I’m pleased to share with you the second post in our blog series dedicated to SAP Document and Reporting Compliance.

In today’s blog post, I’ll discuss how you can learn more about SAP Document and Reporting Compliance by engaging with the SAP Community. I’ll highlight the key resources available within the SAP Community, and explain how you can contribute by asking and answering questions, responding to blog posts, and creating content.

An introductory title slide on engaging with the SAP Community

1. Getting Started with the SAP Community

You may know the SAP Community primarily for its informative blog posts, though the community also offers a wide range of resources that help you stay up-to-date with the topics most relevant to your SAP solution. It is a receptive and inclusive environment that is open to everyone, and we encourage you to join and collaborate.

Getting started with the SAP Community is simple, and anyone can register to create a profile. Just access the Getting Started resource and follow the steps listed below:

Steps to get you started with the SAP Community

2. SAP Community and SAP Document and Reporting Compliance

The SAP Community has a range of topic-specific resources, and the most relevant for us today is the SAP Document and Reporting Compliance community topic page. Here, you’ll find the latest SAP news relevant to your solution, along with in-depth updates from subject matter experts on strategy, implementation, and innovation.

Stay up-to-date with these publications and join the conversation by selecting the Follow option:

Follow option highlighted for SAP Community pages

On the Community Content tab, you’ll find the latest blog posts on SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, as well as recent questions on area-relevant topics. You can narrow your results by searching via content for blog posts or Q&A, and you can also filter by language:

Community Content tab and additional filters highlighted on the SAP Community

3. SAP Community and Localization

Another topic page relevant to SAP Document and Reporting Compliance is the Localization community topic page. This Localization resource focuses on how SAP caters to local markets by adhering to regional business practices and regulations. Key points of interest are the events calendar for local engagement opportunities and the Expert Reading section:

A selection of Expert Reading articles on the SAP Community

4. SAP Community: Ask and Answer Questions

As a final note for today, the Answers tab on the SAP Community is your general entry point for following discussions on relevant topics and asking questions to the community. To learn about our guidelines on engaging with SAP Community Q&As, check out this SAP Learning course, Ask and Answer Questions on SAP Community. You can actively contribute to the community by responding to questions and building up a reputation as a topic expert in your area.

To better understand how topic areas and questions are organized on the SAP Community, check out this About Tags topic. Tags enable you to filter content and results, and we recommend you start by following the tags for SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, Localization, and your relevant SAP solution (such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition).

Final Thoughts

I hope my post today has shown you how engaging with the SAP Community can benefit your work with SAP Document and Reporting Compliance. If you have any questions, or if there’s a topic you would like us to consider in our blog series on SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, please let us know in the comments. Your feedback is always appreciated!

This is our second blog post in the “An Introduction to SAP Document and Reporting Compliance” series. In case you missed it, you can catch up on the first installment here: An Introduction to SAP Document and Reporting Compliance: Navigating the SAP Help Portal.

Thank you and until next time,

Barnabas Kirk