Coffee Corner Radio - the Unofficial SAP Community Podcast

Christian and Martin recorded an episode in the middle of day two of the DSAG Annual Conference 2025 in Bremen.You can find all the keynotes on DSAG's YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dsagev/videosIf you want to support the podcast, we have something for you: https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradio

Holger and Martin are back with their quarterly update about what happened in the SAP Ecosystem. Although it was already in May, Sapphire 2025 was the main topic.We are looking forward to feedback, questions, topic suggestions and of course ratings.If you want to buy me a coffee, you can do so: https://ko-fi.com/coffeecornerradio

The two founders of Coffee Corner Radio are back on the show. This time as guests. ⁠Simon⁠, ⁠Jakob⁠ and ⁠Martin⁠ talk about the last seven years. How it all started, episode highlights and even the future!Share your feedback! Let us know how you liked it! We appreciate any kind of recommendation and review!

Martin and his guest Christian had a look back to the three conference days in early April in Wiesbaden. They covered the keynotes, personal impressions and highlighted some of the sessions they attended.Furthermore Martin recapped the third day, DSAG TechXchange - a day focused on hands-on technology experience.You can find the keynotes on YouTube:- Opening- Keynote Sebastian Westphal (DSAG)- Keynote Philipp Herzig (CTO & Chief AI Officer SAP)- Discussion on stage between Sebastian and Philipp- Keynote Silke Müller- Hackathon Pitches- DSAG Technology Days Recap Video- DSAG Press Release

It was more than time to talk to Holger Müller again about all things SAP. Topics Holger and Martin covered:- SAP Business Data Cloud and Business Unleashed- Recent Board Changes- News in the AI area- SAP's 2024 results-revival of SAP Business Suite

Christian and Rui discuss with Martin about the SAP BTP Terraforms Provider. They started with a general introduction to Terraforms and introduction to the SAP BTP Terraforms Provider, discussed different use-cases and how to start the journey from "click-ops" to Infrastructure as Code.Terraform in generalTerraform documentation: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs Terraform tutorials: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials Terraform @ SAPTerraform Provider for SAP BTP: GitHub repository: https://github.com/SAP/terraform-provider-btp Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/SAP/btp/latest Terraform provider for Cloud Foundry:GitHub repository: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/terraform-provider-cloudfoundry Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/cloudfoundry/cloudfoundry/latest GitHub repository Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP Code:https://github.com/SAP/terraform-exporter-btp Documentation: https://sap.github.io/terraform-exporter-btp/ SAP Samples repository: https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-terraform-samples Learning Terraform on SAP BTPdevelopers.sap.comGet Started with the Terraform Provider for BTP:https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/btp-terraform-get-started.html Automating SAP HANA Cloud Tasks with the Terraform Provider for SAP BTP: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hana-cloud-automation-terraform.htmlFurther HandsOn Sessions:DSAG Betriebstage: https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-terraform-samples/tree/main/released/dsag/betriebstag2024 TechEd 2024 HandsOn: https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-XP280 "Unofficial" content by Christian (advanced topics)“SAP BTP and Terraform Series” on dev.to: https://dev.to/lechnerc77/series/26908 GitHub Org with further samples for the series: https://github.com/btp-automation-scenarios 

In this episode Martin talked with Peter Müssig (Chief Development Architect SAPUI5 at SAP) and Stefan Beck (Chief Product Owner SAPUI5 at SAP) about the upcoming 2.0 version of SAPUI5. They covered the new features, as well as how to get your hands dirty and how to migrate existing apps. This is the quite extensive list of links with more details about the topics covered in this episode: OpenUI5 Nightly V2: https://sdk.openui5.org/nightly/2/ OpenUI5 Nightly V2 TS Types: https://sdk.openui5.org/nightly/2/-/types.tgz Devtoberfest - Get Ready for OpenUI5 2.x: https://community.sap.com/t5/devtoberfest/get-ready-for-openui5-2-x/ec-p/13794300 Best Practices in SAPUI5 Demo Kit: https://ui5.sap.com/#/topic/28fcd55b04654977b63dacbee0552712 UI5 linter: https://github.com/SAP/ui5-linter?tab=readme-ov-file#ui5-linter TypeScript for UI5: https://sap.github.io/ui5-typescript/ OpenUI5 main branch: https://github.com/SAP/openui5/tree/main UI5 Tooling Workspaces: https://sap.github.io/ui5-tooling/stable/pages/Workspace/

Holger Bruchelt (Microsoft) and I recorded a recap of the DSAG Jahreskongress in Leipzig, a three days event with 5500 attendees. You can also find the video version of this podcast on YouTube.

