Twan van den Broek

The pictures of the VNSG Custom Development Group are online in my Flickr album . The combination with an SAP CodeJam "ABAP on HANA with Fiori" was a good one, for the second time we had a full house. Jens supporting with the exercises.

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

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.

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.

Episode 2015.13 Jeff Word SAP drinks its champagne - Part 1 & Part 2 Jeff interviews SAP Americas CIO and they discuss the implementation of both BW and ECC on HANA. Good story and clear lessons learned that other customers can benefit from. John Appleby 10 Golden Rules for SAP Suite on HANA & S/4HANA Migrations 10 Golden rules, well actually 11 :) A migration to Suite on HANA is not a technical migration, sure a major part is technology, but do not underestimate the impact on business. Better: use the momentum to get rid of all your old, sometimes even dead, custom developments. Back to standard SAP.

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

SAP Marketing manager Mark van Heijningen published a blog on how to become a thought leader . Nice blog and I'm really proud that Mark mentioned me ;-)

On Friday November 14th 2014, just right after SAP TechEd, I was involved as Design Thinking coach in a customer innovation day . An InnoJam style day that started with Design Thinking and lead us via prototyping to really interesting scenarios. These have been evaluated by business and IT and lead to a real project to support service engineers.

Ever wondered what the IoT, Internet of Things topic is all about? And do you know why SAP is very active in this area? A good start is the SAP IoT YouTube channel . Next is to read about it in some great blogs: Blog series by Rui Nogueira - RaspberryPi on SAP HANA Cloud Platform Blog Craig Cmehil - IoT with SAP HANA DEV Blog Aaron Williams - IoT Christmas Tree Blog Mark Teichmann - Automated Processes based on Cloud Sensors

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

SAP heeft op 3 februari haar nieuwe business suite aangekondigd . Bill McDermott, CEO SAP AG, Hasso Plattner, SAP Founder and Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board, en Bernd Leukert, Member of the Executive Board of SAP, hebben de SAP Business Suite for SAP HANA geïntroduceerd. SAP’s Next Big Thing. Bill McDermott noemt het zelfs SAP’s grootste aankondiging ooit.

Topics that have been discussed in our 10th episode:

Een crediteuren dashboard in de cloud. Een dashboard dat real-time inzicht biedt in openstaande facturen en dat in abonnementsvorm afgenomen kan worden, dus voor vaste kosten per gebruiker per maand. Kan dat zomaar? Hoe integreert dit met mijn huidige SAP data? Is het wel veilig in de (SAP HANA) cloud? In deze blog geef ik antwoord op deze en meer vragen.

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.

Merry Christmas! A photo posted by Twan van den Broek (@tbroek) on Dec 12, 2014 at 8:19am PST

What would an SAP community event be without Twitter ;-) Let’s do an  tweet analysis to show the sitNL 2014 buzz we created. Timeframe 731 tweets, starting at Nov 26 12:49:39 2014 and ending at Dec 03 21:11:24 2014 on: #sitnl. That is 4.14 per hour. Top 10 Most Active Tweeters @ceedee666 (63 = 9%) @h_neumann (43 = 6%) @fredverheul (41 = 6%) @jpenninkhof (38 = 5%) @koehntopp (37 = 5%) @tbroek (36 = 5%) @roelvdberge (30 = 4%) @sapinsidetrack (28 = 4%) @renaldwittwer (27 = 4%) @svleuken (22 = 3%)

Tijdens de keynote van SAP TechEd && d-code werd s-Innovations, ook wel SAP Simple Suite genoemd, door Bernd Leukert aangekondigd . Zonder er lang bij stil te staan werd de belangrijkste aankondiging tussen alle technische details weggestopt. Opmerkelijk, want s-Innovations is SAP’s nieuwe core en daarmee de opvolger van SAP R/3 en ECC. Het SAP zoals we dat tot nu toe kennen gaat op de schop en wordt opnieuw opgeleverd in de SAP cloud, de SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. In deze blog leg ik uit wat de SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is en wat de overeenkomsten/verschillen met het SAP HANA Cloud Platform zijn.

Saturday November 29 around 75 SAP enthusiasts gathered to share SAP knowledge and passion at the 6th SAP Inside Track Netherlands , sitNL in short. First some figures: 87 registrations 5 sponsors 19 high quality sessions 22 enthusiastic speakers 1 HANA start up 1 pubquiz 14 SAP Mentors 1 SAP Mentor junior Second a recap in pictures / slides Welcome and opening Twan van den Broek Slides

Only a few nights of sleep away - our 6th annual family reunion: SAP Inside Track Netherlands. sitnl in short. A day where the Dutch SAP Mafia (a nickname that we once got from Thorsten Franz ) gathers together to share knowledge and passion around SAP. A lot will be familiar (never change a winning team or concept) but this year we added a third track, dedicated to BI. As every year our main topic is a recap of SAP TechEd && d-code .