News 2014

I am pleased to announce that I completed the 6 week online openSAP course ‘Next Steps in Software Development on SAP HANA’ and graduated with a ‘Record Of Achievement’ of 96%.

I am pleased to announce that I completed the 4 week online openSAP course ‘ABAP Development on SAP HANA’ and graduated with a ‘Record Of Achievement’ of 90%.

I am following the new openSAP course — Next Steps in Software Development on SAP HANA — by Thomas Jung and Rich Heilman — which discusses in 6 weeks some more advanced concepts regarding SAP HANA XS development and also the changes that occurred with the release of the new service packs since the original course.

Today the new openSAP course — ABAP Development for SAP HANA — started and I am enlisted to follow this 4 week course. As all (new) products of SAP will be using the SAP HANA database it is quite important for ABAP developers to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying HANA technologies and how these impact the way ABAP/4 programs should be written to gain the most performance improvements.

The openSAP course “SAP’s UX Strategy in a Nutshell” by Sam Yen is a 3 hour course aimed at everyone to understand SAP’s UX strategy for the coming years.

I have read a very interesting book this summer — “Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration” — by Ed Catmull, one of the co-founders of ‘Pixar Animation Studios’ and currently president of both ‘Pixar’ and ‘Walt Disney Animation Studios’.

I am pleased to announce that I completed the 4 week online openSAP course ‘SAP Business suite powered by SAP HANA’ and graduated with a ‘Record Of Achievement’ of 93%.

I started following a new openSAP course ‘SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA’. This course is intended for functional people to grasp the changes the SAP HANA platform brings for the business organisation, the IT organisation and the business end-users.

I am following the new openSAP course ‘An Introduction to SAP HANA by Dr. Vishal Sikka’. This course was originally an internal SAP course aimed at introducing its employees with the history and core concepts of SAP HANA, given in an informal way by SAP board member Dr. Vishal Sikka.

I have been very busy with writing a complete custom solution on SAP PI for integrating various SAP business backends with trade registrars for complying towards the new “European Market Infrastructure Regulation” (EMIR) regulations.

SAP has decided to release its proprietary client-side HTML5 rendering library ‘UI5’ as open source under the name ‘openUI5’. The JavaScript framework has been around for some time and is being used by SAP to create web based front-ends for a number of its new applications (like the ‘Fiori’ applications).

Wishing all our visitors a very happy and prosperous New Year 2014!