Twan van den Broek

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...