I love the Amazon Cloud. That's right - I admit it. I realize that's a pretty obvious statement these days, but in the world of SAP and large enterprise ERP software, the cloud is just barely getting started. At Mindset, we're…
In the first part of this blog, I explained how to create a simple SAPUI5 app on the SAP HANA Cloud: How To Create an SAP Mobile App on HANA Cloud with SAPUI5 - Part 1/3 In the 2nd part, I…
Lately I've been spending a lot of time on the three big areas of innovation in IT: mobile, cloud, and analytics. SAP has multiple solutions for all of these, so it seemed like a helpful blog to guide people through…
Enterprise applications are ugly. Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, HP, CA, they're all the same. When E-commerce took off during the internet bubble, we all thought that this is the beginning of something new. Something different. After I graduated from the University…
SAP Gateway has come a long way. It’s actually quite pleasant to develop a quick REST web service these days with it. With the growing presence of Gateway services, the question keeps popping up with our clients on how to…
Gartner suggests that Vistex's new approach to enterprise software design should be emulated "for all things built on SAP". I couldn't agree more. There are so many options out there when building custom add-ons for SAP: Web Dynpro Java, Web…
It wasn't long ago that I was singing the praises of the new AJAX Portal from SAP. Or maybe it was long ago? Since then, I've been thinking: why not really rework these screens with the latest and greatest in…
Enterprise Mobility for SAP has been getting more exciting, and also more complicated every month. One of the most promising of these new mobile deployment methods is SAP Portal on Device, a technology developed by SAP consulting. In this blog I…
SAP has a number of programs for software developers, none of which are easy or cheap. Unlike most other major software vendors, it seems as if SAP is almost trying to push away developers. There is a terrific website (for…
Fiori app development is split in two places. Gateway, and SAPUI5. The SAPUI5 development should be done in Eclipse, with the latest plugins. A long time ago when we developed HTML5 apps based on Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch,…