Thoughts from Bob Fucci, on the road at SAP’s TechEd Berlin
Bob Fucci is InnoCentive’s SAP relationship manager. He has been at TechEd in Berlin this week, getting to know the European SAP community.
Greetings from Berlin! As I write this, TechEd Berlin is wrapping up. The conference was attended by more than 10,000 SAP customers, partners, and prospects. It’s a great testimony to SAP customer loyalty and the “trusted advisor” status SAP has earned.
It is a very interesting and fluid community. People seem to be trying to foster and develop an atmosphere of creativity and independence while at the same time finding a meaningful contribution to corporate performance. It’s quite interesting to see.
To my surprise, InnoCentive was the only SAP Partner highlighted by both Zia Yusuf and Leo Apothker during their keynote presentations. Both of them talked about the strategic nature of the partnership and urged attendees to visit our booth. SAP also announced that SDN members who register as Solvers will receive SDN points – a significant number of new registrations happened as a result.
At past SAP events, sales and customers drove the direction and the purpose of the discussion. The sales “white space” was filled with partners and the single focus is to sell more to clients. That’s less true at TechEd. The premium is about education – the “white space” is new and different ways to collaborate. It is much more about “individual brands”, personal stories, shared experiences and for InnoCentive the challenge to tap into that and build the story will be critical.
Our partner manager Martin Raepple, from SAP, won a “Top Achiever” award and was recognized in the keynote session. Congratulations Martin. Martin and I also posted a video that helps describe our partnership and our goals going forward.
Overall this event really opened my eyes to the opportunities presented by the partnership, and the enthusiasm of our global SAP audience. Thanks to my SAP hosts for a terrific week!
Bob
Tags: crowdsourcing, InnoCentive, Innovation, SAP, TechEd, TechEd Berlin
October 20th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene
October 30th, 2008 at 2:34 am
FeRP – Family Enterprise Resource Planning
Whether my response is appropriate for this post or not, but i have some thoughts and dreams on SAP journey and taking opportunity to post here.
Looking at the SAP journey so far, one can visualize the extent of innovation just by seeing the tremendous change in older versions and the mySAP versions.
And, can appreciate SAP achievements in reaching smaller to even very smaller business enterprises.
As a SAP consultant and more to that as a user, I enjoy enrichment of SAP day by day.
It may be an extremity but my dream may come true. I dream SAP’s journey ahead to reach further to smaller and tiny enterprises.
Yes, SAP the FeRP too… Family Enterprise Resource Planning.
I believe that every Family is an entity and the house wife is the Chief Executive Officer for this Enterprise.
FeRP enables complete plan of resources for the family.
I foresee that the FeRP, a compact pack from SAP; reach personal computers at every house as like Microsoft windows.
sairam
October 30th, 2008 at 8:56 am
sairam,
Thank you for your comments. My wife would certainly agree with your view of the “Chief Executive Officer” role.
Like you, I have great regard for the community that SAP has built. In case you can attend, Innocentive is going to be at TechEd in Bangelore in November.
Best wishes,
Bob
December 28th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
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