It was hard work, seemingly never ending, but very rewarding. Later that year I got to know of another mailing list that had just formed, called sapr3-list. I reached out to the creator of that list, Bryan, and we proceeded to run our lists in parallel, exchanging stories of administrative issues and more. Then a few months later, we were approached by some lovely folks from   MIT, who were SAP customers, and who wanted to offer us help with our SAP community activities. Sue Keohan   was one of the folks that reached out, and between us, we formed a new single mailing list called SAP-R3-L that became the central SAP community that encompassed all the discussions, memberships and more of merlin and sapr3-list. This mailing list, by the way, was based on another piece of (now venerable) community mailing list software,   LISTSERV. The posting guidelines on our SAP-R3-L mailing list With a rapidly growing number of community members, and multiple administrators able to deal with the discussions, the traffic, the issues and whatever else came up, the community blossomed further. Creating the SAP Community Hopefully that gives you a bit of context as to where things were when SAP decided to make its move. This was great news, and I got together with folks from O'Reilly and SAP to thrash out strategy, design, purpose and types of content that would make for a successful Web based community (because by this time mailing lists were less popular, and communities had started moving to the Web, so it made total sense). We spent a few months working on this, and the result was launched in early 2003. It was super exciting, and I, along with a couple of others, including my old friend and colleague   Piers Harding, had been busy creating technical articles to give the website some substance so we could launch with something that wasn't completely void of content. There was a blogging system too, and we used that to express our thoughts and ideas from the start. I published my   first blog post   on the new website on 30 May 2003; this was the second blog post ever on SAP Community, the first being the inaugural one three days before that from   Mark Finnern, who was at SAP and designated chief community herder and organiser on the new website. Wrapping up So there you have it, my memories of the birth of the Web-based SAP Community. I'm proud to have played my part, and very happy to continue to do so in today's incarnation. The SAP Community flourishes because of the people, inside and outside of SAP. That's what a community is all about. And as long as it's about that, I think it will flourish for years to come. Further reading The SAP developer community 10 years ago   (Jul 2005) The evolution of the SAP community   (Mar 2016) How I got involved in the SAP community   (Feb 2022)     (Originally published on qmacro.org) ... View more

So it's been 20 years since SAP launched the SAP Developer Network and wow what a journey we have taken! We'd love for each and everyone one of you to share memories of that journey, whether it's an event, activity, first blog post, meeting your online bestie 🙂 whatever the case may be, please take a moment and tell us about it! I've so many memories, so hard to pick one, in fact I may come back and share more but I think the first I will share -- my first time meeting @thomas_jung once I became an employee and attending my first SAP TechEd event in 2005 (as an employee) in Boston. ... View more

Is great to start the day with a special treat! I want to share something about the culture where I was raised. Will you have a Fasnacht today??? 🍩 Fastnacht Day 2023 is  Tuesday, February 21st . This food holiday is also known as Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, which is why the delicious treats are often referred to as "Mardi Gras donuts". I grew up in Lancaster County, PA, USA -- Pennsylvania Dutch Country! "Fastnacht Day is an annual Pennsylvania Dutch celebration that falls on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. The word translates to "Fasting Night" or “Almost Night” in English. The tradition is to eat the very best foods, which are part of the German tradition, and much of them, before the Lenten fast."  ... View more