I am really looking forward to be at this year’s SAP TechEd in Berlin. Come this October it’s been 3 years since my last visit to SAP’s annual conference on technical education and things have certainly moved on in “SAP Land”. It’s also been over 4 years since my last visit to “my” capital city.

At TechEd 2005 in Vienna I focussed on learning more about XI (now renamed to PI), Consuming Web Services and a little bit of WD4A (WebDynpro ABAP). As far as this year’s session offerings are concerned I actually haven’t made up my mind just yet, but I’ll probably go for a mix of advanced ABAP and beginner’s Composition. I’ll also be able to access Virtual SAP TechEd for the first time – a good opportunity for me to see all those sessions missed. I’ve been very critical about Virtual TechEd in the past, but things move on – simple as that. I expect a lot of valuable information: I remember sitting on the plane back from Vienna in 2005 with my head buzzing. This time round it will probably be worse.

Social networking has changed the way how the SAP community communicates and a lot of the key people will be joining the party in Berlin. So most of all I am excited about putting faces to names. For example the ESME (Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment) project is going to be part of the Demo Jam. Whenever time allows I try to keep up to speed with what’s happening there and seeing it demoed in Berlin will surely be a treat. They’ve achieved so far in such short space of time… I wonder what it will look like in October.