SAP’s Business Process Expert Community Doubles Membership in Less than Two Months to 60,000

Delivering on its commitment to help customers and partners experience the business value of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced rapidly growing momentum for the Business Process Expert Community. The community provides a collaborative environment in which business process experts can share information, experiences and best practices to leverage enterprise SOA to increase business agility. Since its formal launch just two months ago at SAP® TechEd ’06 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the first open community for business process experts has rapidly grown to 60,000 members, nearly one-third of which are based in India. Today’s announcement was made at SAP® TechEd ’06, being held in Bangalore, India, Nov. 8 – 10.

The Business Process Expert Community is designed to foster co-innovation in an open forum that caters to business process experts looking to drive business value from SOA – regardless of whether they are SAP customers or partners. Members can collaborate and co-innovate by accessing and publishing blogs, discussion forums, wiki FAQs, articles, best practices, business scenario models, change management skills and SAP tools to help them deliver increased value to their organizations. Additionally, the community offers specialized vertical and horizontal topic areas to help business process experts leverage the expertise of peers in similar job functions and industries.

SAP is one of the first companies to offer model-driven tools as well as modeled composite applications specifically for this new category of professionals – enabling business process experts to compose business processes themselves, reduce the need for coding and remove the traditional IT backlog, in part by improving business-to-IT communication, tools and processes. The role of a business process expert – a key new job category borne from the evolution to enterprise SOA – has evolved to encompass a variety of titles including business analyst, business consultant, process consultant, application consultant and process developer. A business process expert plays a critical role within companies of all sizes, bridging business and IT to accelerate business process innovation.

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