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From Digital Transformation to AI Transformation: Real-World SAP Build & Joule Experiences

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Are we still talking about "Digital Transformation," or has the conversation officially shifted to "AI Transformation"? In this episode of HANA Cafe NL, Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof sit down with Deloitte experts Yves Suiker and Dennis van Klaveren to cut through the marketing noise and look at how low-code and GenAI are actually landing at customers today. Key Highlights from the show: SAP Build in Action: Learn how Deloitte built a custom app in just weeks to track "floating containers" (mobile storage locations) for an offshore client—solving a complex logistics gap that standard S/4HANA didn't cover. The Power of Joule & Agents: The team discusses the rapid evolution from basic "skills" to "autonomous agents." They share a mind-blowing example of an agent built in just 3 hours that performs risk analysis for airlines by grounding SAP business data with real-time news. The "3-Hour Hackathon" Reality: Gone a...

Van Excel naar shiny labels met SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud door Egbert en Thomas van myBrand Conclusion

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Van Excel naar shiny labels met SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, on stack development en een beetje SAPBTP door Egbert Venema and Thomas Boerstra van myBrand Conclusion. Hoe automatiseer je een bedrijfskritisch proces in een CleanCore omgeving zonder in te leveren op flexibiliteit? In de nieuwste aflevering van hanacafeNL met Jan Penninkhof en mij delen Egbert Venema en Thomas Boerstra van myBrand | Conclusion een klantcase over een Public Cloud-implementatie bij MBI. 🖨️ De uitdaging: het printen van de pallet labels gebeurde nog via een foutgevoelige Excel-sheet. 💡 De oplossing: Het team verving de Excel-laag door een volledig geautomatiseerde flow binnen SAP, met behulp van: 🔹 Event-Driven Architecture 🔹 Adobe Forms 🔹 Een eigen Fiori Elements-app 🎙️ Luisteren 📺 Kijken

The Grand Finale of the VNSG SAP BTP hackathon

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  Last year VNSG and SAP BTP product management invited customers and partners to join the hackathon with a real life business challenge. After enablement teams started to work on their case with the support of their coaches and product management. In February the six participating teams presented their solution to the judges and three finalist were chosen. At the year event of the VNSG and SAP, called SYNC, the finalists presented their solution in a DemoJam. Within 5 minutes they needed to convince the audience during the keynote. After that it was up to the attendees to vote: 🥇 Team Promocean together with SOA People with their Purchase Order Control Center. AI connected to ECC. 🥈Team Ecotone together with Expertum with their Integration Suite Management solution. Joule can now undeploy/deploy groups of iFlows. 🥉Team NTT DATA Business Solutions with Protrack. A solution that enables real time insight for machines on the production floor. Join me behind the scenes:

How to train SAP Joule 💎 to be your weatherman 🌦️

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  SAP Joule comes with a powerful bag of SAP knowledge. But what if you want to train Joule some new skills? This is where SAP Build comes in. Here you can create your own skill that you can add to Joule to extend its knowledge. I tried this by using a weather API and see if Joule now can give me the weather conditions for a certain city. All you need is: SAP BTP with Joule activated A weather API A new skill for Joule 📺 In this video I explain how 👇🏼

AI is changing the role of an Enterprise Architect

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At the SAP Enterprise Architect Summit in Berlin (October 2025) we talked about the future of the Enterprise Architect. With several experts we covered: What is the Enterprise Architect Community Who can join the community and how will you benefit How AI is changing the role of an Enterprise Architect What skills are important nowadays Thanks to Helmut Grimm, Paul Kurchina, Michael Blaschke, Ralph Richter, Timo Elliott and David Heffernan for sharing their insights. What do you think? What skills do you think are important? And how will AI change enterprise architectures and enterprise architects? Let us know in the comments.

Innovatie, Clean Core en 25 jaar SAP development met Dave en Arnaud

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Het nieuwe seizoen van de HANA Café NL podcast is afgetrapt! In de eerste aflevering van 2026 schuiven Dave en Arnoud van McCoy aan om te praten over de evolutie van het SAP development vak. Benieuwd naar hoe je als organisatie de balans vindt tussen 25 jaar ervaring en de nieuwste AI-technologieën? Deze aflevering zit vol praktische inzichten: De SAP BTP Analogie: Dave legt haarfijn uit hoe SAP BTP zich verhoudt tot je core systeem aan de hand van een auto, een aanhanger en een dakkoffer. Een must-hear voor wie "Clean Core" echt wil begrijpen. AI in de Praktijk: Hoe ziet de "Battle of the Tools" eruit? De heren bespreken hoe AI-oplossingen (zoals die van McCoy's Shark Tank winnaar Jelle) veilig en lokaal ingezet kunnen worden binnen SAP-omgevingen. Talent & Toekomst: Hoe leidt McCoy de nieuwe generatie SAP-consultants op? Met het McTalent programma worden schoolverlaters in 9 maanden klaargestoomd voor het echte werk, waarbij passie en specialisatie centraa...

Behind The Scenes with Roving Reporters at SAP TechEd 2025

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This year Jan Penninkhof and I had the honour to be roving reporters at SAP TechEd. We were part of the online SAP TechEd broadcast schedule and had interviews with the SAP Community, customers and partners at the Joule Lounge, SAP Experience Center, DemoJam, and on top of that ... an interview with Michael Ameling (me) and Philipp Herzig (Jan). Coffee break with Michael Ameling, President of SAP BTP Coffee break with Philipp Herzig, SAP's Chief Technology Officer We also recorded Behind The Scenes videos: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

This was sitNL 2025, our 15th anniversary

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  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...