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Real-Time Data & AI on the Factory Floor — save €25k per Machine

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How a 5% improvement in machine availability (OEE) unlocks €25.000 in extra value per machine, per year. We sit down with Jorrit van der Sanden and Laurens Steffers from NTT DATA Business Solutions to explore their custom built application ProTrack. Using SAP BTP, ProTrack, bridges the gap between the shop floor and the top floor by giving operators real-time data insights directly at the line, powered by #SAPBTP and AI-driven analysis. If you're in manufacturing and want to know how to do more with the machines and people you already have, you won't want to miss this episode. In this epispde:  Why ProTrack How it is built, what solution building blocks Customer implementation Experiences in VNSG hackathon SAP API policy a threat? Tips for you  Article Laurens and Jorrit   SAP API one pager   📺 🎙

How NS built a decentralized event hub to monitor processes

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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. 🔊 📺

The SAP AI Intelligence Event at Booking.com, 3 day community meetup

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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...

Can you implement high-impact AI if your business is still running SAP ECC or S/4HANA on premise?

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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. 🔊 📺