Twan van den Broek

  This was sitNL, our 15th anniversary of SAP Inside Track Netherlands. Two days of Exploring New Frontiers Together 🚀 with Masterclasses on SAP Joule skills and agents, Joule for developers and SAP Business Data Cloud on Friday. And our SAP Community event on Saturday, covering SAPBTP, development, integration, AI, analytics and data. And closing with a bang, our one and only pubquiz! 🙏🏼 Thanks to our partners SAP • INNOV8iON • Interdobs • SOA PEOPLE • Expertum Consulting • McCoy • VNSG • hashtag#SAPCommunity 🎤 And thanks for superb content Matthias Steiner • Mikal Netteberg • Chris Al Gerges • Wouter Lemaire • Martijn Plugge • Jazwin Mohammed 💯 • Joran de Vries • Robin van het Hof • Jan van Ansem • Robert Eijpe • Tobias Meyer • Kevin Wang • Victor Palkin • Nitin Antoon van Nieuwenhoven • Tim Koster • Ronald Konijnenburg • Dick Groenhof 📣 Shout out to sitNL organizers Caspár van Tergouw • Coen Sanderink • Mientje Paais • Jan Penninkhof • Ronal...

In this episode of the HANA Café NL podcast, hosts Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof celebrate their 20th episode of the year by diving into the VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon with guests Ted Castelijns and Mouade Boussaid from Expertum. 🚀 The VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon The podcast explores a new hackathon format that spans several months rather than the traditional 24-hour "no sleep" sprint. This allows participants to work on real-world business cases alongside their daily jobs. Expertum is currently collaborating with their customer, Ecotone, to solve a practical integration challenge. The team is building a solution within the SAP Integration Suite to address a common pain point: the ability for functional users to easily "switch off" or undeploy specific groups of interfaces during system upgrades. The Tech Stack: The solution leverages SAP BTP, Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP), and the Integration Suite APIs. AI Integration: They are investigating how AI can...

Together with SAP BTP product management VNSG is organizing the SAP BTP hackathon running from October 2025 to January 2026. Three finalists will be chosen from the six participating teams to show their results at the VNSG and SAP year event March 2026.  Jan Penninkhof, Alex van den Hoek and me are local coaches to the teams and experts from product management are standby to solve issues that the teams face. Ronald Schippers and Willem Jan van Tongeren invite you to the hackathon: Send in your business case: Announcing the participants:

  The Heart of Transformation Integration is often described as the "heart" of digital transformation, and at Rabobank —the third-largest bank in the Netherlands—this is especially true. In this episode, experts Gaurav and Dava dive into how they manage integration at scale, moving from legacy on-premise systems to a modern, cloud-first architecture. Key Highlights and Takeaways Massive Scale & Straight-Through Processing (STP): Rabobank’s lending and insurance department operates with a 98% STP rate . This means nearly all business processes are automated via APIs with minimal human intervention. To put this in perspective, they handle approximately 1.6 million synchronous read calls and over 300,000 asynchronous calls in just the first half of the year. The Evolution of the Landscape: The bank has a long history with SAP integration, starting with SAP XI in 2010, moving through PI and PO, and currently migrating to the SAP Integration Suite on BTP (Business Technolo...

  Two and a half days of SAP Enterprise Architecture content shared within the EA community in Berlin. With participants from customers, partners and SAP I look back at a very inspiring event covering: Enterprise Architecture (of course 😀) AI, and the role of an EA to handle this within an organisation Storytelling, softskills are really important for an EA Recap video of the event: Join the EA community here . Watch for future EA events here .

Tune in into our latest episode of HANA Café NL featuring SAP Mentors Ronald Konijnenburg and Tim Koster , where they together with Jan Penninkhof and me, dove deep into the history and plans for SAP Inside Track Netherlands (#sitNL) 2025! Mark your calendars for the 15th anniversary of this incredible community event! 📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025 ℹ️ A local SAP community event for professionals to gather, share knowledge, and swap experiences on the latest SAP technologies. Unique Differentiators: The famous BI/Data Track, which has been a key component of sitNL since 2013. The pubquiz with our one and only quizmaster Dick Groenhof An inspiring keynote by Matthias Steiner on how AI is changing the role of a developer sitNL is organized by the community, for the community, and provides a unique atmosphere to talk freely and learn from peers. Bonus Pre-Event: Friday, November 28 Hands-on session covering Joule Skills and Agents . A deep dive into SAP Business Data Cloud . Don...

Latest HANA Cafe NL episode features SAP Development veteran Evert-Jan Scholten from Signify diving deep into the Clean Core topic. Join Evert-Jan as shares invaluable insights from over 34 years in the field, discussing: Nuances of the new 4 levels of Clean Core (A, B, C and D) How to tackle extensive SAP legacy in a greenfield S/4HANA private cloud The evolving role of the ABAP developer in a world of specialised skills and advanced tooling like ADT and ATC. 🎙 Listen here (or in your favourite podcast app) 📺 Watch here