SAP responded and put the service is in maintenance mode. Therefore it is not any longer possible to access data on the CMIS server. Welcome to the next post in my unofficial series “Are you sure you want to expose that on the internet?”. After a data leakage at SAP, Read more…
SAP’s main sales and motivational event Sapphire is just around the corner: tomorrow. Besides changing the name by dropping NOW and not shouting the name any longer, the biggest change is that this year it is a hybrid event: virtual and on site. Good news for everyone that stays at Read more…
Welcome to the 2000s! Let’s learn something about the latest in enterprise architecture: SOAP! See how easy it is to consume data from a non-SAP system in NetWeaver ABAP. This will bring the internet to SAP and positions your system as a player in the new internet market. Supporting SOAP Read more…
SAP’s Sapphire starts May 10th. A few days before the official event start the event page is made available. I have written several event sites / apps in the last years, so I can relate to the effort and difficulties involved in creating such an app. I also find it Read more…
Developing Fiori apps isn’t as easy as it once was. When Fiori was announced, it was a new and simple approach to design enterprise apps. Was, because the approach met reality. Reality regarding customer requirements as well as SAP specific requirements. With a customer base reaching from small to very, Read more…
Note: the Customer Influence website is currently down. The HANA Logon App for e.g. Admin, IDE, Repo is still accessible: https://influence.sap.com/sap/hana/xs/formLogin/login.html Recently I looked at the SAP Customer Influence website. Besides an interesting OData service I came across several other points I think are worth to mention. At the time Read more…
— Note: the customer influence website is currently offline, the links in the post won’t work — The SAP Customer Influence site exposes information about its users that goes beyond what the web site offers: a list of SAP customers, linked employees and their user ID and email address. That’s Read more…
When you work with User Experience (UX) for sure you already came across the quote: “UI is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good”. User Interface (UI) design aims to make it easy for a user to interact with an app. It’s main purpose Read more…
SAP’s Business Application Studio is based on Theia. Several plugins for Fiori development are released by SAP to the VS Code marketplace. This means that it is possible to use these in Eclipse Theia. As written previously, this is only technically possible, as the VS Code marketplace TOU does not Read more…
After installing Eclipse Theia Blueprint or building your own Theia application, what you have is a modern IDE, ready to be used to develop a wide range of applications. It won’t be fun, as the included list of plugins is empty. You’d need to do a lot of manual work Read more…