Coffee Corner Radio - the Unofficial SAP Community Podcast

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 general

• Terraform documentation: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs 

• Terraform tutorials: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials 

Terraform @ SAP

• Terraform 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 BTP

• developers.sap.com

• Get 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.html

• Further 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:

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:

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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.

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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!