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Recap podcast on SAP Inside Track Frankfurt / UI5 conference

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March 12 the SAP SCN family joined the SAP Inside Track in Frankfurt. A very well organised event by Christian Braukmuller, Hendrik Neumann and Tobias Trapp.

Recap Code4Good Hackathon

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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

Recap #sitNL episode 007 (2015)

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Recap SAP Inside Track NL, The Cloud Is Not Enough Finally, 13 weeks after the event a recap blog on our 7th sitNL, SAP Inside Track the Netherlands. Some things have changed, guess that’s why it took me so long ;-). Anyway the event was a community success again and worth recapping here on SCN. Hey, we even made to a trending topic in the Netherlands. Trend Alert: #sitNL . More trends at https://t.co/tOVVBU3TJP #trndnl pic.twitter.com/rwmzSdTxZj — Trendinalia NL (@trendinaliaNL) November 21, 2015

Recap CodeJam SAPUI5 's Hertogenbosch

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SAP Sports One and SAPUI5 November 20, one day before the SAP Inside Track Netherlands ( sitnl in short) 28 developers gathered at The Next View for an SAP CodeJam. Denise Nepraunig and Andreas Kunz lead us into the wonderful world of sapui5 . As a special feature we not only covered the UI5 basics but also got briefed on building custom controls. Like SAP did heavily with the SAP Sports One app:

Podcast UI5 CodeJam, News and Project Experiences

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In this episode Jan Penninkhof and me sat together with: Denise Nepraunig Martine van der Veen  Andreas Kunz Kimmo Jokinen Jan Willem Molenaar Dennis Duivenbode Together we discussed the SAP CodeJam on UI5 at The Next View, got some UI5 news and talked about live experiences with UI5.

Agenda sitNL 007 - The Cloud Is Not Enough

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Here's the scoop you were all waiting for ... the agenda from SAP Inside Track Netherlands. This Saturday somewhere in the Netherlands all saptd secret agents gather and share latest insights on all fun SAP stuff. The Cloud Is Not Enough, we want more. We want to reach out for space Anyway, thanks to 25 (!!) great speakers we were able to establish our agenda for 2015.

SAP DemoJam 2015 - SPECTR

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Jan Penninkhof and I made it to the final 6 teams of SAP's InnoJam . And that got us on stage at DemoJam. It was, as Jan would say, "Awesome". No really, to present at SAP TechEd DemoJam is still a boy's dream.

SAP TechEd 2015 Wednesday / Thursday wrap

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De SAP TechEd in Europa duurt 3 dagen. Drie dagen waarin SAP het laatste nieuws brengt in lezingen (285 stuks) of roadmap sessies (93). Ook kun je handson aan de slag in een van de 127 workshops. Nog een behoorlijke uitdaging om je eigen agenda samen te stellen uit het totale aanbod van 996 sessies. Gelukkig was The Next View aanwezig met maar liefst 7 collega’s en konden we onze aandacht verspreiden over onze drie pijlers: Big Data, Cloud & Mobile Apps en Security. In deze blog een samenvatting van de tweede en derde dag.

SAP TechEd 2015 Day 2

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Na een korte nacht met 3 uur slaap stappen we wederom de Fira de Barcelona binnen. De innovatiewedstrijd SAP InnoJam nadert het einde en alle teams hebben nog genoeg open punten. Zo ook het team van The Next View. Werken met nieuwe technologie is leuk en leidt tot veel enthousiasme. Ronald: het is een leuke ervaring en fantastische manier om in een veel te korte tijd een business case technisch uit te werken. Zoals gewoonlijk ook weer te veel om te doen in te weinig tijd.

SAP TechEd 2015 Day 1

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Zondagochtend 8:00 lopen we de Fira de Barcelona binnen. Het team van The Next View is klaar voor de InnoJam . SAP organiseert een hackaton van 2 dagen voorafgaand aan het SAP TechEd congres. Dit jaar strijden 18 teams van 5 personen met elkaar. De inzet is de deelname aan de prestigieuze DemoJam op dinsdagavond. Alleen de 6 beste teams gaan door naar deze finale. Een talentenshow zo gezegd, maar dan met zakelijke uitdagingen.

This week at SAP // 44

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

This week at SAP // 41

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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 ;-)

SAP Mentor Minute

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Want to find out why I will attend SAP TechEd and where you can meet me? This year several SAP Mentors recorded a SAP Mentor Minute video just to explain that. Mine is here:

SAP Inside Track Netherlands 007 with CodeJam UI5

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Calling out for heroes, secret agents, extras, ... YOU! Another episode of sitNL, number 007 to be precise. Let’s theme our own SAP TechEd recap event into a James Bond one calling it “The Cloud Is Not Enough”.

Design Thinking explained with life experiences

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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:

This week at SAP // 30

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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.

Simplify your SAP system with SAP HANA Cloud Platform

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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.

This week at SAP // 27

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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.

Interview on possibilities SAP HANA Cloud Platform

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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 ;-)

This week at SAP // 26

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Episode 2015.26 Jan Penninkhof The future looks bright for SAP users! Jan spotted the future of SAP Fiori - SAP internally called Fiori 2.0. Unfortunately no screenshots yet. Tamas Szirtes Designed with love, VNSG UEX meeting about SAPUI5 Tamas shares a bit more insights in Fiori 2.0, no screenshots either :(