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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 some behind the scenes videos: Monday Tuesday Wednesday - follows Thursday - follows

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...

Catch up on VNSG SAP BTP Hackathon with Mouade and Ted

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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...