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In the recent SAP TechED it was announced that ABAP becomes available as programming language and runtime in the SAP Cloud platform.
The platform currently offers JAVA and node.js as development environments for extending existing functionality or built new custom solution offerings.
As of 2018 ABAP will join those ranks and be supported throughout the platform.
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%.
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 new release of the SAP ABAP Application Server 7.40 has been available for roughly 6 months … the release is packed with new features which are optimized for nowadays business challenges:
SAP HANA XS provides a complete development environment for building so-called ’native’ applications. The term ’native’ is chosen as these kind of applications will run directly on top of the SAP HANA XS engine as opposed to applications running on eg. an ABAP stack that would interact with SAP HANA. The benefits for such applications are enormous …
An ABAP WebDynpro statistics cockpit giving users full control over which SAP PI message interfaces to monitor, how to group and display the results, and how frequently to refresh the data. The cockpit set concept introduced here became the foundation for the later SAPUI5 dashboard.
A custom SAP GUI transaction replacing a fragmented multi-step article creation process with a single, tab-based cockpit. Article creation time dropped from up to 15 minutes across a dozen standard SAP transactions to under 30 seconds.