I’ve been spending time with the SAP/Business Objects team and was recently sent a long list of SAP communities and innovation projects. Its easy to write off SAP as inactive in the Web 2.0 space since it frankly has not done a great job of messaging to its initiatives. This list below should help change that percecption, even if some of the projects — ESME comes to top of mind — are ill-conceived. (Full discolsure: I needed a place to keep the list. Hopefully you’ll find it useful as well!)

Main communities:

· SAP Community Network (SCN) – http://scn.sap.com

· SAP Developer Network (SDN) – http://sdn.sap.com

· Business Process Expert Community (BPX) – http://bpx.sap.com

· Business Objects Community (BOC) – http://boc.sap.com

· SAP Ecosystem Hub – http://ecohub.sap.com

· Enterprise Services Community – http://esc.sap.com

· CW (Collaboration Workspace for private community discussions) – http://cw.sap.com

Key functionality/capabilities:

· Blogs - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs

· Forums – https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/forums

· Wiki – https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki

· Article Library (sort-able by various criteria such as: topic, date, author, industry…) - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/articles-topic

· Events (especially SAP TechEd and SAP Tech Tour) - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/events

Specific topics and programs that may be of interest:

· InnoCentive (innovation) - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/innocentive

· Emerging or fast-growth regions / languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean…) – see language selector in header area at top of page / browser and also https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/category?categoryID=49&start=0 (China) or https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/category?categoryID=50&start=0 (Japanese) or https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/category?categoryID=51&start=0 (Korean) … Brazil (Portuguese) and others to be added in early ’09

· Social Media (Web 2.0) resources - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/social-media

· Reputation management program (points for knowledge sharing) - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/crphelp and https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/contributors-corner with sortable results by individual, company, date, subject area, etc. at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/topcontributors

· Our work with the United Nations World Food Program to recognize the aggregate community contributions and give back to the global community described at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/9999

· SAP Mentors (top contributors ++) - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sapmentors

· YouTube channel - http://youtube.com/user/SAPCommunities

· Docupedia (innovation example) - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/44402

· ESME project (innovation example) – https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10758 (Dennis Howlett ZDnet blogger) and https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10080 (Dick Hirsch of Siemens)

· SAPlink (innovation example) – https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/4476

· DemoJam (innovation example) – http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=YIx_tsJ6IBQ

· SAP Developer Challenge (innovation example) - https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki?path=/display/devchallenge/About