the next step – CompriseIT
Back in October 2008 I attended Owen Pettiford’s (Co-CEO of CompriseIT and fellow SAP Mentor) presentation during Community Day at SAP TechEd Berlin. Owen spoke about SOA and Composite Applications. In my TechEd Roundup afterwards I wrote:
During Community Day I attended Owen Pettiford’s (founding member of BPX network) interesting SOA session. He talked about the framework and approach he uses in his daily work. I like his approach to deal with small “pains” first, keeping it simple and making use of existing, perfect systems by bringing them together with SAP Composition Environment, for example. Inspired by this, I decided to learn more about CE on Community Day. I might be way off here and there is lots more to get into, but especially in the current economic climate CE might play a larger role in the short to mid term.
Since then, Owen and I remained in touch and during March 2009 he approached me asking if I would be interested in joining Comprise to work as Composite Application Consultant. I’ve been thinking about a slight change of direction for a while and have to admit that I find composites and SAP CE a very exciting area.
I’m therefore delighted and excited to report that I’ve decided to join the Comprise team from the beginning of June 2009 onwards. It will be a big learning curve for an ABAP/Web Development Consultant like me, as the tooling is different in some areas (BPM, BRM, Composite Application Framework, Webdynpro Java, etc), but I am confident and more than looking forward to the challenge. I’m planning to blog about my “path to CE” on here, so keep your ears and RSS readers pierced.
Apart from Owen and CompriseIT I would also like to thank SAP, SDN, SAP Community Day and the SAP Mentorship Programme in particular. Without the latter SAP initiatives and programmes none of this would have not been easily possible. It is another proof what SDN and the SAP mentor programme is capable of achieving.
Last year, other Community Day participants convinced me to come a day earlier to join in and meet peers in Berlin. Now I know for sure what they meant !
Would you mind if I asked you ? what is necessary to start with SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment , Im an junior abap developer trying to improve his tech. skills
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HI there,
sorry it took me so long to reply.
Have a look under the Downloads section on SDN, there is a CE 7.11 Ehp 1 trial available. That should be enough to get you started. Also, there are plenty of tutorials on WDJ, CAF development and VC for you to get your teeth into.
Enjoy!
M