{"id":24,"date":"2007-02-07T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=24"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:21:27","slug":"sap-premium-access-zone-paz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"SAP Premium Access Zone (PAZ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current SDN homepage features another link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/sdn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/5707\">blog<\/a> about the SAP&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/sdn\/pazteched06?\">Premium Access Zone (PAZ)<\/a>. As previously mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=20\">on here<\/a>, I have some reservations about this move and I do feel that TechEd visitors are -compared to the old DVD delivery- being short-changed. This becomes even more apparent when ones takes the high SAP TechEd attendance fees of (GBP 1500+) into account.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, I don&#8217;t understand why these sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are only made available online (despite SAP claiming that you can access the sessions &#8220;anywhere&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>come with limited access for only 12 months (despite SAP claiming that you can access these sessions &#8220;anytime&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>can not be downloaded (only the PDFs of the slides are downloadable)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not every topic is covered at every single TechEd. Also, given the time until latest SAP developments really &#8220;hit you on the ground&#8221;, 12 months is unrealistic as an access period.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be interesting to see if this &#8220;cynical cost cut by SAP&#8221; (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdn.sap.com\/irj\/sdn\/weblogs?blog=\/pub\/wlg\/5707\">one commenter<\/a> puts it) will be reflected in lower attendance fees for SAP TechEd.<\/p>\n<p>Comments below the blog post indicate that I am not the only one who criticises this move. In fact, one of two positive feedback comments actually comes from a SAP employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current SDN homepage features another link to a blog about the SAP&#8217;s new Premium Access Zone (PAZ). As previously mentioned on here, I have some reservations about this move and I do feel that TechEd visitors are -compared to the old DVD delivery- being short-changed. This becomes even more apparent when ones takes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}