Twan van den Broek

Ever felt like your enterprise monitoring tools are telling you where an error is, but completely losing the plot on what business process is actually being blocked?In this episode of HANA Café NL, we sit down with Jeroen Bijvank and Tom de Visser from Dutch Railways (NS) to break down how they tackled this exact issue during the recent VNSG SAPBTP Hackathon. They created a Business Activity Monitoring, eBAM, solution that is used by both business and IT. 🔊 📺

We recorded live from the SAP AI Intelligence Event hosted at the stunning Booking.com HQ in Amsterdam — a 3-day community-driven event that brought together SAP developers, AI practitioners, academics, and developer advocates from across Europe and beyond. Here's a taste of what we covered: AI Voice Agents in Healthcare — Ronald van der Looij (Versaia) shared how they're building AI agents to proactively manage medication reviews for elderly patients and reduce costly no-shows in mental health care. The ROI is real: one missed mental health appointment = €600 lost. The 4 Layers of AI — Evelien van der Hurk (CGI / former TU Denmark) broke down descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics — and why the last one could unlock 20%+ savings for enterprises. Plus a sharp warning on AI bias that had the room talking. APM for ABAP — Marc Bernard introduced apm.to, a package manager for ABAP developers. Think NPM, but for SAP. Live in weeks. ABAP is not dead! SAP Deve...

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...