One of the questions the SAP Mentors get to hear a lot is "So, how does one become a SAP Mentor?" or more bluntly - from those who do not know better - "Where can I get such a shirt?"

As the year is coming to an end many people tend to sit down and reflect on the past months and make plans or new year resolutions. For those of us in IT or more precisely for those of us making a living in the enterprise software business it has been a content-packed year again. Lots of announcement, lots of buzz, lots of information! No doubt about it – technology innovation is a trending topic!

Introduction

There’s so much happening in that high signal space that is the SAP Mentor program and the extended community (aka friendly wolf-pack) that I take it as a good opportunity to wrap-up some of that experience in another episode of my corresponding blog series.

Having been around on SCN for a while and being a regular at the SAP TechEds I could not help, but noticing this group within the SAP ecosystem. For those who know (and maybe follow) them, they look omni-present in the SAP space and especially in the twitterverse. Being a global group of dedicated individuals with a wide range of expertise and skills and a commonly-shared attitude for open communication clearly results in an impressive activity stream. Being a newbie mentor I only now start to realize “how deep the rabbit-hole goes” and the constant flow of incoming tweets talking about the mentor magic is truly fascinating. I knew I’d be in for the ride of my life, but let me tell you – I had no idea!

Here’s my humble attempt to digest some of it by sharing it with you…

Introduction

The facts, the facts and nothing but the facts! …that and a little bit of friendly batter and complementing chatter – including a few back-seat trolls! :)

SAP Mentor Monday

So, there they were…. my five minutes of fame, so to speak. Well, a littlebit more than that actually. At the end it took me around 13 minutes to briefly introduce myself plus to do a short demo on scalable service interfaces. Did I overdo it? I have to admit that I didn’t do a timed test-run, which Otto rightly wondered about… (guess I read 5+8 minutes instead of 5-8 minutes).

Anyway, so here it goes – my self-reflection upon my introduction at the last SAP Mentor Monday webinar.

If you haven’t watched the recording yet (what could have been more important? ;))  - you can do so following this link: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/p37466139