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Many organizations assume that cutting-edge Business AI is reserved strictly for the latest public cloud release. But the team at SOA People just proved otherwise, taking home both the VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon and the global SAP Innovation Award for their work with Promocean. In the latest episode of HANA Café NL, Hans van Peer, Tamas Szirtes, and Thomas Langhout break down Project Alfred—an AI-driven procurement control center that transformed Promocean's operational buying. Tune into the full episode here to listen to their technical deep dive, including how they bypassed early platform integration bugs and timeout limitations. 🔊 📺

Can a hackathon project become a certified enterprise product? In the latest episode of HANA Café NNL, Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof sit down with innovators Arun Krishnamoorthy and Hari Sreenivasalu from Aarini Consulting to discuss the evolution of Prodsphere—a product experience management solution born from an SAP BTP Hackathon. 🔹 The Digital Product Passport (DPP): Learn how they are staying ahead of 2027 EU regulations by building a dynamic system that generates product passports via QR codes—ensuring transparency on origin, recycling, and carbon footprint at the scan of a bottle. 🔹 Spec-Driven Development (SDDD) vs. "Vibe Coding": Arun shares a masterclass on their development philosophy. Instead of just prompting an AI and hoping for the best, they use high-quality specifications to generate code, run automated tests via Playwright, and keep a "human in the loop" to ensure enterprise-grade quality. 🔹 Natively Built on BTP: Discover why SAP Busines...

New HANA Café NL episode, this time on tour at the Solace Connect BeNeLux event in Nijmegen. In this episode we dive into the technical and business advantages of using Solace alongside SAP. The discussion centers on how businesses can move away from traditional "request-response" models toward an "event-driven" architecture. This shift allows for real-time data processing, improved scalability, and a more responsive digital core. Jan Penninkhof and I were joined by Emil Zegers, Kenneth Berckmoes and Jamil Ahmed from Solace. And on top of that, we were honored to have the mayor of Nijmegen, Hubert Bruls, in our show as well. Event-Driven Architecture meets hashtag#AgenticAI Customer case at Schwarz Digits Agent Mesh by Solace SAP + Solace + Agentic AI Nijmegen as innovation Hub AI is one of the answers, not the only answer! For AI to be successful in the enterprise, it must be grounded in business context and real-time data. You can listen to or watch the episode he...

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, 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

  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:

  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 👇🏼

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.

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...

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, 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

We were happy to welcome Paul van Os to our HANA Café NL podcast to talk about all things integration within the SAP ecosystem. Paul is a seasoned integration professional and in this episode we covered: BC, XI, PI, PO, CI, IS, EDA AI for IS Monitoring Tools Paul uses: Figaf tools from Daniel Graversen and Stylish Studio Advise on staging environments, 1, 2 or 3 tier integration landscape Tips on how to become an integration professional We also took a deep dive in tales from the past: What does XINIXINXI mean? Why you should never use the MARA table to wait for database commits Listen 🎙 Watch 📺

Peter Turien is transformation coach and supports organisations and teams to become agile, scaled agile (SAFe). In this episode we discuss: What is SAFe How to facilitate collaboration between teams What is different in the SAP ecosystem What is crucial for transformation How to deal with refactoring, standards and governance You can watch or listen to this episode here 👇🏻

Enterprise Architecture should not be about ivory tower behaviour! Listen to Theo Elzinga how he brings EA to live. Bring people together, talk and listen to each other and collaborate! That's how you drive business agility, optimize costs and align IT strategies with business objectives. This hanacafeNL episode covers: 💡 Strategic alignment with stakeholders 💡 Integrate AI in business processes, responsibly 💡 How to maintain a CleanCore Listen or watch: 📺 🎙