SAP HANA

I am celebrating that I have successfully completed my 15th openSAP course over a period of 3 years …

I am pleased to announce that I completed the online openSAP course ‘Software Development on SAP HANA XS — Delta SPS11’ and graduated with a ‘Record Of Achievement’ of 93%.

I am following the new openSAP course — Software Development on SAP HANA Delta SPS 11 — by Thomas Jung and Rich Heilman — which discusses the new fundamental changes regarding development on the HANA XS side.

I am pleased to announce that I completed the 4 week online openSAP course ‘Text Analytics with SAP HANA Platform’ and graduated with a ‘Record Of Achievement’ of 94%.

I am following the new openSAP course — Text Analytics with SAP HANA Platform — by Anthony Waite — which discusses the specific unstructured textual data capabilities of the SAP HANA platform.

I am pleased to announce that I completed the 3 week online openSAP course ‘Software Development on SAP HANA XS — Delta SPS09’ and graduated with a ‘Record Of Achievement’ of 99%.

I am participating once more in a new openSAP course on software development for SAP HANA. The new service pack 09 contains all kinds of new exciting development features which resulted in a 3 week follow up course at openSAP.

SAP starts a new short openSAP course regarding the concepts of ‘The Internet Of Things’ and its impact on our society, businesses and people.

SAP announced today the release of its next generation enterprise software business suite — SAP S/4HANA — which is an entire new ERP platform built on top of the in-memory database platform HANA and designed with its latest (mobile) UI technology SAP Fiori.

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.

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.

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:

I am pleased to announce that I completed the 6 week online openSAP course ‘Introduction to software development on SAP HANA’ and graduated with a ‘Record Of Achievement’ of 99.9%.

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 …

We are on track with the openSAP HANA XS Course … The course offers excellent, high-quality e-learning sources including video material, PDF powerpoint slides and lectures transcripts.

We are enlisted and following the online openSAP course ‘Introduction to Software Development on SAP HANA’. This 6 week online course will introduce developers into the wonderful world of SAP’s in-memory database SAP HANA and the built-in application server SAP HANA XS (Extended Services).

2013 is already ongoing for a while … time to list some interests & objectives for the coming year … SAP is moving ahead fast and times are changing. So what’s on our list?