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Episode 2015.17 Rui Nogueira HTML5 apps with SAP Web IDE on SAP HANA Cloud Platform Another detailed blog by Rui on how to create an HTML5 app, this time using the WebIDE. As a result you'll have Fiori tiles presenting you the weather forecast. Gregor Wolf Raspberry Pi on SAP HANA Cloud Platform - without Java - Part 1: XSODATA Backend Internet of Things with a Raspberry Pi, inspired by Rui , but now without the die-hard Java coding piece. Gregor uses the WebIDE.

Mark Raben invited me to his innovation show for SAP NL, a monthly round table talk with customers, partners and SAP colleagues. In an interview we talked about: SAP Fiori SAP HANA Cloud Platform Mobile Services Do you still need a platform to run SAP Fiori? Opportunities What are new opportunities with Fiori and a mobile platform

In een interview met Rick Costanzo, Executive Vice President & General Manager Global Mobility Solutions bij SAP AG, kregen we een update op de mobiele strategie van SAP. Een gesprek dat niet zozeer over de mobility bits&bytes ging, maar vooral om de voordelen voor de eindgebruiker. Mobility is niet een op zichzelf staand iets. Mobility ondersteunt een eindgebruiker in zijn proces. Het gaat tegenwoordig meer over het ontsluiten en combineren van (cloud) functionaliteit, analytische functies en big data. En het SAP Mobile Platform speelt hierin een belangrijke rol.

Met SAP Mobile Secure biedt SAP mobiele services als abonnement aan. Voor maar €1 euro per device per maand biedt SAP device management en beveiligde toegang tot applicaties en informatie. Enterprise mobility tegen instaptarieven, is dat niet hetgeen waar we allemaal op hebben zitten wachten? Dit is dan ook geen blog over het nut van enterprise mobility of wat het nu eigenlijk is. In deze blog lees je wat SAP Mobile Secure is. Er is geen reden meer om je eindgebruikers te laten wachten op het bieden van mobiele toegang tot bedrijfskritische functionaliteit en gegevens.

SAP introduceert SAP HANA Cloud Platform Mobile Services, of anders gezegd Mobile Services: een SAP Mobile Platform in de cloud. Heb je het mobile platform nog niet in huis, maar wil je wel een centrale oplossing voor de ontsluiting van SAP naar mobiele applicaties? Dan is deze nieuwe cloud oplossing van SAP zeer interessant voor jou. Temeer omdat het licentiemodel eindelijk een laagdrempelige instap mogelijk maakt. In deze blog leg ik uit dat de cloud versie niet zomaar een gehoste omgeving van het SAP Mobile Platform is. Ook ga ik in op de kansen van deze nieuwe oplossing voor jouw organisatie.

Here we go again, this week I will visit my 11th (!) SAP TechEd so far and for sure I haven’t had enough of it ;-) Focus of my visit to SAP TechEd has changed over the years. In the early years I filled my agenda with at much hands on sessions as possible. Lots of ABAP, some MiniApps (early mobile aspirations), SOA and later BPM. But somewhere from 2009 on it has changed to meet as much peers as possible. Sure, hands on sessions are still really valuable during the event, but meeting and discussing with experts and peers to build your network comes in handy throughout the whole year. Next to that I also like to bring something to SAP TechEd. I’ve done some talks on applying scrum to the SAP world , participated in BPM hands on sessions and as an ultimate achievement: reached SAP DemoJam stage in 2012, together with colleague Leo van Hengel. Photo courtesy SAP TechEd 2012 If you want to meet up with me this year, you can find me : Sunday SAP InnoJam ...

It’s almost that time of the year. A period where you start writing down your wishes in a letter and hope that your wishes get fulfilled … so here we go. Dear Santa, I have been a good boy this year. Please ... (or in business language ;-) Dear SMP Product Owner, SAP TechEd just kicked off today in Las Vegas, so sorry that I can’t join you to hear and learn all about SMP3 now. Glad with the preview blogs by  Jens Koerner  ( SMP3 Launch ) and  John Wargo  ( Kapsel ) and really looking forward to SAP TechEd in Amsterdam. Wish list MDD and its UI Please update the out of the box UI components for all platforms. They are worth investing in and expanding their lifespan. It provides the possibility of having an approach that supports “Build once and Deploy anywhere”, very handy in the enterprise world. The current “Windows 3.1” look and feel is really outdated. With OpenUI coming to the MDD approach (formerly known as Agentry) it will be...

Say you want to mobilize service management functionality to field service engineers - how hard can that be? But: what if SAP continuously changes its mind  what if the engineers already built their own solution  what if business management is not interested  what if you have outdated SAP systems  ...  A fairy tale of a solution architect that tries to bring relief to field service engineers. What solution is being realized, how did he get so far and now what. A solution architects fairytale with SAP mobility from Twan van den Broek My talk at SAP Inside Track Manchester , September 2013.

