This year, ABAPConf - the prime event for SAP ABAP developers - took place in person across several locations in Germany and Austria, in addition to the usual YouTube livestream. I had the privilege of attending and presenting in beautiful…
SAP just announced the general availability of Joule for developers and ABAP AI capabilities. As is frequently the case, this generated a lot of buzz and excitement but also confusion in the ABAP developer community. Below I will try to…
Just like the physical mining for ores or minerals, business process mining extracts data from enterprise IT systems. The goal of such activity is to discover, analyze, monitor, and improve business processes. Process mining solutions have been around for a…
ASUG Tech Connect conference will take place in New Orleans on November 7-9. I’m honored to have an opportunity to present at the event together with SAP Mentor and Mindset alum Paul Modderman. We will be speaking about upskilling and…
Folks, As I go about my daily life, I tend to observe things and then think how they relate to my work. It’s a blessing and a curse. When working for an insurance company, for instance, I could not watch…
It was the early 2010s. Our team was in charge of SAP support for a large global company gathered in a conference room where a person whom we had never met before was going to show us the new IT…
This blog is almost a year overdue since my 50th birthday was in September 2020. But I just kept forgetting to post it. Ba dum tss. This is my first “senior joke”, ha-ha! No, I am not losing my marbles.…
The book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin was published in 2008 with the tagline: “Even bad code can function. But if the code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its…
In the previous blog post, we discussed the upskilling challenges that internal SAP S/4HANA customer teams are facing in times of transition from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA and how to approach solving them. In this post, we will go over specific skills that ABAP developers should be learning and…
The road from ECC to S/4HANA is paved with many challenges for the SAP customers. But be it a greenfield or brownfield, Cloud or on-premise (now referred to as AnyPremise), the same concern has been consistently raised over the last years:…