Twan van den Broek

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   📺 🎙

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. 🔊 📺

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. 🔊 📺

Can a hackathon project become a certified enterprise product? In the latest episode of HANA Café NNL, Twan van den Broek and Jan Penninkhof sit down with innovators Arun Krishnamoorthy and Hari Sreenivasalu from Aarini Consulting to discuss the evolution of Prodsphere—a product experience management solution born from an SAP BTP Hackathon. 🔹 The Digital Product Passport (DPP): Learn how they are staying ahead of 2027 EU regulations by building a dynamic system that generates product passports via QR codes—ensuring transparency on origin, recycling, and carbon footprint at the scan of a bottle. 🔹 Spec-Driven Development (SDDD) vs. "Vibe Coding": Arun shares a masterclass on their development philosophy. Instead of just prompting an AI and hoping for the best, they use high-quality specifications to generate code, run automated tests via Playwright, and keep a "human in the loop" to ensure enterprise-grade quality. 🔹 Natively Built on BTP: Discover why SAP Busines...

  Last year VNSG and SAP BTP product management invited customers and partners to join the hackathon with a real life business challenge. After enablement teams started to work on their case with the support of their coaches and product management. In February the six participating teams presented their solution to the judges and three finalist were chosen. At the year event of the VNSG and SAP, called SYNC, the finalists presented their solution in a DemoJam. Within 5 minutes they needed to convince the audience during the keynote. After that it was up to the attendees to vote: 🥇 Team Promocean together with SOA People with their Purchase Order Control Center. AI connected to ECC. 🥈Team Ecotone together with Expertum with their Integration Suite Management solution. Joule can now undeploy/deploy groups of iFlows. 🥉Team NTT DATA Business Solutions with Protrack. A solution that enables real time insight for machines on the production floor. Join me behind the scenes:

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:

At Connecting the Dots, VNSG & SAP year event 2025, Jan Penninkhof and I had the honor to showcase SAPBTP. We created a love story between SAP Business Technology Platform and S/4HANA to showcase the power of extending SAP without writing a single line of code and keeping the core clean with the Extensibility Wizard and we called it the "Jan & Twan" show 😀 

Een recap van het VNSG & SAP jaarevent Connecting the dots in een hanacafeNL aflevering, onze langste aflevering ooit ... maar boordevol interessante sprekers en verhalen. 🎙 Ronald Schippers , VNSG 🎙 Joris Van De Vis , SecurityBridge 🎙 Guido Ter Riet & Leticia L. , KPMG Nederland 🎙 Ronald Konijnenburg , Interdobs 🎙 Willem-Jan van Tongeren , VNSG / PostNL 🎙 Ronald Heikens , Meubelfabriek De Toekomst B.V. 🎙 Michiel Neefs , Amista 🎙 ✅ Gerben te Woerd (EMFC RC) , AkzoNobel 🎙 Roel Houbart , Expertum Consulting 🎙 Niels van der Kam , SAP Een paar onderwerpen: verbinden, AI, SAP Business AI, S/4HANA, SAPBTP, security, SAP Datasphere, Signavio, pilots of piloten, angular, code remediation, factuurstromen, ... Ga er maar even voor zitten 😀 Jan Penninkhof en ik wensen je veel luisterplezier.

Het voltallige bestuur van de VNSG focusgroep BTP4Integration schoof aan in ons café om bij te praten over ... SAP integratie natuurlijk. Adriaan Beukema, Michel Smid en Jordy Schipper bespraken samen met Jan en Twan: Focusgroepen bijeenkomst met product management in Heidelberg AI Edge Integration Cell Security Event Driven architectuur Nieuwe feature Exactly Once In Order Migratie van PI/PO naar Integration Suite Een bomvolle aflevering, veel plezier met luisteren.

Jan Penninkhof and I had the honour to talk about our favourite platform - #SAPBTP. We used some references to famous movies to explain the possibilities that the platform can bring you.Thanks to #VNSG and #SAP for inviting us.

Recap of VNSG Developer Day, 26 september 2023, a day where the community finally meets again, shares insight and experience and learn about latest and greatest around SAP AI, ABAP Cloud, SAP BTP, and much, so much more. This episode stars: Steffen Schad, SAP Karl Kessler, SAP Ronald Schippers, VNSG Frank Wammes, Capgemini Jan-Willem Kaagman, NewFounders Luisteren

In deze aflevering gaan we in gesprek met Roel van den Berge, Technical Lead Alliander. Roel heeft samen met collega's het laden van service orders sneller gemaakt door gebruik te maken van SAPBTP Event Mesh. Wil jij weten hoe? Luister dan naar deze aflevering.  Daarnaast:  Hoe kun je bijblijven in de SAP Development wereld?  Welke tips heeft Roel voor ons?  Wie zijn de helden van Roel? Meer info: VNSG Developer Dag : 29 september 2023 SAP Inside Track NL: 10, 11 november 2023 🎙 Luisteren 📺 Kijken

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

Connect to Innovate, the major event for SAP NL and the Dutch SAP User Group, VNSG. I had the opportunity to walk around and find answers on questions like: Why is data the new Gold? How to put Bimodal IT into practice? How to improve animal wellbeing with SAP Cloud Platform? ... and much more

Recap SAP / VNSG Code4Good Hackathon 2017.

Ook de tweede dag van het VNSG congres , 5 oktober 2016, is er een podcast opgenomen in het HANA Cafe NL. We zijn er trots op dat we de keynote spreker Willem Vermeend , voormalig staatssecretaris en minister, in ons café hebben mogen ontvangen.

Het VNSG congres 2016 is gestart op dinsdag 5 oktober. In het HANA Café Nederland werd een samenvatting van dag 1 opgenomen met Ronald Konijnenburg en Ron Nooren.

De zomer van 2016 is nog onderweg. Heb je al plannen gemaakt? Waar wil je naar toe en hoe wil je er komen? Kies je voor de auto, bus, trein, boot of het vliegtuig? En wat ga je doen wanneer je op de plaats van bestemming bent aangekomen? Waar geniet je het meest van, welke activiteiten bieden de meeste waarde?

VNSG and SAP together organised a Code4Good Hackathon covering 3 topics: Improve safety for bikers  Facilitate Edukans givers and receivers Support headache patients with a diary app

Yesterday I was invited at the VNSG focusgroup CRM to talk about Design Thinking . With the experiences of 5+ customers and events like InnoJam I covered the following topics: