SAP Mentors Overview, HR Tech and SuccessConnect Wrap-up

In this podcast we explore two topics - a quick review of the SAP Mentor program, and then some wrap-up, analysis and discussion of the recent HR Tech and SuccessConnect conferences. Joining Mark Ingram, Jarret Pazahanick, Martin Gillet and Luke Marson is our very special guest Sharon Newton - president at hypercision, a world-class consulting firm providing expertise in deploying enterprise-level systems, with a focus on SAP HCM and SuccessFactors.

Steve Bogner and Sharon Newtown were just added to the SAP Mentors group - but just what is that? According to SAP's site - http://scn.sap.com/community/sap-mentors -

"SAP Mentors are the most influential community participants in the SAP ecosystem. As part of a super smart and engaged global cohort of nearly 110 bloggers, consultants, and technical wizards nominated by SAP Community Network peers and selected by SAP. All SAP Mentors are hands-on experts of an SAP product or service, as well as true project champions. The majority of SAP Mentors work for customers or partners of SAP."

We talk a bit about the Mentors program and what it means for us, SAP and our customers. We have three other mentors already on the SAP HCM Insights podcast team - Martin Gillet, Jarret Pazahanick and Luke Ingram.

In our wrap-up of SuccessConnect and HR Tech we talk about a variety of topics - integration, social, and the new SAP HANA Cloud extensibility for Employee Central among other things. A number of folks have written some great pieces on these conferences too - be sure to check them out:

Pictures from the events, courtesy of our own Martin Gillet, are at:

HR TECH conference : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgillet/sets/72157636811056276/
SuccessConnect : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgillet/sets/72157636584885846/

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Meet the Podcast Team

Steve Bogner

Steve is Managing Partner at Insight Consulting Partners and has worked with SAP HR/Payroll since 1993. Focusing on core-HR, Payroll and Project Management around SAP and SuccessFactors HCM, he has worked with all sizes and types of companies. Steve presents at conferences around the world and is an SAP Mentor alumnus. Read his blogs at www.insightcp.com/blog and periodic musings on Twitter at SteveBogner

 

Becky MurrayRebecca Murray

Rebecca Murray is a founder and Managing Partner at Illumiti HCM. Rebecca is an experienced HCM Consultant, helping companies develop and continuously maintain optimal and high-performing workforces. She specializes in the design and integration of talent management and ESS and MSS solutions. Rebecca helps clients across the world implement sustainable global workforce development strategies. She applies her insight and knowledge to each endeavor and excels in delivering a positive user experience. Rebecca holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration. She is also a SuccessFactors Certified Professional Consultant and a Boomi Certified Process Developer. Follow her on Twitter at @Rebecca_Murray3.

Sven Ringling

Sven Ringling is SAP HXM Solution Advisor at ORBIS People GmbH (www.orbis-people.de), a consultancy for Digital HR with SAP's HXM portfolio including SAP SuccessFactors, Qualtrics, H4S4 and SAP HCM. He advises customers on their digital HR transformation journey from strategy and roadmap to implementation and continuous improvement. Sven started his career in 1996 as an SAP HR consultant at IDS Scheer in Germany. He subsequently co-founded SAP HCM consultancies in Germany and the UK and led their cloud transformation initiatives. He has worked with >100 customers across a variety of countries and has been a speaker on Digital HR on conferences on 4 continents. His books and articles published in German, English, and Chinese cover SAP HCM, SAP Concur, Qualtrics and SAP SuccessFactors. Sven is on Twitter at svenringling.

Brandon Toombs

Brandon has worked in HR technology 20+ years. He specializes in Employee Central with over 30 implementations under his belt.  His clients include airlines, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, financial services, and public sector. Brandon has held many project roles - change management, project management, trainer, functional analysis, and a developer. He brings a unique blend of business, functional and technical expertise. He has presented at numerous conferences, is co-author of the latest version of the SAP Press Employee Central book and hosts the only known YouTube channel devoted to Employee Central. Brandon is a passionate believer in the potential of Human Capital processes and technology to supercharge performance of organizations. He can be found on Twitter at BrandonToombs.