Chris Paine

[StephanieMarley]

About Chris

• Victoria, Australia

• SAP Mentor since 2008

Chris, an SAP Mentor, SAP SuccessFactors Confident, SAP HANA Distinguished Engineer, community advocate and general outspoken HR Technologist has been implementing SAP HR solutions on premise and in the cloud for over 25 years. He takes great interest in all new SAP technical innovations and has in particular been involved in pushing the envelope of SAP SuccessFactors enhancement solutions built on SAP Business Technology Platform. Whilst these days Chris is more often found putting together PowerPoint slides on system architecture and integration strategies, he also does get hands on with the actual technical implementations of solutions. A frequent presenter at SAP conferences and a prolific contributor to SAP forums (both public and behind the scenes partner discussions), Chris loves to share his thoughts on working better and smarter with SAP technologies. Don’t ask him about blockchain.

Topics of interest: HXM, Integration, Technology, Innovation, Design

Chris, what inspired you to become an SAP Mentor?

There were a combination of reasons. I had spent much time in the community supporting others, which I found very rewarding, but I really wanted a channel to share what I had learnt through that process. Becoming a mentor helped open up those avenues for feedback to SAP. There was also the fact that I love to surround myself with smart people, and the mentor group certainly helps with that. I really value lifelong learning and am inherently curious. So much so that I did a degree in Physics and French because I wanted to know how the universe works! Being able to help SAP explain not only what the products do but why, through being able to ask these questions from the SAP executive is personally very rewarding.

What advice would like to share with other SAP community members?

Sharing is learning and learning is sharing. As Richard Feymann once said "If you want to master something, teach it. The more you teach, the better you learn." 

By sharing what you know with others, and especially helping them through issues that you haven't come across you will find that you learn faster, become aware of more nuance, and as a bonus, feel better about yourself because you are helping others!