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Bluefin's Head of Technology selected as SAP Mentor

11 May 2010

John Appleby, Bluefin's Head of Technology, has been selected as one of the 13 new SAP Mentors.

SAP Mentors are the top community influencers of the SAP Ecosystem. Most mentors work for customers or partners of SAP. All of them are hands-on experts of an SAP product or service, as well as excellent champions for product roll-in and roll-out. They have been nominated by their peers on the basis of their passion for the community, their willingness to contribute and share as well as motivate others.

John is a Thought Leader in the SAP technology arena and advises the LE space in SAP strategy, particularly in the architecture and infrastructure space. He is occasionally allowed to login to demo SAP systems to hack at bad ABAP code and has even been known to hack at iPhone applications in XCode. Be afraid if you see last changed by JMAPPLEBY! Background is in C & Java development, then having a brief stint in 4GL programming for BI & scorecarding scenarios. He then moved to the architecture and infrastructure space, later specializing in landscape design, sizing, and performance. In his current role at Bluefin Solutions he leads a global team of developers and NetWeaver specialists to produce industry leading SAP solutions. His current SAP interests surround mobile, cloud computing and enterprise social messaging.