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Check out the press release on SAP Cloud Platform as announced today at MWC17 in Barcelona.

During SAP TechEd 2016 I had the privilege to do an interview with Sindhu Gangadharan (VP & Head of Product Management HCI, PI and FSN) to talk about SAP's plans for Internet of Things.

Together with Theo Elzinga we kicked off the SAP Technology Carrousel at Capgemini. See how SAP HANA Cloud Platform can help you:

Paul Baur IoT for Agribusiness: The Quadcopter Cowboys Cows, drones, horse riding, IoT, SAP ... what is the connection? Read how an idea for better caring for cattle is realised with sensors, IoT services from SAPHCP and drones in this blog. Agribusiness is an area where innovative use of modern technology is well received.

Moya Watson HCP Podcast #24 Listen to episode 24 to learn about SAP Build which became general available after a long period of prototyping. SAP Build, SAP's prototyping tool in which you can create a Fiori app on base of a pencil sketch. Next to that there is a lot of reusable material on the design process. Check it out on build.me .

My personal 5 key takeaways on the keynote that Björn Goerke did last week at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas. Maybe you remember the keynote from last year , where Björn got stuck on Mars and needed to "Code the #$^^@#% out of SAP technologies" (5:36). This year he returned back from space ... to travel Back to the Digital Future

It's been waaaay too long ago, let me try to pick up a good habit of sharing SAP news on a weekly basis in "This week at SAP". Matthias Steiner SAPHCP - The big picture SAPHCP is one of SAP's corner stones. Did you know it is general available for 4 years now? When did you first hear about it? Remember Neo and SAP River? Matthias covers Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Business services and the API hub. Excellent piece on SAP's road towards an open cloud platform.

Wateroverlast is een probleem dat niet alleen in Nederland speelt, maar wereldwijd tot zorgen baart. Door klimaatveranderingen moeten we continu op onze hoede zijn. Biedt technologie een mogelijk antwoord voor dit natuurgeweld? In het Internet of Things ligt wellicht het antwoord verscholen. Nederland is een waterland bij uitstek. Daardoor zijn we goed geworden in het beheersen wat dat water. Daarin zijn we redelijk succesvol: sinds de deltawerken zijn grote rampen uitgebleven. Maar wateroverlast terugdringen lukt niet altijd. Denk maar eens terug aan begin juni. Toen liep door de extreme regenval de A10 onder. In Amsterdam moesten de trams door de straten varen. Of verder terug, in 1995 toen de A2 bij Den Bosch was ondergelopen door overstromende rivieren.

A week with some SAP TechEd replay highlights Keynote Steve Lucas , Global President SAP Platform & Analytics

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.

Run Simple , Next Generation Business Suite , Simplify , de one-liners vliegen je om de oren. Mooie beloftes van SAP om haar business suite te vereenvoudigen. Wat vervolgens niet helpt is om termen als Suite on HANA en Suite for HANA, de opvolgers van het bekende SAP ECC, naast elkaar te gebruiken. Wat is het verschil? Hoe helpt dit bij het vereenvoudigen van je omgeving? En wat betekent dit voor het bestaande maatwerk? In deze blog geef ik antwoord op deze en andere vragen. Wie had dat 5 jaar geleden gedacht, de woorden SAP en Simpel in één zin gebruiken. Nu zien we dat SAP vol inzet op “Run Simple”. Enerzijds verbeteren ze de gebruikerservaring met SAP Fiori en anderzijds ze pakken de ERP suite grondig aan door deze te herschrijven. Want dat is waar SAP mee bezig is: het opnieuw ontwikkelen van SAP ERP. Waarom? In de nieuwe suite kunnen klanten optimaal gebruik maken van het HANA platform en dan met name de in-memory database.

Jeff Word Killer use cases at Centerpoint part I and part II How to make use of the possibilities that SAP HANA Platform offers. These two episodes explain how agents of a utilities call center are supported with predictive analysis. Customers are ‘mind read’ and when a customer calls the agent ‘knows’ what the customer is calling about. Vinnie Mirchandani SAP Nation 2.0: The Bigger Story Vinnie is working on his successor of SAP Nation. Initially to address the launch of S/4HANA, but along the way customer stories and the troubles in aligning SAP acquisitions got to his writing table. Will be an interesting read.

At SAP Innovation forum I was interviewed about the possibilities of SAP's HANA Cloud Platform. Video is in Dutch. So a short translation in English ;-)

Just after the CodeJam event we sat together and recorded a podcast on Internet of Things with SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

With all new things happening in the SAP world, like S/4HANA and IoT, I wish I could have made it to Orlando for SAPPHIRE NOW this week. But luckily SAP shares a lot online, including the full replay of the keynotes. Bill McDermott

April 8, SAP Innovation Forum at SAP Netherlands . My talk about simplicity, run simple with SAP. With SAP HANA Cloud Platform to be precise.

Saturday March 21, the first SAP Inside Track in Frankfurt. Perfectly organized by Hendrik Neumann, Christian Braukmüller and Tobias Trapp. In case you have missed it, relive the event with Storify . I got the opportunity to do a talk on our experiences to build an SAP HCP app.  Picture by Cemal A.

A recap of SAP's internal DKOM meeting, the SAP Developer Kickoff Meeting, held in Walldorf on March 3.

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