Topic Leader Hall of Fame

Brief History & Rules

Whether you’re brand new to the SAP Community or have been active here for a while, you’re probably aware that the community is a great place to build reputation and earn recognition for expertise in SAP-related topics. SCN has a long standing Reputation Program devoted to continually improving how topic expertise is acquired and showcased in the community.

An important part of that Reputation Program has been the annual SCN Topic Leader contest. It is designed to highlight the most active experts in certain meaningful topics in our community. To earn the Topic Leader recognition for any year, a community member has to be one of the top three members in a topic space in terms of points earned in that space during a defined contest period, usually of 12 months.

What do the winners of this contest earn? Topic Leaders receive an Acknowledgement of Achievement per e-mail. And of course, they also earn the Topic Leader badge and the points associated for the year. Unfortunately, we have not been able to give Topic Leaders a free pass to SAP TechEd && d-code events. Nevertheless, Topic Leaders who have been able to attend these events in person were given additional recognition for their wonderful achievement and contributions to the SAP Community Network.

Following is a table describing the different Point Thresholds, No. of Topic Leaders, and No. of Spaces for the last three years:

Contest Period	Point Threshold	No. of Topic Leaders	No. of Spaces
2015/2016	320 points (9 month contest period)	209	104
2014/2015	480	199	100
2013/2014	500	238	112
2012/2013	440	221	107

Point Threshold
2015/2016	320 points (9 month contest period)
2014/2015	480
2013/2014	500
2012/2013	440
No. of Topic Leaders
2015/2016	209
2014/2015	199
2013/2014	238
2012/2013	221
No. of Spaces
2015/2016	104
2014/2015	100
2013/2014	112
2012/2013	107

Saying Goodbye to the Topic Leader Contest

Please note that the 2015-2016 Topic Leader was the last contest period where we recognize SCN Community Experts through this contest. With the upcoming launch of the new SAP Community, we will be rolling out an “Expertise Score” feature. We believe that this score will be able to more accurately identify our Community topic experts and make them accessible to our wider Community. While we wait for a viable timeframe for this implementation please know that even though expertise score will not be displayed at launch, the activities and behaviors upon which it is based will be tracked as of go-live