February 08, 2007

BPX (Business Process eXpert) Community

Personnally, the BPX (Business Process eXpert) Community, hosted as a part of the SAP Developers Network, has some exciting potential as a hub for ARIS practitioners to gather and share information about the platform. Community Evangelist Marilyn Pratt did a good job of explaining the community and how it is evolving. I was able to chat with her a bit afterwards and will find some ways to integrate my blogging with the community and start reading what others write. It will be interesting to see if the focus stays on ARIS for SAP Netweaver or can support a general ARIS community.

VO and Marilyn Pratt, BPX Community Evangelist

Some notes...

  • Differentiator from SAP Developer Network (SDN)
    • SDN for the programmers, developers, repository keepers.
    • BPX for the Composers who are building and orchestrating the services and Disruptive innovators who are working on big improvements in the whole business / IT interface.
  • BPX role coming from BPAnalyst, App Consultant, Process Developer, BPArchitect, BPManager.
  • BPX Community: Both traditional content: white papers, articles, etc., organized by Business Process Cycle (Analyze, Design, Implement, etc.)
  • Informal Content: forum, wiki, blog.
  • Assured they are not focused on SAP solutions only, but are domain subject matter.
  • Are the bloggers all SAP employee’s?
  • Are there measurements that they are using for the contributors to BPX?
  • Is there content (or plans for content) focused on ARIS users? There is some content now, but it looks to be focused on the SAP for Netweaver tool.
  • Do they have the traditional content available for subscription?
  • Do they accommodate contributors who may already have blogs or content from other communities? Support for trackback and such.
  • Is there any relationship between ARIS user community and BPX?

    Posted by outlawv at February 8, 2007 08:14 AM
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