This document discusses SAP, a global software company, and its developer relations activities. It introduces Marius Obert, a developer evangelist at SAP, and describes his role in engaging developers through tutorials, hackathons, and community events. The goal is to increase awareness, engagement, and adoption of SAP's cloud platforms and tools.

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Marius Obert, SAP
July 17, 2019
DevRel @ SAP

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What is SAP doing?
Who are Max and Marius?
DevRel @ SAP
Overview
Developer Tutorials
CodeJams
Agenda

3. What is SAP?

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What is SAP?

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What is SAP?
> 98.000
Countries
144
Employees
> 437.000
Countries
> 180
Customers
92% of Forbes Global 2000 companies
98% of 100 most valued brands
100% of the Dow Jones top scoring
sustainability companies
> 30.000
in Development

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What do our customers do?
of the world’s
athletic footwear
provided
>86%
>70%
of the world’s
chocolate
production
>72%
of the world’s
beer production
>50%
of the world’s
packages
couriered

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Open Source at SAP

8. Who are Max and Marius?

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Who is Max?
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Platform Integration
Microsoft Partnership
(Azure)
Internet of Things
Cloud Application
Programming Model

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Who is Marius?
SAP Cloud Platform
Outside-in apps running on Azure,
AWS, or GCP
Web frontend technologies
Enterprise Blockchain

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Who is Marius?
2011
SAP SE | DHBW Karlsruhe
Enrollment bachelor program
2014
SAP Labs Palo Alto
Relocation for an internship
2015
SAP Labs Palo Alto
Conversion to a fulltime position
2016
SAP SE
Internal transfer to Munich
2018
SAP SE
Developer Evangelist

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DevRel at SAP
DevRel
Awareness
Engagement
Adoption

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DevRel Activities @ SAP
Community
Driven
• Blog platform
• Q&A platform
• InsideTracks
• Stammtische
DevRel
Driven
• Tutorial Catalog
• Codejams
• AppSpace
Personally
Driven
• Open Source
Contributions
• Proxy feedback
• CfPs

14. Developer Tutorials

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Central Tutorial Catalog
Overview

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Central Tutorial Catalog
Technical Foundation
Open Source
Atom Plugin
Markdown
GitHub
Dev Experience
Automated Checks
Scaffolding
QA system
Tutorial Features
Copy & Paste Code
OS Options
Validation

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Central Tutorial Catalog
Challenges
Reliable
statistics
Keeping the
content fresh
Handling
issues
Clear
ownership

18. SAP CodeJams

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Community
Free (and Fun)

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Code over Slides

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HackathonHackathon
Step-By-Step Guides

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Spread the word

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Feedback to
Products/Tools

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DevRel

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Challenges

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Windows vs. Mac vs.
the rest of the world

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RTFM

29. Contact information:
Marius Obert
Developer Evangelist
marius.obert@sap.com
@IObert_
Thank you.

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