Twan van den Broek

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...

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

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

Net voor Kerst sprak ik met Mattijs Happé van Ctac in een aflevering van HANA Cafe NL om over zijn ervaringen met #ABAPcloud te praten.  Wat zijn de grootste veranderingen Hulp van AI Project ervaringen met S4HANA Public Cloud Omzetten traditioneel maatwerk Lessen geleerd met ABAP Cloud Side by Side vs On stack (De moeilijke vraag van Jan) Het 3-tier extensibilty model Voorbereiden op toekomst vast maatwerk Advies voor SAP klanten "Ga er gewoon voor" "ABAP Cloud lijkt hetzelfde maar is totaal anders" 

Use ABAP Cloud to start working on your Clean Core. Recap of VNSG ABAP Cloud Developer Day in a hanacafeNL podcast with: Carine Tchoutouo, Olga Dolinskaja, Nora Klemp and Ingo Bräuninger. With feedback on the event from John Heutmekers, Peter Boertien, Jeroen Huttinga, Egbert Venema, Iemke Kooijman, Roel van den Berge, Allitze Faro and organizers Guus Jansen and Tiny Lommers. ABAP is not dead !!! What to choose, on stack versus side by side What happened to SELECT * FROM MARA 3 tier extensibility model Your first steps into ABAP Cloud and a clean core Listen to this episode with your hosts Jan Penninkhof and me:

In de reeks 'In gesprek met SAP Developer Heroes NL' gaan we in gesprek met de helden die het verschil maken in de SAP Developer wereld. Voor deze aflevering mochten we in de keuken van Jan-Willem Kaagman plaatsnemen. Jan-Willem is fullstack SAP Development Consultant bij NewFounders. Een club waarbij restaurants, LEGO en SAP een belangrijke rol spelen, en ook in die volgorde ;-) Hoe kun je bijblijven in de SAP Development wereld?  Wat heeft scheikunde te maken met SAP Development? Welke tips deelt Jan-Willem met ons? Het mooiste antwoord kwam op de vraag: "Waarom ben je vrijwilliger geworden bij de VNSG" ... Veel luisterplezier! 🎙 📺 Sorry maar de camera stond zo lekker in het zonnetje dat deze overhit raakte tegen het einde van de opname ... Your hosts: Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek. S08E03

In de reeks 'In gesprek met SAP Developer Heroes NL' gaan we in gesprek met de helden die het verschil maken in de SAP Developer wereld. In deze eerste aflevering is dat Ben Meijs, ABAP Expertise Leader and SAP Solution Architect at Ctac. 🎙 Luisteren 📺 Kijken

Jo Confine Why Lego's CEO Thinks More Grown-Ups Should Play At Work “Creative companies create inspiring environments. Tim Brown of innovation and design company Ideo says play creates a risk-free environment that encourages people to experiment, as there is no such thing as failure.” Lego offers Serious Play , a set of Lego bricks and a Design Thinking like methodology. I vote for more Lego at work ;-)

Jeff Word, Thomas Jung, Rich Heilman  HANAfy your ABAP skills ABAP gurus Thomas and Rich explain how to HANAfy your ABAP skills. Get a SQL book and read twice, at least ;-) In the past you had to stay away from the database, now you have to get close with the database. And for customers: what to do with all your custom developments. Vitaliy Rudnytskiy Developing and deploying applications on SAP HANA Clear explanation of all the underlying parts of SAPHCP with example use cases by SCN community members.

A new episode in our HANA Cafe NL series, today we discussed the CodeJam   ABAP on HANA with Fiori

Another successful SAP CodeJam in the Netherlands. The ABAP on HANA CodeJam in Eindhoven. Organized by Roel van den Berge and hosted by Thorsten Schneider . I surely recommend attending an SAP CodeJam, a day of serious coding on a specific topic accompanied by SAP experts. It is just like an SAP TechEd HandsOn Workshop, but outside of SAP TechEd season ;-) What do you get: Deep knowledge on the topic Hands on exercises  Support by SAP experts Meet up with fellow enthusiasts Great food!! Roel opening the event. Thorsten kicks off the ABAP on HANA coding. Let the fun begin. Sven van Leuken dressed up especially for the event. Coffee, ABAP Code and Coke - what more can you wish for? FUN! The complete event in pictures at Flickr .

It is SAP TechEd Season, every year it is the same story: how to select out of 256 session and build your personal agenda. While browsing through all the sessions I kept a small Top 10 of SAP TechEd topics (*): (1) SAP NetWeaver (88 sessions) (10) BusinessObjects (25) (6) ABAP (16) (5) BI (16) (4) BPM (15) (2) SOA (10) (9) Web Dynpro (9) (3) Java (8) (8) Composition Environment (6) (7) Enterprise Services (5) Between brackets the results from 2008 . So what can we learn ? Java dropped down to #8, ABAP raised to #3. Investments in ABAP paying off? Business Objects climbed to #2, with BI on #4 a lot of 'suit' sessions are entering the SAP TechEd schedule. BO and BI are not real 'geeks', they are suits playing with technology ;-) SOA is falling down to #6. The hype is over? BPM lost one place to BI. I would have thought that BPM would climb some places this year. Runner up topics: Xcelsius (3) and Sustainability (3) (*) Disclaimer: This Top 10 i...

Long ago, we found some interesting text in an ABAP: A nice way of saying: "Don't touch my code" ;-) Thanks to Evert-Jan for finding the correct ABAP name in his archive. And a few weeks ago, Paul found this one: So, any other examples? Do you know some nice easter eggs within ABAP, please let me know. I know it is a kind of 'nerdy', but it is good fun ;-)

I often refer to myself as a die hard ABAP developer ;-) When I look at this video I am sure that I do not have to be ashamed of myself: Of course you have recognized Steve Balmer from Microsoft in the movie. A promise at this very moment: When I reach the top as Steve did, I will do the same dance ;-) There is another one, I think it is the original: Steve Balmer's dance. Thanks to Frank for sending me the links to these movies. Good luck man!

Er gebeurt veel in SAP land, zeker op NetWeaver gebied. Wellicht maakt je dat onzeker of aan het twijfelen. Lees de blog van Matt Danielsson op SDN dan eens. Needless to say, this trend has caused some concern in developer circles. So what can today's ABAP developer do to avoid getting pinched between outsourcing on one hand and model-driven, do-it-yourself business people on the other? Ik heb ook de vrijheid genomen om daar een reactie van mijn kant op te plaatsen: Good article, things are changing rapidly. So, no wonder that some of the classic ABAP developers are worrying about their future. But that is good, worrying is step 1 into your new future. I am worrying more about the developers that do not worry yet, those are the ones that should be afraid of their future.Back to step 1, worrying. Now it is time to go to the next step, that is stop worrying and look at the opportunities. There will always be a need for good developers both ABAP and Java. Building business logic on th...