Recently I passed the Microsoft exam SC-900, adding to my CV the title Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals. As always with these Fundamentals certifications, done right, they come with zero costs: learning material is free, a voucher for the exam is given to (virtual) training days participants. With Read more…
The annual conference about UI5 took place again this year. This is the most important event for developers working with UI5: SAPUI5, OpenUI5 or SAP Fiori. This year edition was again after 2020 and 2021 an online event, with an additional audience of 100 people on-site in building ROT03 in Read more…
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…