Alan RickayzenAlan Rickayzen is senior product manager in HANA SAP BPM development. H has been with SAP since 1992 and in data processing since 1988. In 1995, he joined the SAP Business Workflow group performing development work as well as consulting for various bue-chip U.S. customers. During this time, he amassed a good technical knowledge of the product before moving to product management, where he was the principal liaison for the SAP Business Workflow user groups. He has written regularly for SAP journals and was a principle author of the first edition of Practical Workflow for SAP. In his pursuit of interoperability, he became one of the principle authors of the Web standards BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask, and he was instrumental in the integration between SAP Business Workflow and IBM Notes. Alan Rickayzen graduated from Kings College London with a bachelor of science degree in physics and can be contacted on twitter or BBO as alanrick. Read More Read Less