SAP’s current focus is on AI. This should not surprise anyone. Any company only slightly in the IT business must do something with AI and offer some AI powered products. If not, the company will get into serious problems, especially when it is a public listed company. As a result, Read more…
Is the SAP world ready for the massive number of customers, users, consultants and developers starting to adopt S/4HANA?
For ABAPConf 2025 I decided to accompany my sessions with blog posts. Providing an overview not only of the content of the session, but the motivation behind it. This should help you to understand better the intention of each session. This post is to explain in more detail the ABAPConf Read more…
Recently I was creating a fresh new UI5 application. I used the @sap/fiori yo generator. I just wanted to create a simple app: Basic UI5 app. I activate TypeScript and an app was created. npm warn deprecated The wizard ends by starting to install the npm dependencies. Here I saw Read more…
Deploying a Fiori app to an ABAP system like S/4HANA is simple. Once the deployment configuration for the backend is added, it is just running the deploy command: fiori deploy. For the usual Fiori app this works just fine. In case you have added a binary file like a font Read more…
The latest SAP DEVELOPER LICENSE AGREEMENT 3.2 makes it unnecessarily hard to use software released under it together with AI. The software released under the license cannot be used to train or refine an AI model. As the license states: “You are expressly prohibited from using the Software, Tools or Read more…
Problem You want to deploy a Fiori app using the Fiori tools. Running fiori deploy fails with an HTTP 403 error. Error: request failed with status code 403. The application output contains a reference to an ADT API service. There is also a guided guided answer for deploying to an Read more…
In case deploying a Fiori app via the Fiori tools fails due to an active virus scan profile, it is normally sufficient to deactivate virus scanning. In my case, virus scanning was turned off, yet the deploy continued to fail because of a missing default virus scan profile. Problem You Read more…
In 2021 I wrote about what is needed license-wise to make CAP a success. Short version: not much. What is needed are developers that use CAP. A license only must enable developers to use CAP. Developers must be able to discover CAP, learn it, use it in some projects and Read more…
I came across a presentation from SAP about clean core. It’s a L1 type presentation. This means it is a presentation focused on the why. The target group of such presentations is the manager that must be convinced to invest and not the person later charged with the task of Read more…