Episode 63 - State of SAP with Holger Müller (Constellation Research)

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

Holger and Martin are talking about the latest SAP News and results and numbers: - press release board change - press release results 2023 and Q4 - press release financial engineering

Just before the year end, Holger and Martin recorded another episode. As usual, it was also streamed. So therefore they were also talking about the screen and video set-up. Topics covered: - SAP TechEd News - SAP's Case for Cloud - DSAG Technologie Tage - SAPinsider EMEA Copenhagen - ASUG Tech Connect

It's been a while since our last episode! So a lot of topics for Martin to discuss with our partner in crime Holger Müller Constellation Research). We covered these topics: SAP Sapphire 2023 the Q2 results and the earning call DSAG press release & Thomas Otter's post outlook on SAP TechEd 2023 We are looking forward to any feedback!

⁠Holger Müller ⁠and ⁠Martin⁠ are discussing different topics which happened in the SAP ecosystem in the last months: Punit Renjen becomes designated successor of Hasso Plattner as chairman of the supervisor board SAP announced SAP Datasphere SAP announced GROW with SAP DSAG Technologietage

Holger Müller and Martin are discussing their key take aways of SAP TechEd 2022 which took place in a hybrid mode onsite in Las Vegas and virtual. SAP TechEd 2022 Event Website

Jens and Martin talk about the different flavours of ABAP which are available. They focus on the different ABAP runtimes in the cloud, mainly on the new Steampunk environment embedded into S/4HANA cloud. Here are some additonal links:  SAP API Business Hub  Embedded Steampunk Blog Post by Boris Gebhardt  Open SAP Course Introduction to ABAP in the cloud  Open SAP Course Building Apps with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model  ABAP Conf