Yesterday at SAPPHIRE, Dennis Moore from SAP Labs came by to talk to the bloggers about "co-imagineering" -- the dynamic interchange that lives and breathes on the SAP Community networks, SDN and BPX. Where development used to be an aggregation of specs, cascading into the product like a "waterfall", the networks are permitting a kind of give-and-take product development that, if nothing else, reduces the cost of services. The vision: communities which develop products, software which is available as a service, solutions that are more fully utilized, greater customer satisfaction and higher levels of engagement, and then, dancers, we start all over again.
Dennis, by the way, has a new job that he tells us is going to reveal more about strategy for the networks, somehow, and which will be announced on SDN.