⁠Martin's⁠ partner in crime ⁠Holger Müller⁠ is back on Coffee Corner Radio. There were a lot of news these summer about SAP, especially about board changes. Furthermore, there is an outlook on the upcoming events: virtual SAP TechEd DSAG Jahreskongress Have fun, share the word and give us feedback!

Martin's partner in crime Holger Müller is back on Coffee Corner Radio. Of course, there is only one topic to discuss: SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Barcelona. Holger was in Orlando, Martin in Barcelona the week after. Have fun, share the word and give us feedback!

Martin talked with Frank Engert about everything related to forms and output management in SAP. Frank is the CEO of Softway AG, a German consultancy focused on output management. Frank runs also a German podcast about output management and forms in context of SAP which you can find here: https://www.softway.de/sap-formular-podcast They started with the history of form technologies like SAPscript and SMARTFORMS. Then they covered also the latest technologies around SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP.

We had a well-known guest in this episode: Jon Reed (diginomica) is a writer and analyst and around in the SAP Community for ages. Jon and Martin talked about how the whole analyst and research business works. Of course, Jon added his extraordinary ideas and thoughts. As usual, we are looking forward to your feedback or reviews!

Thanks Matt Harding for the intro and Volker for pointing to it! Martin met two SAP Mentors, Gregor Wolf and Volker Buzek at the DSAG Technologietage in Hamburg, Germany. It's the first live and in-person recorded episode since SAP TechEd Barcelona 2019. They covered topics around the keynotes by Jürgen Müller (SAP CTO and member of the board) and Sebastian Westphal (DSAG Board Member responsible for technology). You find the recording of the keynotes on YouTube! Furthermore they talked about the upcoming community conferences in June in St. Leon-Rot, Germany: UI5con, reCAP and ABAPconf which all together run under the name Code Connect. Here is the link to the UI5 poll we mentioned: https://forms.gle/LrXk5BWFgBNznJbG6

Holger and Martin are talking about the latest SAP News and results and numbers: - press release board change - press release results 2023 and Q4 - press release financial engineering

Just before the year end, Holger and Martin recorded another episode. As usual, it was also streamed. So therefore they were also talking about the screen and video set-up. Topics covered: - SAP TechEd News - SAP's Case for Cloud - DSAG Technologie Tage - SAPinsider EMEA Copenhagen - ASUG Tech Connect

It's been a while since our last episode! So a lot of topics for Martin to discuss with our partner in crime Holger Müller Constellation Research). We covered these topics: SAP Sapphire 2023 the Q2 results and the earning call DSAG press release & Thomas Otter's post outlook on SAP TechEd 2023 We are looking forward to any feedback!

⁠Holger Müller ⁠and ⁠Martin⁠ are discussing different topics which happened in the SAP ecosystem in the last months: Punit Renjen becomes designated successor of Hasso Plattner as chairman of the supervisor board SAP announced SAP Datasphere SAP announced GROW with SAP DSAG Technologietage

Holger Müller and Martin are discussing their key take aways of SAP TechEd 2022 which took place in a hybrid mode onsite in Las Vegas and virtual. SAP TechEd 2022 Event Website

Jens and Martin talk about the different flavours of ABAP which are available. They focus on the different ABAP runtimes in the cloud, mainly on the new Steampunk environment embedded into S/4HANA cloud. Here are some additonal links:  SAP API Business Hub  Embedded Steampunk Blog Post by Boris Gebhardt  Open SAP Course Introduction to ABAP in the cloud  Open SAP Course Building Apps with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model  ABAP Conf

In this episode Martin talks with a very special guest: Eberhad Wolff is well-known at least in the German software architecture community. Eberhard and Martin talk about different architectural patterns, but not from a SAP perspective. They try to bridge the gap between custom development and standard software.  Here some links: SoftwareArchitekTOUR Podcast Episode about APIs (German)  SoftwareArchitektTour Podcast hosted by heise Eberhard's YouTube Channel Eberhard's Books  Eberhard's Publications on the INNOQ website