Apr 28 2007
Bloggers’ Corner: The Week That Was SAPPHIRE 07
This past week was a great event on a number of fronts. Most important was that a diverse group of bloggers came to Atlanta and we all learned a lot from each other! They didn’t get all the answers they were looking for but I do think they got a lot of answers to the many questions they were asking.
SAP has always conversed with the market, it just wasn’t always so visible. The use of Social Media simply allows us to open yet another door to the market, it just so happens that this new conversation is very visible. Jerry Bowles had this to say about it.
Now, before we get to proud of ourselves, we well better stated as I made some mistakes too. Dennis Howlett had this to say. I take full responsibility as this was my fault entirely! It was an honest mistake but a mistake nonetheless. In trying to plan an event like SAPPHIRE there are a lot of moving parts. I thought I had done a good job in getting all of the necessary parts in the right order. Well, I missed one (probably more). I’ll work harder for SAPPHIRE Vienna to make this one right!
The nice thing about having a conversation is that a conversation isn’t sedentary. Its bi-directional and it travels over time and space. This conversation isn’t over, it will continue next week, next month (in Vienna) and even beyond. A single blog post (question or answer / praise or complaint) isn’t the end in fact, its just the beginning.
[...] but not impossible. But without seeing something concrete, we’re pretty much in the dark. Mike Prosceno acknowledges this lack of seeing was a cockup and it will get fixed. In the meantime, Thomas Otter [...]
Mike.. in Atlanta, there was an SME Analyst session, which conflicted with the session the bloggers were having with Henning. But if this session is being repeated in Vienna then this is the session that they should attend.
[...] them change and perhaps influence the odd customer along the way. Here's a great example from Mike Prosceno providing his perspective on SAPPHIRE and responding to complaints I made about not seeing A1S: [...]