Last week SAP organized an SAP Forum on Enterprise Mobility. We were able to host a  UCD 2  workshop. With a group of 14 visitors, strangers to each other, we were able to execute the 3rd step in our  UCD 2  process: the Workshop. Margreet and I to explain what  UCD 2  is and how to 'behave' during the workshop: Group 1 starting up: Group 2 reads the case and starts discussing: Collaboration and co-creation in progress: Presenting the end results: Interested? Please join us at VNSG (Dutch SAP User Group Convention), April 18 and 19: UCD 2  and BI Thursday session 1 and session 2 UCD 2  and enterprise mobility Friday session 1 and session 2 Our complete photo book is available on Flickr.

A next episode from SAP NetWeaver Man on his way to #VNSG13. See how a cumbersome Time Writing process is being simplified by mTime - a mobile Time Writing solution. IT's all in the game voor Ciber tijdens de VNSG jubileumeditie! from sven van leuken on Vimeo .

Before we start, maybe some background music by Dire Straits? Guess  Where Do You Think You're Going  is quite applicable ;-) I got a bit confused last week and I wanted to share my confusion with you and hope that my SAP mobile life gets demystified. So, SAP Mobile - Quo Vadis? SAP's three pillars  Now we all know SAP's 3 main pillars: Cloud Mobile HANA Needless to say that SAP shares a lot of PowerPoint slides and stories around these topics at events like SAPphire NOW and SAP TechEd, at local events like SAP Forum, press conferences and here on SDN and other sites. Last week SAP held a very important press conference,  the announcement of #SAPonHANA . And to be honest - it made me feel a bit jealous. Great story telling, together with customers and partners SAP shows the added value of running SAP on HANA. There is plenty of training material to be found in the HANA academy, a developer license, contact persons, … bottom line: SAP is s...

This year we did some collaboration with our SRM colleagues. Service lines SAP NetWeaver and SAP SRM came up with the idea to bring Enterprise Mobility back to earth . To show so we found dare-devil-colleague Diederick Bossenbroek who agreed to do some abseiling from SAP HQ NL. Together with Jan Laros they first did a presentation on Enterprise Mobility: Nice hype, but what is Enterprise Mobility? Where do I start? What about security? Can you accompany me, I don't like a ' big bang '. And after convincing Diederick, he came back to earth. More pictures in my Flickr album .

Last week SAP granted us " Validated Expertise Partner on Enterprise Mobility ". Needless to say that we are very happy with that. A taken of appreciation of all the good work that we do on this area. Which reminds me to remind you our new mobility event on October 11th: " It's APP 2 U ", or on the Twitterverse: #ItsAPP2U . This time we organize an app challenge , send in your idea for an enterprise mobility app. The winner is selected by a Facebook voting mechanism. Everybody is allowed to vote on the ideas, the 3 with the most "Likes" make it to the finals on October 11th. With an explanation of the business case and the enterprise mobility suggestion, a professional jury selects the winner. Ciber NL offers the winner to realize the app for FREE. To do so we plan a geek night together with customer representatives and our mobile experts. Order some cola and pizza and off we go ... It's APP 2 U - Join our Ciber NL app challenge on Enter...

In March two important events are planned around our Enterprise Mobility proposition. Together with Jan, Roel and Wim we will spread our message. March 15, CIBER knowledge carousel Enterprise Mobility, the road ahead. By Jan Laros and Twan. SAP Enterprise Mobility. By Roel van den Berge and Wim Snoep. March 22, SAP Mobility Innovation Forum Improve your invoice pace and accuracy with mobile time writing. By Jan Laros and Twan. Read more in our (NL)  press release .

Tomorrow is a great day with the CIBER NL finals for our internal innovation competition: "So You Think You Can Innovate" What started out with an idea by Mario Smit , lead to a serious competition. From the original 18 participants presenting their idea in the auditions of May, now only 3 are left to 'fight' the final battle. Voting will be done with a jury of highly valuated customer representatives, counting for 2/3 of the end result. The remaining 1/3 is the public jury voting with the Twitter hashtag #SYTYCI . So who is competing tomorrow? Flexible Workflow Wizard (#FWW) Innovators: Diederick Bossenbroek , Ravi Santani The Flexible Workflow Wizard is an innovation that let customers create and maintain their procurement workflows in a user friendly centralized web based cockpit environment. Flexible Workflow Wizard: DEMO from Wiel Moonen on Vimeo . mTime (#mTime) Innovators: Jan Willem Kroneman , Leon Zijlstra , Roel van den Berge , ...