Reed: Well, we’ve covered a lot of points in this podcast. Are there any topics on becoming a Business Process Expert or taking advantage of the BPX community that we hadn’t covered yet, that you wanted to get across?

Vaanholt: Yes, there is so much, but I think one of the things that I do want to do is invite people--most of your listeners are already familiar with SDN, but I do think it would be good to scope out what’s already in the BPX community and invite them to the BPX community. The first advice I’d tell most people is: We have a really solid getting-started area, which explains a little bit more about what the role means. Again, it’s an evolving role. I get a ton of questions from people about, “How does this relate to me? How can I get certified?” And a lot of the information is already on the community itself.

On top of that, we have tons of collaborative areas, whether it’s in the Wiki or it’s in the forum areas, where people are helping other people to solve business issues of today. You know, one of the things I do want to mention is that a lot of Application Consultants are not aware that we have a whole ERP upgrade forum where people share information about best practices on ERP upgrades. I think the BPX community, as well as the BPX role, is an evolving role, and as we evolve we invite as many people to share and contribute as well as communicate to us what is needed.

That’s another aspect which I really want to make come across--is that we’re a living thing, you know, we’re just building this city, and we need people’s advice on where we need to build next. And that’s definitely an area where I would like to invite people and communicate and collaborate together with our community evangelists and our community mentors to figure out what the next steps are for this BPX community itself.

Reed: Ordinarily, at the end of the podcast, it’s always hard for me, because I feel like we haven’t covered nearly enough, but, in this case, the whole point of the podcast is simply that there’s an opportunity to actually stop consuming the information about this, and actually get on BPX and get involved. So, I guess that’s going to be our closing message, that the seismic plates of SAP skill sets may be shifting, but the opportunity is there, like never before, to actively seek out the skills gaps that you might feel in your own skills set and find a solution for it.

On that note, I would like to wish Marco the best of luck building out the BPX community. And hopefully, we’ll see you online soon.

Ten Vaanholt: Thank you, Jon and Jon.

Reed: I’d like to thank our listeners for joining us today for this podcast interview on becoming a Business Process Expert. This podcast was a joint venture between SearchSAP, and my site, JonERP.com, “Bringing you career answers for SAP professionals.” And with that, I’d like to turn it back to our host, Jon Franke, of SearchSAP.

Franke: Well, thanks a lot, Jon and Marco. That does it for this edition of SearchSAP.com’s podcast series on Business Process Experts, skills and resources. Until next time, I’m Jon Franke. Thanks for joining us.

Editor’s Note: This interview is not a verbatim transcription of the podcast. It was edited for clarity and readability; however, no content from the podcast conversation was removed.

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