Episode 76 - DSAG Technology Days and TechXchange Recap with Christian Braukmüller

Martin and his guest Christian had a look back to the three conference days in early April in Wiesbaden. They covered the keynotes, personal impressions and highlighted some of the sessions they attended.Furthermore Martin recapped the third day, DSAG TechXchange - a day focused on hands-on technology experience.You can find the keynotes on YouTube:- Opening- Keynote Sebastian Westphal (DSAG)- Keynote Philipp Herzig (CTO & Chief AI Officer SAP)- Discussion on stage between Sebastian and Philipp- Keynote Silke Müller- Hackathon Pitches- DSAG Technology Days Recap Video- DSAG Press Release

It was more than time to talk to Holger Müller again about all things SAP. Topics Holger and Martin covered:- SAP Business Data Cloud and Business Unleashed- Recent Board Changes- News in the AI area- SAP's 2024 results-revival of SAP Business Suite

Christian and Rui discuss with Martin about the SAP BTP Terraforms Provider. They started with a general introduction to Terraforms and introduction to the SAP BTP Terraforms Provider, discussed different use-cases and how to start the journey from "click-ops" to Infrastructure as Code.Terraform in generalTerraform documentation: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs Terraform tutorials: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials Terraform @ SAPTerraform Provider for SAP BTP: GitHub repository: https://github.com/SAP/terraform-provider-btp Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/SAP/btp/latest Terraform provider for Cloud Foundry:GitHub repository: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/terraform-provider-cloudfoundry Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/cloudfoundry/cloudfoundry/latest GitHub repository Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP Code:https://github.com/SAP/terraform-exporter-btp Documentation: https://sap.github.io/terraform-exporter-btp/ SAP Samples repository: https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-terraform-samples Learning Terraform on SAP BTPdevelopers.sap.comGet Started with the Terraform Provider for BTP:https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/btp-terraform-get-started.html Automating SAP HANA Cloud Tasks with the Terraform Provider for SAP BTP: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hana-cloud-automation-terraform.htmlFurther HandsOn Sessions:DSAG Betriebstage: https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-terraform-samples/tree/main/released/dsag/betriebstag2024 TechEd 2024 HandsOn: https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-XP280 "Unofficial" content by Christian (advanced topics)“SAP BTP and Terraform Series” on dev.to: https://dev.to/lechnerc77/series/26908 GitHub Org with further samples for the series: https://github.com/btp-automation-scenarios 

In this episode Martin talked with Peter Müssig (Chief Development Architect SAPUI5 at SAP) and Stefan Beck (Chief Product Owner SAPUI5 at SAP) about the upcoming 2.0 version of SAPUI5. They covered the new features, as well as how to get your hands dirty and how to migrate existing apps. This is the quite extensive list of links with more details about the topics covered in this episode: OpenUI5 Nightly V2: https://sdk.openui5.org/nightly/2/ OpenUI5 Nightly V2 TS Types: https://sdk.openui5.org/nightly/2/-/types.tgz Devtoberfest - Get Ready for OpenUI5 2.x: https://community.sap.com/t5/devtoberfest/get-ready-for-openui5-2-x/ec-p/13794300 Best Practices in SAPUI5 Demo Kit: https://ui5.sap.com/#/topic/28fcd55b04654977b63dacbee0552712 UI5 linter: https://github.com/SAP/ui5-linter?tab=readme-ov-file#ui5-linter TypeScript for UI5: https://sap.github.io/ui5-typescript/ OpenUI5 main branch: https://github.com/SAP/openui5/tree/main UI5 Tooling Workspaces: https://sap.github.io/ui5-tooling/stable/pages/Workspace/

Holger Bruchelt (Microsoft) and I recorded a recap of the DSAG Jahreskongress in Leipzig, a three days event with 5500 attendees. You can also find the video version of this podcast on YouTube.

⁠Martin's⁠ partner in crime ⁠Holger Müller⁠ is back on Coffee Corner Radio. There were a lot of news these summer about SAP, especially about board changes. Furthermore, there is an outlook on the upcoming events: virtual SAP TechEd DSAG Jahreskongress Have fun, share the word and give us feedback!

Martin's partner in crime Holger Müller is back on Coffee Corner Radio. Of course, there is only one topic to discuss: SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Barcelona. Holger was in Orlando, Martin in Barcelona the week after. Have fun, share the word and give us feedback!

Martin talked with Frank Engert about everything related to forms and output management in SAP. Frank is the CEO of Softway AG, a German consultancy focused on output management. Frank runs also a German podcast about output management and forms in context of SAP which you can find here: https://www.softway.de/sap-formular-podcast They started with the history of form technologies like SAPscript and SMARTFORMS. Then they covered also the latest technologies around SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP.

We had a well-known guest in this episode: Jon Reed (diginomica) is a writer and analyst and around in the SAP Community for ages. Jon and Martin talked about how the whole analyst and research business works. Of course, Jon added his extraordinary ideas and thoughts. As usual, we are looking forward to your feedback or reviews!

Thanks Matt Harding for the intro and Volker for pointing to it! Martin met two SAP Mentors, Gregor Wolf and Volker Buzek at the DSAG Technologietage in Hamburg, Germany. It's the first live and in-person recorded episode since SAP TechEd Barcelona 2019. They covered topics around the keynotes by Jürgen Müller (SAP CTO and member of the board) and Sebastian Westphal (DSAG Board Member responsible for technology). You find the recording of the keynotes on YouTube! Furthermore they talked about the upcoming community conferences in June in St. Leon-Rot, Germany: UI5con, reCAP and ABAPconf which all together run under the name Code Connect. Here is the link to the UI5 poll we mentioned: https://forms.gle/LrXk5BWFgBNznJbG6