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 first week of the course looked very promising with good presentations from “Dr. Jasmin Gruschke” and “Jens Weiler”. As a bonus, the latest version of the SAP Netweaver AS on SAP HANA is available for installation on AWS which gives us a great developer system for a minor cost per month.
Having a personal online developer system allows us to either build the targeted exercise — which is a combination of a SAP Fiori UI via ABAP/4 towards the SAP HANA database — or have a go at whatever our heart desires.
