Well, that's it for another year.  TechEd 2009 in Phoenix ended very well for us with plenty of booth traffic and many great discussions about our products' capabilities and benefits.

This is how it started Monday morning with Jerry and me (mostly Jerry) fixing up the booth:

With all the boxes and rubbish cleared away it looked the finished article. I'm biased but I really liked the new graphics theme.

I like how TechEd compresses the booth hours to co-incide with a long lunch for the attendees.  This gives us time in the morning and afternoon to meet one-two-one with customers, partners and prospects away from the hustle and bustle of the booth.

But it does mean there's a bit of a rush on over lunch.

In terms of new stuff I was able to show the Enhancement Pack impact analysis templates that we'll be shipping in a week or so.  There are two new templates that support impact analysis of Business Functions before they are switched on.  The first template drills-down from the chosen business function to find all the SAP "DNA" that will be affected, including the new Enhancement Objects.  The second template drills-up to find the total impact across the whole system and then reduces this to the recommended minimum required to exercise the proposed change.

We did a good number of LiveCompare demonstrations showing how customers use it to keep landscapes synchronized. Whether it's a standard DEV, QAS and PRD landscape or one featuring production support and multiple project servers, LiveCompare comes with pre-built templates to identify every difference, every unique object, helping you keep production safe and verified.

LiveModel 2.2 is now available. We used TechEd as an opportunity to introduce people to the new functionality. Customers on maintenance will receive their upgrade notice shortly.

We were joined on our booth by Albrecht Gass, CTO of smartShift.  Albrecht was demonstrating smartShift's automatic code remediation technology to help customers upgrade their custom ABAP code.  IntelliCorp and smartShift announced a technology partnership at TechEd.  You can read all about it here. 

The Sunday before TechEd I rented a Harley Davidson Road King and rode to Flagstaff via Payson, Camp Verde and Sedona.  It was a long day but as this picture from just outside Sedona shows, it was worth it!

Update: I was asked where I rented my bike. Answer: Buddy Stubbs.

Finally, our Orion Telescope draw was won by Mike Burstein.  Last I checked it was in the back of a FedEx truck somewhere near Lenexa, Kansas.

Update: the telescope has been delivered.

Update: TechEd Vienna

At the last minute Emma from our UK office jumped on a plane to Vienna to support our good friends at Revelation Software.  As announced previously we're working with Revelation Software to integrate LiveCompare with Rev-Trac.