This Group

Tue May 4 15:25:36 EDT 2010

Hi All,
I have seen the decrease in traffic over the past few years.  As a matter of
fact, I proposed sunsetting this forum in 2007 - at it's 10-year birthday.
At the time, many subscribers asked that the list be kept alive, and so it
is.
As long as someone sees benefit in it, then it is serving its' purpose.  

Perhaps one way to increase traffic and pour more knowledge into the SAP-WUG
fountain is to make a commitment to try to answer - say one question a week
- even if it's a little time-consuming?  I'll sign up for that.

As for Business Workflow receding and waning as a skill set - I respectfully
disagree.  It's true there are new tools and new technologies,  but I still
see workflow as the workhorse it is.    

Regards,
Sue

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Susan R. Keohan
SAP Workflow Specialist
Enterprise Applications
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street, LI-200
Lexington, MA. 02420
781-981-3561
keohan at LL.MIT.EDU

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Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:04 PM
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Subject: Re: This Group

Hi,

No point replying to other posts on this thread as the original  
message is succinct enough to merit a direct response.

I think the attention being paid to this forum is directly  
proportional to the amount and complexity of Workflow development  
being carried out and the depth of Workflow development experience in  
the average subscriber.

Now it could be argued that fewer 'new' Workflow issues being  
discussed here could mean good or bad things are happening in the real  
world. From my personal experience it seems more likely that SAP  
Buisiness Workflow is receding as a tool and waning as a skillset.

Granted it's more immediately accessible to the general Client because  
it's embedded in the standard offering. But are people pushing the  
boundaries of what it can do or have we hit them already and that's as  
far as SAP plan to take it?

These days the juicier Business Process Modelling projects are being  
done in the Composite Environment (Java) arena and less often in the  
ABAP stack at all.

So rather than this Forum losing support I would actually argue that  
Workflow itself has reached a plateau and stopped evolving. Perhaps  
only for a while...

Regards,

Mike GT

Sent from my iPhone

On 4 May 2010, at 16:48, Nash John <emailtonash at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I get the feeling that this group is slowly but steadily loosing its  
> significance as I don't see members active/willing to get involved  
> in discussion/help as it used to be 3 to 4 years ago.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nash
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