SAP Community Network

Social Business for More Successful Outcomes

“With SAP Community Network, we were able
to capitalize on the content and lessons learned
to significantly shorten our learning curve and
development lifecycles.”
Phillip Parkinson, Consultant for SAP NetWeaver
Process Integration, Standard Bank – South Africa
“SAP Community Network has been a very
helpful resource for many questions that we
encountered during the development phase
of our SAP software implementation, easily
saving us 10% to 20% of overall project time.
Finding a similar solution ourselves might
have taken an extra two or three weeks in
“Extending our solution . . . required a very
different business process. With the Business
Process Expert community, we tapped into
experts and launched faster by leveraging
the work of others.”
Louis Panebianco, Project Manager for SUNTAX,
Florida Department of Revenue

“Each and every day, we access and solve real-
life SAP software issues using SAP Community
Network. The wealth of information available
drives considerable time savings and value back
to our team.”
John Moy, Architect for SAP NetWeaver,
Australia Post
some cases.”
Faisal Mehmood, Business Process Analyst,
Colgate-Palmolive Company
“We wanted technical information – step-by-step
instructions on how to get [SAP BusinessObjects
solutions and the SAP ERP application] to work
together. The SAP BusinessObjects community
gave us what we needed to implement the
software successfully.”
Jean-Marc Viallatte, Managing Director,
Groupe Hamelin
“SAP Community Network . . . may be the
most extensive use to date of social media by
a corporation.”
Richard Adler, The Aspen Institute, March 2010
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What Is SAP Community Network?
SAP® Community Network is SAP’s
professional social network, orchestrating
connections between SAP customers,
partners, employees, and experts. Members
leverage the power of social networking for
business, tapping into a broad network of
peers and experts for advice, opinions,
knowledge, and insight in order to solve
their business problems.
Gain More Value from Your SAP Software Investment
• Efficiency – Reduce wasted resources,
cycles, and money by reusing experiences
and solutions from other customers,
partners, and SAP experts
• Impact – Drive higher quality and better
business results by leveraging proven
best practices
Targeted Communities for
Technical and Business Roles
Why Join SAP Community Network?
SAP Developer Network (SDN) community Business Analytics community
• Connections – Build a network
• Knowledge – Gain insight and intelligence
• IT pros, developers, and enterprise architects • Focus on market-leading SAP
• Answers – Learn from experts
• Peer support as you configure, install, run, BusinessObjects™ analytic applications
and optimize SAP software systems • Rich online discussions for business
• Conversations on innovative topics including intelligence, enterprise information
Engage Today
on-demand, in-memory, and mobile solutions management, and more
• Forums: Ask and answer questions
Business Process Expert (BPX) community SAP University Alliances community
• Blogs: Read and comment; share your
opinions
• A way to bridge the gap between business • Real-life knowledge and skills using SAP
• Wikis: Collaboratively create documents
and information technology software
and processes
• A forum for connecting with consultants, • A job marketplace in the career center
• Articles: Learn from technical docs and
business analysts, and solution managers • SAP software–related skills for university
white papers
• Best practices for business solutions and students and professors
• E-learning: Consume self-directed training
processes
materials
Now Featuring
• Speed – Accelerate execution through The idea place hosted by SAP
access to technologies, models, and a • A way to connect with teams to build SAP solutions
network of experts or services
• Insight – Innovate and differentiate with the • A forum to submit, collaborate, and vote for ideas
benefit of collective wisdom and broad and
diverse perspectives